"Bed Bath & Beyond Revival Includes Marin Location"
We've always thought of Corte Madera (our home) not as a community, but as an astonishing array of home furnishing outlets; a place to get a credenza, hopefully on sale. Which is why we're so thrilled that this domestic entity has not only chosen to bring its body loofahs to our humble hamlet, but to make its location at Town Center a combination The Container Store-Bed Bath & Beyond.
These are of course early days for this merger, which will attempt to integrate the ironically disheveled organization superstore with an openly malevolent nesting emporium. But there is no population more deserving of this retail smelting experiment than the people of Corte Madera, as our mall-based way of life allows us to embrace such corporate synergies. 'Where ya headed?' Our townspeople will say to each other colloquially. 'I need a shower caddy and some modular shelving,' the recipient of this neighborly entreaty will reply. 'I'm off to the TCS-BB&B!'
Sorry, other Marin towns. The wonderful chains you foolishly turn down rush right into Corte Madera’s open-minded arms, and become yet another feather in our cap. Meanwhile, you've got what – an ice cream "shoppe"? A quaint village atmosphere that completely alienates anyone who happens to be redecorating?
Source: Marin IJ
ALSO
"Student Journalists’ Free Press Rights Tested at Marin County High School"
For those who haven't been following, an attempt to censor reporting from Redwood High's newspaper, the Bark, has backfired biblically. What started with an individual named in the Epstein files successfully demanding that their name be removed from a Bark article has resulted in a flurry of coverage from bigger media outlets which not only defend the student paper's clear-cut first amendment rights, but include said individual's name, detail her Epstein connection and now come up at the top of her Google results.
Source: SF Gate
FINALLY
"Mill Valley Man Wants to Trade Home for Shares in AI Company"
This is the future, by the way. One day you will simply exchange your home for promissory notes that guarantee you profit from humanity-ending technology. Where will you live? Who knows, but the individual offering to swap his 14-acre, $8 million spread for Anthropic stock will be fine because he actually lives full-time in Miami. That's what we mean, by the way again, when we say "Mill Valley man."
Source: CBS San Francisco
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