Letters to the Editor: April 25, 2018

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Letters to the Editor: April 25, 2018

Astronomical

What’s retro about 160 bucks a night for the Astro Motel (“Hip Advisor,” April 10)? I guess they have to keep pace with the Spinster Sisters’ prices.

—Pieter S. Myers

Occidental

Housing for All

Sonoma County was already facing an issue with affordable housing before the October wildfires. Now there needs to be more permanent housing created to ensure families at risk of homelessness. Affordable housing is defined as paying 30 percent or less of the gross monthly household income. Due to the fires, there was a 5 percent loss of housing units, roughly 4,000 homes and around 100 structures in Santa Rosa. Now Sonoma County will need the 4,000 housing units that were taken by the fire, on top of the 17,144 more for affordable rental homes, to meet the needs of the lowest income renters. The average median for a house rose to $639,000 in 2017. Only 26 percent of county households could afford it back in 2016. After the fires, the house median has rose to $689,000.

According to the Sonoma County League of Women Voters, roughly half of young people living in Sonoma County between 18 and 39 have considered leaving the Bay Area due to the lack of affordable housing. There needs to be more assistance programs for the general population to have access to affordable housing.

—Rocio Baron

Petaluma

Yes for Water

Napa County’s water future will be decided on June 5. A yes vote on Measure C, the Napa County Watershed and Oak Woodland Protection Initiative, will protect that future. Measure C is a well-written initiative, based on the best current science, and puts in place reasonable measures to protect Napa County’s water supply. It is good for agricultural, good for the wine industry, good for all of us in the county. Measure C stops unsustainable expansion of vineyards in our hillside watershed.

Napa County’s vineyard/wine/tourism economy makes the valley a desirable place to live and visit. But this interdependent economy cannot be sustained if we predicate our thinking on an unlimited water future. Expanding vineyards into our hillside watershed means less water reaches our reservoirs and recharges our groundwater. Groundwater and reservoir levels drop, leaving less water for existing uses. Given the current climate predictions of less rainfall and more dangerous and frequent droughts, we need to guard what we have to maintain the valley as it is. I am voting yes on Measure C to ensure a stable, secure, and clean water future for Napa County.

—Linda Kerr

Napa

Dept. of Corrections

Due to a reporting error, the ownership and management teams of the Astro Motel were misstated (“Hip Advisor,” April 10). Liza Hinman is the chef and co-owner of the Spinster Sisters restaurant and part of the team behind the Astro, not Lizzie Simon. And Camille Cannon is no longer general manager of the Astro. Lisa Robbins is general manager of the motel now. The Bohemian regrets the errors.

Write to us at le*****@******an.com.

Fun on Wheels

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Fun on Wheels

Napa Valley is obviously well-known as a food and wine destination, but because it’s flanked by mountains and crossed by winding roads that thread through picturesque vineyards and small towns, it’s also a haven for cyclists—provided you can avoid the weekend traffic jams. This weekend Napa will be jammed with cyclists of all kinds as CampoVelo rolls into the area for its second year.

CampoVelo is Coachella for cyclists. Held April 27–29, the event is a three-day celebration of food, wine, cycling, music and philanthropy. There are activities for non-cyclists as well. (The Bohemian is a media sponsor of the event.)

“It’s really about enjoying being outdoors, whether you’re cycling or going on a hike or doing some yoga,” says co-founder Chris Cosentino, celebrity chef and avid cyclist. “It’s all about community, conviviality and giving back.”

For gearheads, the event is stacked with a variety of rides for different skill levels and on different surfaces: road, gravel and dirt. Cosentino’s remarks about giving back is in reference to No Kid Hungry, Chefs Cycle, the Napa Valley Vine Trail and World Bicycle Relief, philanthropic groups that are beneficiaries of CampoVelo’s various fundraising dinners and events.

Of course, this being Napa, there will be plenty of opportunities to geek out on wine. Rebekah Wineburg, winemaker for Quintessa, will participate in a panel discussion at one of Saturday’s “Speakeasy Sessions” at the Calistoga Motor Lodge. She’ll be joined by winemakers Steve Matthiasson and Bertus Van Zyl, and Iron Chef America winner Neal Fraser.

“[The event] is really interesting to me because of the combination of food, wine and fitness,” Wineburg says.

While she’s not a cyclist, Wineburg will lead a hike Saturday up Calistoga’s Oat Hill Mine trail. Saturday. “I really like the connection between healthy lifestyle and food and wine.”

Many of the event’s rides will be led by professional cyclists, Ironman winners and other elite riders. Ted King, a former Tour de France competitor who now lives in Marin County, will lead Friday’s 30-mile gravel-road ride along Lake Hennessey and Saturday’s fast-paced, 43-mile “Espresso Train” ride on the Silverado Trail from Calistoga to Rutherford.

“Riding in the Napa Valley is amazing,” says King. “It’s some of the best riding in America.”

As a professional cyclist for 10 years pedaling through Europe, King had to forego all the great food and drink the area had to offer in the name of training. Those days are over now. He says CampoVelo matches great cycling and plenty of great food.

Saturday also features a race at the Calistoga Speedway patterned after the “Little 500” race depicted in the classic cycling film Breaking Away. Just like in the movie, teams of four will compete on flat-pedal, single-speed bikes. The event will feature food trucks and live music, and proceeds will help the Napa Valley Vine Trail, a nonprofit group working to build a paved bike path from Calistoga to the Vallejo ferry.

Cosentino will be on one of the teams competing on the speedway. I knew he had a talent for turning beef heart, tripe and other typically cast-off animal parts into delicious plates of food. I didn’t know he was once a professional mountain biker and solo, 24-hour endurance racer.

Chefs are generally a driven, hyperactive bunch who put in extremely long hours to create indulgent experiences. With three restaurants to his name (Cockscomb in San Francisco, Acacia House in St. Helena and the new Jackrabbit in Portland, Ore.), a line of cooking knives, a writing credit for a Wolverine comic book and a Top Chef Masters win, the extreme-mountain-bike-racer thing makes sense.

Cosentino rose to fame as the offal-loving chef at the late Incanto, a beloved San Francisco restaurant that put him and lesser cuts of meat on the map. After the birth of his son 13 years ago, he put the brakes on cycling and focused on his culinary career. But he’s returned to his love for cycling in recent years, and this weekend, Cosentino’s love for bikes and food ride in tandem at CampoVelo.

Cosentino lives in San Francisco but rides in Napa Valley regularly with his friend and Napa frame builder Curtis Inglis.

“He takes me on all these crazy, amazing road rides,” Cosentino says. “But there’s also riding at Skyline [Wilderness Park] and these gravel rides he takes me on which I don’t even know the names of. I just follow him, and that, to me, is the most fun, that sense of adventure. . . .There’s nothing like it. It’s just incredible.

“I like to say [Napa] is like riding in Europe where everybody speaks English.”

For more information, visit
campovelo.com.

Dark Tale

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Dark Tale

The Santa Rosa Junior College theater season ends with a production of James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods. It’s a fairy tale mash-up with elements of “Cinderella,” “Rapunzel,” “Jack and the Beanstalk” and “Little Red Riding Hood” set to a classic Sondheim score. As in the original tales—and unlike most adaptations—things do not end well.

A childless baker (Brett Mollard) and his wife (Katie Smith) make a bargain with a witch (Alanna Weatherby) to lift a family curse and grant their wish for a child. They are tasked with acquiring four items: a cow as white as milk, a cape as red as blood, hair as yellow as corn and a slipper as pure as gold.

Their search leads them to cross paths in the woods with the characters from the aforementioned fairy tales, all seeking fulfillment of their own wishes. The first act ends on a happy note as everyone seems to have their wishes granted, but Act II gets dark as the characters’ actions play out. In other words, be careful what you wish for.

With the JC’s Burbank Auditorium undergoing renovations, the limitations of the Maria Carrillo High School Auditorium utilized for this production led director Laura Downing-Lee and her design team to get even more inventive than usual. They’ve reached back to the source material and set the show in a library. Scenic designer Peter Crompton loads the stage with oversized books that work as doors and steps. Under the vocal direction of Jody Benecke and musical direction of Justin Pyne and a nine-piece offstage orchestra, the creatively costumed cast do well with the often-challenging Sondheim score. Mollard, Smith and Weatherby lead the talented ensemble, which includes Levi Sterling as Jack, Serena Poggi as Little Red Riding Hood, Ella Park as Cinderella, Shayla Nordby as Rapunzel and Cooper Bennett and Roberto Pérez Kempton as princes who were “raised to be charming, not sincere.”

Unfortunately, the opening-night performance was marred by technical difficulties. Erratic microphone work and a failing projection system distracted from the fine work being done onstage. My wish is that they get it all fixed so that audiences can fully enjoy this very entertaining production.

Rating (out of 5): ★★★½

Where Are You?

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Where Are You?

Plot parallels between You Were Never Really Here and Taxi Driver are obvious, despite the visual and sonic texture flaunted to obscure the links. This version is more compact, or rather circular: the
kind of big-time politician that Travis was stalking in Taxi Driver is now actually involved in pimping out underage girls.

In this adaptation of Jonathan Ames’ novel, about a traumatized Marine vet hired to rescue girls sold into sexual slavery, Joe (Joaquin Phoenix) shambles through his vigilante missions. Phoenix is in his wounded Joaquin mode, cryptic, sleepy-eyed and morose, tottering through scenes while he dispatches guards and perverts with a ball-peen hammer.

Sounds like juicy material, but in the name of seriousness, director Lynne Ramsay cuts away anything thrilling, or even compelling. It’s a vigilante movie so aestheticized that it loses its energy—knuckle sandwiches with the crusts cut off, served on a doily.

Jonny Greenwood’s score thrums away with dissonant strings
and industrial roars, but the texture-quest is out of control here.
There are one too many shots of the jeweled lights of NYC diffused through a rainy window, like spilled sequins, and a body disposal at a country lake looks like a baptism. One rampage, scored to Rosie and the Originals’ “Angel Baby,” is seen through several night-vision security cameras.

The moment of impact is always just off screen or seen in a small corner of the frame. Ramsay could be classified with Nicolas Roeg and John Boorman among U.K. directors who find a transcendental side to violence, and I like a director with a taste for unique, immersive visuals. Yet ultimately we have a better idea about how the bricks in Joe’s mom’s house look than we do of how it was that Joe first curled his hand around the hammer of justice.

‘You Were Never Really Here’ is playing at Rialto Cinemas,
6868 McKinley St., Sebastopol. 707.525.4840.

Pourin’ Possum

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Pourin’ Possum

On the eve of only their second official week of service, the team at Old Possum Brewing Co. seem in good spirits while making preparations for the week ahead.

“I don’t think we’ll have any shortage of customers,” bar manager Jordan Bothe cheerily says of their hideaway location in a south Santa Rosa business park. An avid microbrew hunter himself, Bothe says he’s already seen repeat customers come back, and bring more friends.

Also sanguine, Old Possum’s owner and head brewer, Sandro Tamburin, says, “People feel pleasure in finding these kinds of places.” Besides, he’s got a backup plan—an even more under-the-radar brewery that’s been successfully operating on the site for four years.

A native of the Italian portion of Istria, Tamburin’s accent is also seasoned with Southern vowels from growing up in Texas, where he became a restaurateur by age 25. But he fell back in with the family tradition of winemaking when he moved to California, and enrolled in enology and brewing courses at UC Davis.

While working on a project to make a brewpub out of the former Latitude Island Grill in Rohnert Park (the venture stalled, but Healdsburg’s Bear Republic snapped up the location), Tamburin got to talking with business partner Dan Shulte, who manufactures brewery equipment, about an idea to brew wort (basically, beer before fermentation) and ship it out to so-called nano-breweries, who then ferment it and label it as their own.

Tamburin’s theme at Old Possum, however, is all about sourcing locally and closing loops where possible. A hard-won food-service permit allows the brewpub to serve bread from Red Bird Bakery down the street with house-prepared bratwurst and pork chops made from animals fed with spent grain from their brewing process at a Windsor farm. On cue, the farmer shows up just as the brewery’s butcher and chef, Christian Velasquez, doles out samples of wet-brined, house-cured ham. “Better than mine,” he says approvingly.

Old Possum’s five beers now on tap include the quaffable Porch Pounder, made with pilsner malt; a collaboration with Fogbelt called Treehugger pale ale (get it—Fogbelt’s beers are all named after redwood trees), made with Admiral Maltings grain from Alameda, and the most “classic California” of the group; the amber, balanced Fuzzy Critter IPA, a hop-forward brew with English-style floral notes; and, the wildest option, a stout aged in Caribbean rum barrels.

Old Possum Brewing Co., 357 Sutton Place, Santa Rosa. Open noon–10pm, Thursday–Sunday. Pints, $5; higher gravity, $6; five-ounce tasters, $3. 707.303.7177.

Taking Flight

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Taking Flight

Sonoma needs another winetasting room like it needs more wineries. Abbot’s Passage Supply Co. is different. In addition to tastings of blends created under the Abbot’s Passage label, the tasting room serves as a general store as well, offering clothing, grooming products, home-décor items and gifts.

Abbot’s Passage, which opened its doors in December 2017, is Katie Bundschu’s new take on a tasting room, marrying a concept store with small-lot, co-fermented field blends sourced from vineyards within Sonoma. “We wanted to create a different kind of space, an inviting and engaging place where guests and our community could come together and learn something new,” she says.

Bundschu is a sixth-generation winemaker from Sonoma’s Gundlach Bundschu Winery. She joined the family business in 2012. While the family winery’s tasting room is quite traditional, with Abbot’s Passage, Bundschu says she wanted “to honor my family’s longstanding knowledge of Sonoma Valley by showcasing storied vineyards throughout the valley.”

Located in an 1886 carriage house, which used to be a hair salon, the shop offers a mix of curated goods and vintage curiosities which, according to Bundschu, “celebrate local craftsmanship, quality and sustainability.” In the space, the wine taster and shopper can find a rotating selection of apparel, home décor and jewelry from brands such as Filson, Taylor Stitch, Juniper Ridge, K/LLER Collection and Lovely Bird, with an emphasis on Californian brands which Bundschu says cater to the “modern-day adventurer and explorer.” The store is located on the ground floor and the tasting room is tucked away on the second level.

The wine and the products, says Abbot Passage’s brand manager and creative strategist Liddy Parlato, are designed to play off each other. “The retail [offerings] allows us to tell a richer story about our wine,” she says. “The brands were chosen according to characteristics our wine carries, such as heritage, limited production, handmade, artisanal, the element of discovery and adventure.”

Following the explorer theme, Abbot’s Passage offers monthly workshops such as perfume making, oyster shucking and even lock picking. There are also book talks planned with local authors.

Is Parlato worried that shopping and imbibing are canceling each other out? Not really.

“When people are here for 45 minutes, we make sure we’re not cannibalizing one experience for the other,” Parlato says. “Some people are intrigued by the products first and then move on to winetasting, and some the other way around.”

Abbot’s Passage doesn’t feel like a typical tasting room. It’s more boutique than bottle shop, where wine is part of a larger lifestyle and winetasting plays a supporting act. It will be worth watching to see if other wineries follow suit and adopt a similar approach.

Abbott’s Passage Supply Co.,
27 E. Napa St., Sonoma. 707.939.3017.

Higher Education

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Higher Education

At the start of the spring 2018 semester, Sonoma State University emailed all undergraduates reminding them that “despite the change in state law, using, possessing, growing or storing marijuana anywhere on SSU property (including in the Residential Community) is prohibited.”

The email also explained that “SSU must comply with federal law, including the Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act, and marijuana remains an illegal drug at the federal level.”

Indeed, if the school fails to adhere to federal law, it “would jeopardize eligibility for federal financial aid, grants, and contracts.”

But students are also getting another message—at least those hundred or so who enroll in Sociology 350: Drugs and Society.

The instructor, Nicole Wolfe, spends hours in class on the subject of marijuana. She also devotes time to other drugs, including sugar, alcohol and tobacco. On the midterm exam, she asks students to discuss which drugs have had the biggest impact on America.

“For the first time [in my experience], people said sugar and marijuana,” Wolfe says. “They were tied for first place. Usually it’s tobacco and alcohol.”

What’s surprising is that Seawolves, as undergrads are known, believe marijuana is a gateway drug that will lead to harder drugs and to a lifetime of addiction, Wolfe says.

Wolfe debunks mainstream narratives about drugs. While she doesn’t discuss her personal history, she says that, like her students, she grew up thinking that marijuana was bad. After all, her mother told her so.

Sonoma State students receive much the same message from their parents. Then they come to college and meet kids who use marijuana and who are A students.

Wolfe doesn’t encourage illegal activity, but she does encourage students to think critically.

“I believe that marijuana will be legalized on the federal level in the next 10 years,” she says. “We’ll hit a tipping point.”

Wolfe also reminds students that 700,000 people are arrested and incarcerated every year in the United States for simple possession of marijuana.

“We have more information now than ever before,” Wolfe says. “But the system hasn’t changed.”

Jonah Raskin is the author of ‘Marijuanaland: Dispatches from an American War.’ He taught at SSU for 30 years.

Pen Pals

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Pen Pals

Professionally, Evan Wiig is an advocate for family farming in the North Bay as executive director of the Farmers Guild. In his free time, he plays music.

So it’s no surprise when Wiig says his eclectic rock band, Burnside, began on a farm, where he and others first jammed under the name Whiskey & Circumstance.

When half of the band’s members moved north to start their own farm, Wiig reorganized and started anew as Burnside, named for the road he lives on west of Sebastopol.

“It was the place we practiced in my living room,” Wiig says. “This new manifestation came about, and now it’s a five-person rock and roll band.”

With Wiig on vocals and guitars, the band includes guitarist Nash Weber, bassist Andros Howes, drummer Jason Berkman and newly added vocalist Jeanna Collet.

The band boasts a wide variety of styles, with a dance-inducing assortment of funk, blues, soul and more at their disposal. “We’re omnivores when it comes to music,” says Wiig. “It’s hard to narrow it down.”

That diversity is highlighted on Burnside’s newly released album, Perseids, which alternates between funky grooves and roots-rock through its seven up-tempo tracks.

“We play such a variety of venues, and we mix up our set list every time,” says Wiig. “For this album, we wanted to showcase that.”

This weekend, Burnside embark on a national tour to support the record with a show on April 28 at the Arlene Francis Center. But this isn’t any tour, as the band is packing a mailbox alongside the music gear for a letter-writing adventure they’re calling “Letters to the Heartland.”

“Right now, we have so many different avenues for communication, yet it’s really hard to hear one another,” says Wiig.

As Facebook commodifies data and Twitter fractures discourse at 280 characters a time, Wiig envisions this tour as a chance for thoughtful dialogue among Americans.

On April 28, Burnside will bring postcards, paper and envelopes for attendees to write a letter to a stranger. Throughout the tour, the band will invite those they meet to take a letter and leave a letter. When Burnside return to play the Railroad Square Music Festival on June 10, they will share those letters from the tour.

“When you sit down to write a letter, you have to take some time and think about it,” Wiig says. “Letter writing is one of the more pure, intimate opportunities to connect with another human being that exists today.”

Burnside kicks off the ‘Letters to
the Heartland’ tour on Saturday,
April 28, at the Arlene Francis Center,
99 Sixth St., Santa Rosa. 6pm. $10. burnsidetheband.com.

City and Santa Rosa Fire Department Announce Contract Talk Impasse

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City and Santa Rosa Fire Department Announce Contract Talk Impasse

Santa Rosa declared an impasse this week in its ongoing contract negotiations with Firefighters Union Local 1401. According to a release (see below), the city and union have been in negotiations since last March but after twenty-one meetings, they couldn’t hash out a deal. According to the city, it offered a two-year package with a 7 percent pay hike spread across bonuses, costs of living adjustments and other incentives, but that offer was turned back by the union.

Santa Rosa firefighters’ total compensation package (including benefits, overtime, and bonuses) averages more more than $235,000 a year. According to salaries.com, the average base salary for a Santa Rosa fireman, as of March of this year, was $49,951. Local salaries at SRFD range from $37,000 to $62,000 a year.

According to 2016 stats from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Santa Rosa base pay lines up with American firefighters’ average wage of $48,030. But in California as a whole, the average salary is $71,790. Oakland and San Francisco offer the highest wages in the state, according to the BLS, each coming in at around 90k a year.

The city says its offer is competitive with other salaries in the city, and that it can’t afford the raise—in no small measure because of fiscal fallout from the October 2017 wildfires.

The next step according to the city release dated April 18, is further mediation or forced arbitration via a third party. Let’s hope they get it squared away before, well. 

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April 20: 4/20 Birthday in Santa Rosa

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April 20: 4/20 Birthday in Santa Rosa

Natural Cannabis Company has a lot to celebrate this weekend, as marijuana’s big day also happens to be the Bay Area company’s birthday. This 4/20, Natural Cannabis Company turns 13 years old with a day of special sales and surprise fun at their Santa Rosa dispensary, OganiCann. The party also features the company’s annual “High Art” competition winners announcement. This year’s contest received nearly 5,000 works of art from talented artists in 82 countries, and 20 artists will be recognized on Friday, April 20, at OrganiCann, 301 E. Todd Road, Santa Rosa. 4:20pm. 707.588.8811.

Letters to the Editor: April 25, 2018

Astronomical What's retro about 160 bucks a night for the Astro Motel ("Hip Advisor," April 10)? I guess they have to keep pace with the Spinster Sisters' prices. —Pieter S. Myers Occidental Housing for All Sonoma County was already facing an issue with affordable housing before the October wildfires. Now there needs to be more permanent housing created to ensure families at risk of...
Read more

Fun on Wheels

Napa Valley is obviously well-known as a food and wine destination, but because it's flanked by mountains and crossed by winding roads that thread through picturesque vineyards and small towns, it's also a haven for cyclists—provided you can avoid the weekend traffic jams. This weekend Napa will be jammed with cyclists of all kinds as CampoVelo rolls into the...
Read more

Dark Tale

The Santa Rosa Junior College theater season ends with a production of James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods. It's a fairy tale mash-up with elements of "Cinderella," "Rapunzel," "Jack and the Beanstalk" and "Little Red Riding Hood" set to a classic Sondheim score. As in the original tales—and unlike most adaptations—things do not end well. A childless baker...
Read more

Where Are You?

Plot parallels between You Were Never Really Here and Taxi Driver are obvious, despite the visual and sonic texture flaunted to obscure the links. This version is more compact, or rather circular: the kind of big-time politician that Travis was stalking in Taxi Driver is now actually involved in pimping out underage girls. In this adaptation of Jonathan Ames' novel,...
Read more

Pourin’ Possum

On the eve of only their second official week of service, the team at Old Possum Brewing Co. seem in good spirits while making preparations for the week ahead. "I don't think we'll have any shortage of customers," bar manager Jordan Bothe cheerily says of their hideaway location in a south Santa Rosa business park. An avid microbrew hunter himself,...
Read more

Taking Flight

Sonoma needs another winetasting room like it needs more wineries. Abbot's Passage Supply Co. is different. In addition to tastings of blends created under the Abbot's Passage label, the tasting room serves as a general store as well, offering clothing, grooming products, home-décor items and gifts. Abbot's Passage, which opened its doors in December 2017, is Katie Bundschu's new take...
Read more

Higher Education

At the start of the spring 2018 semester, Sonoma State University emailed all undergraduates reminding them that "despite the change in state law, using, possessing, growing or storing marijuana anywhere on SSU property (including in the Residential Community) is prohibited." The email also explained that "SSU must comply with federal law, including the Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act, and marijuana...
Read more

Pen Pals

Professionally, Evan Wiig is an advocate for family farming in the North Bay as executive director of the Farmers Guild. In his free time, he plays music. So it's no surprise when Wiig says his eclectic rock band, Burnside, began on a farm, where he and others first jammed under the name Whiskey & Circumstance. When half of the band's members...
Read more

City and Santa Rosa Fire Department Announce Contract Talk Impasse

Santa Rosa declared an impasse this week in its ongoing contract negotiations with Firefighters Union Local 1401. According to a release (see below), the city and union have been in negotiations since last March but after twenty-one meetings, they couldn't hash out a deal. According to the city, it offered a two-year package with a 7 percent pay hike...
Read more

April 20: 4/20 Birthday in Santa Rosa

Natural Cannabis Company has a lot to celebrate this weekend, as marijuana’s big day also happens to be the Bay Area company’s birthday. This 4/20, Natural Cannabis Company turns 13 years old with a day of special sales and surprise fun at their Santa Rosa dispensary, OganiCann. The party also features the company’s annual “High Art” competition winners announcement....
Read more
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