Winter Gift Guide
Sonoma County has many wonderful local options for gift giving. The following pages include all the details about some of our favorite things (spoiler, they aren’t all things!) during this […]
Make Local
Local Makers – From Fog Valley to Liberty Street
Made Local (ML): What’s your background and when did you know you were a writer? Frances Rivetti (FR): My background is in journalism. I was hired by my local newspaper
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Make Local – Jeremiah Flynn’s Flashes of Brilliance
Photos by Paige Green Photography Photographer Annie Leibovitz once said, “A photograph is just a tiny slice of a subject. A piece of them in the moment. It seems presumptuous
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Make Shopping Guide
by Jess D Taylor One Christmas, when he was a young teen, Mob$ta Myk and his brother got only one present for the two of them, a Boss eight-track mixer.
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Keep Your Spin Up
Kent Borowick had never hula hooped in his life until a couple of years ago. The longtime Guerneville resident—who also happens to be the town’s Santa Claus—has now lost pounds
Making A Scene
What was once a Pontiac dealership, and so many other businesses, is now the home of Santa Rosa’s first downtown community theater. Photos by Paige Green Photography I walked into
Make Local Short — “Open Wide: BigMouthUnique’s Eclectic Flair”
“Antiestablishmentarianism’’ is a mouthful to say and a big concept to wrap your head around, but for a visual representation, you need look no further than Joshua Thwaites and Mathilde
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Make Local Short— “How to Make a Living Torching Metal”
In the studio with jewelry designer Georgia Fitt of Serpentine and Fair by Jess D. Taylor Have an arty start “I’ve been drawing since I was five years old,”
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Locavore: Eating Local, Cooking Local — “Confessions of a Germophile: Sheila Shupe Whips Up Some Shea Butter”
My mom always said, “never put anything in your vagina that you wouldn’t put in your mouth.” An OG feminist and sex ed teacher in the ‘70s, she was forced
Make Local — “Resale Therapy”
Why does Brian Benn’s office contain, among other things, a bagful of a stranger’s ashes and a spinning sex swing? There’s also a bulletin board crammed with photos of people
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