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Posts published by “Steve Heilig”

Ten Things about the Best Fest in the West

1. The Sierra Nevada World Music Festival is returning to Boonville this weekend of June 16-18 after five years off. It will be a tribute to the festival’s late founder and leader Warren Smith. Therefore…

Strange Days At Junior High Music Class

The original “West Side Story” was on TV Sunday night, I hadn’t watched it in decades, and as often happens, the landmark musical film triggered an ancient flashback… At Lincoln Junior High in the bucolic…

Bad Bugs From Your Beef?

As soon as antibiotics were discovered in the 1940s, they were shown to be about the most effective medications known so far and thus were rapidly mass-manufactured and used by doctors, curing countless illnesses and…

Law & Disorder & Disinformation

A violent knife killing of a well-known and well-liked “techie” in San Francisco exploded onto the front pages of papers that still have pages, and all over online: “San Francisco is a terror zone, a…

Quick Covid Quiz 2023

True or False: 1. Covid is still killing hundreds of Americans every day, and countless more elsewhere, as in, it’s not “over,” far from it, sorry.  2. Covid is still spreading locally with outbreaks in/from…

Some Very Satisfying Pizza: A Tribute

Eons ago, in something like the mid-to-late 1990s, there was a period where there was no official place to get a hot dinner out in our little coastal Marin town. The local cafe hadn’t opened…

Dumpster Diving with Burt Bacharach

About ten years old, my best friend Scott and I have big plans. We awake long before dawn in our little Southern California beach town of Corona Del Mar, the “Crown of the Sea” indeed,…

Drug Wars & Peace

A gorgeous clear San Francisco day. Strolling downhill from a meeting up at the medical center on how to keep the “abortion pills” available to any woman who wants and needs them in these troubled…

On Putin’s War: Talking With A ‘Tankie’

(All dialogue based on real interaction). Me: Hi friend. Nice to see you. So, as predicted and feared, Putin invaded the Ukraine, even though you and your fellow travelers said that was all USA hype.…

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