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Posts published in May 2023

Coronado Crestfallen

The American West was explored by white men half a century before the first colonists set foot on Virginia’s beaches, but it went virtually uninhabited…

Mendocino County Today: Monday, May 8, 2023

Cool | Quail | Winning Artists | Wilson Celebration | Hospice Hiring | Hugh McAvoy | Intervention | Crisis Respite | Rhododendron | Positive Force | Priorities | Ed Notes | Best Ever | Whiny Bitch | Sharp Pain | Legalizing Pot | Drag Queens | Misplaced Regrets | Worm Charming | Film Festival | Yesterday's Catch | Two Windsors | Shop Window | Vida Blue | Mass Shootings | Consciousness | Side Chicks | Seafloor Features | Narcissism Squared | Solar Lawsuit | Got Male | Lowest Standard | My Outfit | Ghost Dance | Second Home | CIA Assassins | Labour

NATO’S Hymn Ain’t Finished Yet

In an April 4th ceremony in the vast and bleak plaza in front of NATO’s $1 billion, 250 square meter Brussels headquarters conducted in the…

Classroom Cruelty

Statistics Assault us constantly, and are absorbed, even ones that, on their face, seem far-fetched. Two-thirds of high-school students can’t identify the United States, handed…

The Origins of San Quentin Prison

San Quentin Prison, which stands on a point of land just south of the Marin side of the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge, is the oldest prison…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday, May 7, 2023

Evening Showers | Lemons Fish | Boontling Classic | Got Cancer | Rusty/Pokers | Ashland Trip | Hopland BBQ | Coastal Trails | Budget Failings | Search Party | Museum Trip | AV Events | Puppies | Collective Giving | Yesterday's Catch | Mitch Repair | Sugary Cereals | Drop Charges | Just Washed | Marco Radio | Cornwall Day | CAMP Days | US Land | Game 3 | Chocolates | American Carnage | Gun Control | Republicans Bad | Sad Burrito | Supreme Murk | Vincent's Room | Becoming Detective | Car Hop | Ukraine | Arm Russia | Outfoxed | Stop Fighting | Unpaid Wages | Unfettered Brinkmanship | American Splendor

Arriving In An Unwelcoming Place

The local old timers called all us new arrivals of the early 1970s “hippies” regardless of our relative commitments to drugs, promiscuous sex, bad housekeeping,…

Boonville Beer Festival 2023

The Anderson Valley Lion’s Club members attended the 25th Annual Beer Fest as they always do in order to prepare 450 Tri-Tip sandwiches with veggies…

Mendocino County Today: Saturday, May 6, 2023

Cool | Moonlight | AVUSD News | Arena Day | Hung Jury | Senior Meals | EV Chargers | Beltane | Budget Pressure | Political Fungi | Bunyan Poolside | Audit Failures | Wagner Show | Dog Attack | Mockelry | Pondside | Mona Lisa | Boonfire SNWMF | Esther Nichols | NYT Appearance | Saunders Brothers | Yesterday's Catch | Marco Radio | Near Dalai | Young Belafonte | Farmworkers March | Woolf Essay | Lakeport Vista | Fantasy Beliefs | Sweet Catsup | Your Rulers | Breaker Boys | Dinner Blockade | Pretending | Cheap Plywood | Debt Crisis | Hat Day | Bolsonaro Humiliated | Plucking Gray | Belmarsh Invite | UK Gate

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