August

On Farm Fresh

Love your magazine! However, about your article in the August issue on farmers markets in our area, you completely omitted the best and most popular of all: the farmers market in Pleasanton. It has operated for several years on West Angela Street from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. every Saturday all year round. You may want to mention this in a later issue. Thank you.

On August Glimpse photo showing the gay marriage ceremony between Contra Costa County Clerk-Recorder Stephen Weir and his partner John Hemm

I look forward to getting your magazine, and enjoy looking through it. I was very disappointed as I read the August edition and came to pages 22–23 (“Historic Vows,” Glimpse). This photo article glorifies the gay lifestyle and is inappropriate for the type of family-friendly magazine represented elsewhere in this issue.

Reader Response

The anonymous letter writer who thinks that gay friendly photographs don't belong in a family magazine deeply troubles me. As recently as 1967, my own interracial heterosexual marriage would have been unlawful in this country. A family is built on healthy loving relationships—achievable by gay families, single parent families, adoptive families, interracial families.

I feel fortunate that my everyday experience of people living in the East Bay doesn't much reflect the letter writers Diablo chose to publish.

And I loved Becki Singer's work editing the fall fashion trends!  She made beautiful choices.  I hope to see more of her contributions in the future.

On Diablo's Dining Reviews

My friends and I were dismayed and upset to read the critical restaurant review of Marcello’s in Danville. We are not senior citizens: In fact, we are all in our thirties and forties and enjoy the lively bar (which serves terrific alcoholic drinks, as well as the non-alcoholic beverages mentioned in the article).

We often eat there, also, and find the food inventive, very good, and reasonably priced. The new owner, Jochen Wenzel, and his wife have given a refreshing “German twist” to the menu of Marcello’s by the addition of such dishes as sauerbraten and schnitzel to their standard favorites.

The wonderful conviviality of the bar, with its piano and singers (where everyone is welcome to sing), is something seldom seen in this day of sterile anonymity. My husband and I, along with many more of our young and old friends, feel that Diablo magazine should take another look at this unique restaurant that Danville is so lucky to have! Weekends are the best time to enjoy the welcoming fun to be found there…