Last week, as the big "L" on the weather map from last week's record low pressure system hovered over the house, I decided it was…
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Like our Editor who wrote a fine, poignant article in the AVA last week, I, too, am mesmerized by the 2010 SF Giants Baseball Team…
“If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are…
For all its much-hyped and massively expensive high-tech stage machinery, the Metropolitan Opera’s new production of Wagner’s Das Rheingold seems surprisingly underpowered, as if so…
When did the American left become such sissies? We are shocked, shocked! We throw up our hands in horror, cowering behind prissy words like “divisive”…
Prop 19 is a regulatory approach we can live with. The purpose is to mainstream marijuana thru limited adult legalization and local control. That means…
We recommend NO votes on all incumbents, beginning with Jerry Brown who, after all his years in government, is an incumbent of the ultimate officeholding…
The Kent State Truth Tribunal this weekend heard testimony from forensic audio scientist Stuart Allen that establishes clear orders to shoot live ammunition at unarmed…
My grandmother was as happy to see me as I was to see her. We hugged and kissed each other and we both cried a…
(I don't know where the AVA gets all those great quotes, but a couple in here made me think of them, though perhaps you've seen…
If the Giants had played host to the final two games of the playoffs, the National League Pennant series might still hang in the balance…