All happy families are alike, and they live somewhere I’ve never been. All weird families are screwed up in different ways, and please allow me to count them. I just returned from a seven-day family…
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I don’t recollect when or how Sammy “Prather Ranch” Prather and I first met. But I do know it wasn’t long after I arrived in Anderson Valley in 1971. Perhaps it was at the Floodgate…
Diego Rivera is back in town again. No, not in person. He died in 1957 in Mexico City at the age of 70. But his art is in San Francisco, where he painted murals in…
I’ve never heard anyone say they’d been burned by Alan Sorrentino — quite a tribute in an industry full of backstabbers. He runs an Oakland-based delivery service called C.R.A.F.T. About two-thirds of the cannabis C.R.A.F.T. sells…
In its last weeks, thru August 21, 2022 Playwright — Jen Silverman Director — Roxy Seven Actors: EMILIE — Pamela W. Allen, AGATHA— Jessica Carroll, MOOR HEN — Ricci Dedola, MASTIFF by Mark Friedrich, MARJORY…
Remember in the not-so-long-ago past when America’s car makers very publicly cried foul over how electric cars would collectively toss them on the trash heap of history, to decompose alongside their horse-drawn buggy-maker predecessors? Today…
Raised in Cleveland, Ohio means I grew up on speaking terms with numerous and varied weather conditions, including humidity. Then I moved to California and learned a different weather language and forgot all about humidity…