Gantt's Way

Only a few years ago, Mark Gantt was working as a manager at a Lodi market. Today, he is starring as Sony's bad boy in a new Web series "The Bannen Way"

Mark Gantt has always been a smooth talker. In high school, he could get out of almost any situation. Speeding. Underage drinking. Smoking weed in his '74 Chevy Camaro in the Lincoln High School parking lot. More of this story...
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Pizza Market creates family eatery with quality products

You may not believe there's a place to take your family to eat for under $30, but the owners of the newly-opened Pizza Market are proud to be able to make that kind of promise. More of this story...
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• Stockton creperie offers filet mignon, oysters

• Galt Café Latte has been serving unique creations for 14 years

• New restaurant gets creative with homemade dishes

• Fried chicken favorite at 42-year-old Chinese take-out deli

• Owner's passion key to culinary success at Crush Kitchen + Bar

• Wood-fired pizza new at the Dancing Fox Winery and Bakery

• David's New York Style Pizza serves by the slice

• Lodi's ravioli experts at De Vinci's still offering convenience

• How about history, taxidermy with your beer?

• Homey atmosphere, variety at Franco's Pizza

'Edge of Darkness'

Failed film shows Gibson in worst performance ever

Sometimes I hate my job. More of this story...
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• Film Roundup

• New Films

Photographer Joyce Radmanovich capturing abstract in nature

Art has always been in Joyce Radmanovich's world. She taught performing arts, color, design and creative writing in Sacramento and San Luis Obispo for 15 years. In the late '70s and early '80s, she did portrait photography from her studio in the Santa Cruz mountains. And in 1991, she opened the Spectrum Learning Center in Lodi. The Lodi native is now semi-retired, but is embracing a new type of photography: Nature photography, from details of flower petals to the small cracks in rocks with her new endeavor, Spectrum Studio. More of this story...
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Just words for Will' Iam

I wrote this poem for my 6-year-old grandson, William, who is very interested in words and names and their meanings. More of this story...
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Wine Happenings

Feb. 13 and 14 More of this story...
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