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Aug 23, 2024 | 
diablomag.com | Ian Stewart
After a 17-year playing career, during which he went from overlooked prospect to Major League Soccer (MLS) record holder, Chris Wondolowski has a good idea what he’s talking about when it comes to scouting young talent. And that’s exactly what he’s doing on this spring day, a few weeks before being inducted into the Bay Area Sports Hall of Fame, capping one of the greatest and most unlikely sports careers of all time. Breaking down one new talent, he explains: “Very driven.
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Jun 7, 2024 | 
diablomag.com | Ian Stewart
Alex Mehran Jr. isn’t sure yet about the band, but he can picture perfectly what the first concert at Bishop Ranch will be like. Lively, accessible, relaxed. Hip enough for the young professionals filling up the nearby apartments and condos but sufficiently low-key for the families. A few of the seniors living steps away are taking things in from under the shaded canopy of old-growth sycamores.
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May 31, 2024 | 
winnipegfreepress.com | Ian Stewart
The second great war of the 20th century started slowly on the Western Front, where it was derisively known as the “Phoney War.”But the situation was dire by spring 1940. France had surrendered to German forces and British troops had been chased off the continent at Dunkirk, France. Canada, which joined the war effort days after Germany’s Sept. 1, 1939, invasion of Poland, made a commitment to supply more troops to aid its exhausted allies.
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May 3, 2024 | 
diablomag.com | Linda Lenhoff |Rachel Orvino |Ian Stewart |Kimberly Olson
Every May, Diablo honors exceptional women who are leaders in their fields—women for whom innovation is second nature and no challenge is too daunting. Below, we celebrate six such trailblazers who have made their marks in wide-ranging sectors, from education and the arts to health care and business. We are inspired by their thought leadership and proud to call them our East Bay neighbors.
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Mar 16, 2024 | 
diablomag.com | Ian Stewart
Growing up as a soccer-mad kid in the East Bay, Katelyn Rowland had to look a bit farther afield to find her sports heroes. Outside a few short-lived teams—notably the Brandi Chastain–led Bay Area CyberRays (2001–03)—top-flight women’s professional soccer has never found a true foothold here. Rowland is among those looking to change that.
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Nov 18, 2023 | 
diablomag.com | Ian Stewart
JJ Jenkins is sitting in a dark corner booth at his Jack London Square pub, Merchant’s Saloon, discussing the finer points of what goes into making a dive bar great. Bartender attitude, for sure. Music selection. The maximum number of televisions and what they can show. “Lighting is huge,” he says, mentioning his out-of-state incandescent bulb guy. Jenkins knows of what he speaks.
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Nov 10, 2023 | 
winnipegfreepress.com | Ian Stewart
Plaques and memorials to men who died in the First World War were placed in many of Winnipeg’s older churches. A cross dedicated to Maj. Alexander Bawden rests in the Lady Chapel at All Saints Anglican Church. (MIKAELA MACKENZIE / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS) One such memorial — an old wooden cross — rests in the Lady Chapel at All Saints Anglican Church.
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Sep 1, 2023 | 
diablomag.com | LeeAnne Jones |Ian Stewart
SUPER POWERPHYSICIST ANDREA KRITCHER PLAYED A KEY ROLE IN LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LAB’S ATTAINMENT OF FUSION IGNITION—A BREAKTHROUGH WITH EPIC IMPLICATIONS. For 60 years, scientists and engineers have been on a quest to achieve controlled nuclear fusion ignition—a major step on the path to clean, limitless energy. When it finally happened on December 5 last year, most of the team behind the feat were asleep.
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Jul 7, 2023 | 
diablomag.com | Ian Stewart
It probably wasn’t a coincidence that during his introductory press conference, new Cal men’s basketball coach Mark Madsen seemed to keep dropping names of the great Golden Bears of the past. In just the first several minutes, he referenced Leon Powe, Tony Gonzalez, Randy Duck, and Sean Lampley, to call out just a few. While reminiscing about his days at Danville’s San Ramon Valley High School, he recalled watching Jason Kidd, Monty Buckley, and Lamond Murray play under Lou Campanelli.
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May 26, 2023 | 
winnipegfreepress.com | Ian Stewart
On May, 13, 1915, the men of the 27th (City of Winnipeg) Battalion went off to war. The battalion was raised in the great city of the Prairies, the small farm towns of Manitoba and eastern Saskatchewan, as well as the mining and lumber towns of northwestern Ontario. When it returned on May, 26, 1919, more than 5,000 had served, thousands had been wounded in body and spirit, and more than 800 were left, at best, in the hastily dug, muddy battlefield cemeteries of France and Belgium.
