In the breezy sunlit spring morning I walked across Amsterdam in slow search of The Gray Area coffeeshop on Oude Leliestraat. Didn't come up on it right away, but I passed the Anne Frank Huis,…
Posts published in October 2011
In a Sept. 22 preliminary hearing in Santa Rosa, judge Andria K. Richey ruled that should Northstone Organics be in compliance with state law and Attorney General guidelines governing collectives, they can do more than…
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. By the time you read this, the candidates for School Board will have had their public ‘meet and greet’ session at the…
After showering and running a squeegee on the questionable non-sloped floor in Amsterdam’s Bed and Coffee, I ditched my airplane clothes and slimmed my backpack down to hit the street. I took an endearing last…
A friend who was an organizer in the 60s and 70s invited me to attend Occupy San Diego “General Assembly” meeting downtown. And give him a ride--he doesn’t drive. It was held at Children’s Park…
I'm a music festival veteran; was too young for the original Woodstock but wound up going to many others, and even working at one for over a decade — the legendary peak years of Reggae…
Threaten the stability of Saudi Arabia, as the Shi’a upsurges are now doing in Qatif, and al-Awamiyah in the country’s oil-rich Eastern Province and you’re brandishing a dagger over the very heart of long-term US…
HOBSON’S CHOICE Dear Editor, If it came down to a choice between a cannabis dispensary and a church next door, I would choose the cannabis dispensary in an instant. Cannabis is much less dangerous. If…
Editor: Please sir help me by posting my cry for help in the AVA for a few weeks to come as my life is in the hands of this county's judicial system and Linda Thompson.…