by The AVA
OBAMA UNMASKED Dear brothers and sisters, Please, for just a moment, pretend you have not been brainwashed by Barack Obama, or by folks like Timothy Geithner and Nancy Pelosi and all their enthusiastic mass media admirers. (And those few Republicans on the north coast, pretend for a moment you have not been brainwashed by the [...]
by The AVA
AVA, This is Tony B., still at San Quentin Hotel, Resort and Spa (SQHRS), live with the lifers, still having a great time. I am so glad I’m here. It’s Friday night and I still haven’t recieved a single copy of your great paper. So I’m a little bit depressed. I know it’s not your [...]
by Jake Rohrer
A concrete stairwell provided an interesting place for me to play my guitar, an old Martin that belonged to a good friend, Harry Jackson, who generously loaned it to me the whole time I was down. As a substitute, I gave Harry my Gibson Dove, to my thinking a vastly inferior instrument; it was a [...]
In these scandal-sodden weeks it’s been tough to write passionately about the fight over deficit reduction. I look up from some wearisome bulletin on the latest maneuvers of the Gang of Six and here’s Tristane Banon’s mother admitting to consensual, albeit “clearly brutal” sex with Dominic Strauss Kahn amid the filing cabinets in an OECD [...]
by Steve Sparks
I met with Beverly at her home on what used to be Clearwater Ranch, off Whipple Ridge Road in the Valley behind Philo. It is now Sweetwater Ranch and is a beautiful and secluded little cluster of buildings among various redwoods and oaks. We sat down to talk in her living room with its wall-to-wall [...]
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. Not for the first time, and probably not for the last, I believe an apology is probably due on my behalf for the comment in last week’s column that expressed my surprise that no teachers had attended the Pop Warner Fundraiser and [...]
by Darwin Bond-Graham and Will Parrish
Whether they’re fighting to prevent regulation of their enormous appetite for water, or greasing the political gears for a big forest-to-vineyard conversion, the wine industry’s major players are deeply involved in politics.
by The AVA
THE EDITOR is away from his desk on medical leave of the non-serious but mildly debilitating type he describes as “old guy stuff.” He worries that he’ll be behind on his correspondence but vows “to get caught up as soon as I get back to Boonville.” PART-TIME Navarro resident (and AVA contributor) Darwin Bond-Graham was [...]
by The AVA
This week: Crusties, Kitties & Tweekers in Point Arena; Deputy CEO Kristi Furman abruptly reassigned; James Sanderson, meet DSK; and much more
by Jamie Lee
The main story behind Ernest Calenbach’s 1975 novel “Ecotopia” was about what had been created 20 years after America’s Northwest (Northern California, Oregon and Washington) seceded from the rest of the United States and was left alone to fend for themselves. The premise was that secessionists had planted nukes in major cities in the East [...]
