Take Me Out To The Ballgames
A's Versus Giants Ballparks — If going to a ballgame at Giants Park in San Francisco is considered a step up in the major league baseball fan experience, well then going to an Oakland Athletics game...
View ArticleRoadtripping With Nabokov
Driving to Boston from Ithaca to give a concert at the venerable early music festival there last week, I decided to listen to a book on tape rather than my usual fare of pastoral symphonies and songs...
View ArticleTwist in the Tunnels Plan
When Gov. Jerry Brown announced two weeks ago at an Oakland press conference that he would radically downsize a 100,000-acre wetland restoration job, environmentalists and water policy activists blew...
View ArticleLegal High — Mile High
Legal marijuana. I never thought I’d see it happen, not in my lifetime. Legalized medical marijuana is one thing, but now the states of Colorado and Washington have legal marijuana. I never thought. My...
View ArticleMy Mind Walked Out The Door
It’s long forgotten now, but prior to the start of fiscal year 1847 there were no postage stamps in use in the United States of America. Before July 1, 1847, the receiver of mail paid the postage. In...
View ArticleMCPC Signature Drive Fails
The Mendocino Cannabis Policy Council came up short of the 5,004 verified signatures it sought by June 22 to place the Mendocino Cannabis Commission 2015 initiative on the county’s fall ballot. The...
View ArticleCalling All Survivalist Naval Gazers!
Canadian couple builds self-sustaining island paradise.
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Friday, July 3, 2015
Weather Watching; McKenty Popped; Street Violence; Palace Dilemma; Yesterday's Catch; Mountain Raid; AV Memories; Wolf Fest; Vigorous Protest; Fundraiser Fizzles; Wild Mustangs; Revenge Killing;...
View ArticleA Young Hunter S. Thompson Offers Advice
Advice the artist as a 22-year-old man dispensed to a friend.
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Saturday, July 4, 2015
Declaring Independence; Turner Recall Stalled; WA Vineyard Noise; Tough Fish Talk; Catch of the Day; FB Fireworks; Inarticulate Official; Los Angeles; Mirrors; Hanging On; Country Hellos; FB History;...
View ArticleLawrence Ferlinghetti, Beatnik Founding Father
The poet talks about Ginsberg, Albert Hall, and how one of his own writers emptied the City Lights till.
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Sunday, July 5, 2015
Kelisha Bites; Hump Jumps; Muir Emotes; Expiration Date; SF Homeless Budget; Man Suffering; Cable Cutter; Yesterday's Catch; Fight Night; Bernie Not; NPR Jazz; Mauve; Dinner Cold; Water Exclusion;...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Monday, July 6, 2015
Sage Words; Where's Lisa?; Traffic Stop; Yesterday's Catch; Candidate Bernie; Respect App; HHSA Collapse; Lopez Depositions; Anker; Greeks Vote "No"; KMEC Radio
View ArticleSwinger Sex Perverts Invade UK Village
Controversial nudist love fair leaves villagers feeling screwed.
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Tuesday, July 7, 2015
Frontpage Confusion; Hero Fair; Parade Notes; Strike Zone; Tattoo Decline; Crawlspace Bennett; Yesterday's Catch; Hawthorne Timberland; Crash, Burn; Ocean Temps; Gunshow Victim; Listening Hour; Kerr;...
View ArticleGreece: A Perfect Example of How Free Markets Work
Debt is not a guarantee of future payments in full. It is a risk that creditors take, in hopes of being paid back.
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Wednesday, July 8, 2015
Zac Zachary; FB Fourth Botched; FBPD Overstep; Vineyard Water; Yesterday's Catch; Silhouette; Fake Amusement; Oil Gods; Scholarship Winners; Greek Protest; Canada Air Strike; Robert Frank; Grange Piano...
View ArticlePiano Man at AV Grange
Tom McDermott is coming July 18th at 7:30 to the Anderson Valley Grange. If you love piano and almost any form of music, he will please. He plays Chopin, Ragtime, New Orleans Jazz and Brazilian. Want...
View ArticleElk Fire to Host Annual BBQ
(7/25) The Elk Volunteer Fire Department invites you to its 11th annual Summer BBQ to be held Saturday, July 25, from noon to 4 p.m. at the Greenwood Community Center on Highway 1 in downtown Elk....
View ArticleMarble Mountain Wilderness
“The whole landscape appears to have been formed by some mighty convulsion of the earth that has thrown up numerous spurs or broken ranges of mountains to the height of from 7,000 feet to 9,000 feet,...
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