Daedalus Howell

In the ’90s I frequented a long-gone cafe where an elder busser would advise, apropos of nothing, that the road to intellectual emancipation starts...

I have spent my entire career weathering the vicissitudes of the media game—from classified ad-eating Craigslist in the early internet to paywall snafus (“information...

Some events burn through a place. Others continue burning quietly inside the people who lived through them. Multimedia artist Merlin Coleman has made a...

As F. Scott Fitzgerald famously wrote, “There are no second acts in American lives.” But… Most self-help gurus say we do have more, maybe even...

There are many ways to observe Earth Day. One can post a leafy infographic, shop with reusable bags or make bold declarations about composting,...

Punk pioneer Henry Rollins perhaps said it best: “Pizza makes me think that anything is possible.” Rollins has every reason to be optimistic, especially this...

There are themed parties, and then there are elaborate attempts to manifest civic joy through any means necessary. Santa Rosa’s upcoming Spice World appears to...

There are easier ways to spend a life than confronting evasive presidents, riot police, war crimes, billionaires and the occasional smug pundit before breakfast.  Amy...