As we got on the boat, sunlight brightened the sky, coloring the clouds a soft pastel pink. Most of the researchers on the 67-foot catamaran called The Fulmar appeared tired yet focused, putting away ...

FUNNYWOMAN Sue Murphy is ticked. She's waging her own personal battle with cyberspace--and so far the Web is winning. Case in point: Just try looking up this stand-up celebrity and television comedian ...

FIRST, A FEW confessions. My record collection still harbors a scratchy copy of saxophonist Tom Scott and the L.A. Express' seminal 1975 L.A. jazz-pop album Tom Cat (A&M). Those funky lite-jazz ...

If you go out for pizza in Mill Valley and see more people playing Scrabble than eating pizza, don't do a double take. Especially if it's a Thursday night at Round Table, because that is when and ...

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In Sonoma County, where the vines run deep, and the family ties run even deeper, wineries aren’t just businesses—they’re ...

It’s slippery and much contended, but at present, the possessor of the North Bay pizza crown is Psychic Pie ...

Sweet T’s Restaurant + Bar in Windsor, California, has been voted Best Restaurant & Best Fried Chicken in Sonoma County. Ask Ann Tussey what motivated her to start Southern-style Sweet T’s Restaurant ...

When local high school student Sierra Aizer-Keck and her friend were protesting the war in Iraq during the antiwar protest on March 20, they decided to join in by blocking an intersection in Santa ...

Blur: After the relative calm of elementary school, junior high can present a confusing range of experiences. Hazing. Harassment. Guns on campus. Welcome to the strange, stressful world of junior high ...

John Trudell is a Native American poet whose verbal clashes with the U.S. Government have made him the stuff of underground legend. Basilio is one of 800 optimistic Catholic children who has come to ...