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Both At Once

“Truth is the only safe ground to stand upon.” — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Morning: A beautiful day in Mendocino, the rhododendrons madly blooming, the headlands…

Harmon’s Handwriting

Many years ago while browsing the bookstore, I ran across a book which contained the addresses of famous sports legends. Well! It was the middle…

HGH & Vision

A few years ago our fine editor Bruce Anderson and I read the same article in a popular monthly magazine about steroids and competitive amateur…

Valley People

THE AV HEALTH CENTER really is in trouble. Big trouble. Some of it their own doing, of course, via an overly grand building expansion, but…

Off The Record

This Week: The Rev is flabbergasted; The Pot Cops get ready; The Libs take on foreskin; and much more

Paint Or Die

The title may sound like an after-midnight softcore porn on Cinemax, but The Desert of Forbidden Art is a magnificent documentary that tells the story of one man’s relentless search to track down lost Soviet-era avant-garde paintings from artists whose lives and employment were in constant peril under Stalin’s regime.

Was DSK Stitched Up?

The French are for the millionaire. The Americans are for the maid. Among the French, three out of five think the IMF’s former managing director,…

A Memoir: The Fortunate Son, Part 4

On Christmas eve, 1967, John announced to the others, “Creedence Clearwater Revival.” It was to be their new name after coming through high school as the Blue Velvets, then christened the “Golliwogs” by their record company a couple of years earlier.

Who Do We Kill Next?

Pinko terror-symps and the “rule of law” gang may cavil and whine at the lack of legal propriety in the exe­cution of Osama, but it’s…

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