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Jun 17, 2025
Fast and Slow, Jennifer York and Joe Ruffatto of Bamboo Sourcery
For sheer speed of growth, bamboo, that terrestrial family of jointed and woody grasses, takes the silver, seconded in...
Jun 10, 2025
Princess for a Day, Queen for a Lifetime
Esperanza Rico and Estrellita Rico of The Princess Boutique in Santa Rosa offer their clients cradle to grave service—or...
Jun 3, 2025
Chenoa the Spectacular, Wardrobe Stylist and Costume Designer
Thirty minutes into our interview, I had scrawled three pages of notes but still no story through-line.
If you try...
May 27, 2025
Lord’s Work with Sister Sparkle Plenty of The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence
For the “expiation of stigmatic guilt”—these solemn words, spoken as a vow, are repeated each time a sister of Perpetual...
May 20, 2025
Community Centered, Vanessa Rognlien of Sonoma
Four sure weeks after Sonoma Trash Fashion 15 (the Bohemian’s April 15 cover story, “Trash into Treasure”; see link...
May 13, 2025
Transience and Oneness, Sessei Meg Levie of Green Gulch Zen Center
The road that took me to the Green Dragon Temple was as convoluted and as linear as the pilgrim’s...
May 6, 2025
Dept. of Art, Creative Sonoma’s Tara Thomson
There’s a pattern—most every town and county in the North Bay has an “arts council”—a non-profit art agency-advocate.
These plucky...