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Happy 250, America: A Nation Fails to Show Up to its Own Party
Unless one counts the “Ultimate Fighting Championship Freedom 250” fracas on the White House lawn as the pinnacle of civic celebration, one might conclude...
Brings Tears to Your Ice, ‘Time and Water’ in the North Bay
Filmmaker Sara Dosa’s new documentary, Time and Water, begins with a disappearance in Iceland—not in the Nordic noir-sense, but alarming all the same. In...
1976, the North Bay’s Big Year
Fifty years ago this year, California’s drought of 1976 was so severe that we in the burbs kept buckets in the shower to use...
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...