La Fiesta Square, Lafayette
In September we learned that Caroline’s Salon would be relocating next to Chow within La Fiesta Square in Lafayette and they are now open. Check out their services here.
La Fiesta Square, Lafayette
In September we learned that Caroline’s Salon would be relocating next to Chow within La Fiesta Square in Lafayette and they are now open. Check out their services here.
I used to love eating oysters. That is until I learned last month that they, “appear to be an important link in the transmission of norovirus among humans”. I haven’t eaten one since. Three days ago I learned that one of my favorite foods, the humble hot dog, increases one’s risk for cancer. Even a healthy snack like seaweed of all things may cause cancer, as I posted about yesterday.
Do I just throw caution to the wind and ignore these warnings or make a conscientious effort to avoid certain foods? I think I should quit oysters for good, cut down on hot dogs and red meat slightly and ignore the warnings for seaweed. Do all these food warnings concern you? Does it affect what you eat?
I was browsing the food aisles at Cost Plus World Market in Walnut Creek the other day looking for a healthy snack when I encountered something so unbelievable I still can hardly believe it. I can’t say I wasn’t sorely tempted by the chocolate wafer snacks from Europe and Japanese sweets but I was determined and finally found it; a roasted Korean sesame snack called Say! Crunch. I thought it would make for a tasty snack but then I noticed the sign above:
Products containing seaweed contain chemicals known to the state of California to cause cancer, birth defects or other reproductive harm.
I know I’ve seen a similar sign in parking garages million times, but seaweed causing cancer?! Is this really true?!
Cristina Garcia, Author of King of Cuba:
Lafayette Library and Learning Center
3491 Mt Diablo Blvd, Lafayette
Wednesday, October 28th, 2015
7:30pm – 8:30pm | $15Cristina Garcia is the author of six novels including Dreaming in Cuban, The Lady Matador’s Hotel, and The Aguero Sisters. King of Cuba is a darkly comic novel featuring a fictionalized Fidel Castro, an octogenarian Miami exile, and a rabble of Cuban voices.
Ms. Garcia is a visiting faculty in fiction at Saint Mary’s College MFA in Creative Writing.
She has been nominated for a National Book Award and translated into fourteen languages. She is the recipient of a Guggenhiem Fellowship, a Whiting Writers’ Award, a Hodder Fellowship to Princeton University and an NEA grant, among others.
1444 North California Blvd, Walnut Creek
Last December we learned that the baseball-themed restaurant McCovey’s was closing in downtown Walnut Creek, to be replaced with Southern California-based burger restaurant Slater’s 50/50. Take a look at this June, door handle of the day post highlighting the McCovey’s bats door handles. Notice that there was no For Lease sign in June. Does this mean that Slater’s 50/50 is no longer coming to Walnut Creek?
Lafayette Town Center Parking Lot
Parking meters are becoming more popular in Lafayette as Lafayette Town Center is following the lead of La Fiesta Square and introducing parking meters. According to the meter description, there will be a three hour limit in effect 7 days a week from 9am to 9 pm.
Halloween Treat Event for Little Ones:
Atria Walnut Creek
1400 Montego, Walnut Creek
Saturday, October 31st, 2015
4:00pm – 6:00pm | FreeAtria Walnut Creek, a senior living community, is hosting a Halloween Treat Event for all little ones in costume from 4:00pm to 6:00pm on October 31, 2015. Adults need to accompany children, of course. We will have lots of candy and goodies for the kids. Please RSVP if you are coming.
Well, another year has gone by, and Beyond the Creek has now been online for four years. Sometimes I wonder if there are enough interesting things to post about but there always seems to be something going on around town. Thanks to everyone for reading, and sending in tips, suggestions and photos; I really do appreciate it! If there is something you’d like to make the East Bay community aware of please email me anytime.
