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Sonoma Inn (San Francisco Edition) literally bites

By Daedalus Howell | October 16th, 2009
Given my never-ending crusade to preserve Sonoma’s brand equity, imagine my surprise when I discovered poachers siphoning our identity from our own backyard. In San Francisco, at the corner of Bush and Van Ness, is a hotel named the Sonoma Inn. I initially assumed it was a residential hotel, by which I mean flophouse, of the [...]
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(If) You’re Going to San Francisco

By Daedalus Howell | September 25th, 2009
There’s a type of Sonoman that I never thought I’d become. The one that brags to visiting friends, “…Another thing that’s so bloody great about Sonoma is how close we are to the City. Heck, we can go anytime we want!” But we don’t. The City in this scenario, of course, is San Francisco – that [...]
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Pray to the Tray

By Daedalus Howell | July 7th, 2009
I was riding a Golden Gate Transit ferry dubbed “Marin” (though a tourist was performing a portside re-christening of the vessel as “One Margarita Too Many”) and I noticed this beverage tray fixed between a pair of seats. What struck me as interesting about it, beyond its utilitarian aesthetic, was the fact that the designer [...]
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A Toast to Prohibition

By Daedalus Howell | December 8th, 2008
Today, Dec. 5, should be declared a local holiday. No, it is not “a date that shall live in infamy,” nor is it the day “Happiness is a Warm Gun” became sadly ironic for the man who sang it (those dark days are Dec. 7 and Dec. 8, respectively). This, the 339th day of the [...]
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