North Bay Bohemian

06/13/2025

BAY AREA BURGER WEEK IS HERE 🍔
Two new reasons to crave a road trip to Sonoma County.

🔥 The Sonoma Mountain Stunner ($11.95) stacks double Sonoma Mountain Beef Co. patties with cheddar, bacon, pickles, raw red onion, lettuce, tomato, and their signature awesome sauce on a sesame seed bun.

🌶️ Prefer some heat? The Sonoma Hot Stunner ($10.95) brings crispy Sonoma Hot Chicken with housemade slaw, pickles, jalapeños, caramelized onions, and chipotle aioli on a sesame seed bun.

📍Available at all four Acme Burger locations: Santa Rosa, Cotati, and both Petaluma spots.

Menu + more: acmeburgerco.com

03/28/2025

🥊 In The Cover Story, Martyn Lees Covers The Fight Over A Proposed Asphalt Plant At The Canyon Rock Quarry Outside Forrestville.

🤩ALSO Our New Staff Gallerist Beth Tisthammer Writes Up Local Photographer Nik Cotten With A Pull-Out Print. A Bohemian Staff Writer Reviews The History of Hollywood Film Sights In The North Bay. Theater Reporter Harry Duke Covers "Morning Sun" At Sprekles In Rohnert Park. Cincinnatus Interviews Artist-Provocateur, Brett Roncelli and Amber Turpin Interviews Jared Rogers, The Chef At Mijos.

🤟AND ALWAYS : Our Culture Crush Event Recommendations, Political Cartoons, Your Letters to the Editor, A Trivia Game, Classified Ads, and your HOROSCOPE 💫!

🤑 FREE at bohemian.com and in print on newsstands through Napa and Sonoma Counties!

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03/18/2025

Our annual Best of the North Bay edition is out tomorrow!

03/14/2025

🧀 In The Cover Story, "Say Cheese," Tanya Henry Covers The California Artisanal Cheese Festival At The Sonoma County Fairgrounds!

🤩ALSO Kary Hess Reviews The New Book By Whimsical NB Chanteuse, Gabby Lala, "Not The Path Of Totality," Don R. Lewis Covers The Oscar Qualifying Sebastopol Film Festival At SebArts, And Caitlin Strom-Martin Reviews Pulitzer Prize Winning Lynn Nottage's Clyde, At 6th St. Theater Company. Amber Turpin Interviews Dan McGary of Fairfax Brewing Company, and Cincinnati's Hibbard Interviews Kaya Suncat of March Into Magic - Fairytale Fashion Show!

🤟AND ALWAYS : Our Culture Crush Event Recommendations, Political Cartoons, Your Letters to the Editor, A Trivia Game, Classified Ads, and your HOROSCOPE 💫!

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03/07/2025

🥰 In The Cover Story, Isabella Cook Lists Cool Kids Camps All Over The North Bay.

🎻ALSO Jordan Ranft covers "The Untitled Music Festival" at The Arlene Music Festival with Showcases 20 local bands and a few bay ringers in 20 minute sets. Cincinnatus Hibbard Interviews The Current Mayor of Sebastopol. Professed 'Ex-Drunk' Michael O'Conor Writes A Humorous List Of Dry Night Life Spots. Caitlin Strom-Martin Reviews Play 'Spelling Bee' at SRJC & Amber Turpin Interviews Dustin Valette of The Matheson Restaurant.

🤟AND ALWAYS : Our Culture Crush Event Recommendations, Political Cartoons, Your Letters to the Editor, A Trivia Game, Classified Ads, and your HOROSCOPE 💫!

🤑 FREE at bohemian.com and in print on newsstands through Napa and Sonoma Counties!

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02/28/2025

🤯 In The Cover Story, Cincinnatus Hibbard Covers Jonathan Pinkston and Hub, Which Are Begining A Campaign Of Campaigns In Sebastopol, Including A Council Run On A "Guided Use" Psychadelic Plant Decriminalization Platform. Their Intention, To Save The Soul Of Sebastopol From Wine Country Gentrification.

🎆 ALSO Harry Duke Covers Neil Lebute's "The Shape of Things" At The 222, Healdsburg, Amber Turpin Interviews Mark McWilliams of Arista Winery, And A Staff Writer Covers Ways To Keep Indoor Air Fresh And Wholesome For Pets And Humans Alike!

🤟AND ALWAYS : Our Culture Crush Event Recommendations, Political Cartoons, Your Letters to the Editor, A Trivia Game, Classified Ads, and your HOROSCOPE 💫!

🤑 FREE at bohemian.com and in print on newsstands through Napa and Sonoma Counties!

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02/21/2025

🥳 It's The 16th Annual Sonoma County Restaurant Week. In Our Cover Story, Don R. Lewis Writes Up The Event In Which 75 Restaurants Participate With Special Menu Offerings and Deals!

🎆 ALSO In a Political Commentary, Voloshin & Delue Call Recent Unconstitutional Action By The Executive An Effective Coup D'Etat. Cincinnatus Hibbard Interviews The Dynamic NEW Head Of The 400 Bussiness Strong Go Local Cooperative, Merith Weisman. Amber Turpin Interviews The Bar Manager At Brewsters, Petaluma. Don L Lewis Covers Pink Floyd Cover Band, Pete Floyd & Locals Joe Ebola And The Children McNuggits. Harry Duke Writes Up The Theatrical "GroundHog Day" At 6th St Playhouse.

🤟AND ALWAYS : Our Culture Crush Event Recommendations, Political Cartoons, Your Letters to the Editor, A Trivia Game, Classified Ads, and your HOROSCOPE 💫!

🤑 FREE at bohemian.com and in print on newsstands through Napa and Sonoma Counties!

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02/13/2025

🥳 Bill Forman Writes Up R&B Blues Singer Jeremie Albino, Who Brings A New Album Of Work To Vegan Venue, Little Saint Healdsburg.

🎆 ALSO Syndicated Columnist Bob Topper Gives A Rally Cry For Liberal Democracy, Cincinnatus Hibbard Interviews Local Cristie Kiley On Her Self-Marriage, Caitlin Strom-Martin Reviews 'Love Letters' at Napa's Lucky Penny & Amber Turpin Interviews Food And Beverage Manager Sam Levy On The Tiki Inspired Cocktail Menu He Mixed Up For Flamingo Hotel's Laze-Away Bar!

🤟AND ALWAYS : Our Culture Crush Event Recommendations, Political Cartoons, Your Letters to the Editor, A Trivia Game, Classified Ads, and your HOROSCOPE 💫!

🤑 FREE at bohemian.com and in print on newsstands through Napa and Sonoma Counties!

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02/08/2025

🥳 In the Feature, Scott Schafer Covers Cuddle Parties, the Oxytocin-Enfused PG-Rated Or**es.

🎆 ALSO Cincinnatus Hibbard Interviews Kimi Barbosa of Positive Images, a LGBTQIA+ Community Center and Advocacy Group, Nate Voge Explores How Mass Deportations Will Disrupt America's Food System, Kary Hess Writes Up "UNRULY," a Show of 18 North Bay Graduates of San Francisco Art Insitute, Harry Duke Covers a Production John Guare's Classic Play "Six Degrees" at The Sonoma Community Center, & Kris Eff Presents a Short Fiction, "Comedy of Eros."

🤟AND ALWAYS : Our Event Recommendations, Political Cartoons, Your Letters to the Editor, A Trivia Game, Classified Ads, and your HOROSCOPE 💫!

🤑 FREE at bohemian.com and in print on newsstands through Napa and Sonoma Counties!

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02/01/2025

🥳 Cole Hersey Covers the Historic Dispute Settlement that Will Wind Down Cattle Grazing on the 71000 Acre Pt. Reyes Seashore Over The Next 15 Months And Begin the Habitat Restoration of 18000 Acres of Grazed Land.

🎆 ALSO Cincinnatus Hibbard Interviews Amber Huntington of Pepperwood Preserve and California Flora Nursury on Habitat Gardening at Home with California Native Plants. Local Comic Scott Schafer Offers a Commentary on The Strange Mechanism that Drives Comics to Standup. Cailtin Strom-Martin Writes Up Mary Shelly's Body, an Origonal Play By the Bohemian's Own, David Templeton AND Editor Daedalus Howell Contextualizes the Axing of 4 Liberal Arts Departments at SSU to the Coming Culture Wars.

🤟AND ALWAYS : Our Event Recommendations, Political Cartoons, Your Letters to the Editor, A Trivia Game, Classified Ads, and your HOROSCOPE 💫!

🤑 FREE at bohemian.com and in print on newsstands through Napa and Sonoma Counties!

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01/24/2025

🥳 Don Lewis Covers 'Renegade Orchestra,' an Local Emsemble Containing Rock and Classical Instruments in the Lead Up to a Big Cloverdale Gig.

ALSO Coverage of the Controversial New Koi Nation Casino in Windsor By Simone Wilson, Beulah F. Vega Covers 'Gutenberg' The Musical at Sonoma State University, Kary Hess Vists Yoga Post in Petaluma, A Concept that Combines Yoga Studio and Day Spa, Editor Daedalus Howell Reflects On How Social Media Became The Sole Measure of Cultural Relevance In Publishing, And Cincinnatus Hibbard Interviews Katelyn Wiloughby of The Center for Volunteers and Nonprofit Leadership Which Hosts The Regions Biggest and Most Active Volunteer Portal.

🤟AND ALWAYS : Our Event Recommendations, Political Cartoons, Your Letters to the Editor, A Trivia Game, Classified Ads, and your HOROSCOPE 💫!

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01/17/2025

🥳 A Jam-Packed Issue is an Auspicious Beginning for This Year of the Snake! Contributor Kary Hess has a Comprehensive List of Family-Friendly Celebrations throughout the North Bay.

👀National Sexpert Savage Love Takes Your Questions, Editor Daedalus Howell Reports and Comments on the Surgeon General's New Health Advisory About Wine and Spirits,🎻 Don Lewis on Nebraska Folk/Americana Trio Wildwood in Sebastopol, 🎭 Caitlin Strom-Martin Covers Play, "What the Constitution Means to Me" at 6th st. Playhouse, Cincinnatus Hibbard Interviews Local Poet and Organizer of The Lost Poets Series in an Article and Linked Podcast. And North Bay Pizza Week Continues!

🤟AND ALWAYS : Our Event Recommendations, Political Cartoons, Your Letters to the Editor, A Trivia Game, Classified Ads, and your HOROSCOPE 💫!

🤑 FREE at bohemian.com and in print on newsstands through Napa and Sonoma Counties!

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