For three years my pal Silke Tudor and I worked almost full-time on an oral history of punk rock in the Bay Area. We interviewed nearly 300 people, from Green Day, Rancid and Operation Ivy, on back to Maximum RocknRoll magazine, Dead Kennedys, Flipper, Avengers, Crime, and the Nuns.

The book officially was released September 29, and we’ve been doing lots of cool parties and interviews and podcasts. Check out our brand-new website for all the details, including tons of extra images and chapters!

From vacationing golfers to local policemen, at some point every person in Santa Fe is faced with the same question: red or green? Meaning, would you like sauce made from red chile peppers, or green? For both, the answer is simply, “Christmas.” Read the rest of this entry »

It’s one of Mother Nature’s most beautiful and inspiring mysteries: the migration of the monarch butterfly from North America to the Michoacán forest in central Mexico and back. It’s been happening for thousands of years, and it will, no doubt, continue for thousands more. But will we ever truly understand why? Read the rest of this entry »

Tigeorges Laguerre is on a mission to save Haiti — or at least one little part of it — one coffee bean at a time.

Donkeys laden with bananas plod down the mountain path, followed by village women, carrying goods to market atop their heads. On either side of the trail, wild taro and cacao fill the slopes. TiGeorge Laguerre stops and points to a wooden shack. “My cousin lives here. She just had a baby.” Read the rest of this entry »