Any musician on the road, especially one who plays the organ, frequently confronts the contrast between suburban periphery and urban center—or what’s left of it. Typically the best instruments are in venerable churches in the…
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“Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn’t music.” — William Stafford A recent phone conversation with a friend caused me to comment, “How could they have been so stupid not to…
LESS THAN A YEAR after giving their popular and competent CEO Ray Hino the boot for trying to avoid bankruptcy, the Coast Hospital Board is now looking for a “permanent replacement” to fill the CEO…
As every story is a meandering road, each road is also a story, or, more accurately, an infinity of stories. An abandoned trail that leads from nowhere to nowhere, with no wayfarers, only a rare…
WITH THE NEWS that the first major sport professional athlete has come out as gay you probably don't know there's a local angle to pro hoopster Jason Collins' brave announcement. Back aways there was Glenn…
JUST IN FROM THE REFORMATION PRAYER NETWORK: How the Prayer Network Sees Mendocino County. * * * History Mendocino County was one of the original counties of California, created in 1850 at the time of…
DUDE FEST 2013. Most of Saturday’s Boonville BeerFest drinkers were young white people. Veteran festers said attendance seemed to be up, traffic down, this year. Not much rowdiness inside. The male beer drinkers tended toward…