Members of a newly-organized group have vowed to stop the Richardson Grove realignment project and they’ve carried out their first act of civil disobedience. Six protesters who linked themselves together in metal lockbox sleeves were…
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World-class violinist Joshua Bell played at Centennial Hall just a few blocks down the street in Tucson last weekend. Bell doesn't just play a mean fiddle. He is also a savvy marketer. His record company…
Halfway into his recent nonstop 2-hours-plus set at San Francisco’s fabled Fillmore, Willie Nelson eased into one of his more romantic hits, “You Were Always on My Mind.” Begging for another chance with a neglected…
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably I shall begin. The Super Bowl Party at a large white house in Washington DC attended by the Valley’s very own Robert Mailer Anderson, included many…
“If a man love the labor of any trade, apart from any question of success or fame, then God has called him.” Robert Louis Stevenson So… some extremely wealthy and astoundingly unimaginative people have now…
I had no friends in high school and college, and now I have 5000+ Facebook friends. Maybe 25 of them are actual friends, so I assume that the rest of you like my work. And…
The transformation of the NFL — and by extension all professional leagues — from sports to entertainment can be seen most clearly in the evolution of the Super Bowl half-time show, now an object of…
Many local liberals and other Obama supporters continue to think that somehow Obamacare (aka “the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act”) will bail them out and they “hope” that health care will magically become “affordable” starting in 2014.
A one-man environmental group is suing Willits. Again. The one man is Jack Silver. His solo environmental group is called River Watch. River Watch looks pretty good on paper, with sub-groups and a bunch of…