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Oct 8, 2024
‘Riding Like the Wind: The Life of Sanora Babb’
In 1918, at the age of 11, Sanora Babb wrote an essay titled “How to Handle Men” for an English class at a grade...
Apr 11, 2023
You’re a Porn Star, Sir
A rebuke of The Donald
You’re a porno star, sir, yes you, Donald. Pay attention please, since you’re in court charged with paying money to...
Dec 12, 2022
Banker and Bohemian
Jack Stuppin 1933-2022
For decades he was the life of the party.
The party usually began and ended at Coffee Grounds, his spacious home on...
Sep 28, 2022
Confessions of Oakmont’s Nadine Condon
In the early 1970s, Nadine Condon found herself alone on a street in St. Louis, not far from her hometown.
She stopped in her tracks...
May 11, 2022
Save the Art – Before it’s too late
This year, legendary Sonoma County artist Mary McChesney will celebrate, if all goes well, the 100th anniversary of her birth. It probably won’t be...
Apr 5, 2022
Open Book: Author Alice Walker’s journals
I remember the days when almost every woman I knew in northern California poured over Alice Walker’s new age novel about women who love...
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Jan 25, 2022
Art is My Megaphone
Rodney Toy’s Vibrant Response to Anti-Asian Racism
The Chinese New Year and the arrival of the Year of the Tiger are just around the corner....
Sep 1, 2021
Saving the Apple: Pressing, eating and drinking
If you have lemons, you make lemonade. If you have apples, you make apple juice, apple sauce, baked apples, apple pie, apple butter and...