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Posts published in July 2023

Mendocino County Today: Wednesday, July 12, 2023

Sunny/Breezy | Westport Fog | Hog Fire | Boont Berry | Bomb Threat | Dos Rios | Bright Spots | Rosie Cleanup | Skyhawk Radio | Redding Alternate | BB Kevin | Medicinal Herbs | Junk Hauler | Sundstrom Selected | Ed Notes | Forest Club | Ornbaun Valley | Yesterday's Catch | Resting Comfortably | Old Age | Natural Cycle | Reality Numbers | Trans Pageant | Prehistoric Googling | Flag Burning | Try Again | Blob Quiver | Turn Prep | Ukraine | Analog World | Disband NATO | EV Food

Off the Record (July 12, 2023)

HEADLINE of the week from the Fort Bragg Advocate in January of ’97: “Workers OK Layoff Package.” Like they had a choice? The story is about Georgia-Pacific’s announcement of a pending lay-off of somewhere between…

Valley People (July 12, 2023)

GOWAN’S GRAVENSTEIN APPLEWINE CIDER wins big at world’s largest cider competition — Philo’s Gowan’s Cider has racked up a fourth major title for its popular Gravenstein Applewine Cider this year: best-in-class cider at the prestigious…

Somewhere, Over The Faded Rainbow

Consider “Over the Rainbow.” Light, fragile, wistful, brimming with yearning and hope, young Dorothy sings about what she knows: Birds, trees, lemon drops and rainbows. Listeners know the same from our own fragmented memories. Judy…

Mendocino County Today: Monday, July 10, 2023

Seasonable Temps | Tiger Lily | Sex Crime | Living Out | Roving Miscreants | Tibetan Monks | FBPD Officers | Ed Notes | Maggie Catfish | Lake Emily | Hulbert Interview | Yesterday's Catch | CPUC Request | Green Bridge | Tough Guys | Best Dogs | Apple Tom | Braxton Questions | Dress Code | Owens Valley | Less Catholic | Shaky Joe | Bag Man | Election Hoopla | Four Cornerstones | Good Journalism | First Julian | Blind Lemon | Palestinian Authority | Ukraine | Riff-Raff | Unconscious Machinery | My Story

Asteroid City Craters

In Wes Anderson’s latest film, Asteroid City, the writer-director manages the unlikely feat of producing a vision that is simultaneously pre- and post-apocalyptic. In an Eisenhower-era Los-Alamos-meets-Area-51-meets-proto-Las-Vegas desert outpost the threat of nuclear annihilation literally…

Serenade

I know the venue and I know the crowd; I’ve played this house before. They anticipate my arrival and I sense a change in the gallery, an electric charge in the air. I step from…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday, July 9, 2023

Cool | Totem Pole | AV Events | Pet Gumby | Laytonville Confrontation | Elk BBQ | Collecting Taxes | Manzanita Stand | Ed Notes | Boont Fling | Marco Radio | Augie Matchbook | Adventist Bound | Yesterday's Catch | Mask Judging | Toad Hall 1977 | Redding Questions | Teacher Framing | Head Turning | Cassette Surgery | Imperial Support | Blindly Grabbed | Seventh Grandchild | Warning Signs | Cargo Hooked | New Battery | Phone Addicts | Gloria Swanson | Attacking Jenin | Free Assange | Dam Catastrophe

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