Allan Green’s new book, “Pioneers of Anderson Valley Wine,” attempts to capture their stories before they disappear. The memories start with the earliest grape growers who were mostly Italian immigrants. The second wave of growers…
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“The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don’t turn against him: they crush those beneath them.” – Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte’s 1847 novel, Wuthering Heights, published first under the alias, Ellis Bell,…
There will be a memorial get-together honoring Wayne Justmann today at 2 PM, at 3049 Adaline Ave. in Berkeley. I got to know him in 1996, when he was "head of security" at the San…
Yes, once upon a time Boy Scout troops could get permission to hike for seven days through timber company, private lands and Jackson State Forest. The hike was first done in the 1950s and last…
What to do with Don Giovanni? The title character—not to mention the universally recognized operatic masterpiece that bears his name—should, by rights, have been cancelled in the wake of #MeToo and probably long before. Mozart’s…
Allan Green, founder and long time owner of Greenwood Ridge Winery and Tasting Room, has recently published a book titled, “Pioneers of Anderson Valley Wine.” Anyone with an interest in the early days of the…
Gioia Woods— a professor at Northern Arizona University and the author of a new enlightening book about City Lights (City Lights: Lawrence Ferlinghetti and the Biography of a Bookstore), the famed San Francisco Bookstore— first…
The Surface Transportation Board on Thursday denied a petition to abandon a 40-mile railroad line in Mendocino County, ruling that the corridor retains potential for freight service and must remain part of the nation’s interstate…
Editor Cox’s note: We don’t typically cover national news, but more than half our readers find us through Facebook, and it’s important for them to understand that the rules are changing. The U.S. Department of…