As a man who has managed to fit several different business ventures into one sweeping career picture, Norman Boone found an apt title for his company name.Boone is the president and founder of Mosaic Financial Partners, a Bay Area wealth-management firm with offices in Lafayette and San Francisco that handles more than $300 million in personal assets.The company has grown steadily since it was first established as Boone & Associates in 1984, due in large part to Boone’s work within the investment industry and from strong referrals generated by clients. Read More

While working on marketing campaigns over the last 15 years for a client base as diverse as Little Caesars, Discovery.com and Powerade, Roger Camp has made a career of finding the pulse of even the most eclectic of companies."We try to get into our clients’ history, and really find their soul," said Camp, who was recently named the chief creative officer for the firm Publicis and Hal Riney in San Francisco. "We look to send a postcard from our clients to the consumers of the outside world. Once you can find the voice of the company, then the campaign has its own life." Read More

The Lowell girls’ basketball team’s historical season included 29 wins and a San Francisco Section championship.But it’s safe to assume that the Cardinals never faced an opposing player quite like Kennedy of Sacramento senior guard Jazzi Johnson. Read More

Time was most questions were answered through the advice and wisdom of a revered figure of authority — perhaps a teacher or a neighborhood wise man. Now the most curious of appetites can be sated with a simple trip online, while the human experience developed from going to someone for help has all but vanished.Things may change, however, after Charles Carleton’s latest development, which has found a way to combine that voice of human expertise with the boundless capacity of the Internet. Read More

Each step looked like it could have been his last of the night and the simplest movement registered a pained grimace on his face.But Lowell senior forward Arthur Jones wasn’t about to let his team lose Friday night.Despite a groin strain and a nasty contusion on his shooting hand, Jones sank four foul shots in the final minute to help his team survive an inspired effort from Mission in Lowell’s thrilling 72-69 overtime victory in the San Francisco Section championship game at Kezar Pavilion. Read More

Read any book on the subject by George Will, or watch one of those sepia-toned Kevin Costner movies, and it’s easy to see why baseball is known by the folklorish title "The National Pastime." It’s all about eating Cracker Jacks, and watching the big game with your pop — a Norman Rockwell portrait of nostalgia and sentimentality. But with increasingly exorbitant ticket prices for regular-season games — and overpaid and unapproachable players stocking rosters — baseball doesn’t exactly embody the innocence of Americana ascribed to it for so many decades. Read More

When Alan Wiggins Jr. first stepped foot on the USF campus in August 2003, he earned the nickname "young boy" from his men’s basketball teammates because of his precocious status as a 17-year-old freshman.Four years later, Wiggins may still hear the nickname from an occasional teammate or coach old enough to remember his arrival, but any USF opponent expecting to find a "young boy" on the court was in line for a rude awakening. Read More