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With so many new restaurants popping up in Sonoma County, you’ve got to keep on top of things to know where to go. But sometimes you just want something simple; something tried and true: a cold beer, a juicy burger and the cozy embrace of a classic joint where you can hang out with friends. Here are five longstanding, homegrown pubs — packed with Sonoma County characters, good food and great fun — that you always can rely on. Click through the above gallery for a peek inside and a few must-order dishes. Russian River Pub Guy Fieri loves this...

Having a BAD HAIR DAY, so I'm Off to the Salon:  This theme threw me for a moment until I wrote down each of the answers and stared at them for a few moments.   The last word of each theme answer describes what can be done to one's hair.  We had a BAD HAIR DAY last Friday, so today, after getting Waves, Highlights, Treatment, Extensions and Streaks, we'll look Great! 17-Across. Patterns recorded by an EEG: BRAIN WAVES. 23-Across. Items on a TV headline ticker: NEWS HIGHLIGHTS. 35-Across. Passive-aggressive refusal to speak: SILENT TREATMENT. 49-Across. .doc and .pdf, for example: FILE EXTENSIONS. 56-Across. Uninterrupted periods of success: HOT STREAKS....

When it comes to a trip to New York City, picking a hotel is one of the hardest decisions. Is it better to stay near Central Park or Times Square? Midtown Manhattan or Brooklyn? At least on your first visit, you can’t go wrong by booking a room near Central Park. After all, most hotels in the area sit close to the city’s popular tourist sights such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art on the Upper East Side, the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in midtown and all the flashing lights of Times Square. In fact, some of New York’s...

When it comes to packs in general, the market favors Western hunting and rightly so. But there are plenty of whitetail hunters who need storage for remote all-day sits, camera gear, or extra layers. And for those deep public hunts, sometimes dragging a whitetail isn’t feasible. Throw steep or thick terrain into the mix and you’re in for a hellacious deer drag that’ll make you think twice before pulling the trigger. The KUIU Venture Divide 3000 has plenty of room for those deep hunts when you need to debone or quarter a deer out and save yourself from a heart...

Hi friend!  Yay for Friday!!  I feel like this has been the longest short week!  My kids were home from school on Monday and we had fun celebrating my birthday (THANK YOU for the birthday wishes!). We had a Fat Tuesday party at school, then my daughter was home sick Wednesday and Thursday, so that was a bummer that she wasn’t feeling well. Hopefully, today is much better and we’re looking at her last basketball game and my son’s first track meet tomorrow  I’m hoping to get some weeds pulled and the backyard cleaned up this weekend.  The white roses...