Talk of the Point

Hidden City Cafe owner Shellie Bourgault has finally committed to jumping over the square into Mark Howe’s restored Bank of Richmond building.

In April she notified Howe that she was interested in the entire ground floor. On July 17, she signed the lease (and released TOTP from April’s embargo).

The big move should come in about six […]

Thank you for noticing that Talk of the Point has been quiet the last few months. Things should start to pick up this month.

Straus organic milk is due to reappear at Santa Fe Market tomorrow. But even before you buy it, you can walk up to the meat market and thank Mike Peckham, Bob’s son.

While you’re at it, you might ask if Straus ice cream will appear too.

LucasFilm, maker of the Star Wars movies, announced on May 13 that it would establish an animation unit–in Point Richmond. You may have missed that announcement; West County Times never ran it, though it did run in the Kansas City Star, Reuters, Ireland Online, The Age in Australia among others.

Staff in the Point numbers just […]

The Plunge video will finally go on the air this month after months spent securing broadcast rights for the music it contains.

The film itself was ready for broadcast months ago. Director Sari Armington says she got it from the original 40 minutes to 28 with a little “nip and tuck.”

Mark the days: “The Plunge: Time […]

Do burritos trump stocks, 401Ks and CDs? This year they do. Rosamaria’s Cafe owner Mike Nova has been eyeing investment advisor Tom McGowan’s space ever since Nova’s line of lunch goers started spilling onto the sidewalk. On one of the rare days late last year when McGowan actually sat in his big black chair, Nova […]

The Starbucks corporation announced last year that all but the smallest of its stores would be fitted with a wireless hub for users of laptops and other Internet-able devices. So I waited for our own Starbucks to get it.

Today I called the nine Starbucks stores in Pinole, Hercules, El Cerrito, Berkeley and Emeryville. Each had […]

The two names on the beer-and-wine-sales application posted at the old Annie’s Cafe are Hindi, says one local authority. Yet I hear that Vorapoj Phoonpirom and Boonyalak Viboonlarp, also known as Joe and Pat, will serve Thai food, not Indian.

Joe and Pat already own another restaurant, says one source, in Albany on Solano near Stannage. […]

Our own Randall von Wedel’s company CytoCulture, based in the Point, scored this week when a Fairfax gas station, Alfa Gas, elected to serve the company’s vegetable-based diesel fuel at its pumps.

Station to offer cleaner biodiesel fuel, Marin Independent Journal, April 7
Cytoculture

Just after midnight Saturday morning, witnesses at a party on Railroad Avenue told police they saw a man and a woman he had danced with struggle for a gun. Soon after, the fellow party-goers heard gunshots and saw the man drop dead. So reported the West County Times on Sunday. The man, Wendall Valencia, was […]