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Farewell, Shokkako, Beloved Asian-Inspired Food Truck Closes
The story has ended. Now is the time to ask: What did it all mean? I had gathered with Kayla Hendrix, Elijah Trujillo and...
Message From Earth: Xochitl of Coyote Creates
We met at the entrance to the Sonoma Community Center. Just inside, two volunteers were set to raise two chandeliers strung with tiger-striped fabric...
A Very Good Boy and His Human
I like to bring the readers of this column weekly optimism and uplift. But I admit, I do have my misanthropic moods. Glancing over...
Resistance.ai: Putting a Nonviolence Advisor in Every Person’s Pocket
It is, perhaps, the third most important book in human history. And yet it remains perfectly obscure. The drab cover doesn’t help. Clothed in...
“Make. Believe.” Jonas Goldstein and Timo Ryan of The Laguna Lab
On the afternoon of Friday, Feb. 27, The Soft Medicine Sanctuary announced its sudden permanent closure, effective the next day.
That evening, on the other...
The Poet-Lawyer, Attorney Bernice Espinoza
Bernice Espinoza assumed the sobriquet of “poet-lawyer” after a formative confrontation with a Judge who charged that she must choose between poetry and the...
Standing Up for What One Knows, Comedian Juan Carlos Arenas
Coming up, Juan Carlos Arenas’ neighborhood of Moreland was rough. His uncles were not in the gangs … but they were not out of...
Living While Dying: Co-Owner of Local..ish Market, Thomas Botzler
The title of this edition comes from the subject himself—Thomas Botzler, whose confrontation with death has lent his languaging a stark directness and impact.
“Gravitas”...