...the unsavory vision of Bob Dylan sliding into Chevrolet’s latest sedan and gurgling patriotic garbage about American pride above ambient guitar chords
Posts published in February 2014
Yes, a person can get homesick every now and then when gone south for the winter. But there is a cure: call home. Doesn’t matter who. Just call any number in the 218 or 701…
I was one of those young writers who, for fun and incentive, once papered the four walls of my rented room (from floor to ceiling) with form rejection letters
It’s said that Shirley Temple is responsible for one of Graham Greene’s least good but most Catholic novels The Power & The Glory. In the late 1930s an impoverished Greene, scrounging for rent money, became the…
“California vineyards bring in record crop." — New York Times, Feb. 16, 2014 (Scene: Dinner gathering of wine industry business honchos) "OK, good job this year everybody and thanks for turning up here tonite, but…
LONG-TIME BOONVILLE RESIDENT, BRUCE HERING, HAS DIED. Bruce was perhaps best known for his portrayals as Uncle Sam at Anderson Valley's annual 4th of July celebrations.
FOR THE FIRST time since 1958, Shorty Adams is not behind the wheel of a Boonville school bus. Last week, without any announcement from the district, Shorty suddenly left the job he's held for 56…
For as far back as Douglas Alan Duncan, 58, can trace, the maternal side of his family has been tied to the land in and around Robinson Rancheria: a federal Indian reservation near the sleepy…