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Dec 5, 2023
Truth Is Nuanced
It’s hard to go about life as usual without pausing to think about what is happening in the Middle East. In case anyone’s been under a rock: After decades of tension between Israel and Palestine with intermittent...
Dec 5, 2023
Legal Weed Avoids Total Collapse… This Year
In its nearly six years of existence, California’s legal pot market hasn’t developed in the way many advocates for legalization promised it would. The industry remains plagued with problems, most of them due to government policy: high...
Dec 5, 2023
The Lightness of Dark
Charming Disaster, the duo composed of singer/ukulele player Ellia Bisker and singer/guitarist Jeff Morris, write songs that concentrate on subjects seldom explored in popular music. Ghosts, paranormal activity and other inexplicable events drift through their singular lyrics,...
Dec 5, 2023
The new film, Poor Things, lands with a thud. In a scenario lifted from countless vintage horror/sci-fi flicks, it’s the old story of a mad scientist,...
Nov 29, 2023
The name of Chef Tomoharu Shono’s latest ramen restaurant, Mensho, combines the Japanese character for “men,” which means “noodle” in Japanese, with the first syllable of...