.Mark Fernquest

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

The trouble with living in California is that the winter rain lasts for two or three weeks and then we are gifted with an...

Wherever I live, I always line up a few cheap local eats that help me establish a culinary budget baseline. Why? Because I like...

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...