Following Friday evening’s (Oct 21st) surprising 0-1 defeat against St. Vincent’s of Petaluma, a team AV had beaten 8-0 at home earlier in the season,…
Posts published in “Day: November 4, 2011”
(This is the second half of the questions and answers that are the result of my interviews with the five candidates for the three open…
The question confronting the Occupy Wall Street encampments and their offshoots in scores of cities and towns around the country is quo vadis? Where is…
Tindall's Market is now closed after almost 32 years in business in Boonville. It is hard to say just why we left the land but…
Many events of the earlier days of Anderson Valley and its stories are fast becoming only memories and faint ones at that. One story that…
Remember Tillikum? Back in 2010 I likened this proud mammal, at 6 tons and 22 feet long, the largest orca whale in captivity, to Spartacus.…
I don’t “do” many poetry readings — as some wag once quipped, riffing off Allen Ginsberg’s famous poem Howl, “I saw the best minds of…
In 1972, when I was in my early twenties, I founded a commune in Santa Cruz, California, a collective of eight people (with numerous and frequent overnight guests). We were disenchanted with American society, with America’s wars of aggression, with America’s pyramidal scheme of things, and with America’s environmentally disastrous use of the land, so we decided to explore new (to us) and regenerative ways to interface with the world rather than follow in the destructive footsteps of our parents and forefathers.
A small but promising model for a better world has sprung to life on the previously sterile and generic expanse of lawns at 1st St. and Santa Rosa Ave., location of Santa Rosa City Hall, where participants in the growing Occupy Santa Rosa demonstration have assembled in a protest camp for more than two weeks.
The June 2012 primary is still seven months away. But that does not mean that the race among Democrat candidates for the newly drawn 2nd…