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Today is the 30th anniversary of the Oakland Hills Firestorm, a disaster that impacted all of us who live in the inner East Bay. I remember the day well. The fire had actually begun on Saturday, Oct. 19, but the Oakland Fire Department showed up, squashed it out, and thought it was over. In fact, […]

Cameron Hughes Non-Vintage Soft Red Wine Lot 841 Lambrusco (Reggiano); $15. Few wines illustrate the heterogeneity of the American publics taste in wine more than this one. Some people will love it; others wont. Count me among the latter, but thats not a diss of the wine so much as an expression of my personal […]

Today is the 32nd anniversary of the Loma Prieta Earthquake. I was at home in Oakland when it struck, in the same place I still live. Id recently decided to become a writer, and was lucky enough to get a freelance gig at the Oakland Tribune, where every day Id walk over to the newsroom […]

I was glad that Lang and Reed Napa Valley asked me to review three of their new releases, because Ive always loved their wines, and because of my admiration for John Skupny. I remember way back when Lang & Reed started up by focusing on Cabernet Franc. It was a bold, risky thing for them […]

It was early on that Tuesday morning of Sept. 11, 2001, around 6:15 a.m. California time. I was making coffee when the phone rang. It was Marilyn. Are you watching T.V.? No, I wasnt. I switched on the T.V., as Marilyn described what she knew: a plane had flown into the World Trade Center. I […]

Its looking increasingly likely that Governor Newsom will be recalled in the upcoming election. I sincerely hope he isn't, but because it could happen, we have to make contingency plans. If he's throw out of office, then the Republican who succeeds him (whoever it is) will be able to appoint Californias next U.S. Senator, should […]...

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(Readers: this is a copy of my post this morning on the website of my political lobbying group, the Coalition for a Better Oakland. While it concerns the city in which I live, it's relevant to cities around the country that are dealing with the scourge of encampments.) Its with great pleasure I share with […]

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Oakland, Californiamy townhas a lot of burning issues. Homelessness is obviously #1, along with defunding the police. But lately a new brouhaha has erupted: Should Oakland approve a new Bay-side baseball stadium for the Oakland As? If you havent been following this news, heres a brief backgrounder. The As have played at the Oakland Coliseum […...

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Nick Goldschmidt sent me some of his new wines to review, so here they are. As usual, a great job from this veteran master winemaker. Goldschmidt Vineyards 2017 Game Ranch Cabernet Sauvignon (Oakville); $90. This is one of Goldschmidts most ambitious wines, a 100% Cabernet from Oakville, Napas most prestigious region. It is, in a […]

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The Kaiser Family Foundation took a poll of Americans about getting the COVID shot. The lowest percentage of those who said they would never, ever get vaccinated was Democrats (less than 2%) and Americans over 65 (8%). The highest percentage? Rural residents (24%), Republicans (23%) and white evangelical Christians (22%). Never in a thousand years,...

Sometimes, its hard being a Democrat these days, if you support the police and want homeless encampments, with their garbage and filth, cleaned up. The Democratic Party somehow has gotten saddled with being the defund-the-police party, and also the party that refuses to get serious about encampments. Regarding the former, its astonishing to me that...

Is there such a thing as objective quality in wine? Or is it all personal preference? I ask because I bought a $22 bottle of a non-vintage white Rioja (I dont want to identify it) at a wine shop here in Oakland the other day that the floor clerk highly recommended as being dry, crisp […]

I started this blog way back in May, 2008. Wine blogs were then getting to be the next big thing and I wanted in on the action. Unlike most other bloggers, I had a steady daytime gig at Wine Enthusiast that gave me plenty of visibility (and a decent income). But I wanted the greater […]

I dont particularly like the San Francisco Chronicles political columnist, Joe Garofoli, because hes always taking cheap shots at Gov. Newsom, whom I admire. I suspect hes secretly a crypto-trumper. Especially obnoxious was his headline yesterday: GOP gets gay-friendlierthanks to, yes, Trump. You read that right: Donald Trump, protector of LGBTQ pe...

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Cousin Justin and his wife, Elaney, were driving up from Tulsa to stay with us for three days, now that the pandemic was easing. We hadnt seen them for ten years. Justin was retired from his mid-management job at a pharmaceutical company. Elaney had been a schoolteacher before marrying Justinthe second marriage for bothafter which […]

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(Bill Bratton served as chief of the Los Angeles Police Department, chief of the New York City Transit Police, and commissioner of the Boston Police Department and the New York City Police Department. This piece has been adapted from THE PROFESSION: A Memoir of Community, Race, and the Arc of Policing in America by Bill […]

Those of us of a certain age who were born gay have special reason to celebrate this Gay Pride Month of June. It represents our release from the Babylonian Captivity of the homophobic hysteria that gripped the world for millennia. A young gay boy or girl growing up in America today can have no idea […]

(I also posted this today on my blog at the Coalition for a Better Oakland.) Barack Obama is against it. Joe Biden is against it. Two-thirds of the American people are against it. What is it? Defunding the policesurely the stupidest, most damaging political slogan in recent American history. No one is sure where the […]

Robert Gorman, in his 1975 book California Premium Wines, identified three EnglishmenHarry Waugh, Hugh Johnson and Kathleen Bourkeas the first to write on California wine with any depth and sense of perspective. This was not so much a slam on our native writers of the 1960s and 1970s, who could not have had the perspective […]

People ask if Im going to get another dog. The answer isI dont know. Its a matter of on-the-one-hand, and on-the other. I want another dog because I want a companion to share my home and life with, the way Gus shared it with me. He was more than my companion, he was my best […]

We all know Californias in another historic drought, but until I checked the actual rainfall data, I had no idea how severe it really is. From the desert southeast to the Pacific coast, on up to the Oregon border and out to the Sierra Foothills, the rainfall amounts are staggeringly low. And keep in mind, […]

Mike Coffman, the mayor of Aurora, Colorados third-largest city and a suburb of Denver, has written an essay that helped clear up some confusion in my mind. Id long wondered at the incongruity between two competing narratives concerning homeless people. Homeless advocates say that most of the people on the streets are fine, upstanding citizens [...