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Local author analyzes Benicia’s character in self-published book

March 30, 2018 by Nick Sestanovich Leave a Comment

Journalist Michael Lester has traveled the globe and self-published guidebooks from such destinations as Israel, Jordan, Panama, Scandinavia, New England; and Mallorca, Spain. For his newest travelogue, Lester set his sights on his own backyard: Benicia. “Dispatch from Benicia” goes beyond listing sites for tourists. It captures the character, history and geography of the town […]

Filed Under: Features, Front Page, News Tagged With: Amazon, Benicia, book, Dispatch from Benicia, Michael lester

Mrs. B’s Blather: Have you begun your descent into binge watching?

March 27, 2018 by Ellen Blaufarb Leave a Comment

I found out about binge watching somewhere in the middle of my discovering the plethora of made-for-TV movies.  I had only, naive me, known of the word bingeing when it came to food.  Checking the Oxford and Cambridge dictionaries I learned that bingeing is defined as a short period devoted  to indulging in an activity […]

Filed Under: Features, Spotlight Tagged With: Amazon, binge watching, Ellen Blaufarb, HBO, Hulu, Mrs Bs Blather, Netflix, Showtime

A Different Drummer: The inevitable showdown

December 17, 2017 by Steve Gibbs Leave a Comment

Santa Claus walked into Amazon headquarters one day and rang the service bell. “Where’s Jeff?” he yelled. “Mr. Bezos is in a meeting, eh, sir, and cannot be bothered,” said Rehnquist, the wide-eyed, nearly speechless, young, thin, clean-shaved, hairless look-alike assistant from behind a cluttered desk where he was filling out a requisition form for […]

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