Food & Culture
Winter arts preview: twelve shows, concerts and exhibits worth leaving the house for
From a new chamber opera to a retrospective of a valley printmaker, the season is unusually ambitious for a city this size.
Jonah Abernathy
Food & Culture Critic
Jonah Abernathy reviews restaurants anonymously and pays for every meal. He also covers theatre, music and the people who keep Brindlemoor's arts scene stubbornly alive.
Food & Culture
Copper Row Records turns 50, and its owner is still not selling
The shop has outlasted cassettes, chain stores and streaming. Its owner says the secret is stubbornness and a very good coffee machine.
Food & Culture
The apple cake every valley grandmother claims as her own
We tested eleven family versions of the Brindle apple cake. This is the one we keep making, with notes on what you can change.
Food & Culture
Your guide to the Autumn Harvest Festival: food, music and where to park
Sixty food stalls, three stages and a pumpkin regatta. Here is how to do the festival without spending the whole day in a queue.
Food & Culture
How a community theatre company saved the Corwin Playhouse
Facing demolition, the 1924 theatre was bought by the company that has performed there for forty years. Now comes the hard part: the roof.
Food & Culture
Review: Larkspur Noodle Bar is small, loud and worth the wait
Fourteen seats, one cook, a menu that fits on an index card, and a bowl of hand-pulled noodles you will think about for days.
Food & Culture
Review: At the Salt & Ember, the hearth does the talking
A wood-fired restaurant in Old Quay serves some of the best fish in the valley, and one of the most frustrating desserts.