Those frightening sounds, sights, and odors on the wind this foreboding snowless winter — like emanations from some back ward of a global psychiatric hospital…
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Surely Rick Santorum is the most fanatical Christian to run for the Republican nomination in the modern era, maybe any era. Next to him Pat…
I recently read a brief rave review of a new movie, not a remake, but the umpteenth “psychological thriller” about a psychopath keeping someone trapped in a closet for years on end. And this review, which sounded suspiciously like a press release, reminded me of one of the more bizarre and disturbing passages in my long ago Hollywood sojourn when I tried to succeed as a screenwriter. But first a little of the back-story, as they like to call the past in the movie business.
ANDERSON VALLEY is in line for an easily accessible recycling operation at the Boonville Fairgrounds run by Solid Waste of Willits. According to this week’s…
WILL PARRISH reported a few weeks back on the case of Ramiro Hernandez Farias, a Ukiah resident originally from the southwestern state of Michoacan, Mexico,…
STOP THE PRESSES! From Monday's Press Democrat: “Lady Gaga spotted in Sonoma, Geyserville.” Ho hum. I see Gagas of both sexes every day right here…
EVEN BY THE DUAL aesthetics of Ukiah and McDonald's, double whammies in visual squalor, the McDonald's at Perkins and Orchard, the gateway to the Mendocino…
THE CONCLUDING paragraph in a blast at Obama's drug policies in the current Rolling Stone: “For law-enforcement officials who handle marijuana on the front lines,…
ANDERSON VALLEY is in line for a long-overdue accessible recycling operation, now that Jerry Ward’s Solid Waste of Willits operation plans to open one at…