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Sonoma Inn (San Francisco Edition) literally bites

October 16, 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 [...]

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(If) You’re Going to San Francisco

September 25, 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 – [...]

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Pray to the Tray via Eric Wilson

July 7, 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

December 8, 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 [...]