Are Marin conservationists ready to flatten the freeway tax? By Paula Harris COMMUTERS who regularly brave Highway 101 are no strangers to traffic snarls, gridlock-producing accidents, and horrendous ...

June 6-12, 2007 All Music Guide: There are millions of old records out there in the world—believe me, I dig through thousands of them each week. But records made in my hometown are rare, and every ...

Remember your first taste of brie? The discovery of brie cheese is usually memorable—you either love it or you don’t. It’s a pungent experience, and depending on the quality of the cheese, textures ...

Best of the North BayPrimal Beats“Generally speaking, definitions are a big waste of time.” Someone said that once, and we were just wondering who it was. Might have been Kerouac or Ginsberg, ...

Growing up in California’s diverse culinary landscape, Gillian Fitzgerald found herself equally at home on her father’s Mendocino sheep ranch and in her aunt’s Hollywood catering business. This unique ...

Here’s a bunch of music that in some way or another might provide you with some sonic shelter from this particular storm that’s a-brewin’. 1. Sister Rosetta Tharpe “Didn’t It Rain” Oh, but didn’t it ...

The theater business is a treacherous, ugly mud pit where love is desecrated and money rules all—and especially in Santa Rosa, where the Tocchinis, the Coddings and the Duggans have owned or operated ...

Something that us longtime Santa Rosans are known for is calling things by their old names. It’s a little game we play, a sort of secret handshake, delivered with unspoken bond. Call it The Old-Name ...

Is your marriage unfulfilling? Do your relatives piss you off? Ever want to split your boss’s lip? With bluesy rock-and-roll and a few jokes, Paul Thorn can ease your pain. Once a factory worker, ...

The General’s Daughter gets our attention By Paula Harris ADMIT IT: This is the time of year when “gift” becomes a four-letter word, and any tolerance for holiday hordes (and, God knows, Sonoma County ...

are finding pleasure in the stench that naps on his puckery lips. I bet Junior will buy airspace on a live podcast hosted by Duke Testosterone. Then prideful boys can eavesdrop from their own dimly ...

T he most famous fortified wine of all, Porto is as Portuguese as a Lodi Zinfandel is Californian. So how must the Portuguese feel now that wineries around the world have seized the word—which is, of ...