Sonoma-based power trio The Beer Scouts returns to its former headwaters of Humboldt County to play a couple of shows at — appropriately — two of our local breweries. If you missed yesterday’s 6 p.m. gig at the Paskenta Mad River Brewing tasting room, you can still catch the bluesy rock setlist of covers and […]
Lost Coast Brewery Taproom
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Raising a Glass of Resilience
Even for fire-wary and -weary Californians like myself, it’s been hard to comprehend the destruction of the Camp Fire, the Nov. 8 wildfire that decimated the town of Paradise in Butte County. That morning I was in Sebastopol, more than 100 miles from Paradise as the smoke flies. We woke up to clear skies. By […]
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Perfect Summer Trips
This is the time of year about which English poet John Keats waxed romantic, describing, “Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness/ Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun.” Keats not your thing? OK. Hip-hop duo Twiztid, bosom friends from Detroit, rapped thus: “Seasons change and summer turns to fall/ Every minute of my life, I remember […]