Perfect or near-perfect matches between author and subject are rare, indeed, in the world of publishing. Jay Parini’s Empire of Self, a new biography of Gore Vidal, is one of them. A long-time biographer as…
Posts published in September 2015
Just after going to print last week, on Monday, September 14, the Panthers hosted Cloverdale in a match that, despite being a non-league game (the last one of the season), had significance for three reasons.…
On September 15th, after almost two years of delay, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) finally granted renewal of the KZYX license. The news was first received by Director Meg Courtney through an email from Congressman…
The sad and tragic tale of Rutherford the Innocent was the only newsworthy case over the past week. It sometimes happens that all we find in the Mendocino County Courthouse is a parade of the…
CLIPPIES are collecting signatures in shopping areas around the County to qualify a June 2016 ballot measure that would prevent timber companies from hack-and-squirt tree thinning. The initiative already has a broad base of support,…
Ganesha, also known as Ganapati and Vinakaya, is the male Hindu god with a human body and head of an elephant. His Rubensesque androgynous form is most often represented with four arms, each arm with a five-fingered hand, though some drawings and statues of Ganesha have as few as two arms and as many as twenty. Revered as the remover of obstacles, the patron of arts and sciences, and the deva of intellect and wisdom, he is also the patron deity of writers.
Every year at Burning Man I’m enthralled by the music and art but fascinated by the nuts and bolts of what it takes to keep a city of 70,000 functioning. Take coffee consumption… The organizers…
RICK WYANT. I set eyes on my brother in this life for the last time yesterday. With the exception of faint sobs and sighs, the room was fairly silent. However, inside my head I heard…
Despite widespread fears, only two local girls, now college graduates in fact, ran off with the carnies at this year’s Fair and both were back at work on Tuesday morning, neither of whom were the worse for wear for their experience.