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Posts published in April 2022

The Place To Be

After clubs and concert halls shut down in March of 2020, the enterprising and exuberant pianist Emmet Cohen invited the cameras and microphones into his Harlem apartment for weekly Monday night jam sessions that brought—and…

Play Ball!

With the 2022 major league baseball season barely begun, a starting player on a prominent team lost his job. Though not in itself unusual – professional teams make on-field adjustments all the time – the…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday, April 24, 2022

Beach Hazard | Point Arena | No Endorsement | Noyo Consort | Palace Hope | Pet Otis | Plant Sale | AVUSD Updates | Little River | Queenie's Reopening | Candidate Forums | Cactus Flower | Diminished Town | Rug Class | Weed Cooperative | Auto Court | Saturation Point | Film Festival | Young Hunters | Ed Notes | Climate Youth | Ukraine | Relief Benefit | Police Reports | Yesterday's Catch | Ulysses 100 | Cartoon Rodent | Daddy Issues | Do Nothings | Doghouse | JOH DEA | Caspar Redwood | Dishonoring Earth | Gargoyle | Piers Uncensored | Hawes Water | Marco Radio | Money Bricks | Censorship

Tres Amigas Do Southeast New Mexico

"It ain't new and it ain't Mexico," so says a popular bumper sticker. Everywhere we three traveled everything we saw was old, very old. Millions and millions of years old. It was an incredibly wonderful…

Mendocino County Today: Saturday, April 23, 2022

Warming | Stornetta Rainbow | Pot Taxes | Hendy Hike | Tiny Homes | Lighthouse Event | Warm Dinner | Ma Nature | Small Farming | Help Wanted | Big River | Alice Uninvited | Ed Notes | Rolling Assault | Small Planet | Ukraine | Relief Benefit | Double Billing | Disrespecting People | Bookshop Events | Indoctrination | Project Sanctuary | SS Seafoam | Environmental Extremists | Silverman Again | Yesterday's Catch | Charade Over | Army Knives | Fake Cards | Typo Notice | Wacky-Ass Letters | Perilous Point | Moe Berg | Imported Pharmacists | Stewart's Point | Voter Registration | Lumber Dealer | Marco Radio | Proto Batgirl

The Etymology of 420

Your correspondent got invited to an “Eve-of-420” bash on April 19, 2016, at a club in San Rafael started by the Phil Lesh of the Grateful Dead. At the bar I got into a conversation…

Beer Fest Kick-Off

The King Street Giants will be playing live at the AVBC Beer Park in Boonville, April 22 from 6-8pm. Free admission. All ages welcome.

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