Certainly no other local heroes have created a band name as vomitously memorable as this punk outfit. We salute these gruesome lads as they break their mother's hearts with each new gig. Forget those kewl clubs and restaurants offering pricey multicourse New Year's Eve dinner-dance extravaganzas. Ditch the trendy street parties with the scant food and the fireworks display blocked by the city administration building. The stylish place to ring in the new year is Petaluma's Boulevard Bowl.
Employees distribute hats, horns, and whistles, and serve sodas and champagne in plastic flutes.
That would be the 3.3 acres of dogbane recently protected by the Sonoma County Agricultural Preservation and Open Space District just south of the Luther Burbank Center. The rare parcel was preserved in December by the county Board of Supervisors as part of a deal allowing a developer to construct several dozen homes in what was previously declared a greenbelt area and after intense lobbying by Native Americans. Dogbane is an indigenous plant traditionally used by Indian people for cordage and net-making. The parcel just off Highway 101 is one of the largest stands of dogbane left in the western United States, according to experts. Sure, he's got a day job just like the rest of us, renting canoes and boats to tourists and day-trippers from his Burke's Canoe Trips launch pad in Forestville.