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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...
Get to It Because Time is Not on Our Side
In a bookstore yesterday, I clocked a stack of calendars going for 90% off. Albeit, it’s February, and calendars have about as much shelf...
Won’t Get Fooled Again: Nu Journalism in the Age of AI
In the media game, AI is eating our lunch. “I think we might reach 90% of online content generated by AI by 2025,” said...
The Lark Takes Wing Again: Josh Costello Steps into Stewardship
When a cultural institution loses a long-serving leader, the question isn’t simply who comes next.
It’s whether the place itself can hold its shape through...
’Twas a Wine Country Christmas, With our Most Sincere Apologies to Clement Clarke Moore
’Twas a Wine Country Christmas and all through the cellar
Were stowed bottles of vino and this lucky feller.
Since I was a guest, I should’ve...