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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...
Apr 29, 2025
Master of Ceremony: Cassandra* Hampl, aka Sweet Beat Petite
I emcee events. I’ve been doing it for years. And such is my professional pride, I often find myself...
Apr 22, 2025
Stoke & Hope, ‘West Marin Naturalist Hour’
It is easy to overlook the home of 90.5 KWMR. It shares a small building on a backstreet in...
Apr 1, 2025
Pop Phenom, Flavio Cesar Farias
It sounds a bit fusty to evoke “civilization.” But by these old bones I still reckon that every civilization...