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Nuthin’ Comin’ But It’s Free

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…

Valley People 3/10/2010

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…

It’s A Long Way To Tucumcari

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…

Obits For Sale

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…

In the Name of Love, Buy the Record

"Speed me into a wedding so I can stop being a threat to the women of the world.” According to Will Stenberg, lead man of the local rock band The Kerosene Kondors, your incentive to…

Time To Grow Up Oakland

Muhammad Diop was shot down in cold blood in front of his house on 864 31st street in Oakland on Thursday March 4th at 7:30pm. Muhammad Diop was murdered by the pervasive culture of violence in Oakland that is gripping our inner-cities nationwide.

Off The Record 3/11/2010

PAUL TICHININ is paid well over a hundred thousand a year — $120,000 as of 2008 — to perform a few nebulous tasks as Superintendent of Mendocino County's schools. The other day I was told…

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