.Columns & Opinion

Nov 18, 2025

Sublime Mediocrity: Art is Where Ambition and Limitation Often Meet

Some artists carry the cultural burden of their genius and mounting legacy. Ahem—not I. Having run through Elisabeth Kübler-Ross’ first four stages of grief as pertains to my career (denial, anger, bargaining, depression), I’ve finally come to acceptance: I’m clearly burdened by neither genius nor legacy. This revelation has freed...
With locations in Novato and Santa Rosa, Made Local Marketplace incubates local brands from across the North Bay.
Nov 18, 2025

Local Cornucopia, A Market for Makers

A “made locally” store is stocked with much of all we make here. In a right world, there would...
Nov 11, 2025

Your Letters, Nov. 12

Café Conundrum Remember when night owls had somewhere to go that wasn’t a gas station or holding cell? In the...
Scores of local Sonoma businesses sell their wares online with new Trellus app launch.
Nov 11, 2025

Sonomazon Arrives, Driven by Adam Haber of Trellus

Adam Haber is not a local. Unmistakably, Haber is from Long Island. But if his new partnership with SoCo...
Free Will Astrology
Nov 11, 2025

Free Will Astrology: Nov. 12-18

ARIES (March 21-April 19): The Akan concept of Sankofa is represented by a bird looking backward while moving forward....
Fact versus fiction in the digital age.
Nov 11, 2025

Now We Count—Watch Out, Washington

California voters just approved new congressional boundaries under Proposition 50, tilting the playing field blue and giving Democrats a...
Nov 4, 2025

Your Letters, Nov. 5

Robber Barons Beware of billionaires begging “bucks,” claiming campaign costs continue climbing, cementing one party rule in our state and...
Fact versus fiction in the digital age.
Nov 4, 2025

Stop Talking About ‘Protests’

I am tired of hearing about “protests” and “protesters.” Those terms sound whiney and powerless to me. “Protest” means...
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