A few years ago I moved with my family from the village of Mendocino, California to Coos County in Southern Oregon. We didn’t know a soul in this part of Oregon, though we have some…
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Ukiah, California — Swift and true as Cupid’s arrow, Blue Zones evangelizer Dan Buettner sailed into town this morning to announce its official designation as a Pink Zone, a geographic region found to have extraordinarily…
After the break for the All-Star festivities, the NBA’s 82-game season gets interesting. This year, as usual, many teams were remade at the trade deadline. Each has about 25 games left. No team in the…
Records are made to be broken. Especially if the record is one you never want to hear again. It used to be great fun every so often to snap a vinyl LP that you loathed. …
I’ll be back in Indiana a month from now to play an organ recital devoted entirely to Handel’s music. The performance will be Sunday, March 5, at 4pm in the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center at…
There’s hardly such a thing as an old journalist who doesn’t miss the golden era of newspapers and the glamour that went with it. In fact there’s hardly such a thing as an old journalist,…
Wes and my Navarro road trip recounted in last week's Advertiser continued south, stopping next at the Floodgate shopping mall Rock Stop store. The house across the street on the east side of the highway’s origins have…
The great hippie political takeover of Mendocino was still a few years away from that summer day in 1971 when we established our raucous brood in Mendocino County's serene summer hills, not far from the…
There is an expression in competitive football that all players are familiar with. When a player is injured badly, no matter which team that player is on, you “take a knee.” The teammates and opponents…