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Posts published in December 2022

Taylor Swift’s Anti-Heroics

At least since homo sapiens first howled at the moon, music has been the best medium for baring the soul. The tight-trousered, atavistic power-chording of cock rock likely has more in common with the proto-musical…

Long Lost Relatives

I've got twin male cousins of roughly my vintage that I've always known existed, but beyond that hazy awareness I've known nothing of my reprobate uncle's children. “Uncle Bob,” as he was referred to in…

Mendocino County Today: Friday, Dec. 16, 2022

Chilly | Coast Rainbow | Election Surprises | Makers Market | Last Chance | Farm Gifts | No Propane | New Councilmember | Minstrels | Scholarship Program | Pizza Party | Bachman Hill | Guerneville Bikers | Palace Coup | Local Waterfalls | The Club | Fan Mail | Ed Notes | Label Law | Solstice Celebration | Mermaids | Endangered Bees | Narnia Audition | Emerald Cupping | Yesterday's Catch | Already Enlightened | Guilty Plea | Lulu Scholar | World Shocked | CA Water | Thor-Riffic | Niners Clinch | American Manhood | Musky | SuperTrump | Allen Ginsberg | Menu Question | Comedy Show | Grand Chords | Authorized Reality | Honeymooners | Say Less | Stickshift | Ukraine | Duster Running | Home Fires | Sis Portrait

Welcome Home, Brittney

The joy on Brittney Griner’s face – pure relief expressed in a smile – came as a sweet surprise after all these months of seeing her grim and sad behind bars.  Why does she need…

AVA Editor Gets Lifetime Achievement Award

Anderson Valley Advertiser Editor Bruce Anderson earned his reputation as a North Coast literary lion years ago, in part by snarling at critics of his Anderson Valley Advertiser and brawling with a few local personalities.…

Mendocino County Today: Thursday, Dec. 15, 2022

Cold | Sleeping Bags | Can Drive | Snowscape | Molgaard Gone | Book Juggler | Bark Train | Adventist Reality | Aquacultures | Todd's Point | ISO Upgrade | Mattole Road | PA Reorg | Redwood Elephant | Wave Energy | Forest Parking | Ed Notes | Doyle Family | Fagan Cartoon | Sea Lions | Hendy Free | Wedding Expo | Youth Arts | Yesterday's Catch | DePape Prosecution | Crumb Lightning | Homelessness | Cattle Station | Helping | Leaving | Gay Mafia | Teen-Age Jungle | Fired/Stolen | Assassinated Men | Gun Deaths | Amerika | Ukraine | Passenger Trains | Least Likely | Oswald | End Empire | Aizu Winter | Want Acid | Strikes

Armed Robbery in Downtown Boonville

Mi Esperanza, a tidy little market at the corner of Haehl Street and Highway 128, was robbed at gunpoint Friday afternoon about two-thirty. Few details are yet known, but first reports say the robber was…

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