Guitarist and singer George Cole and the George Cole Trio will bring music popularized by jazz and pop singer and pianist Nat King Cole to The Palms Playhouse (13 Main St. in Winters), tonight at 8 p.m. Tickets are $22 ($18 with student ID). Although...
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Kate Laddish
Columnist - March 16, 2019 in Columnists
Cole Swings Cole: George Cole celebrates Nat King Cole
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Stephen Cooper
Columnist - March 5, 2019 in Columnists
Why Twitter brings out my worst self (and perhaps yours)
As a full-time freelance writer – having transitioned from law practice at midlife, accursed with all the selfish, self-doubting sensibilities that kind of crisis entails – Twitter brings out my absolute worst self. With my insuppressible, hereditary, Type-A personality, coupled with my raging but not...
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Stephen Cooper
Columnist - February 28, 2019 in Columnists
Keith Tharpe and the death penalty’s racist roots
Recently, the appalling spectacle of a black man condemned by a Georgia jury, a jury that included a racist bigot, reentered the American consciousness. If you haven’t heard about this travesty of justice (yet), or, if you’ve forgotten its details, all you need to know...
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Hank Fradella
Columnists - February 26, 2019 in Columnists
Oscar’s best and worst dressed — who flaunted it, who flubbed it
Because I know you have all been waiting with bated breath, here is my “Best and Worst Dressed” list for the 2019 Oscars. At the outset, I have to say this was a terrible year for Oscar’s fashion. I had to edit the “worst dressed”...
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Stephen Cooper
Columnist - February 26, 2019 in Columnists
Supreme Court screw-up sullies U.S. Constitution
Giving a speech at Georgetown University, late Justice William J. Brennan, Jr., said: “The Constitution is a sublime oration on the dignity of man.” However, after the Supreme Court’s February 7 refusal to stay devout Muslim Domineque Ray’s execution – despite Ray’s unrebutted claim that...
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JL Nash
- February 26, 2019 in Columnists
The not so Great Barrier Reef
Every day I walk to the end of my street, turn a corner and there it is, the Coral Sea, with crocodiles in the mangroves by the beaches and sharks, dugongs and dolphins a little further out. It is one of the seven wonders of...
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Kate Laddish
Columnist - February 22, 2019 in Columnists
The Nickel Slots release ‘Pack Up All Regrets’ at The Palms tonight
Sacramento- and Yolo County-based band The Nickel Slots dish up Americana with a dash of punk’s energy. With a sound that combines country and rock into a potent alt-country/Americana blend, the quartet features robust vocals, songwriting and instrumentation. The Nickel Slots will celebrate today’s release...
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Maya Spier Stiles North
Columnist, Editor-in-Chief - February 13, 2019 in Columnists
But she isn’t NICE — breaking free of the political glass ceiling
What Are Little Boys Made of? What are little boys made of? Snips and snails, And puppy-dogs’ tails; That’s what little boys are made of. What are little girls made of? Sugar and spice, And all that’s nice; That’s what little girls are made of....
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Debra DeAngelo
Columnist - February 12, 2019 in Columnists
Klobuchar could clobber them all
"If they don't focus on the goal, the Dems will blow what should be a cake walk. Why? Because many of the candidates in the race so far are talking about what's true and good and close to our Liberal bleeding hearts rather than the task at hand: Getting rid of Trump."
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