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“Make. Believe.” Jonas Goldstein and Timo Ryan of The Laguna Lab
On the afternoon of Friday, Feb. 27, The Soft Medicine Sanctuary announced its sudden permanent closure, effective the next...
The Poet-Lawyer, Attorney Bernice Espinoza
Bernice Espinoza assumed the sobriquet of “poet-lawyer” after a formative confrontation with a Judge who charged that she must...
Standing Up for What One Knows, Comedian Juan Carlos Arenas
Coming up, Juan Carlos Arenas’ neighborhood of Moreland was rough. His uncles were not in the gangs … but...
Living While Dying: Co-Owner of Local..ish Market, Thomas Botzler
The title of this edition comes from the subject himself—Thomas Botzler, whose confrontation with death has lent his languaging...
Placing Pets: Local Humane Society Services
When it comes to pets, the Humane Society is usually the first call. The 95-year-old nonprofit organization, founded locally...
Liquid Motion, Thotty McNaughty’s Give & Take
Bastet Dance Fitness is located in Rohnert Park. It’s situated between a Pentecostal church and a Packard car museum—in...
No Kings, Indivisible Sonoma County’s Tom Bethin
In the warming afterglow of their Jan. 17 protest rally, I telephoned Tom Bethin. He was buzzing.
Earlier that day,...
