Forget the awards—for some hot rodders, arriving at the annual Paso Robles car show is reward enough
By Theo Douglas

ILLUSTRATION by ALICE RUTHERFORD
Every Memorial Day weekend for the past quarter century, more than 500 hot rods and custom cars descend on Paso Robles, a self-conscious little winery town that spends the other 51 weeks of the [...]

Shammin with the Okies
By Jon Hustad
When the Iraq War started I passed into family tradition. I come from a long line of dudes who were enlisted in times of war but never saw any action. My grandfather missed Pearl Harbor by a day and only suffered from sunburn while surfing in the Pacific. My dad [...]

Embracing the devil that is karaoke
By Ellen Griley

ILLUSTRATION by SARAH TILLMAN
If I hadn’t known better, I could have sworn I was standing in a Midwestern dive bar: to my right there was a peach-fuzzed boy wearing a tight-fitting, faded New Kids on the Block T-shirt; onstage, a man bellowed Creed’s “With Arms Wide Open.” But, [...]

A District guide to mothers and Mother’s Day

PHOTO by ALICE RUTHERFORD
It’s not that we at The District don’t love brunch. Brunch is a holy time of air-kissing and lazing and drunkenness before noon, or a chance to coffee-off last night’s Silver Fox.
But not on Mother’s Day. For God’s sake, you’ve got 50 other Sundays a [...]