“What You Get” is a regular feature in the Times Sunday Business section that I always glance at but don’t always read. It runs on the bottom…
Posts published by “Fred Gardner”
Because Hollywood screenwriter Aaron Sorkin keeps weaving across the double-yellow line between history and fiction, the literal-minded viewer can get disoriented. In his script for…
That’s what I thought I was doing as his new movie, “Being the Ricardos,” streamed across the screen. Written and directed by the prolific Sork,…
Dan Asmussen, whose "Bad Reporter" cartoons ran in the San Francisco Chronicle and were syndicated by Universal Press Syndicate, died December 9 at the age of 59.…
Though we didn't know it at the time, the bustling Emerald Cup held at the Sonoma County Fairgrounds in December, 2019 — just before Covid-19…
If Ethan Crumbley was a marijuana user, that fact would have been publicized by now — or will soon become known. If he was on…
Proper respect for a product made in the USA — in Willits! — was conferred by the Los Angeles Times October 30. Given the popularity of the…
Two men framed for killing Malcolm X on February 21, 1965, Muhammad Aziz and Khalil Islam, have been exonerated after all these years. On November…
“Hate has no home here” is one of the seven deadly virtues enumerated on lawn signs I pass if my evening walk takes me towards…