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So far Chris.Smith has created 52 blog entries.

What color is Panther blood?

As we speak, there are people feeling good about giving the perfect Valentine's gift. It's something red, life-giving and literally from the heart. Blood donors this week include students, alumni and friends of Santa Rosa High and Montgomery High, whose education foundations are holding their third annual good-natured Blood Feud drive. [...]

By | February 10th, 2011|0 Comments

Digging up skeletons at the Bohemian Grove

Thank goodness, after decades of rumors of ritual sacrifice, sinister schemes and other bad behavior at the midsummer Bohemian Grove encampment near Monte Rio, the truth will be revealed tonight (Thursday, Jan. 27) on television. Author/sleuth Brad Meltzer reports on the History channel on what his team uncovered on its [...]

By | January 27th, 2011|32 Comments

The pearls at Peter’s memorial

There was much sorrow and frank talk, of course, at the weekend's memorial service for Peter Kingston. But county supervisor Shirlee Zane's husband was too good-humored and fun-loving a guy for there not to have been some good laughs, too. Shirlee recalled a marital incident that's just too rich not to [...]

By | January 26th, 2011|2 Comments

What a cast, what a story

Check this out. We've never seen the likes of the dramatic re-enactment that will draw a potent cast of community leaders, most of them African-American, onto the stage of Santa Rosa High School's auditorium on Feb. 26. The story being re-told centers around Union General William Sherman's 1865 order granting [...]

By | January 25th, 2011|0 Comments

Shirlee Zane said it right out loud

Sonoma County Supervisor Shirlee Zane stepped slowly, mindful of her broken heart, as she ascended Sunday afternoon to the microphone on the stage of the packed Jackson Theater at Sonoma Country Day School. The first sound she made was an inadvertent sigh. Zane then spoke affectionately and with great humor and sorrow [...]

By | January 24th, 2011|13 Comments

The Tamayos will see you at the parade

The late Mary and Jose Tamayo would be amazed. Here, about 35 years after they came to Sonoma County and opened a modest burrito and fresh-tortilla shop in Santa Rosa, their family will be honored as Grand Marshals of the 117th Luther Burbank Rose Parade. The Tamayo family will ride [...]

By | January 20th, 2011|0 Comments

WOW waits to see who Fieri sends in

That was quite a tasty scene at the Tocchini family's 3rd Street Cinema Six on Sunday afternoon. Every one of 500 seats in two theaters was filled by fans of our local-grown TV star, Guy Fieri, and of Worth Our Weight (WOW), the all-volunteer cafe near Montgomery Village that trains [...]

By | January 17th, 2011|0 Comments

We don’t starve horses, do we?

Horses in Sonoma County, a major equestrian center, have a lot of important friends. Among those who showed up at a high-spirited and delicious benefit dinner Sunday afternoon in Sebastopol were district attorney-elect Jill Ravitch and County Supervisor Efren Carrillo. The strong turnout at the dinner should serve as a [...]

By | September 20th, 2010|0 Comments

She’s painting her way to college

There's a most unusual art show and exhibit in Santa Rosa on Sunday, July 18, and if you drop by I'll bet you'll be happy you did. The exhibit from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.  at the private gallery of Jack Leissring, the former owner of Santa Rosa's McDonald Mansion, [...]

By | July 16th, 2010|0 Comments

Will The Pink Elephant Rise Again?

The Pink Elephant bar, for decades one of Sonoma County's favorite dives, is about as dead as dead can be. But Tom O'Bryan of The Blue Heron, just down the river at Duncans Mills, has a revival plan. "I'm just trying to restore it and bring it back to what it was," said [...]

By | July 13th, 2010|0 Comments