It has been 25 years since the worst terrorist attack on American soil. We’ve seen the eyewitness videos. We’ve watched the documentaries. We’ve even watched dramatized films set around September 11, 2001. For those of us who are middle-aged and older, we watched it unfold live on our television screens. We remember where we were when... It was just after 6:00 AM, and I was getting ready for work with the TV on so I could monitor the morning traffic report. I saw one of the t

The Martini. Generally associated with the Roaring Twenties, at a time when imbibing was taboo…and illegal. Thoughts of speakeasies, New York mobsters, jazz, the Charleston…and, of course, that conical cocktail glass. An icon in its own right. But what most people don’t know is that the story of the Martini goes much further back than the 1920s; and much further west than New York. In fact, Martinez has long claimed its place in cocktail history as the birthplace of the Marti

You don't have to wait for Art in the Park to find art around Martinez! Take a walk through downtown and you'll find it in all sorts of places—murals, paintings, window art, sculptures, and other pieces tucked throughout the streets and storefronts. Some are hard to miss. Others are the kind of thing you might walk past a dozen times before finally noticing them. Art Around Downtown One of the best ways to see it is simply to walk. Start along Main Street, wander down the sid