I think there’s some protesting over on the coast or near the coast, maybe about logging. Or drilling, or a bridge, or the name of a town over there. You say there are no angry…
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Many local AVA readers have probably enjoyed a glass of wine and possibly a tasty snack or two at Disco Ranch in downtown Boonville. It is the perfect setting for relaxation and a chat. It…
No, no. It’s not what you probably think. This is a story told by my father about an experience he had while he was in college at UC Davis in the first half of the…
Okay. Up front I will tell I am on a rant. By day’s end where there was a lot of gray but no substantial rain. Hopes for a good soaking were dashed. GraySkies My cynical…
Despite the good-guy-vs.-bad-guy framework so common in fiction, in real life there can be two, three — many bad guys and nary a good guy in sight. Attorney Heather Burke is urging pot partisans not…
Handel was born with an umlaut on his name: Händel. He rubbed it out after he left his native Germany for a sojourn of several years in Italy before emigrating to non-diacritical England in 1711…
Many readers know the Anderson Valley Health Center has recently launched a Capital Campaign to fund construction of the much needed addition to its offices on Airport Drive. The new space is essential to the…
One of the longest seconds I ever lived through came just before the beginning the Dies irae from Mozart’s Requiem. The members of the Stanford Chorus crowded onto the risers at the back of the…
A recent column examined some of the ways we get ourselves worked up over imaginary threats to society, like the impact video games have on the fragile emotional states of our children, how GMOs destroy…