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Posts published in February 2024

Joe Hill Finally Comes to City Lights

Everyone in San Francisco and beyond loves City Lights Bookstore and Publishing Company. At least every reader and bookish citizen or craves culture and community. Indeed, City Lights Bookstore and City Lights Publishing have long…

Letters (February 19, 2024)

The Palace Hotel can be restored. Many great buildings all over the world in worse shape have been restored…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday, Feb. 18, 2024

Rain/Wind | Bar Joke | Demolition Unnecessary | Angel Left | PG&E Shock | Not Again | Existential Threat | Waterlogged Chickens | Turkey Vulture | 2023 Crush | New Diet | Accomplishment | Supporting Shattuck | Never Blame | Bad Speller | Mockelvision | Gladiola | Cline Hubris | Dropping | Coddled People | Pet Astro | Broadband Launch | Phone Tower | Formerly Green | Drawn Together | Ed Notes | Sidelong Musk | Philo Commute | Yesterday's Catch | Unidentified Object | Safari Surprise | Marco Radio | Ayn Rand | Disinformation, Inc. | Author Theroux | Assange Appeal | So Mysterious

The Squad

Jeremy Scahill, Matt Taibbi, Naomi Klein, David Yearsley, Ryan Grim… I think of these very good young journalists as young, but they're all in early middle age. I've been listening to Grim's new book as…

Remembering Anderson Valley’s First People [1936]

My first recollections of the Indians in Anderson Valley was in the early 1870s, probably 1874 or 1875. At that time, the rancheria was on the bluff, facing Anderson Creek and a small creek or…

Mendocino County Today: Saturday, Feb. 17, 2024

Rain Begins | Scott Dam | Unity Club | Eye House | P Money | Wise Doc | Utility Tax | Clean Underwear | Return VSO | Sheriff Kendall | Listserv Moderators | Small Town | Big Hair | Bragg Council | James Joyce | Gaska Endorsement | Haight/Ashbury | Junk Calls | Yesterday's Catch | Half Talent | Edward Hopper | Marco Radio | Wasted Lives | President Phillips | Jet Parts | Industrial Agriculture | Mind Control | Three Pounds | Gaza Atrocity | Baker Test | Money People | Service Station | Cellphone Resistance | Best Daughter

Fugitive Music: The Zone of Interest & the Chorus of Souls

Few if any moviegoers will stray into The Zone of Interest thinking it’s a biopic about Fed Chairman Jerome Powell and his tight-fisted monetary policy. They know beforehand that they’ve come to see a Holocaust…

Valley People (February 17, 2024)

A MODERATE/MILD 3.2 magnitude earthquake centered about 3 miles northeast of Boonville jiggled the Boonville area for a couple of seconds about 4:45pm last Sunday, not Super Sunday.  LARGE OFFICE SPACE NOW AVAILABLE FOR RENT…

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