Pat Ryll’s latest show dedicated to those who have inspired her By Keri Luiz Assistant Editor Many know Pat Ryll through her civic involvement. Currently a member of the Tourism Committee and the steering committee for the Business Improvement District, Ryll also was instrumental in the formation of the Arts and Culture Commission, serving on […]
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Ramble on
THE NORTH BAY ALL STARS WILL HOST the monthly gathering of musical friends known as The Wednesday Night Ramble at the historic Empress Theatre in downtown Vallejo on Aug. 15, with featured guests Tracy Blackman (pictured), Paul Branin, Willy Jordan and Mike Rinta. In celebration of summer, children 17 and under will be admitted free […]
Richard Lubin: Calling our modern Bierces
I OFFER THE FOLLOWING, which try to be sly, tongue-in-cheek definitions, and invite you, the reader, who might be interested to propose others. No definition has to be unique as words, not too surprisingly, have many meanings. Definition, n. A comment that is short, sharply biting and almost borders on the truth. (If it does […]
Annual Holy Ghost Parade marks 105 years this Sunday
❒ Event includes traditional meal for public By Donna Beth Weilenman Staff Reporter In the 1200s in Portugal, Queen Isabel prayed for her people to be saved from a famine. The next morning, three ships loaded with bread arrived in the harbor. The queen gave her crown as a gift to a young peasant girl, […]
Media giant George Randolph Hearst dead at 84
Grandson of Bay Area newspaper titan suffers stroke By Donna Beth Weilenman Staff Reporter George Randolph Hearst Jr., 84, board chairman of the Hearst Corp. media company and eldest grandson of William Randolph Hearst, died Monday at Stanford University Medical Center, Palo Alto, from complications after he suffered a stroke, a company spokesperson said. Hearst, […]
As heat rises, so do safety concerns
Keep kids, pets out of hot vehicles, experts say; in 2011, 33 children died in locked cars in U.S. By Donna Beth Weilenman Staff Reporter If a space is hot enough to bake dough into cookies, it’s too hot for children and pets to survive. Often in summer, that space is a car. Benicia is […]
This Week in Benicia History: 70 years ago: April 30, 1942
From the Desk of Publisher Arthur W. Gluckman Get Ready! If this country is attacked, a start will undoubtedly be made with incendiary bombs. The most common type of these bombs — and the most effective type — is light, small and safe for an enemy to handle. A single bombing plane can carry 2,000 […]
Inaugural Big Rib Cookoff pits 23 teams vs. each other in a meat melee
By Keri Luiz Assistant Editor Before anybody gets alarmed by the quantity of smoke coming from downtown on Sunday, here’s the news: Rookie’s Sports Bar & Grill is responsible. The bar won’t have set the city ablaze. But they will have set tongues a-wagging, so to speak, with a battery of burning grills. The First […]
The intense gaze of Michelangelo’s David
By Grant Cooke UNDER THE DOME OF FLORENCE’S GALLERIA DELL’ACCADEMIA, David’s head is turned to the left, his neck muscles taut in anticipation, yet his gaze is calm. His sling is draped over his shoulder and in his enlarged right hand nestles the stone. Goliath, the giant of the Philistines, is leading his army to […]
Snow in Rome? Freaky effects of climate change
By Grant Cooke and Woodrow W. Clark II IN EARLY FEBRUARY, POPE BENEDICT XVI opened his bedroom windows to take a peek at Rome blanketed in snow. The freak storm forced the closure of schools and the Coliseum. It covered palm trees, Baroque churches, and ancient Roman ruins across this city, which usually has temperate […]