Ask Sydney

This advice column is penned by a Sonoma County resident and our new weekly sage. Go ahead! Ask her anything.

Madonna/Whore

Are the 'mommyblogger' and 'sexblogger' movements the 21st-century version of emancipation?

News Briefs

• by Patricia Lynn Henley

Labor of Love

Marin attorney Karen Carrera crusades for low-wage women workers

About Face

'Comedy' proves bad Shakespeare can be good theater

• by David Templeton

Dystopia Now

'Hybrid Fields' anything but bucolic

• by Gretchen Giles

Poetry Goes to War

Veteran poet Brian Turner captures Iraq experiences in 'Here, Bullet'

Sequin Resequence

Or, Why I'm looking forward to the new Jet album

Last Exit

Aging boomers have final hurrah in 'Boynton Beach Club'

• by Richard von Busack

Indie Cred

Willard's Canteen begs no forgiveness

• by Sara Bir
• Tags: Music, Nightlife

First Bite

Bistro des Copains

• by Amanda Yskamp

Morsels

Greetings from Kellerville

• by Brett Ascarelli

Wine Tasting Room of the Week

Freemark Abbey

• by Daedalus Howell

Growing Up in Public

Community gardens teach, provide and spring up in the strangest places

• by Clark Wolf