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Posts published by “Fred Gardner”

Our Times: Florida Fantasy

“What You Get” is a regular feature in the Times Sunday Business section that I always glance at but don’t always read. It runs on the bottom of a right-hand page and depicts three houses on sale…

Fact-Checking the Ricardos

Because Hollywood screenwriter Aaron Sorkin keeps weaving across the double-yellow line between history and fiction, the literal-minded viewer can get disoriented. In his script for “Being the Ricardos,” Sorkin has Desi Arnaz angrily telling Lucille…

Forgiving Aaron Sorkin

That’s what I thought I was doing as his new movie, “Being the Ricardos,” streamed across the screen. Written and directed by the prolific Sork, underwritten by Amazon Studios, starring Nicole Kidman and Jason Bardem,…

Brilliance Disguised as Silliness

Dan Asmussen, whose "Bad Reporter" cartoons ran in the San Francisco Chronicle and were syndicated by Universal Press Syndicate, died December 9 at the age of 59. What a loss! Maybe because what they produce are "merely"…

The First Harvest Ball

Though we didn't know it at the time, the bustling Emerald Cup held at the Sonoma County Fairgrounds in December, 2019 — just before Covid-19 hit and the so-called Legal Cannabis Industry got undermined by…

Was Ethan Crumbley On Prozac?

If Ethan Crumbley was a marijuana user, that fact would have been publicized by now — or will soon become known. If he was on Prozac or some other pharmaceutical concoction, we may never know…

Props for the Proto Pipe

Proper respect for a product made in the USA — in Willits! — was conferred by the Los Angeles Times October 30.  Given the popularity of the 51-year-old device, reporter Adam Tschorn was amazed that he was…

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