Envy Apartment

Lit Life “She is my alter ego,” says Sue Grafton of her fictional heroine, Southern California private detective Kinsey Millhone . “I’m an introvert, so doing half of what Kinsey is beyond my poor capabilities. But it’s fun to get to live her life without penalty!” Grafton, on the phone from her home in Montecito, California, is the best-selling author of what’s known to countless mystery fans as “the alphabet series .” The project has become Grafton’s life’s work, beginning with “A Is for Alibi” in 1982 and continuing through this month’s publication of “Y Is for Yesterday” (Putnam, $29). The final book in the 26-volume series, “Z Is for Zero,” will be out in 2019. And while the rest of us have aged several decades, Kinsey’s gotten only a few years older. Early on, Grafton said, she realized that even if she wrote a book a year, “after 26 years [Kinsey’s] going to be way too old to be running around hitting bad guys with her pocketbook. I thought I’d better keep her credibly young, ...

The meal-in-a-bottle brand is looking past the techie crowd August 17, 2017 Andrew Rosenblum Business In a drab office building on Broadway near 2nd Street downtown , Rob Rhinehart is holding forth on how Soylent, his lab-made, pro- GMO protein drink , should be considered no less natural than bread, eggs, or milk. “People think there’s a sacred or natural way of doing things, but the reality is [the food system’s] always been evolving,” he says, sitting at a coffee table while flanked by PR reps. It’s easy to imagine him making the same argument as part of the pitch that he reportedly gave tech billionaire (and Soylent user) Larry Page to land $50 million from Google Ventures in May. The money will help Soylent and its parent company, Rosa Labs, move into their new headquarters in the rapidly transforming Arts District this month. “I like to be part of what’s next,” Rhinehart says. He and his 55-person team will be settling into At Mateo, an $80 million mixed-use project with vin...