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Daedalus Howell

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By day, I'm a small town journo. By happy hour, I'm an indie writer & filmmaker world building in Wine Country.

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Daedalus Howell’s Biography

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Editor of the North Bay Bohemian, Pacific Sun and North Bay Magazine.

Writer-director of the feature films Werewolf Serenade and Pill Head.

Howell has written premium content for Medium, wine stories for Men’s Health, and produced arts coverage for the San Francisco Chronicle among other Bay Area bylines including the Sonoma Index-Tribune, Sonoma Magazine, Emlen Media and more.

He’s the author, most recently, of Quantum Deadline, ), and appears regularly on The Drive with Steve Jaxon (KRSH 95.5…

Daedalus Howell’s Journalist Portfolio

Burning Down the Art House | Daedalus Howell | CREATIVE

Burning Down the Art House | Daedalus Howell | CREATIVE

A Podcast Mini-Series I kick off the second season of my blog and podcast venture Culture Dept. with a three-…

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Blue Snaggletooth: I've Seen the Action Figure and He Is Us

Blue Snaggletooth: I've Seen the Action Figure and He Is Us

Officially, he doesn't exist. He has no past, no story - he'd be prime black-ops material if he wasn't part o…

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How 'The Conversation' Captured the Essence of Paranoia

How 'The Conversation' Captured the Essence of Paranoia

One of the idioms I hate is often framed in a question like: "Can I put a bug in your ear?" First off, uh, no…

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Pics or It Didn't Happen: In Praise of 'Blow-Up' at 50

Pics or It Didn't Happen: In Praise of 'Blow-Up' at 50

Blow-Up is half a century old. I first learned of Michelangelo Antonioni's groundbreaking slice of surveillan…

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Atomic Bombs

Atomic Bombs

The author learns that Los Alamos is just a place. (Or, How I learned to start worrying and hate the bomb) By…

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Action Figure

Action Figure

Daedalus Howell's novel Quantum Deadline: The Lumaville Labyrinth is hard to categorize. Let's call it a noir…

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Articles

Get Heavy: New Promoter Brody Bass Goes to 11 at Mac’s

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By Daedalus Howell
| Pacific Sun Verified
There are promoters who book shows, and then there are musicians who know exactly what it means to haul gear, build a bill and hope the room fills with more than the band’s paramours before the first chord is played. Brody Bass—aka Da DrunkMonk—is coming at promotion from the latter camp.
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Advice & Consent: ‘Ask E. Jean’ has answers Original

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By Daedalus Howell
| Pacific Sun Verified
E. Jean Carroll has lived several American lives, all worthy of their own headlines. Before she became the advice columnist who could turn heartbreak, horniness and human folly into copy, Carroll was Miss Cheerleader USA, a beauty queen, a sorority sister and, eventually, one of the rare women to crash the boys’ club of glossy magazine journalism and not merely survive it, but redecorate the place in her own voice.
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Happy 250, America: A Nation Fails to Show Up to its Own Party

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By Daedalus Howell
| North Bay Bohemian Verified
Unless one counts the “Ultimate Fighting Championship Freedom 250” fracas on the White House lawn as the pinnacle of civic celebration, one might conclude that the federal government has phoned in the nation’s semiquincentennial celebration. This is giving real every-other-weekend bad-dad-forgot-your-birthday energy. This is some gas-station bouquet, silver-anniversary-level crap. This is “I thought your mom was handling the cake” finger-pointing.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Arts Editor, Petaluma Argus-Courier

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Once, I think, in a dream.

How is social media changing news?

Social media is fake news.