IN ANOTHER ORPHIC announcement wafting out of the Mendocino County Superior Court this week, The Nine Robes inform us that their budget for fiscal year 2013-14 is a mere $7 million, give or take a…
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SAUL LANDAU, long-time friend and occasional contributor to the AVA died September 9, 2013 at his home in Alameda of bladder cancer at the age of 77. Saul Landau, a prolific, award-winning documentary filmmaker who…
THE BOONVILLE FAIRGROUNDS is ablaze in zinnias and bustle as the annual County Fair gets ready to kick off Friday and will run on through Sunday, featuring lots of interesting events that include a soccer…
DISEMBODIED GADGET SLAVES Editor, Many years back FAIR, Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting, did a survey of people who relied on Fox News for an understanding of world affairs. Not at all surprising, they found…
I've got a friend Chris who's a skydiver. A legitimate one. He goes skydiving every Sunday in Lodi/Acampo at the Parachute Center. I've got a little experience in the sky. Way back in my New…
A RECENT TASK FORCE rez pot raid in Covelo was described this way by a frightened witness: “They were here on Wednesday and Thursday. The Round Valley tribes have a rule where you can grow…
While many writers take to print and electronic media to pooh-pooh Burning Man with pronouncements about false values and carbon footprints and financing I personally question whether they have ever actually attended the event.
No keyboard player of this or any other age has been more wide-ranging than Keith Jarrett. His contributions to jazz extend from the endlessly astonishing treatment of standards to expansive and spontaneous explorations of the…
We’re fortunate to live here in a place called Big Valley in the northeast corner of California on the Lassen/Modoc County line that has so far managed to avoid overpopulation and overdevelopment and the resultant hyper lifestyle that gives sad valid relevance to the contemporary epithet Californicated.