Baylor Football: Jesus Christ, It’s Dirty!
A troubled All-American finds brief solace in Christian forgiveness and ticket sales.
View ArticleLake Baikal Fire: “It Feels Like Doomsday”
A vast and raging Siberian wildfire is as surreal as it looks.
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Tuesday, Aug.25, 2015
NO SOONER had CalFire achieved 60% containment of the 215 acre Peterson Fire near Kelseyville at a little after 5pm Monday accompanied by the release of air resources, than a smaller 20 acre blaze...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Wed., Aug.26, 2015
UPDATE ON PETERSON FIRE, Lake County: By Tuesday evening CalFire reported more headway on the Peterson Fire outside of Kelseyville with 75% containment: “Firefighters improved containment lines and...
View ArticleThe Day The Planet Of The Apes Stood Still
As a kid during the 50s my favorite movies were sci-fi and monster flicks, mostly black and white budget affairs like Creature from the Black Lagoon, where you could see the zipper up the back of the...
View ArticleFinding Hammett’s Falcon
On an unusually warm July evening for San Francisco, I sit in front of an antique Underwood typewriter in the room where Dashiell Hammett wrote “The Maltese Falcon.” In the former studio at 891 Post...
View ArticleNorCal’s Invasive Wine Empire
Activists objecting to the over-growth of the wine/hospitality industry in rural areas of four Northern California counties have met monthly for half a year. At their August 15 meeting in Healdsburg,...
View ArticleGrowers Get Ready
Local cannabis farmers received some expert advice Aug. 15 from Samantha Miller, president and chief chemist of Pure Analytics testing laboratory in Santa Rosa, and Casey O’Neill, chair of the board of...
View ArticleThe Russian River Run (June, 1990)
The night before the Russian River Run, Sally Miklose called me from her motel room in Ukiah because her 16-year-old son Jesse wanted to find out how fast I'm planning to run the next day's 8K. He...
View ArticleBird’s Eye View (Aug 26, 2015)
I am pleased to report that our AV volunteer firefighters who have been battling the forest fires east of here for the past month or so have finally returned safely to the Valley. Great job one and...
View ArticleValley People (Aug 26, 2015)
COUPLA CALLERS wanted to know if 128 is closed south of Boonville to Cloverdale. Yeah, after dark it is. If you're setting out for Frisco at 8pm or later, better head east on 253 then south. It's only...
View ArticleOff the Record (Aug 26, 2015)
ELEVEN BLACK WOMEN were kicked off the Napa Valley Wine Train on Saturday for enjoying themselves. The specific charge was that they were too loud. Accounts of the episode are flooding social media....
View ArticleBang-Bang Maybe You’re Dead
It’s not just cops who can confuse real guns with toys, and last week a crafty defense lawyer used a toy gun to get serious gun charges against his client thrown out of court. On February 21st in front...
View ArticleHwy 128 Closures (Aug-Sep)
Caltrans to completely close 128 near the Sonoma County Line at night for weeks... State Route 128 Slope Protection Project — Night Closures begin August 24 at 11pm Sonoma County – On Monday night,...
View ArticlePaper On The John Muir Trail
So, you are out on the John Muir Trail (JMT) and nature calls. Your first thought: Why doesn't Nature have a 1-800 number. Of course, Mother Nature isn't calling you on the phone. Mother Nature is much...
View ArticleSong About Nothing
Giant ragweeds bloom in the fields of our river valley after an unusually wet spring, with vast expanses of the bottoms and low ground temporarily abandoned by modern agriculture. Most of the...
View ArticleBurn On, Burners!
It's Burning Man time again. I'm not going, again. I'm going to say something critical about it, again. And will be mostly ignored and/or vilified, again.
View ArticleLetters (Aug 26, 2015)
I am very disturbed that numerous logging trucks are coming out of the woods loaded with Redwoods, large ones, from the area up the Noyo River watershed at the end of Sherwood Road, and are going on to...
View ArticleElgin
I was put in mind of my friend Elgin this morning when I heard the unmistakable sound of an old Volkswagen Beetle going by. Elgin and I met in 1966, my junior year of high school. He was a massive...
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