Grass Valley

Buy a Date With Ian Somerhalder, Don't Buy Monkeys, and People Won't Date Vegans!

​ Guys, don't buy monkeys. I know everybody wants to, we can't help it. I used to make up names for my future monkey and draw the awesome matching outfits we'd wear. But monkeys shouldn't be pets! Let's learn from Joey's story (btdubs, I think I love Stephen Fry, is that weird? Or is it like want ... More >>

Summer Guide: Road Trip: Destination Nevada City

S.F. Psych Outfit Sleepy Sun Talks Touring with White Hills, Losing a Singer, and Recording its Latest Album

One of the more celebrated bands to emerge in the past few years as part of San Francisco's new psychedelic-rock underground, Sleepy Sun made waves globally in 2009 with the release of its acclaimed debut album, Embrace. Shifting easily from epic Zeppelin-esque riff workouts to soulful, gospel-tinge ... More >>

Baylinks: Milestones, Cat Hammocks, & Typos

​The Community Justice Center turns one. Only 365 days until the terrible twos! [SFAppeal]This tiger's all tied up. (PICS) [SFist]How to make your cat a hammock and further elevate its quality of life over yours. [Pawsome]Mobile knife sharpener, "Saucy Joe",  is packing up and moving to Grass ... More >>

Pretty, Tough

Tim Green Leaves Town, Louder Studios Home Up for Sale

From a little item in the Aquarius Records newsletter: Looks like local rock recording genius Tim Green is pulling up stakes from his Portola area compound, Louder Studios. The famed basement that committed to tape albums from the likes of the Melvins, Saviours, Howlin Rain, Crime in Choir, the Fuck ... More >>

Qawwality time with Fanna Fi Allah

All in the Family: Grass Roots love for Nevada City

Summer Events a Go Go!

What to do, all summer long

Bringing Up Baby Gavin

How William Newsom's pipeline into the Getty fortune has put money -- lots of it -- in his politically ambitious son's pocket

Music

Peace, Love, and Misunderstandings

Followers of the late John Lilly, the guru of higher consciousness, are squabbling over his legacy

Riff Raff

San Francisco Bluegrass Festival, Poptopia, and Requiem for Kevin Gilbert

A Hobo's Progress

U. Utah Phillips, inspiration to Ani DiFranco and card-carrying Wobbly, is Northern California's institutional memory of itinerant folk

Panic or Attack?

Did this aspiring cover boy, who says he killed in a panic fit brought on by unwanted gay advances, get away with murder?

Heavenly Secrets

How the NASA researchers who inspired the film Contact outfoxed Congress and continued the search for intelligent aliens