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Sublethal herbicide exposure alters cotton susceptibility to aphid infestation
1 INTRODUCTION In agricultural systems, herbicides play a critical role in weed management and maintaining crop productivity.1 However, their ecological consequences extend significantly beyond the intended targets, affecting various aspects of the ecosystem,2 influencing plant morphology,3 physiology,4 microbial communities5, 6 and non-target organisms,2, 7-9 including herbivore insect pests and beneficial insects.7, 10-12 Additionally, vegetation in field margins, uncultivated lands, and...
Larkin Poe: BottleRock gives Napa a blazing double-shot of Southern Roots Rock
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Larkin Poe on the Prudential Stage at BottleRock Napa Valley, May 24, 2026. David Kerns photo Georgia-born sisters Rebecca and Megan Lovell are Larkin Poe, a Grammy-winning, guitar-driven blues/rock/Americana duo currently based in Nashville.
Rodney Crowell and his band headed for the Uptown March 3rd
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Rodney Crowell. Neilson Hubbard photo Singer/songwriter Rodney Crowell has been a celebrated figure in country and Americana music for a half century. The list of his honors includes nominations and wins at the Grammys, the Americana Music Awards, the Country Music Association Awards and ASCAP. For his songwriting, he was inducted in the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame and received the 2019 Poet’s Award from the Academy of Country Music.
Rodney Crowell and his Band headed for the Uptown March 3rd
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Rodney Crowell. Neilson Hubbard photo Singer/songwriter Rodney Crowell has been a celebrated figure in country and Americana music for a half century. The list of his honors includes nominations and wins at the Grammys, the Americana Music Awards, the Country Music Association Awards and ASCAP. For his songwriting, he was inducted in the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame and received the 2019 Poet’s Award from the Academy of Country Music.
Foo Fighters, Lorde, Backstreet Boys to headline BottleRock ‘26 – Yountville Sun
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Latitude 38 Entertainment will present the 13th edition of BottleRock Napa Valley on May 22-24. Long-time BottleRock talent buyer and Director of Artist Experience, Tom Hoppa, talked last week about a sample of the artists who will be performing at this year’s festival and about the process of acquiring talent for BottleRock and rock festivals in general. Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl performing at BottleRock 2017.
BottleRock Napa Valley announces daily lineup, single-day tickets on sale Friday, Jan.16 – Calistoga Tribune
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... BottleRock 2026 will feature the Backstreet Boys as headliners. Brian Ziff photo Lorde will headline at BottleRock 2026. Photo courtesy of BottleRock Napa Valley Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl performing at BottleRock 2017. Sue Negrini photo BottleRock Napa Valley has announced the 2026 festival daily lineup and release of single-day tickets.
Foo Fighters, Lorde, Backstreet Boys to headline BottleRock ‘26 – Calistoga Tribune
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Latitude 38 Entertainment will present the 13th edition of BottleRock Napa Valley on May 22-24. Long-time BottleRock talent buyer and Director of Artist Experience, Tom Hoppa, talked last week about a sample of the artists who will be performing at this year’s festival and about the process of acquiring talent for BottleRock and rock festivals in general. Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl performing at BottleRock 2017.
Foo Fighters, Lorde, Backstreet Boys to headline BottleRock ‘26
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Latitude 38 Entertainment will present the 13th edition of BottleRock Napa Valley on May 22-24. Long-time BottleRock talent buyer and Director of Artist Experience, Tom Hoppa, talked last week about a sample of the artists who will be performing at this year’s festival and about the process of acquiring talent for BottleRock and rock festivals in general. Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl performing at BottleRock 2017.
Foo Fighters, Lorde, Backstreet Boys to headline BottleRock ‘26 – Napa County Times
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Latitude 38 Entertainment will present the 13th edition of BottleRock Napa Valley on May 22-24. Long-time BottleRock talent buyer and Director of Artist Experience, Tom Hoppa, talked last week about a sample of the artists who will be performing at this year’s festival and about the process of acquiring talent for BottleRock and rock festivals in general. Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl performing at BottleRock 2017.
Lukas Nelson coming to Napa with new music and a new band: Nov. 9 at the Uptown Theatre – Napa County Times
Lukas Nelson is a talented and prolific Grammy-winning country/Americana singer-songwriter. The son of Willie Nelson, he has recorded nine albums over the past 15 years, the latest being American Romance, released in June. His 2019 Grammy Award honored his co-creation, with Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper, of the music of the 2018 re-make of A Star is Born. Nelson and his band will perform at the Uptown Theatre in Napa on Sunday, Nov.
Grammy-winning Okee Dokee Brothers: fun folk music for the whole family in Yountville on Oct. 19 – Yountville Sun
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Bonded in music and a love of the outdoors, Joe Mailander and Justin Lansing have been close friends since early childhood in Colorado. Now, based in Minnesota, they are a unique and prolific musical duo with a track record of award-winning albums and well-attended nationwide performances spanning the past 13 years. Their audience is families with children, and much of their content has focused on adventures in nature.
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Bonded in music and a love of the outdoors, Joe Mailander and Justin Lansing have been close friends since early childhood in Colorado. Now, based in Minnesota, they are a unique and prolific musical duo with a track record of award-winning albums and well-attended nationwide performances spanning the past 13 years. Their audience is families with children, and much of their content has focused on adventures in nature.
Grammy-winning Okee Dokee Brothers: fun folk music for the whole family in Yountville on Oct. 19 – Napa County Times
Bonded in music and a love of the outdoors, Joe Mailander and Justin Lansing have been close friends since early childhood in Colorado. Now, based in Minnesota, they are a unique and prolific musical duo with a track record of award-winning albums and well-attended nationwide performances spanning the past 13 years. Their audience is families with children, and much of their content has focused on adventures in nature.
Noam Pikelny & Friends headed for the Uptown Oct. 12 – Napa County Times
Noam Pikelny is one of the most celebrated bluegrass banjo players in the world. A nine-time Grammy nominee and winner in 2019, he was the first recipient of the Steve Martin Prize for Excellence in Banjo and Bluegrass Music in 2010 and has twice been named Banjo Player of the Year by the International Bluegrass Music Association. He is best known for his twenty-three years alongside Chris Thile as an original member of Punch Brothers.
Country Music Icon Returns to the Uptown: A Conversation with Marty Stuart – Napa County Times
Marty Stuart is country music royalty. An NPR story described him as “the very image of country music.” In his PBS documentary series on the genre, Ken Burns said, “If country music had a president, it would be Marty Stuart.” A literal musical wunderkind, Stuart was a member of Lester Flatt’s band starting at age 14, and beginning at age 20 was for five years a touring and recording member of Johnny Cash’s band.
Weekender Encore: The Wailin’ Jennys at Uptown March 6 - Chat with Ruth Moody
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Weekender Encore: Blood, Sweat, Tears and Passion - Creating the BottleRock Lineup
Editor Note: We are excited to welcome David Kerns to Napa Valley Features. Kerns is a retired Stanford professor of pediatrics, a novelist and a music journalist whose work has appeared extensively in Northern California newspapers. His novel “Fortnight on Maxwell Street” won the Eric Hoffer Award for best general fiction in 2018.
BottleRock 2025: Festival partner Dave Graham unveils blockbuster headliners
BottleRock Napa Valley is poised to deliver its most dazzling lineup yet for 2025. Festival partner Dave Graham shared the scoop in an exclusive interview with The Press Democrat, revealing a star-studded mix of icons, rising stars and genre-defying acts that promise to electrify Napa Valley’s biggest music weekend. “We’ve been trying for Green Day forever,” Graham said, his excitement palpable.
Susceptibility of Field and Laboratory Bt-Susceptible and Resistant Strains of Helicoverpa zea (Boddie) to HearNPV
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Cross‐resistance and redundant killing of Vip3Aa resistant populations of Helicoverpa zea on purified Bt proteins and pyramided Bt crops
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Reduced binding associated with resistance to Vip3Aa in the corn earworm (Helicoverpa zea)
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Bluegrass and beyond at BottleRock in Napa
Gift this article Share this article paywall-free. If you've never seen or heard Billy Strings and his band, you might initially mistake them for a traditional bluegrass unit. The instruments are what you'd expect-banjo, fiddle, mandolin, bass and guitar. Their fundamental form clearly harkens to the founders: Bill Monroe, Flatt & Scruggs, J.D Crowe et al. But that's just their point of departure.
Derek Bromley, Mama Said Band bring Napa flavor to festival
For three years running, Mama Said Band has won the North Bay Bohemian Readers Poll as Napa's most popular musical group. Last month I sat down with lead guitarist Derek Bromley for a wide-ranging conversation about his busy life as a recording and performing musician and his full-time leadership of Ohm, an expanding local coffee business.
Grammy-winning blues phenom Christone 'Kingfish' Ingram coming to Napa
The legend goes like this: A young musician named Robert Johnson made a deal with the devil one midnight in the 1930s at "The Crossroads." He traded his immortal soul for the ability to sing and play the blues. Over time, the tale has identified The Crossroads as the intersection of Highway 61 and Highway 49 in Clarksdale, Mississippi.
Catch blues phenom Christone 'Kingfish' Ingram
The legend goes like this: A young musician named Robert Johnson made a deal with the devil one midnight in the 1930s at "The Crossroads." He traded his immortal soul for the ability to sing and play the blues. Over time, the tale has identified The Crossroads as the intersection of Highway 61 and Highway 49 in Clarksdale, Mississippi.
From Heartbreaks to Dirty Knobs, Mike Campbell returns
For 41 years, from 1976 through 2017, Mike Campbell was the lead guitarist, co-writer and co-producer of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. This year he will bring his own band, The Dirty Knobs, to Napa - first to the Uptown Theatre on May 25, then to BottleRock Napa Valley May 26. On the phone last month from his home in Southern California, Campbell talked about his contrasting roles and responsibilities in the Heartbreakers and The Dirty Knobs.
Christone 'Kingfish' Ingram
The legend goes like this: A young musician named Robert Johnson made a deal with the devil one midnight in the 1930s at "The Crossroads." He traded his immortal soul for the ability to sing and play the blues. Over time, the tale has identified The Crossroads as the intersection of Highway 61 and Highway 49 in Clarksdale, Mississippi.
BottleRock preview: Mike Campbell
For 41 years, from 1976 through 2017, Mike Campbell was the lead guitarist, co-writer and co-producer of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. This year he will bring his own band, The Dirty Knobs, to Napa - first to the Uptown Theatre on May 25, then to BottleRock Napa Valley May 26. On the phone last month from his home in Southern California, Campbell talked about his contrasting roles and responsibilities in the Heartbreakers and The Dirty Knobs.
Resistance Allele Frequency of Helicoverpa zea to Vip3Aa Bacillus thuringiensis Protein in the Southeastern U.S.
This is an early access version, the complete PDF, HTML, and XML versions will be available soon. Open AccessArticle by José C. Santiago-González , David L. Kerns and Fei Yang * Department of Entomology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-2475, USA * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
The BottleRock Napa Valley 2023 lineup
The full announced lineup for BottleRock 2023 is:
BottleRock Napa Valley's 10th year leads with Red Hot Chili Peppers, Post Malone, Lizzo and Duran Duran
When Latitude 38 Entertainment's chief executive Dave Graham and his partners Justin Dragoo and Jason Scoggins took over BottleRock Napa Valley in 2014, they were navigating new territory. "We were each business smart," Graham said by telephone last week, "but we knew little about the music space." Their education over the past decade has been progressive and deep.
Jackson Browne, performing in Berkeley, running on anything but empty
BERKELEY - Jackson Browne has aged well. Other than his hair-quite gray now and no longer with the part down the middle-and a crow's foot or two around his eyes, he seems to have aged little since his last appearance in Berkeley six years ago. If anything, at age 73 his voice is even stronger, while his endurance for nearly three-hour performances hasn't seemed to flag at all.
Napa’s Mama Said Band performs this Sunday at Krug Winery
Napa’s Mama Said Band performs this Sunday at Krug Winery The Mama Said Band performs on Sunday, July 18, as part of the Blue Note at Charles Krug Winery Road Trip concert series Mary Spengeman photo DAVID KERNS It’s been 18 COVID-constrained months since Napa’s Mama Said Band has played live before more than a few dozen socially-distanced fans. They will perform this Sunday, July 18, as part of the Blue Note at Charles Krug Winery Road Trip concert series.
Blue Note and beyond: a conversation with Napa producer Ken Tesler
Ken Tesler is a Napa entertainment producer with several balls in the air. Arriving from the East Coast to open Blue Note in the Napa Valley Opera House in the fall of 2016, he went on to establish the Oxbow RiverStage concert series in 2019, and this year Blue Note at the Charles Krug Winery in St. Helena. At his Opera House office last week, Tesler talked about the challenge of the Covid pandemic. “I want to make sure I put things in context,” he said.
Blue Note and beyond: a conversation with Napa producer Ken Tesler
Blue Note and beyond: a conversation with Napa producer Ken Tesler 1 of 2 Pink Martini performs at Charles Krug Winery. Steve Miller Band at Oxbow RiverStage. DAVID KERNS Ken Tesler is a Napa entertainment producer with several balls in the air. Arriving from the East Coast to open Blue Note in the Napa Valley Opera House in the fall of 2016, he went on to establish the Oxbow RiverStage concert series in 2019, and this year Blue Note at the Charles Krug Winery in St. Helena.
BottleRock returns: A conversation with the festival producers
BottleRock returns: A conversation with the festival producers 1 of 2 Billy Idol performs at BottleRock 2018. Fans at a performance of Red Hot Chili Peppers in 2016. DAVID KERNS The latest edition of BottleRock Napa Valley was originally scheduled for Memorial Day weekend, 2020. Amid the prohibitions and uncertainties of the Covid pandemic, the festival producer, Latitude 38 Entertainment, re-scheduled the event three times. BottleRock will return Labor Day weekend, September 3-5, 2021.
Keep eyes peeled for aphid pest that’s been found in Texas, Louisiana rice
• By Dr. Mo Way, Kate Crumley and Dr. David Kerns • English grain aphids and black sooty mold on a Wharton County, Texas, rice plant — photo by Kate Crumley, Texas A&M AgriLife Just want to alert you rice farmers and crop consultants to be on the look out for the English grain aphid. As you probably know, aphids have piercing-sucking mouthparts, like a rice stink bug. But aphids suck up plant juices from the vascular phloem tissue of plants.
Texas Rice: Seeing A New Aphid? Better Call Mo
Winged adult English grain aphid in rice. Photo: Kate Crumley, Texas AgriLife Extension Just want to alert you rice farmers and crop consultants to be on the look out for an aphid…English grain aphid. As you probably know, aphids have piercing-sucking mouthparts, like a rice stink bug. But aphids suck up plant juices from the vascular phloem tissue of plants. They get rid of excess fluids by excreting a sugary substance called honeydew which provides food for an organism called sooty mold fungus.
David Kerns, Live in the Valley: The Oxbow RiverStage 2020 season
David Kerns, Live in the Valley: The Oxbow RiverStage 2020 season 1 of 3 The Oxbow RiverStage at night. Gary Clark Jr. performs at BottleRock in 2019. Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Famer John Fogerty plays at Oxbow RiverStage August 13. Undeterred by the coronavirus pandemic, the cratering economy and uncertainty about what the summer holds, music fans have been gobbling up tickets for the just-announced Oxbow RiverStage 2020 concert series.
David Kerns, Live in the Valley: Herb Alpert to play at the Uptown with Lani Hall
Herb Alpert has had an epic career. The nine-time Grammy winner, co-founder of A&M Records, widely exhibited painter and sculptor and unsparing philanthropist will perform with his wife, vocalist Lani Hall, herself a two-time Grammy recipient, at the Uptown Theatre Napa on Saturday, Feb. 29. On the phone last week from his home studio in Malibu, Alpert, who will turn 85 next month, talked about his longevity as a creative artist.
David Kerns, Live in the Valley: A conversation with Lyle Lovett
On the phone from Huntingdon, Tennessee last week, Lyle Lovett began a wide-ranging conversation, telling stories about his earliest days as an emerging Texas singer-songwriter. The four-time Grammy winner and his Acoustic Group will play Napa’s Uptown Theatre on Friday, Feb. 21.
The (new) Three Tenors: Italian arias headed for Vallejo’s Empress Theatre
Vallejo’s Empress Theatre will host “Three Tenors! – The Next Generation,” a recital of Italian arias with full orchestra on Saturday evening, Feb. 1. Napa’s Maestro Thomas Conlin will conduct. The performance will feature three young and accomplished operatic tenors: Pene Pati, hailed as a rising international star; Alex Boyer, a resident principal artist with Opera San Jose; and Christopher Oglesby, a second-year fellow in the San Francisco Opera’s Adler Program.
Red Hot Chili Peppers, Dave Matthews Band, Stevie Nicks headline Napa's BottleRock
The line-up for the eighth annual BottleRock Napa Valley festival in May will be topped by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, the Dave Matthews Band, Stevie Nicks, Miley Cyrus, Khalid and Anderson .Paak & The Free Nationals, the festival announced Monday morning. This will mark the second BottleRock appearance for the Chili Peppers, a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Band who headlined in 2016, while the Dave Matthews Band will be making its Napa debut.
Red Hot Chili Peppers, Dave Matthews Band, Stevie Nicks headline Napa's BottleRock
1 of 3 The Dave Matthews Band makes its BottleRock Napa Valley debut this year. Two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Stevie Nicks headlines BottleRock Napa Valley this year. The Red Hot Chili Peppers return to BottleRock Napa Valley this year. The line-up for the eighth annual BottleRock Napa Valley festival in May will be topped by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, the Dave Matthews Band, Stevie Nicks, Miley Cyrus, Khalid and Anderson .Paak & The Free Nationals, the festival announced Monday morning.
David Kerns, Live in the Valley: Kiefer Sutherland and band this Sunday at JaM Cellars Ballroom
Actors with bands is a thing, and the list is long. Over the past few years, Napa has hosted live musical performances by Jeff Bridges, Kevin Costner, Kevin Bacon, Dennis Quaid, Jeff Goldblum and Billy Bob Thornton. This Sunday evening, Dec. 15, Kiefer Sutherland and his band will perform at the JaM Cellars Ballroom at the Napa Valley Opera House. On the phone from his home in Los Angeles last week, the well-known actor talked about his childhood musical experiences.
David Kerns, Live in the Valley: Napa Valley Jazz Society presents Tsugura-Hamilton-Dechter Trio
Jeff Hamilton has a long and distinguished career as the drummer for Diana Krall, Rosemary Clooney, Michael Bublé and many others, and as the leader of a number of jazz bands, large and small. The Napa Valley Jazz Society presents Hamilton with Hammond B3 organist Akiko Tsugura and guitarist Graham Dechter at Blue Note Napa on Sunday afternoon, Dec. 1. On the phone last week, Hamilton talked about his bandmates and how this trio came together.
David Kerns, Live in the Valley: Napa’s newest music venue - the Oxbow RiverStage
Gray ponytails and granny dresses, tie-dyed barefoot spinners, trancy dancers grooving to Bob Weir and his band jamming Grateful Dead-like for the faithful. It could have been Golden Gate Park in the 1960s, but it was two weeks ago in Napa’s newest music venue, the Oxbow RiverStage.
David Kerns, Live in the Valley: The Bacon Brothers, Kevin and Michael, headed for Blue Note
There have been any number of brother bands – the Beach Boys, the Everlys, the Allmans, the Bee Gees, the list goes on. And there have been a handful of popular actors crossing over to front their own bands - Jeff Bridges, Kevin Costner, Dennis Quaid, to name a few. Kevin and Michael Bacon may be unique in exemplifying both. They are a long-running brother band with success in their individual careers in film and television. They play Blue Note Napa on Aug. 9 and 10.
David Kerns, Live in the Valley: Oxbow River Stage adds to 2019 line-up: The Roots, B-52s join Steve Miller, Marty Stuart
Summer and fall just got even more musical in our town. Oxbow River Stage, a new 4,000-capacity outdoor venue at Oxbow Commons in downtown Napa, will commence its first concert series on Sunday, Aug. 25 with the Steve Miller Band, and Marty Stuart and his Fabulous Superlatives.
Disney Princess Spring Breakers Trailer
Disney Princess Spring Breakers Trailer By Josh Ruben & Paul Briganti A parody of the sexy, fast-paced, high-octane "Spring Breakers" trailer. BRIEF FLASHES from the original "Spring Breakers" trailer. NARRATOR (V.O.) This summer, former Disney Channel stars let loose in Spring Breakers. (beat) Next summer, former Disney princesses let looser. INT. CINDERELLA'S BEDROOM - DAY CINDERELLA sleeps peacefully. After a moment, SMASH CUT to reveal SNOW WHITE, JASMINE and ARIEL standing over her.
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