Ed note: This book wasn't born in Boonville but it was birthed here on the Miner-Anderson Ranch east of town. * * * The big book of 2013, just published by Knopf, is “American Tropic”…
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Last weekend the Atlanta Falcons defeated the Seattle Seahawks 30-28. The San Francisco 49ers defeated the Green Bay Packers 45-31. The 49ers will play the Falcons in Atlanta next Sunday at noon. The Baltimore Ravens…
Having gained county approval, Reggae on the River 2013 is set for the first weekend in August at its home site, French’s Camp. It’s another milestone in the festival’s storied 28-year history, as the Mateel…
Every time Russell Crowe appeared on screen in Tom Hooper’s new film of Les Misérables all I could think was: Thank God The Gladiator wasn’t a musical. Imagine if Crowe’s lean, mean, fighting machine Maximus…
A Thousand Lives — The Untold Story of Jonestown by Julia Scheeres isn't what the mighty AVA would recommend as must reading, but for those of us who remain fascinated by a mass murder that…
“If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.” -- Toni Morrison They haunt me, the dozens of novels and novellas and stories I’ve…
Mendocino Redwood Company, the largest timberland holder in Mendocino County, has applied for permits that would run for eighty years. History stands in opposition to this corporate pipedream. Mendocino Redwood Company has submitted thousands of…