Daedalus Howell

5 days ago | bohemian.com | Daedalus Howell

Saturday, May 10 and Sunday, May 11 is the 3rd Annual Mill Valley Music Festival at Friends Field in, you guessed it, Mill Valley. The festival has become a popular family event featuring an impressive music lineup, a marketplace featuring local handmade crafts, clothing, jewelry and more plus a killer lineup of all kinds of food and drink including wine and beer.

1 week ago | bohemian.com | Daedalus Howell

In a village where people have lost the ability to dream, one old man dons a magic hat to dream on their behalf. When the time comes to pass his mantle to a young successor, corporate forces, of course, want in. This is the premise of Petaluma animator Gene Hamm’s new hand-drawn feature, The Dream Hat, screening May 10 at the Petaluma Arts Center. If the plot sounds like an allegory—capitalism versus creativity—one is not wrong.

1 week ago | bohemian.com | Daedalus Howell

Sure, Inception, Dreamscape, The Lathe of Heaven or any of a number of sci-fi flicks that explore harnessing the dream state are entertaining—but are they healing?  A recent study led by Dr. Garret Yount, a molecular neurobiologist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS), which is perched over the border of Sonoma and Marin counties, points to the  potential of healing minds while sleeping.

1 week ago | pacificsun.com | Daedalus Howell

Sure, Inception, Dreamscape, The Lathe of Heaven or any of a number of sci-fi flicks that explore harnessing the dream state are entertaining—but are they healing?  A recent study led by Dr. Garret Yount, a molecular neurobiologist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS), which is perched over the border of Sonoma and Marin counties, points to the  potential of healing minds while sleeping.

2 weeks ago | pacificsun.com | Daedalus Howell

Clown TakedownOne of the fun aspects of being my age is that I was fully coherent when Richard Nixon met his karmic retribution for being a pathetic public liar before, during and after Watergate. Like Donald Trump today, he had his team of enablers, though unlike today, there was a free press for him to contend with. The same will happen to Trump. He will be taken down differently, but he will be taken down. The rise of Trump, the consummate con artist, is a complete breakdown of American society.