Dear AVA, This is Mr. Gutmann, "The One and Only!" You might remember me from an article you published a while back titled "Something Nice" by Bruce McEwen. I was the one who was "supposed"…
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I met with Bill last week at his home up on Peachland Road on the outskirts of Boonville. We sat down in front of a nice fire and enjoyed a delicious sandwich and German lager…
Certainly there are many circles of friends and colleagues who meet regularly to socialize and network. What distinguishes San Francisco’s “Fort Point Gang” and “Specs Gang” is: their politics — firmly on The Left; their…
I met with Jim at his home on Airport Drive overlooking the Boonville Airport and the surrounding hillsides. His wife Jeanne was busy with chores and after meeting Lucky, the Schnauzer dog, Jim and I…
Part II of an AVA investigation into Sonoma's sprawling wine biz.
Debbie Kruse, beleaguered wife of Richard Kruse, the accused child molester from Albion, called the other day. In a chipper voice Mrs. Kruse thanked us for placing photos of her husband and an appealing dog…
Close to sunset in early November 2005, two young Ukiah men buzzed on crystal meth drove a white Toyota pickup to a scenic overlook on the south side of Lake Mendocino, a few miles east…
Tiburcio Vasquez was, for a time, the best known outlaw in America and, as described in a just-released biography called Bandito by San Francisco-based John Boessenecker, certainly among the most active highway robbers in America's…
The tragic, stranger-than-fiction story of Henry Cornell's own vineyard and proposed wine production factory reads as a distilled version of the relentless pursuit of the grape dollar by Sonoma County at large.