Beyond the Creek

What in the World?! Seaweed causes Cancer?

October 29, 2015 11:30 am

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?!

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Car of the Day

October 29, 2015 8:30 am

427 Cobra, “Ford”, spotted in downtown Walnut Creek.

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Cristina Garcia, Author of King of Cuba Speaking at Lafayette Library on Oct. 28th

October 28, 2015 4:30 pm

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 | $15

Cristina 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.

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What’s going on with Slater’s 50/50 in Walnut Creek?

October 28, 2015 11:30 am

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?

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Parking Meters Coming to Lafayette Town Center Parking Lot

October 28, 2015 8:30 am

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.

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Halloween Treat Event for Little Ones at Atria Senior Living Community in Walnut Creek on Oct. 31st

October 27, 2015 4:30 pm

Halloween Treat Event for Little Ones:

Atria Walnut Creek
1400 Montego, Walnut Creek
Saturday, October 31st, 2015
4:00pm – 6:00pm | Free

Atria 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.

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Four Year Anniversary for Beyond the Creek

October 27, 2015 2:00 pm

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.

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New Owners for Amarin Thai Cuisine in Lafayette

October 27, 2015 11:30 am

3555 Mt Diablo Blvd, Lafayette

According to a sign on the window of Amarin Thai Cuisine in downtown Lafayette, the owners have retired and handed the reigns over to their niece, owner of Grand Avenue Thai Cuisine in Oakland. Check out their lunch menu here, and dinner menu here.

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SoulCycle, Aritzia, Hanna Andersson, Everything but Water, Soma & More Eateries Coming to Broadway Plaza in 2016

October 27, 2015 8:30 am

Broadway Plaza, Walnut Creek

The downtown Walnut Creek outdoor shopping mall Broadway Plaza announced a bunch of stores coming to their soon-to-be-opened plaza, and although most of them have been covered here previously, several coming to Broadway Plaza in 2016 that haven’t been covered before are listed below. Interestingly H&M is also coming to Broadway Plaza, which means they’ll be relocating from their nearby Broadway Pointe location. Check out all Broadway Plaza posts here.