On Christmas Day, several new movies hit the big screen. The most notable this year was the latest version of Les Miserables, which opened to critical acclaim. I sat in seat K2 at the 10am…
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WHO’S BOMBING HER NOW? By Bruce Anderson Most AVA readers are probably aware, however dimly, that a woman named Judi Bari was nearly killed in Oakland by a car bomb in May of 1990. The…
“Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.” — Jack Kerouac More than fifty years after his novel was first published (in 1957), a movie has finally been…
One time many years ago Augie, Frank and I were hunting in Trinity County. We started north of the small place named Xenia but there wasn't much in the way of deer. It was after…
MENDOCINO COUNTY has seen plenty of bad Supervisors, and we mean “bad” in the conventional sense, the sense that they 1. routinely put their personal welfare ahead of the public's, 2. didn’t take the job…
GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN: Alex Cockburn Efren Mendoza Vern Piver Aletta Hollister Bruce Longstreet Walter ‘Shine’ Tuttle Arline Day Bobbie Hiatt Jim Isaac Cleo Hixon Tom Elke George Bennett Harold Hulbert Jamal Essayah Jeff Lustig…
THE FAUX MEDITERRANEAN VILLA that seems to have suddenly materialized near the foot of Nash Mill Road has locals wondering who the lavish phantasmagoria belongs to. People by the name of Rennie, we're told. There…
THE AVA's Steve Sparks and Mendocino County Sheriff Tom Allman have been working together for the last year on a book providing a detailed account of the Aaron Bassler double murders of the fall of…
Mendo Film office to Coast Hippies: ‘We Don’t Negotiate With Terrorists’ by Mark Scaramella Back in 1997, Warner Bros applied for a permit to make a movie on the Mendocino Headlands, a state park. According…