Daedalus Howell

At some point, the hamburger evolved from the urschleim of sandwichdom and became its own beast. If we are to believe that John Montagu, the...

Politicians are usually asked to keep church and state separate. Rep. Jared Huffman has written a book about what happens when they don’t. His new...

Through some cosmic fluke, Banned Books Week and Bay Area Burger Week overlap this October. There will be the inevitable critics (“should be Banned...

Labor Day arrives each year wearing white pants and carrying the faint smell of lighter fluid, ostensibly to honor the American worker, who is...

Somehow, it’s 2026. Artificial intelligence is writing sonnets, your refrigerator has embraced surveillance capitalism and every parking meter in Marin requires an app, which...

When making tasting notes on Skywalker Vineyards chardonnay, some wag will inevitably observe, “The Force is strong in this one.” And they’d be right. George...

There are promoters who book shows, and then there are musicians who know exactly what it means to haul gear, build a bill and...

E. Jean Carroll has lived several American lives, all worthy of their own headlines. Before she became the advice columnist who could turn heartbreak, horniness...