Given my choice of movies, the execrable Michael Jackson puff piece/pseudo-documentary *This Is It* would have remained near the bottom of my list, but on a long airplane journey over a cloud-obscured ocean, having read…
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AN ATHEIST’S REPLY Editor: I always enjoy reading the letters of Lee Simon from Far’N’Away Farm in Virginia. His letter in the February 24 AVA was on the mark. His criticism of religion in general,…
To the Editor: Regarding the article about me recently. First off, let me ask for a subscription while I'm in prison. Dennis Day, San Quentin State Prison, San Quentin CA 94974. And let me ask…
To the editor, I want to acknowledge and commend Mr. Bruce McEwen for the bold journalism displayed in his report in your Off The Record section on March 3, 2010. I respect anyone unafraid to…
Dear AVA, I was just about to write you to see if you knew whether the documentary “Rivers of a Lost Coast,” featured at the Anderson Valley Film Festival is available to the public or…
CRIME IS DOWN in Mendocino County in the winter months so the cops and the state's apparently underworked Department of Alcohol Beverage Control go out and commit some, as they did on a bustling late…
A logical first stop for snowbirds returning from Arizona to the Upper Midwest is Tucumcari, New Mexico, a little town big enough for a McDonald’s but too small for a Walmart. Having put on 608…
Like most daily newspapers these days, the San Francisco Chronicle is hustling to increase declining profit margins. But let me offer some advice to my former employer: Quit gouging grieving readers as part of your…
By Buddy, as told by Steve Heilig. Yes, I am a dog — a purebred one, if you must know. That's actually a handicap. I am here to confess that for a time I “practiced…