An Insider’s Guide to Old Sacramento
Just off Highway 5, as you curve down the J Street offramp and let Sacramento’s shiny skyscrapers shrink in the rearview mirror, there’s a land that time remembered and turned...
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Get your scare on at these five frightening theme parks
This time of year, something wicked this way comes to most of California’s theme parks, where the theme is frighteningly familiar: Halloween hauntings. And the competition for control of your...
Mixed results for folks that left the Bay
Raya and Michael DeMarquez both grew up in San Jose, got married here, raised their kids here, bought a house here more than 20 years ago and felt settled in...
Mom’s handwritten journals: relics of personal history
There’s been a trend for a few years in which people who never experienced the old ways of doing things are going back to the old ways of doing things....
A hippie-trippy trip on the Magic Bus tour
SAN FRANCISCO >> I’m on a hippie bus. A rolling commune on a road trip to the Summer of Love.No, not in 1967, but just now in 2017, on a...
Berkeley museum acquires Jewish art collection
BERKELEY >> The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life at UC-Berkeley has acquired the most significant collection of works by Arthur Szyk, a Polish Jewish artist and political caricaturist...
Holy doodles — Bible journaling is a thing now
In the beginning, a higher, more crafty power created scrapbooking. Somewhere around, say, the fifth day, coloring books for adults were brought forth. Now, a new and holier-than-the-others hobby has...
The Summer of Love at 50
BERKELEY >> For some of us, the Summer of Love is merely a slogan on a souvenir tie-dye shirt in the Haight.But for members of the hippie generation, that sizzling...
Mass shootings in America — a sad trend continued
“Somehow this has become routine. The reporting is routine. My response here at this podium ends up being routine. The conversation in the aftermath of it. We’ve become numb to...
