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Transformation

I have read a great deal about dreams and dream­ing, and whether you believe dreams are communica­tions from the astral plane or meaningless imagery resulting from cerebral outgassing, they can certainly remind us of people…

Hallowed Grounds: Fenway & Wrigley

During the first half of the twentieth century, Americans could count on death, taxes and the same sixteen teams in Major League Baseball. All sixteen teams huddled in the northeast quadrant of the coun­try. Boston,…

Willits, Weed & Craigslist…

The three Santa Barbara guys recently busted for unloading clones on Craigslist--and for maintaining a grow house in Willits--are in good company. Medical company, of course.

Me, The Pope & Aaron Vargas

I don’t know if Aaron Vargas, the Fort Bragg man who was scheduled to go on trial this month for killing his longtime sexual abuser, is by baptism a Roman Catholic.  But I suspect during…

Tea Party Rage in Mendo?

No--just an AVA fan, confessing their love in the bathroom stall of The Peg House. Courtesy Hank Sims, North Coast Journal.

A Clarification on the Death of Jeanne Huckins

In a recent story I wrote about Jeanne Huckins--a Fort Bragg woman who was found dead in early January and whose death was recently ruled a suicide--I quoted, and paraphrased, a Fort Bragg police sergeant,…

T’was A Famous Victory

“Cleopatra's nose, had it been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been changed.” So wrote Pascal, remembering how Caesar and Mark Anthony, those mighty generals of the Roman Empire, were captivated by…

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