News Briefs

• by Patricia Lynn Henley

Open Mic

Family Tied

• by Jenny Jedeikin

Smoke Signal

Santa Rosa's law mostly affects teens, poor and homeless

• by Joy Lanzendorfer

Nightlike Colors

Rep's outdoor 'Hamlet' is intense, funny

• by David Templeton

Formal Passage

'Quinceañera' uses the 15th rite as a springboard for so much more

• by Richard von Busack

Starbuck'd

How America's coffee behemoth neuters great music

• by Sara Bir

A New York Second

Larry Kirwan of Black 47 on why he won't be seeing Oliver Stone's 'World Trade Center'

• by David Templeton

Velo is for Vegetables

Farm-fresh produce and cycling go hand in hand at Tour d'Organics

• by Ella Lawrence

News of the Food

Zin of State

• by Alastair Bland

Morsels

In the Garden

• by Patricia Lynn Henley

Wine Tasting Room of the Week

Roche Carneros Estate Winery

• by Daedalus Howell

Notes from the Underground

The transitive verb 'to eat'

First Bite

Avatar's

• by David Sason