Thank you for attending the 45th commemoration of the Kent State Massacre and honoring, remembering this important day. My sister Allison Beth Krause was one of four Kent State students killed by the Ohio National…
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Decades ago, I’d show up weekly to clean the Philadelphia apartment of a California transplant. Daughter of a Hollywood executive, Jacqueline confessed she had to escape California because “California women are too beautiful.” To save…
Best Thing I Heard All Week: James McMurtry, Complicated Game. Hear them crabbers cuss the weather And they cuss the government too Nowadays crabbin' and fishin' hangin' on to a pot to piss in Is…
Pinot Surprise;
Costco Logic;
Slug Gardening;
Addressing Big Wine;
Recall Turner;
Sanford Farewell;
Runaround Sue;
Jackpot Stop;
Yesterday's Catch;
Double Standard;
Beth Remembers;
!@#$^&* Radio;
Havana Bar;
Renoir;
Almond Acreage;
Inuit Art;
Stehr Plans;
Summer Reading;
Speak Dolphin
The foreign has long been my stomping ground, my sanctuary, as one who grew up a foreigner wherever I happened to be. Born to Indian parents in Oxford, England, I was seven when my parents…
The Weather Underground wasn’t as crazy as it seemed, though at the time it seemed anything but sane. On March 6, 1970, three members of a Weatherman cell or collective accidentally blew themselves up in…
This year, with five yearling apples trees and five apple trees we revived from near death when we bought this place three years ago, the biggest challenge to our trees is ants and the aphids those ants raise on the clover, so to speak, of the tender apple leaves just now emerging along with the onset of blossoms.
PLAYERS OF THE WEEK! Shauna Espinoza reports: "Our first two little leaguers went to their very first Giants game today, and now Thomas wants to be a baseball player when he grows up! What a great evening for them. A night they will never forget, I'm sure.
The thing I look most forward to reading each week when I receive my Advertiser — well, most weeks — okay, on the semi-rare occasions when the paper shows up — fine! Both times that…