.Sara Bir

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...

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...

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...

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"...

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...

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,...

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...

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...