Very early in these Anderson Valley stories and reminiscences, I wrote a couple of articles on the subject “what is a hippie anyway?,” which described…
Posts published in “Essays”
What are the sounds of San Francisco? Music of all sorts of course and especially rock ‘n’ roll in concert halls, under the stars and…
Buster Keaton's 1923 silent film The Three Ages — a send-up of D.W. Griffith's epic Intolerance, the grandaddy of all message films — ends on…
(Research & fact-checking by Tommy Wayne Kramer) Bruce Anderson owned and edited the Anderson Valley Advertiser for more than 40 years; going forward the newspaper…
ATTENTION Almost everything we do, or I do, after basic human needs, is looking striving hoping for attention. Anything I write is looking for someone…
Charles Lindbergh’s family name was really Mansson. Lindbergh’s grandfather, a dour Swede with a luxuriant beard and fire-and-brimstone countenance, changed it to Lindbergh when he…
Johann Sebastian Bach’s last pupil, Johann Gottfried Müthel (1728–88) spent the final two decades of his life as a church organist in the Baltic city…
I have been living in San Francisco for three years, and, while I want to love it, I encounter hurdles at every turn that inhibit…
It is not until the last of the eight episodes of Ripley, which dropped in April on Netflix, that Bach’s music makes an appearance. I’d…