Remembering long time AVA contributor and author John Ross.
Posts published in “Features”
LUIS CERNA, 13, died Monday night surrounded by his family at the Cerna home on Anderson Valley Way, Boonville. The valiant little guy had fought…
I wonder how Mark Twain would feel if he knew his novel Huckleberry Finn has been rewritten in such a way that the meaning of his book is entirely changed, and that such an execrable mutation of his work is about to be afflicted on the next generation of American schoolchildren.
With their re-make of True Grit the Coens have shot and stuffed the original animal: so often, in the sights of big game hunters, the Western species refuses to go extinct.
The Grateful Dead? Those guys and their fanatic, tie-died, permanently stoned followers? The band that made interminable music which a noted poet and writer I…
YOUTH WANTS TO KNOW Anybody? How many laws does it take to make and maintain a civil society? The law library of congress says our…
This week: Right-wing nutters & Tucson, Mexican Dreams in Latyonville, iPhone man-beaters in Ukiah and much more
IN A WILDLY diverse community like this one, there isn't much that a large majority of us might agree on. But it's safe to say…
On January 5, 2011 the editor of the Anderson Valley Advertiser appeared before Judge John Behnke, and accused 4th District Mendocino County Supervisor Kendall Smith…
WHEEEEEEE! Dear Editor, In previous letter I have indicated my thinking that there is no hope. As I read the progressive periodicals it is clear…
At a New Year's Eve gathering in Phoenix, a twenty-something kid to whom I had just been introduced looked me over and said, "Man, it…