How do you measure civilization? By its art? By its great bridges and buildings? By its ability to be more often at peace than at war? Well, maybe, but I`ll take something like Fred Anderson`s ...

This week’s guest on Viva Tejano, Eva Ybarra, is a luminary in conjunto music, a self-taught multi-instrumentalist who’s been playing the accordion for seven decades. For all her talent, though, she’s ...

Lately, I’ve been playing word association games with my friends and longtime Petalumans, regarding Petaluma of the 1950s and 1960s. I wanted to know what came to mind when I mentioned various topics.

One of those salesmen knocked on the front door of a Lynwood, Calif., home almost 50 years ago and gave the couple there his pitch: I’d like to teach your son to play the guitar, or maybe the piano ...

Gino Bagala has been taking accordion lessons for 18 months, and so far, none of his West Santa Rosa neighbors has called the cops. With about 200 songs in his songbook, he has spent just about every ...

This week’s guest on Viva Tejano, Eva Ybarra, is a luminary in conjunto music, a self-taught multi-instrumentalist who’s been playing the accordion for seven decades. For all her talent, though, she’s ...