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Letters to the Editor

DEFENDING WALLIS Editor, This is my rebuttal to Bruce McEwen. I asked Mark Scaramella if he were going to publish it, he thought 'yes.' It was emailed it late Sunday August 23rd. The following week…

Panther Soccer 2010

The soccer program’s ‘road trip’ of six-games in 15 days that has opened our season continued last week with a visit to chilly Tomales on Wednesday, Sept 8th. Well, not quite. As the coaches were…

Summertime Spectacles

It was a warm and wonderful summer that ended last week with the Labor Day holiday. I usually avoid sum­mertime extravaganzas big enough to require one to park on grass and get on a bus,…

Sports Notes

Last week I wrote that Nate Davis was the most physi­cally gifted young QB in the entire NFL and that it would be a blunder for the 49ers to cut him before he had a…

Bach On The Accordion? High Plains Trudgery

An increasing number of drawing-room revolutionar­ies have begun to discuss their strategies to overthrow that despot, the musical score. Rather than treat the notes on the page with slavish admiration, these musicians — Uri Caine’s…

Fog & Tomatoes

Just a couple of days ago I sat sweltering in the heat, feeling like even a sundress was too much clothing for the temperature of the day. Today I wear long sleeves, tights and boots…

Art Rant

Books “Rae’s eyes were red and swollen. They sat on the couch side by side, in silence, waiting for the doctor.” from Crooked Little Heart by Anne Lamott The silence of the eyes rings true,…

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