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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...
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...
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"...
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...
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,...
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...
