The warden of one of the world’s largest and most overcrowded penitentiaries might reasonably be expected to be a burly, hard-spoken disciplinarian, packing a gun…
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It was fitting that Rafael Puyana, the Colombian harpsichordist who died ten years ago in Paris at the age of eighty-one, should have made his…
“Alright then,” announced Mr. Bumpers. “It’s decided. We’ll open the house to those less fortunate, like homeless-type people guests, right? All in?” Nods of agreement…
It was late summer, 1987. A hot afternoon was fading into evening, after I'd spent the day working six games as an umpire in the…
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The word “melena” can be spelled and pronounced in two ways with profoundly different meanings. With the accent on the second syllable and an “i”…
FORMER 5th District supervisor David Colfax died at his Boonville home on Sunday, November 12. MARSHALL NEWMAN sends along a photograph of the fabled Wieses:…
You say yes, it’s artificial because it is presented in nonhuman expressions. You say no it’s not artificial because you read somewhere that it isn’t,…
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Despite the County’s many and growing staffing and budget problems, the Board of Supervisors has taken another month off. Their last meeting was November 8…