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Bayeux Fever

It was only after I left the Bar Bayeux in Brooklyn last Friday night, elated after two riveting sets from the Michael Sarin Quintet, that I realized that the club’s name was a clever pun…

Barnstorming With Hot Air: A Self-Made Balloon Man [Nov 2007]

His name is not Oscar Zoroaster Phadrig Isaac Norman Henkel Emmannuel Ambroise Diggs, but he’ll answer to Kevin Herschman. Oz, as his friends may call him, is the engaging young man piloting the blue balloon…

Mendocino County Today: Tuesday 4/1/2025

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When Balloon Man Came To The Valley

REMEMBER WHEN BALLOON MAN drifted low over The Valley on that wintry afternoon in his patchwork quilt of a homemade zeppelin, the airborne object looking as if granma’s sewing basket had turned upside down and…

Balloon Man Speaks [Nov 2007]

Editor, An Insulted Balloon Guy (now eerily close to middle-aged man) wants to inform you, that he takes offense at you calling his hand-made and carefully planned balloon design—”patchwork.” Also hoping you’ll give me the…

Mendocino County Today: Monday 3/31/2025

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Off the Record 3/31/2025

TOM YATES (The Coast): The current story in the Chronicle about the end of Dick’s Place is about one-quarter of what’s real. The news has been out there since at least January. It’s a lot…

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