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1 week ago | 
pacificsun.com | Nikki Silverstein
Each veteran carrying a picket sign has their own story and battle scars, but all have faced more formidable foes than Elon Musk and his “government efficiency” initiative. Coming together every Saturday afternoon outside a Tesla dealership in Corte Madera, the veterans, most of whom served in Vietnam, decry Musk’s gutting of the Department of Veterans Affairs.
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2 weeks ago | 
bohemian.com | Nikki Silverstein
Notes of Asphalt Martyn Lee’s recent article in the Bohemian (“Local Legacy vs. Big Business in Quarry Quarrel,” March 26) sounds quaint and homey. “BUSINESS AS USUAL Trucks trundling along Highway 116.” The trucks “trundling” sounds so quaint; it’s actually quite the opposite. The truth is the gravel trucks speed through town around 100 times a day stirring up dust, noise, exhaust and anxieties.
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2 weeks ago | 
pacificsun.com | Nikki Silverstein
Phasers on StunIt’s time to set course for comedy as Phasers on Stun: Verdant Horizons beams into the Belrose Theater for a night of improvised interstellar antics. This fully improvised Star Trek parody takes the best of the original series—quirky aliens, low-budget charm and wide-eyed wonder—and spins it into something entirely new, unscripted and designed to be hilarious.
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2 weeks ago | 
pacificsun.com | Nikki Silverstein
When Stanley Wong’s family moved from Shanghai to Tiburon more than a decade ago, the five year old didn’t speak English. He remembers feeling isolated. Then he learned the international language of chess. “I had a very, very hard time learning English, number one, and then making friends,” Wong said. “I struggled because I was a big introvert.
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2 weeks ago | 
pacificsun.com | Nikki Silverstein
MAGA-Lago Here is the MAGA hypocrisy of the day: Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnik recently complained about fraud in Social Security, saying, “Fraudsters always make the loudest noise.” To him I say, you are describing your boss, who is always screaming, “Witch hunt.” Here is a thought for the day: Why would Chief Justice John Roberts take the time to shelter the president from prosecution for crimes committed during his administration if the president wasn’t planning to commit some and the...
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2 weeks ago | 
pacificsun.com | Nikki Silverstein
One cursed day it came to pass In what was the land of the free and the brave That an old orange fellow who was both cruel and crass Rode to power on the crest of a deeply conned wave Of voters hungry for the things that they needed That they overlooked the reality of the monarchy they had seeded Perhaps they believed it could not happen here But here it is, in the flesh, just 11 weeks in Where the destruction he’s doing is tragically clear And, of course, he denies having ever, ever...
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2 weeks ago | 
pacificsun.com | Nikki Silverstein
Holy cow—a collaboration between social media and a local dairy has gone viral. Marin-based Straus Family Creamery’s organic milk has unearthed an interesting online trend in local and global food culture. Readers at home may be wondering, “How now brown cow?” So, let’s just take the bull by the horns and dive in. Last year, popular social media app TikTok made Straus Family Creamery internet famous after a Bay Area foodie influencer named Peggy Xu opened Pandora’s Bottle, so to speak.
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2 weeks ago | 
pacificsun.com | Nikki Silverstein
As senior vice president of marketing at OpenTable for more than a decade, Marin local Scott Jampol knows a thing or two about the hospitality business. He tapped that insight to launch Sausalito Liquor Co. in 2023, as a way to capture our namesake locale in the bottle. One may find him on Monday nights tending bar at his own neighborhood haunt and otherwise playing bocce in the local city league or hiking with his Bernese mountain dogs in the Marin Headlands. Amber Turpin: What’s your job?
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2 weeks ago | 
pacificsun.com | Nikki Silverstein
Guy de Maupassant is one of the most adapted writers of all time. His first story, Boule de Suif, about a young prostitute on a stagecoach with a gaggle of hypocrites, is the most adapted. It’s known for its biting social criticism, which makes it a logical choice for film/political writer J.D. Murphy to rework into a satiric “comic fable” for his first theatrical script.
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3 weeks ago | 
pacificsun.com | Nikki Silverstein
Katie Reicher CookbookMandala Springs Wellness Retreat Center hosts its inaugural Earth Day Weekend Celebration & Summit, April 25-27, featuring local chef Katie Reicher of San Francisco’s Greens restaurant. On Saturday, April 26, Reicher presents her debut cookbook, Seasons of Greens, followed by a garden dinner highlighting recipes from the book. The evening includes a signing and an opportunity to meet the chef.
