LOCAL OR LOCOWEED? Editor, The “Superweeds” are here, according to a recent Wall Street Journal article “Superweed Outbreak Triggers Arms Race.” It reports that several varieties of weeds have developed an immunity to the herbicide…
Posts published in June 2010
George Bennett is the father of Beverly Bennett, former owner, along with Monika Fuchs, of the Philo Pottery Inn. While the Inn no longer operates in that capacity, Beverly and Monika still live there and…
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. The live music at Dave Evans’ Navarro Store is up and running for its third successive year but unfortunately I’ve been unable…
There are three chapters to this story: Subdivision of Albion Head; Piecemeal Development of the Mendocino Outback; Official Waste with Over, Under, and Non-regulation from Characteristic Supervisory Dither and Constipation. Guarding the southern shore of…
I think America missed something. It must be the time of year, what with inhaling all those fumes from the charcoal starter… and fueling up the Jet-skis to turn a perfectly good mountain lake into…
As I prepared last week for a tour of Civil War historic sites with forty history teachers from northwestern Minnesota, I looked at the itinerary and wondered if I would get anything out of touring…
Crunching down the soggy North Beach alley 2 am Frisco fog overhead drunken old bum pissing on the grimy wall. I was going to walk on but the sound of his stream triggered my own…
In the early 70s we all knew that cocaine was the “greediest” drug. Marin County was giving birth to the yuppie phenomenon, and young, hyper-ambitious squares with stock portfolios, who “wanted it all now,” were…
The musical terrain stretching between the entrenched aesthetic positions of parents and those of their teenage children is dotted with mines and ordnance laced with mustard gas. After enduring countless bombardments of Lady Gaga singing…