News & Culture in The North Bay

Strawberry Fields for Never

Anti-pesticide activists fight California's plan for new strawberry fumigant before June 29 comment deadline

News Blast

• by Caroline Osborn and Joseph Hynes

Teaching tomfoolery

New Old Time Chautauqua brings tradition back to town

• by Gretchen Giles

Reel Deal

California Film Institute branches out into the world of film distribution

• by David Templeton

Seeing the Enemy

William Stafford's pacifist poetry informs new doc

Called to Serve

New Proposition 8 documentary exposes Mormon role

• by Gabe Meline

Old-Time Revival

Carolina Chocolate Drops burst into roots music's big tent

• Tags: Music, Nightlife

Saint Joan

Joan Jett's rock 'n' roll mission

• by Karl Byrn
• Tags: Music, Nightlife

High & Low

SRT kicks off inventive summer season

• by David Templeton

Jonesin' for Jaxon

• by Clark Wolf

Dutton-Goldfield Winery

• by James Knight

Black Diamonds

While French truffles decline, new producers, including those in Northern California, ascend

Real World Learning

Montgomery High's Green Academy trains, engages teens

• by Juliane Poirier

Beauty at 50

California prepares to fete long-ago golden boy Jack London

• by Jonah Raskin