Fountain & Brewer: Super Bowl!

Phil: Nothing like immersing oneself in the gaudy, All-American, around-the-clock hoopla that is Super Bowl Week. I mean, I GOTTA see the interview with the guy who wraps Dwight Freeney’s ankle. So, bottom line, who you got?

Cutting Board #16

Phil: Well, Steve, it’s been a month or so since Halloween, that means we’re about seven months into “The Holidays,” as we so joyfully refer to them. Do you have your Christmas shopping done? If so, what did you get…

Cutting Board #14

Phil: Bruce Springsteen turned 60 last Wednesday. Sixty. The Boss. The Big Six-Oh. For some reason, this little Yahoo News tidbit floored me. I’m old enough to remember buying Greetings From Asbury Park (Bruce and the E Street Band’s debut album) based on a…

Sept. 12: Steve Brewer To Speak at Writers Forum

What: Steve Brewer: What I Learned From Writing a Screenplay.
Author, online journalist and Writers Forum member Steve Brewer discusses
how writing a screenplay gave him new insights into how to write fiction of
all kinds. Brewer shares this unique experience in what is
sure…

Cutting Board No. 11

Phil:  The Cutting Board started as a masculine version of Doni and Kelly’s cyber-dialog The Dish. After reading last Friday’s installment of The Dish, I don’t know if either of us possesses the tact or sensitivity to take on a…

Cutting Board #7

Phil: Steve, I don’t know what it is about televised sports, but I’m pretty sure those overtime NBA Finals games have not been good for my rapidly aging physique (yes, it’s a physique, a short round one, but it’s a physique). When…

Cutting Board #4

Phil: Tell me if this sounds familiar to you, Steve. Has anyone in your household, anyone at all, recently made any purchases in excess of $500 for a variety of seeds, seedlings, mulch, fertilizers, soil additives, large spray bottles of…

The Cutting Board, 3-19-09

By Phil Fountain and Steve Brewer

Steve: So it’s that time of year again. March Madness is under way. Pro basketball is steamrolling toward the playoffs. Stanley Cup playoffs are on the horizon. Spring training has all you baseball nerds in a…

A News Cafe’: Online to On-Air

Click here to listen to the audio

Part of the News Café team gathered at KLXR’s downtown Redding studio Monday to record a radio spot. Click above for a 20-second audio preview of Doni, Kelly, Jim and Steve hamming it up for Bob of KLXR.

Phil Fountain couldn’t make it to…

A News Cafe Gains Steve’s
Corner Booth

I’ll just say it:

The Record Searchlight dumped Home Front, Steve Brewer’s newspaper column, last month.

Steve broke the news in his blog. He also told newspaper readers in a one-sentence announcement below his final column on Dec. 26:

This is the last Home Front…