Big Change at Boonville Hotel
Perry Hoffman, who earned critical acclaim while chef at Shed in Healdsburg and Domaine Chandon’s former restaurant Etoile, is back to work…
The Pleasures of Picture Postcards
I recently visited my neighborhood chain drug store to purchase picture postcards to send to friends. I purchased my previous batch there…
Sorry Soldier
Sitting on his half-folded, inverted entrenching tool, its handle stuck into the mud, Private Jamieson shivered awake as a gust of wind tore the poncho roof away and the water poured down on him.…
Jeffrey Aaron: Mendo’s New Public Defender
When a colleague decided to change careers and started law school years ago she asked me a question raised in one of…
The Nightmare Continues
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Tanning + Pot = Disaster
A gym entrepreneur branches out into marijuana. Then loses it all.https://www.riverfronttimes.com/stlouis/the-long-violent-fall-of-tanning-mogul-todd-beckman/Content?oid=29509097&showFullText=true…
Dr. Richard Miller & Che Guevara
On a New Year’s tour of Cuba, my wife and I visited Ché Guevara’s mausoleum and monument in Santa Clara, where his…
Anna Morrison Reed
In the 1800s women were seldom accorded their own identity in print. Emblematic of that was the newspaper notice of a baby…
Bass On Top: The Genius of Paul Chambers
Mozart and Charlie Parker died young. Paul Chambers died younger. He was thirty-three years old when he succumbed to tuberculosis fifty years…
Situational Awareness
I came back to The World when I woke up atop a mattress tucked between clean sheets in a private room near…
PG&E’s Bad Behavior & Bankruptcy
Last week’s column on PG&E’s pending bankruptcy closes the book on a piece I wrote a year and half ago where I…
Introducing Judge Faulder
Is there anything that Judge Keith Faulder can’t do in a courtroom? No, probably not. After all, he’s been a crusading lawyer…