http://www.mikerosenmolina.com Tue, 17 Aug 2010 23:42:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A comic tale with a serious edge, this novel by a former Adbusters editor takes place in a not-too-distant future when advertising pervades every aspect of daily life. Companies use phony car accidents and hostage crises as publicity gimmicks and hire professional "coolhunters" to ferret out new targets for ad ... http://www.mikerosenmolina.com/?p=137 Across the country, curious jurors are defying court instructions and causing mistrials as they text, Tweet, and surf the Web about the cases they're deciding. The issue has created such a disruption that it's generating new court policies and even California legislation. Banning Google From the Jury Box (California Lawyer, August ... http://www.mikerosenmolina.com/?p=143 EIGHT YEARS AGO, JUDY LEE’S CAR WAS ON ITS LAST LEGS. The busy San Francisco resident never had ... http://www.mikerosenmolina.com/?p=135 Life isn't easy for thirteen-year-old paperboy Peter Paddington: He weighs two hundred pounds, he's at the bottom of the school social ladder, and he's struggling with strange new feelings about his male classmates. Even worse, his body is changing in unexpected ways -- his nipples have started puffing up and ... http://www.mikerosenmolina.com/?p=133 Guitarist David Sturdevant was nervous about his audience. They were tough. They were unforgiving. And they were five years old. He was working for the first time as an artist-in-residence in Caren Nelson's preschool class at Washington School last year. "I was apprehensive at first about working with such young children," ... http://www.mikerosenmolina.com/?p=131 In "The Accidental Connoisseur," Lawrence Osborne undertakes a formidable task: writing an unpretentious book about wine. He starts strong, describing his youth as a good Catholic boy in London, where wine was an awe-inspiring holy drink, imbued with a mystical quality that belied its earthy origins ... http://www.mikerosenmolina.com/?p=129 Romy Mimi Ilano, 34, draws comics. But her work doesn’t look like the strips in the daily newspaper. Instead, it’s brimming with surreal, free-associative images—cat-headed women, killer cupcakes, a living scarf that eagerly whimpers, “Meep! Meep! Meep!” as its wearer stuffs it into his coat pocket. Then there are the ... http://www.mikerosenmolina.com/?p=124 When Andy Morrison started law school, he expected to find a job as soon as he graduated. But after earning a JD from the University of San Francisco in 2008, Morrison found himself confronted by a narrowing recruitment pipeline. A study released by the National Association for Law Placement ... http://www.mikerosenmolina.com/?p=126 I went camping for the first time two years ago with three friends in Lassen Volcanic National Park near Redding. We intended to enjoy a weekend roughing it in the wilderness, but the trip didn’t go as smoothly as planned. The Path Less Traveled (The East Bay Monthly, June 2010) http://www.mikerosenmolina.com/?p=122 Consumers have plenty of online services they can use for locating a lawyer to hire. But when litigators need to employ specialists—such as arbitrators, mediators, or expert witnesses—they often fall back on leads from colleagues they trust. Rating Litigation Services (California Lawyer, May 1, 2010) http://www.mikerosenmolina.com/?p=119