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Good things await at Pebble Beach

PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. - In what Robert Louis Stevenson called "the most felicitous meeting of land and sea," the sea was winning Wednesday at Pebble Beach.Jimmy Walker stood in...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/sports/golf/2012-02-08/good-things-await-pebble-bea
A flood of postcards from the four corners

I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move. -- Robert Louis Stevenson Let's try to get caught up on your summer vacation travels, as relayed from your many, many postcards. First, congratulations...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2009/08/18/kir_544767.shtml
Bill Kirby
'Father' not equal to 'daddy'

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming is the only end of life. -- Robert Louis Stevenson My 5-year-old son still wrestles with the concept of similar things having more than one name. Today's Father's Day offers...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/1999/06/20/met_264055.shtml
Metro
A mere three states evade our postcard quest

I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move. -- Robert Louis Stevenson Congratulations! Here we are at the midpoint of summer vacation, and we only have three states to go before completing our goal...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2009/07/07/kir_540061.shtml
Bill Kirby
Road trip

...Wealth I ask not, hope nor love, Nor a friend to know me; All I ask: the heaven above And the road below me. -Robert Louis Stevenson, The Vagabond COLUMBIA SUBCULTURAL SNAPS: The Columbia Museum of Art opens an exhibition of photographs Friday...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2004/07/22/liv_422906.shtml
Life & style
Video reviews

...Roger Ebert and other critics of some recent video releases: TREASURE PLANET (** 1/2 , PG3, 100 MINUTES) Robert Louis Stevenson meets Star Wars in an animated outer-space version of the pirate classic from Disney. The DVD has commentary...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2003/05/02/mov_371440.shtml
Movies
At the Movies: 'Treasure Planet'

...glitters on-screen is not gold. Disney's latest animated adventure applies wondrous technique in updating Robert Louis Stevenson's pirate tale "Treasure Island" to outer space. Yet for all the clever mixing of tall-ship nautical trappings...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2002/11/27/liv_360834.shtml
Life & style
Take literary pilgrimage to New York

...Cooper, Washington Irving, Robert Louis Stevenson and Mark Twain, and just...Mohicans. The cottage where Robert Louis Stevenson, the author of the seagoing...conferences and lectures. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON COTTAGE: 44 Stevenson Lane...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2006/09/17/liv_96685.shtml
Life & style
Character is fusion of computerized and hand-drawn animation

...works best for the expressive and emotional parts." The hybrid animation in the film, a futuristic reworking of Robert Louis Stevenson's pirate novel "Treasure Island," is part of an ever-changing fusion of art and technology that's designed...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2002/12/02/liv_361717.shtml
Life & style
'Extraordinary Gentlemen' teams literary superheroes

...X2: X-Men United." The difference is that the protagonists of "League" were ripped from the pages of Robert Louis Stevenson, H.G. Wells, Jules Verne, Bram Stoker and other writers enshrined in the classics sections of bookstores...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2003/07/13/art_380996.shtml
Arts