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Posts published in April 2010

How Cameron Carpenter Blew It In Ithaca

Nothing is more ephemeral than a concert. Once played it is gone. A recording cannot reproduce or even fully recall it. Such documents are at…

Liquor Tax Hits Barrel-Aged Beers

When Bison Brewing Company’s bourbon barrel-aged brown ale goes to tap late this spring, the brewery’s owner, Dan Del Grande, may be required by a…

Mugged: Toward Maturity

It was one of my first visits to Northern California. Still in high school, I had wandered up thru Marin, Mendocino and Humboldt counties; I'd…

Farm To Farm

According to the people who think the moon has some effect on the best time to put in seeds or do transplants, this last week…

Against Moses

Wrestling With Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took On New York's Master Builder and Transformed the American City, by Anthony Flint. Random House, New York, New…

Valley People

SATURDAY NIGHT, Boonville gym, beginning at 6pm, three alumni basketball games, the greats of yesteryear, men and women, will return to the hardwood scene of…

John Dalton’s Revenge?

It was a little over a decade ago that John Dalton, formerly of Redwood Valley, was sentenced to 27 years in federal prison

Three Card Monte

Mendocino County CEO Carmel Angelo told the Board of Supervisors last week that her office had considered several ways to make up the County’s $7.6…

Seeds & Stems

Attorney E.D. Lerman got one guy off on two big felonies – cultivation in numbers beyond all medical reason and possession of marijuana for sale.

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