In 2013, during a speech at CPAC, the annual Republican confab, the former Alaska governor reached down into her lectern and pulled out a cup of soda the size of her head. She took a long swig ...

"In 1999, the City Council voted to name the alley behind Frazier Lewis' downtown confectionery: "Candy Bar Lane" (running from Soquel Avenue to Front Street)," writes columnist Ross Eric Gibson.