When I first reached the age of reason and started considering possible career paths, and having abandoned my childhood ambitions of becoming a tiger or a candy manufacturer, I set my sights on two possibilities:…
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Readers of the Anderson Valley Advertiser may remember my “Odd Tree Out” article back in April, which detailed discovery of some young examples of the rare California nutmeg tree west of Philo. Several commented on…
I’m going to WomanUP!® in LA this week. I haven’t done anything like this in a long time; in fact, not since I worked at Century 21 and went to a one-day event. That was about…
Nearly three years after a majority of Californians voted for Prop 64, which called for the adult use of cannabis, the California cannabis world is still in upheaval and there’s no stability in sight. In many parts of the Golden State, there’s a backlash against marijuana, though cities, towns and counties are also imposing taxes on cannabis businesses.
About 8 a.m. on the morning of November 15, 1891, Charles Lambert, driver on the Eureka to Ukiah stage run, guided his team up a relatively steep grade 18 miles north of the Mendocino County…
Conservative writer P.J. O'Rourke, who used to butt heads with Molly Ivins on TV, came on the Tonight show once and explained right wing logic: "If you weren't a liberal when young, you had no…
You’re probably asking yourself, how long does it take to count votes in Mendocino County? The answer is: Longer, much longer than it should ever take in a county with only 90,000 people. I liken…
It's tough enough for a stage comedian to make you laugh out loud; more remarkable still when a supposedly comic movie does so. Rarest of all is an author achieving such result in print. A…
This year marks the 25th annual version of the Sierra Nevada World Music Festival, and its 13th year in Boonville. Begun in 1994 in the foothills of the mountain range it's named for, the organizers…