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Posts published in May 2024

County Notes: Follow The Bouncing Budget Ball

We didn’t really expect the Supervisors to address the many inconsistencies and incongruencies in Tuesday’s budget presentation that we previously outlined, that would be unheard of from this Board. But at least they touched on…

Mendocino County Today: Tuesday 5/14/24

Sunny | Cuckoo Flower | Distraught Male | Library Bashed | Unconscious Ornelas | AVUSD News | Finial | Latest Excuse | Magic Milk | Good News | Coyote Valley | Facebooking Mo | Hopland Church | Ed Notes | Yesterday's Catch | Fine Arteest | Family Day | Sunday Traditions | Rooftop Solar | Woodchoppers | Newsom Position | Bonnie Slide | Community Solar | Filled Up | Homeowners Insurance | Income Needed | Ultraprocessed Foods | Mouseketeers | The Fixer | Fourth Weirdest | MAGA Ethos | German Breakfast | Great Rematch | Mari Sandoz | Israel Splitting | Granny's Passions | Japanese Whaling | Everything Once

Mendocino (Eat Your Heart Out, Visit Mendocino)

Mendocino and a dose of scenic/sensational Highway I were not on my agenda. Boonville was, and maybe a stay at their hotel or straight/curving out to the coast for one night above the Nordic ocean. …

Liberalism Without Accountability

Witnessing the hundreds of militarized police being deployed to round up student protesters, many people in the United States and across the world may be wondering what the difference is between supposedly progressive, liberal government…

Mendocino County Today: Monday 5/13/24

Partly Sunny | Motorboat | Boontling Classic | Hopland Market | Hand Shot | Little Library | Mulheren Snippets | Zonko | Weed Era | Ed Notes | Red Rose | Sheridan's Voice | Redwood Highway | Cuffey's Cove | AV Grange | Yesterday's Catch | Liminal Spaces | Gas Prices | We're Wonderful | Plumbers | Electricity Costs | Stork | Tax Measure | Brownies Ready | Glomar Explorer | Nice Feeling | Familiar Villians | Sun Dance | Despised Yankees | Nancy Green | Crazy Arms | Evil Tycoon | Gaza Update | Thumbs Up | Rafah Disaster | Best Wishes

Tobacco Takes Series Against Me, 2-0

In a lifetime filled with exciting adventures and thrilling escapades, only two have involved nicotine. Both these tobacco-related encounters were also thrilling and exciting, but with an added component of nauseating. And most memorably by…

Under UCLA’s Jumbotron

On April 25, a large group of students at the University of California, Los Angeles, set up an encampment on the main quadrangle of their campus. Flanked on all sides by plywood barricades, the Palestine…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday 5/12/24

Mother's Day | Cooling | Lake Mendocino | Boontling Footrace | Pacific Sun | AV Today | Birdhouse Auction | Poetry Reading | Park Day | Max Schlienger | Pet Rip | Tri-Tip Dinner | Project RV | Ed Notes | Trail/Butterflies | Jerry & Dawg | Bottom-Lining | Mendocino Headlands | Marco Radio | Yesterday's Catch | Under God | Indian Marathon | PG&E Poppycock | Tarzan 1934 | Tug-o-War | Inside Body | Auto Race | Stormy & Donnie | Cheating | Bending Over | Mrs McGregor | Gender Reveal | Weak Jesus | Fleeing Rafah | Peace Offering | Kidnapped | Pop Music | Showing Off | Tall & Small

‘The Children’ (A post-production commentary)

Author — Lucy Kirkwood, Director — Ann Woodhead Produced by Mendocino Theater Company Cast —  HAZEL - Pamela W. Allen;  ROSE - Torri Truss;  ROBIN - Charlie Herman  A great wave rose up covering all…

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