What a bunch of garbage; liberal, Democrat, conservative, Republican. It's all there to control you! … I'm sick of it.” – from Jared Lee Loughner's reportedly favorite movie, ‘Waking Life,’ about a man trapped in…
Posts published in January 2011
A journalist forcibly arrested for recording and speaking at a public meeting is suing the privately funded MLPAI, and state agencies. On April 20, 2010 David Gurney went to a Marine Life Protection Act Initiative…
Humboldt County’s economy is more diverse than most people realize, the HumCo Planning Commission has been told, but assessing one of its most significant contributors remains elusive. At their Jan. 20 meeting, commissioners noted that…
Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan, which will doubt-less figure prominently in the Academy Awards nominations to be issued next week, is a horror flick en pointe: terrifyingly claustrophobic, often painful, massively melodramatic, and ultimately self-destructive. In…
My son is talking like an 80-year-old man. He thinks it’s funny and, except for feeling a little sluggish, is otherwise fine – at least I hope he is. His teacher mentioned that strep throat…
It’s too soon to say of course, but it really does look as though the Tucson shooter has done Sarah Palin serious damage. A Gallup poll run at the end of last week gives her…
Big Wine's transformation of the Anderson Valley reflects larger patterns of economic mis-development, as well as ecological and cultural exploitation, that have been taking place across Mendocino County, the entire state — the entire globe.
DON'T FORGET the film festival this weekend at the Philo Grange. Three days of really, really, really good movies. SERGEANT Manuel 'Manny' Mendoza Valencia will be formally welcomed back to his home town of Boonville…