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The Weather Underground wasn’t as crazy as it seemed, though at the time it seemed anything but sane. On March 6, 1970, three members of a Weatherman cell or collective accidentally blew themselves up...
View ArticleMendocino Talking: Jim Houle
Jim and friends were the local stalwarts of Iraq War protests, demonstrating every Friday from 5-6 pm in front of the courthouse on State Street in Ukiah. He was there the longest, from Fall of 2002...
View ArticleAnt Cows
This year, with five yearling apples trees and five apple trees we revived from near death when we bought this place three years ago, the biggest challenge to our trees is ants and the aphids those...
View ArticleThe Stony Lonesome: In Court
The thing I look most forward to reading each week when I receive my Advertiser — well, most weeks — okay, on the semi-rare occasions when the paper shows up — fine! Both times that the paper has...
View ArticleThe Foreign Spell by Pico Iyer
The foreign has long been my stomping ground, my sanctuary, as one who grew up a foreigner wherever I happened to be. Born to Indian parents in Oxford, England, I was seven when my parents moved to...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Thursday,
A READER defends Ukiah's decision to spend several mil for site prep for big box CostCo: “The City needs the sales tax money —- not even "Red" Phil Baldwin was willing to buck that trend. And in...
View ArticleBest Things
Best Thing I Heard All Week: James McMurtry, Complicated Game. Hear them crabbers cuss the weather And they cuss the government too Nowadays crabbin' and fishin' hangin' on to a pot to piss in Is just...
View ArticleOur Man In Nepal
I finally got out of Kathmandu and am now in Bangkok with access to internet and a bed so now I can give you a brief summary of my experience with the situation. I haven't slept in four days. I...
View ArticleFlowers Are Better Than Bullets
Thank you for attending the 45th commemoration of the Kent State Massacre and honoring, remembering this important day. My sister Allison Beth Krause was one of four Kent State students killed by the...
View ArticleSilicon Valley
Decades ago, I’d show up weekly to clean the Philadelphia apartment of a California transplant. Daughter of a Hollywood executive, Jacqueline confessed she had to escape California because “California...
View ArticleGluten Trending
Anyone who has ever seen “The Pickle Story” episode of The Andy Griffith Show (first aired a week before Christmas, 1961) knows that there are prize-winning pickles, not-so-good pickles and the kind...
View ArticleEmily! Live!
Dreamers, schemers, dealers and profiteers go to Humboldt County to grow, sell and transport marijuana. They’ve gone there to smoke it, steal it, write and make movies about it. They’ve been going...
View ArticleWhen The Germans Start Making Sense…
Germany tells NSA "we're just not that into you"; remains quiet about possible annexation of Sudetenland.
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Friday, May 8, 2015
THE RECALL of Fort Bragg mayor Dave Turner is likely to be announced this Tuesday either prior to or during the City Council meeting. WE WERE ASKED if we thought a recall was "appropriate," in that...
View ArticleNavarro Inn Celebration
A full day of events at the historic Captain Fletcher's Inn (ca 1865) on Saturday, June 6 culminates with live musical performances by three local groups. Dinner will be served starting at 5PM and...
View ArticleRestoring Drought Resilience
Please join Sanctuary Forest on Saturday, May 16 for a tour entitled Restoring Drought Resilience for Fish & People in the Mattole Headwaters. This walking tour will begin near the confluence of...
View ArticleImprov Comedy Weekend
Mendocino Stories and Events presents Hit and Run Theater & Friends Comedy Weekend with improvised fun, games and stories. They will play at the Hill House Inn of Mendocino on Friday and Saturday,...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Saturday, May 9, 2015
FORT BRAGG PEOPLE WILL WANT TO READ THIS CONTRACT TO DRAW THE ONLY CONCLUSION THAT CAN BE DRAWN: http://theava.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/OMG-Hospitality-House-Contract-signed.pdf...
View ArticleA Georgia Sheriff Chases A Killer
Sheriff Howard Sills knows everybody—except who brutally murdered an elderly couple on Lake Oconee last May.
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