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Hammer Time: Destroy Your Phone Habit—or Your Phone
In the ’90s I frequented a long-gone cafe where an elder busser would advise, apropos of nothing, that the road to intellectual emancipation starts...
Future Perfect: Black, White and Read All Over
I have spent my entire career weathering the vicissitudes of the media game—from classified ad-eating Craigslist in the early internet to paywall snafus (“information...
Earth Day Marin, Mill Valley Celebrates Our One Planet
If one were to judge the state of the planet solely by the daily news cycle, it would seem Earth is being managed by...
The Slice Census: Celebrating Pizza Week, North Bay Style
Punk pioneer Henry Rollins perhaps said it best: “Pizza makes me think that anything is possible.”
Rollins has every reason to be optimistic, especially this...
The Foolest Month, Celebrating Our Humanity
Given our publication date for this edition, I’ll admit I had some dastardly April Fool’s Day plans—like printing definitive proof that Petaluma Junior High...
‘Glory of Art’: Metabolizing Chaos
During the tributes to Hollywood’s recently departed at the Academy Awards ceremony, a handsome portrait and quote from Robert Redford loomed over the stage...
Larkspur’s Fave Dive Returns: The Silver Peso Lives
If a town is lucky, it has at least one bar that feels less like a business and more like a public trust. In...
Emotional Oasis: Oliver Laxe’s ‘Sirat’ opens in Bay Area
There are films that entertain, films that distract and films that politely flatter one’s intelligence. And then there are films that seem to look...