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Advice & Consent: ‘Ask E. Jean’ has answers
E. Jean Carroll has lived several American lives, all worthy of their own headlines.
Before she became the advice columnist who could turn heartbreak, horniness...
Happy 250, America: A Nation Fails to Show Up to its Own Party
Unless one counts the “Ultimate Fighting Championship Freedom 250” fracas on the White House lawn as the pinnacle of civic celebration, one might conclude...
FUN SIZE Blasted Art Gallery on Tour
In Sonoma County art circles, going small may be the next big thing. Or at least it is for Bill Shelley and Chris Beards,...
Hammer Time: Destroy Your Phone Habit—or Your Phone
In the ’90s I frequented a long-gone cafe where an elder busser would advise, apropos of nothing, that the road to intellectual emancipation starts...
Future Perfect: Black, White and Read All Over
I have spent my entire career weathering the vicissitudes of the media game—from classified ad-eating Craigslist in the early internet to paywall snafus (“information...
‘Dispatches’: Artist Transforms Wildfire Experiences into Haunting Sound Art
Some events burn through a place. Others continue burning quietly inside the people who lived through them. Multimedia artist Merlin Coleman has made a...
Second Acts: Don’t Wait for a Curtain Call
As F. Scott Fitzgerald famously wrote, “There are no second acts in American lives.” But…
Most self-help gurus say we do have more, maybe even...
Earth Day at the Sonoma Coast
There are many ways to observe Earth Day. One can post a leafy infographic, shop with reusable bags or make bold declarations about composting,...
