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Putting the Icing on the Lily: Burlesque at its Local Best

“Dearly Departed” is a comedy set in and around the fictional towns of Lula and Timson, somewhere below the Mason-Dixon Line, during the 1990s, and the butt of the jokes is your stereotypical southern Baptist redneck.

A Deadly 9/11 Cover-Up

In our latest newsletter, hot off the press — What do the W.R. Grace Company, the Trade Towers, Libby Montana and asbestos have in common?

Valley People

SATURDAY NIGHT, June 12th, Anderson Valley's Community Chorus presents its annual Spring Concert at Lauren's Restaurant, 9pm. If you get out to one event all year, you won't go wrong with this one. LAST THURSDAY…

Letters to the Editor

SOFTPOCALYPS NOW Greetings Editor: News From An Alien Planet: Certain signs of the upcoming “soft-pocalypse.” It's sort of like the future “Hard Apocalypse,” but with training wheels. • Increased energy bills but less energy. •…

Will Reggae Rising Fall?

It’s uncertain whether the debt-ridden Reggae Rising music festival will be held this year but those who are wondering will find out on June 17. That’s the deadline that Humboldt County has given to Tom…

Greece On Fire (Continued): Those Famously Extravagant Greeks

Previously, I raised a point that is crucial for under­standing the situation of Greece today: that all of the images of Greeks as over-paid, lazy, extravagant, blah blah blah— hit the international media after the…

Have You Ever Heard a One-Eyed Woman Cry

Why does the blues make us happy? What does it mean that an octopus apparently needs to be smarter than, say, a red ant? How do fish and birds turn like that, all together? Why don’t we have tails? Don’t zero and infinity sometimes amount to the same thing?

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