.Sara Bir

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Jun 18, 2014

Lexicographer

The most insightful part of Douglas Gayeton's new book, Local: The New Face of Food and Farming in America (Harper; $34.95), might be the...
Dec 18, 2013

Food-Fad Fails

I've spent plenty of holiday seasons on the other side of the register, working retail in culinary stores. Sure, the pay stunk, but it...
Jan 6, 2010

Ex-Space

01.06.10Hey, MySpace. Thanks for coming to chat with me. I know you've sensed something is up, and you're right. I think maybe we should...
Jan 21, 2009

On a Thread

01.21.09For once, I am ahead of the curve. Thanks to my low-rolling, music-journalist lifestyle, I've been broke for ages, and this whole "cutting back"...
Sep 10, 2008

F*ck Section M

09.10.08In September 1998, a new magazine appeared in coffee shops and record stores across Sonoma County. The free, tabloid-sized publication featured the punk band...
Jul 2, 2008

Satansville Revisited

07.02.08Last month, the New Yorker magazine had a little write-up of an upcoming Swervedriver show in its "Night Life" listings. As a Swervedriver fan,...
Jun 4, 2008

Know What Imeem?

06.04.08In the small Midwest town where I grew up, the only access I had to current pop music that wasn't Top 40 was the...
May 7, 2008

Lather Up

05.07.08 Though most of the songs on her new album were written in a fraction of a day, it's taken Karry Walker years to pull...
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