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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...
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...
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...
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...
Feb 1, 2022
My Friend the Animal Whisperer—Kickin’ it Over Cowboy Coffee
By Mark Fernquest
These mornings are heavy with fog which burns off to reveal bright blue sky by about 10am....
Dec 29, 2021
Final Missive—Newsroom Confidential
These internal emails between “Bohemian” and “Pacific Sun” Editor Daedalus Howell and copy editor and writer Mark Fernquest were...
Dec 8, 2021
Unplug
Thinking outside the inbox
Remember when Nirvana played live on MTV Unplugged, but bassist Krist Novoselic looked like he was...