(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…
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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…
Last Monday afternoon (Oct 18th), the team traveled to face the Wolverines of Willits for the final non-league game of the season in what would…
Berkeley is probably not the best place to be introduced to politics, especially after a childhood spent wearing a little “I Like Ike” pin. In…
Whilst discussing my hopes and expectations for the San Francisco Giants with Mark Scaramella, he suggested I try my hand at writing about disappointment. I…
The Giants have fixated my feeble attentions to the point of mesmerization. As a kid, I saw lots of Seal's ball games at the old…
The strikes and demonstrations that have brought France to a near-halt are provoking the usual patronizing commentaries in the United States and United Kingdom. Those…
Count me among the folks who are seriously unmoved by next week’s looming election. Not even the marijuana legalization measure or the possible return to…
On Saturday morning the boys made a beeline for the Boonville Farmers' Market once they'd stuffed their guts on blueberry pancakes at the General Store.…
I have been back in Haiti for a little over a month now. Things have changed some here in Leogane in the time I was…