It’s said that Shirley Temple is responsible for one of Graham Greene’s least good but most Catholic novels The Power & The Glory. In the late 1930s an impoverished Greene, scrounging for rent money, became the…
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“California vineyards bring in record crop." — New York Times, Feb. 16, 2014 (Scene: Dinner gathering of wine industry business honchos) "OK, good job this year everybody and thanks for turning up here tonite, but…
Protests can now be ignored because media has learned how to dismiss them, our police know how to contain them, and our leaders now know that once a protest is peacefully held and concluded the protesters simply go home and sit on their asses until the next protest or the next election.
It's been a long time since I first heard about underground missile silos in Colorado. It was the Cold War and we were ready, so the story went. Twenty years or so ago, I became…
I’m going, finally, to Seattle. That’s about all everyone around here in Sacramento refers to when the inevitable I should, could be living somewhere other than here comes up.
In anticipation of the upcoming event, I met with René Auberjonois at his home in Anderson Valley and we were joined...by René’s good friend, Howard Hesseman
Drought has a way of changing everything. The latest mandatory rationing in Brooktrails is 110 gallons a day per household. In Willits it’s 150