North Bay Bohemian
October 18-24, 2006

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News

Exquisite Jive: Our annual writing contest
We begin the story and you end it. What happened to Maurice, Keiko and that glass eye?

News

California's Supreme Court race
Everything you never wanted to know -- but should -- about the Nov. 7 Supreme Court election.

Column. The Byrne Report: Hospital hell in Petaluma
How one family found themselves dogged by CPS, accused of bad parenting and paying thousands of dollars in bills for care they don't think they needed.

News Briefs for Sonoma, Marin and Napa
TM called a religion at Terra Linda High School, Petaluma's Putnam Park may get 58-acre expansion and North Bay employment forecast is sunny.

Columns

Ask Sydney: No question too big, too small or too off-the-wall
Long-distance lovers, quitting the closet and the sexualizing of 13-year-old girls.

Movies

Movie preview: Hot rod artist Nat Quick and 'Tales of the Rat Fink'
Talking Pix talks kustom kars, pintstriping and Ed "Big Daddy" Roth with Petaluma artist.

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Music & Clubs

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Restaurants

Food essay: Using Homer's 'Odyssey' to tour Greece
Our resident wanderer takes a mythic journey using the ancient epic as his guide to Greece.

Winery profile: Francis Ford Coppola's Rubicon in Rutherford
Cult Cabs and movie paraphernalia from the new king of the Napa Valley.

Restaurant review: Bluewater Bistro in Bodega Bay
This special-occasion restaurant won't disappoint and the view is sublime.

Food essay: Ernest Hemingway One True Water
Hemingway urged his readers to develop a bullshit detector. About this eponymous branding? We say bullshit.

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The Arts

Lit essay: George Nunberg's 'Talking Right' is too simplistic
Democrats can't regain control simply through words, can they?

Lit profile: Sonoma County writer EJ Knapp wrote for wheels
Weird but true! Needing to raise money and fast, Knapp did what he knows best: he sold fiction.

Lit synopses: Books by authors in Sonoma, Marin and Napa counties
Our traditional round-up of what the neighbors are up to.

The Arts

Letters to the Editor
October 18-24, 2006.