Regulating cannabis is working The results of a recent state-commissioned California Healthy Kids Survey concluded that fewer teens are consuming cannabis post-legalization. Students told surveyors cannabis is harder to get now than it was a few years ago. This is exactly in line with what proponents of regulated cannabis believed would happen if the dark […]
Benicia is setting for Sam London book series
Author to host signing at Bookshop Benicia What if the mythical creatures that people have been reading about for ages are secretly living among us? That is a question posed by author Todd Calgi Gallicano in his children’s book series on the adventures of Sam London. Gallicano will be at Bookshop Benicia for an Author […]
Mystery author completes Chicago crime trilogy; Bookshop Benicia will host reading Sunday
Mystery author David Hagerty has completed the final installment of his Chicago murder mystery trilogy, “They Tell Me You are Brutal,” and he will be reading a passage this Sunday at Bookshop Benicia. The reading is something of a homecoming for Hagerty, who worked as a reporter for the Benicia Herald in the early to […]
Author to hold signing for new edition of 2000 political novel at Bookshop Benicia
A lot can change in 17 years, but some things do not and even manage to become more noticeable. Friends of Benicia author Lois Requist noticed a lot of aspects of the current political climate that were similar to what was depicted in her 2000 political novel “Where Lilacs Bloom” which inspired her to publish […]
Author of Chicago political crime novel to hold reading at Bookshop Benicia
Mystery author David Hagerty will be at Bookshop Benicia to read a passage from his new book, “They Tell Me You are Crooked,” the second in a series of murder mysteries about the dark side of Chicago politics. Hagerty is the manager of Disability Support Services at Diablo Valley College and has also worked as […]