On May 31, 2011, President Obama signed H.R. 793, officially naming the U.S. Post office in Inverness, CA as the “Specialist Jake Robert Velloza Post Office.” The bill, passed by the House of Representatives in March, was proposed by Representative Lynn Woolsey (of Petaluma) to honor the memory and sacrifice of the young soldier....
If you’ve taken a yoga class in the past year, perhaps you’ve pranayma’ed or bhujangasan’ed to one of Nicholas Giacomini (aka MC Yogi)’s yoga-inspired hip hop CDs. His music videos have attracted over a million views and his debut CD Elephant Power has been in the top 20 world music albums on iTunes for...
Full disclosure: I am, in some ways, the ultimate consumer. I undoubtedly inherited this trait from my father, who as the typical rags-to-riches immigrant success story has been buying two of everything ever since he could afford to. I was quite possibly one of the first Ebay shoppers, and in 2005 I combined my...
We just added a gallery of out-take photos to our Facebook page showing chef Mourad Lahlou (left) cooking up a Moroccan barbecue on the Warren Webber’s organic farm in Bolinas. The story of the cookout (by Somer Flaherty) appeared in the July issue of Marin. Lahlou, the chef at Aziza in San Francisco, put...
We braved the coastal fog on the Fourth for a quick trip over the hill to Bolinas. Our destination was the Coast Cafe and a plate of fish and chips. Surprisingly, though, the little town that prefers anonymity was full up. Main street was wall-to-wall locals, some bbq-ing off the bed of a pickup...
