I recently got an email from a man in Italy named Mauricio Acerbo. At first it puzzled me because my memory is now a colander. I thought I’d once written a review of Bob Dylan’s…
Posts published by “Fred Gardner”
Martin Olive, 47, proprietor of a cannabis dispensary called the Vapor Room, is recovering at SF General Hospital, after being shot six times outside his shop at 4:55 PM on January 27. He has been…
Charles Piller, an Oakland-based investigative reporter for Science magazine, is soft-spoken in person and in print. In his new book, “Doctored: Fraud, Arrogance, and Tragedy in the Quest to Cure Alzheimer’s,” dynamite accusations are professionally…
The obviously pseudonomynous author of "Marijuana Girl," N.R. DeMexico, "was identified by folklorist and erotica historian Gershon Legman as Robert Campbell Bragg, a Greenwich Village bohemian and novelist, and one of the people who, along…
Checking to see what time the Rose Bowl would be on today (Oregon vs Ohio State), I was amazed by the proliferation of bowl games. I obviously haven’t been paying attention. Since December 14, 2024,…
Why does the presence of mistletoe –a parasitic plant that roots in oaks and other host trees– confer the right to kiss whoever you're with? The answer occurred to John Lee, MD, a family practitioner…
The paperback cover of Marijuana Girl that ran in yesterday's AVA was provided by Michael R. Aldrich, PhD – one of two that accompanied a review of the book in O'Shaughnessy's. Dr. Aldrich wrote: ‘Marijuana…