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Posts published in November 2024

Invisible Men

Fort Lawton doesn't exist anymore – not as an Army base and not in historic memory, unless you come across “On American Soil” by Jack Hamann (University of Washington Press, 2007). In 1944, 43 Black…

Busted

On November 22, 1977 I left a “Sheila and Jessie” concert at the Garberville Theatre and headed north toward Eureka to UPS a box of canning jars full of trimmed weed, the first pound I…

Ives At Election Time

The iconoclastic American composer become cultural monument Charles Ives was born 150 years ago last Sunday. Ulysses S. Grant was then in the midst of his second term as president. Ives’s father George, the formative…

Mendocino County Today: Monday 11/4/2024

Headstart | Northerlies | Grange Fundraiser | Cannabis Guidelines | Building Amnesty | Free Concert | Ethical Investing | Shelter Volunteering | Film Festival | Time Piece | All Souls | Chili Cookoff | Leggett Carving | Royce's Cafe | Early Mendocino | Sako Art | Yesterday's Catch | Bridge Net | Marin Confidential | Drum Corp | Never Again | Kamala Advice | The Protector | Long Noses | El Tochaco | Lead Stories | The Machine | Mind Shaping | Election Resilience | Ladderman | Last Linotype | Caution | Over-Organization | Mystic Funnies

Our 21st Century Genius

I’ve neglected watching television and most of its mutations for several years, and this makes me less than well-informed on news and developments. Indulge me if I speak the obvious, but was the recent launch…

Off the Record 11/4/2024

WHERE’S KOJOE? The Mendocino County Sheriff's Office is currently assisting the Anaheim Police Department in attempting to locate Kojoe (no last name). Kojoe is described as a 59-year-old African American male adult, approximately 5'9" and…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday 11/3/2024

Clear & Cool | Navarro Woods | Time Change | Position Available | Parks Pass | Village Newsletter | Pet Butch | Accessible Walks | Senior Center | 10,000 Buddhas | Stay Upbeat | Ed Notes | Special Screening | Redwood Classics | Chainsaw Octopus | Yesterday's Catch | Canine Heimlich | Marco Radio | Crumb Parents | Invisible Men | On Foot | Invasive Mussel | Candlestick Park | Lively Debate | Even Donald | 60s Music | Owning Yourself | Works Wonders | Lead Stories | Fought Fascists | Garbage Politics | Old Trends | Unserious Man | Think Big | Hit Job | Three Little Kittens

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