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Did John Adams Save The Day?

Before I Am Love, directed by Luca Gaudagnino and released into American movie theaters this summer, the Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer John Adams had never written a soundtrack. In a way he still hasn’t, since…

Valley People

BILLY OWENS, an up guy, is a little down these days. His brother Jack has died, and Billy, certainly among Anderson Valley's most popular figures, has lost others lately who were near and dear to…

Off the Record

This Week: Mendo's oldest bookstore closes its doors, Fred Gardner laments the recent arrest of SF legend Dennis Peron, Naomi Kerwin takes another walk & much more...

Letters to the Editor

THE BAD SUPERINTENDENT Dear Editor, Mark Iacuaniello, superintendent of the Point Arena Schools District in Point Area, retired August 1, 2010. He arrived at Point Arena in 2001 after he was “let go” as superintendent…

The Texting Drug

As more people discover how to send text messages on their ever-present cell phones, we have become a nation of hypnotized zombies who stare into our phones while we drive into telephone poles, walk into…

Broncs, Boots & Boobs: Rodeo, Then & Now:

1949, the spotlight illuminated the most fantastic event I had ever seen in my six years of life: Casey Tibbs winning the saddle-bronc rider championship of the world in eight seconds. Since then, my heroes…

Off the Record

This week: The killing of Angel Hernandez by a Mendo sheriff, Santa Rosa's cops and prostitution stings, Covelo's 28th Annual Round Valley Blackberry Festival, a mother not to be reckoned with while drinking, and much more.

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