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With Fond Sediments

By Daedalus Howell | March 12th, 2010
As one of Sonoma’s resident soothsayers, I’m always on the hunt for a means of prognosticating the future that is both germane to the local experience and vague enough to be projected upon in anyway one desires – something between a Rorschach inkblot and poorly drawn tarot card. I found it. My divining tool of [...]
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Sonoma’s Oscar Awards

By Daedalus Howell | March 5th, 2010
Roll out the red carpet, get on your designer duds and pause, pivot and pose for the paparazzi – Oscar is back. As in years past, preceding the big to-do on Sunday, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences separately celebrated scientific and technical achievements in the film industry with its so-called Sci-Tech awards. This, [...]
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Don’t Work For Free

By Daedalus Howell | February 26th, 2010
There’s a problem many of my colleagues have faced of late. With alarming frequency, local entrepreneurs, freelancers and others who make their livings proffering talents that have taken lifetimes to develop are asked to work for free. Such requests, of course, are seldom as forthrightly phrased as “work for free,” camouflaged as they are in chummy [...]
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Beware of Fauxnoma

By Daedalus Howell | February 19th, 2010
Defining the “Sonoma lifestyle” can be an elusive proposition, especially since its interpretation is often left to marketers and PR flaks who draw from warmed-over notions of Napa from under a setting Tuscan sun. This is something I’m called upon to do, both professionally and socially, with some regularity. The former I can usually accomplish with [...]
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Sonoma’s Underground Public Art Movement

By Daedalus Howell | January 29th, 2010
Though Sonoma boasts a statue here, a mural there, the Valley’s relative dearth of public art may account for an increasingly apparent faction of rogue artists who have come to fill the void. Aesthetic renegades, Sonoma is their canvas, though the DNA of their work is a complex, if often controversial, double helix of graffiti and [...]
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‘Twas a Wine Country Christmas

By Daedalus Howell | December 24th, 2009
Regional variations on Christmas classics fascinate me. In parts of England, for example, the eleventh of the “Twelve Days of Christmas” sees “Eleven dames-a-dancing” rather than piper’s piping, which sounds a lot more interesting (unless I’m missing something). Albeit, the term “dame,” for me, evokes the kaleidoscopic burlesque of the Barbary Coast and buxom gun [...]
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Top 10 Things Killed by the Internet

By Daedalus Howell | December 18th, 2009
Intrepid media-man Daedalus Howell laments the loss of his local video store and enumerates the Top 10 things killed by the Internet in the past decade from classified ads and travel agencies, to phone books and…
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Smile, You’re on DHowell.TV

By Daedalus Howell | December 4th, 2009
Used to be when scribes and screens mixed, a lengthy “development” process would ensue wherein “creative executives” would take one’s work and execute the creativity. Of course, that was back when the vicissitudes of studio interest defined the shape of one’s career. At the time, mine was the shape of a screenplay page scrunched into a [...]
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Leaf Blowers Must Die

By Daedalus Howell | November 13th, 2009
Living in Sonoma during this time of year is like living in a postcard. Not the “Wish you were here” variety, which, in most languages translates as “neener-neener-neener,” but the ones purchasable at the visitors bureau that depict our rural countryside, braided with vineyards in autumnal hues that would make every crayon in the box [...]
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Sonoma Faces off on Facebook

By Daedalus Howell | November 6th, 2009
In another of my social media-to-print experiments (OK, admittedly, Twitter interview made only partial sense – least of all to those on Twitter), I decided to “crowd-source” my column. Crowd-sourcing is like out-sourcing but instead of farming my column out to an emerging economy like India or East Petaluma, one taps the so-called “wisdom of [...]
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