When the United States carpet bombed Northern Cambodia, an area Henry Kissinger determined was wise to hit so as to destabilize shipping routs for Vietnamese militants, the country inadvertently gave birth to the Khmer Rouge. Historian Greg Grandin, as documented in The Good Die Young: The Verdict on Henry Kissinger, writes that

BY DAVID COPPIN LANEGAN Every few months or so, the tremendously skilled musicians of the San Francisco Symphony gather in Davies Symphony Hall to perform. Well, they gather far more often than that, but every few months they gather for a special occasion: the “Film With Live Orchestra Series” At

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Wes Craven’s 1996 slasher flick Scream was filmed mostly in Sonoma County. But where it wasn’t filmed makes for one of the most unusual stories in Bay Area horror film lore. And this true story led to the blacklisting of Santa Rosa as a film location that still stands today.