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May 18, 2022
Eclectic Arts: Downtown Santa Rosa’s Calabi Gallery
Sometimes there’s more to a story than meets the eye. Dennis Calabi is a shining example.
His unassuming storefront, Calabi Gallery, sits on Tenth Street...
May 4, 2022
Community Creatives – West County’s artist underground
By Mark Fernquest
It’s a bright and cloudy spring day in West County. I’m waiting for my neighbor, Marc Lepp, 68, to pick me up....
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Apr 27, 2022
Exquisite Guest – Andrei Codrescu returns to Occidental
By Mark Fernquest
Long ago, when I was a youngster in the 1980s, my bookish older brother brought home an unusual literary magazine he’d scored...
Mar 9, 2022
Holy Cripes — Coffee confessions
Confession: I drink cold coffee. Not the expensive hipster cold-pressed stuff, either—that isn’t confession-worthy. No, I make my own pourover in the morning and...
Mar 2, 2022
Residential Renaissance — Alternative architecture in the North Bay
Zome is where the heart is
I’m standing in a Zome, in an empty lot behind a warehouse across the river from downtown Petaluma. The...
Feb 23, 2022
Seattle or Bust — Finding Winter in the Heart of Spring
The trouble with living in California is that the winter rain lasts for two or three weeks and then we are gifted with an...
Feb 15, 2022
Cheap Eats—My Successful Search for North Bay Low-Budget Goodness
Wherever I live, I always line up a few cheap local eats that help me establish a culinary budget baseline. Why? Because I like...
Feb 9, 2022
My Life in Beer—the Truth as I Lived it
I remember my first beer. It was my sister’s fifth birthday, and the year was 1978. I was 10 years old. The day was...