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Dec 17, 2024
The Imaginists Bonded by Vision
For this pencil-wrist Hercules, writing this column sometimes seems an impossible task.
This week, my word limit must be made to contain the three-headed giant...
Dec 10, 2024
The Mane Attraction: Suzy Berry’s Heart of Gold Sanctuary Saves Horses
I am … hesitating. Here I am about to write a hagiography (a saint’s life), albeit for a nudes-selling, secular saint. But I am...
Dec 10, 2024
The Female Gaze of Photographer Kristen Demai
This story links to the cover story, forming a partnered pair. Both stories roll within a generational sea change in sexual mores.
The cover story...
Dec 3, 2024
Staying in Tune with Stanroy Music Center’s Steve Shirrell
As I waited for our “brief encounter” to begin, I sat at Steve Shirrell’s workbench amid the bent keys, broken heads and dented horns...
Nov 26, 2024
Second-Generation Winemaker, Eva Dehlinger
To establish Dehlinger Wines as a quality mark, I bade Eva Dehlinger pull two gold-embossed presidential dinner menus out of her attic. Her family’s...
Nov 19, 2024
Face to Face with Executive Director Sara Brewer
Last week, the administration and staff of erstwhile AIDS charity Face to Face gathered donors and all their nearest and dearest at Santa Rosa’s...
Nov 12, 2024
Wounded Healer, Hana Centauri, Tarot Reader
I was raised in the tradition of skepticism. But science is by habit curious, and that curiosity brought me to Hana Centauri’s table. Without...
Nov 5, 2024
Parading Through Winter Blast with Artist Jim Maken
This is a brazen superlative, but our own Jim Macken may be the most prolific people-powered couch float artist IN THE WORLD.
Among the approximately...