Aside from its winning title, the best material offered up by the documentary film Twenty Feet from Stardom are the musical performances, seen and — more important — heard both in footage of concerts extending…
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I was told it was only going to be a journey of a few leagues. As my league work wasn’t up to snuff I figured it would take a while longer. I loaded myself up with the stuff of the classic poseur. A handbag a duffle bag, new shoes, an over-the-shoulder bag and a shopping bag flaunting that it’s Heavenly.
“Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.” — Mark Twain I realize it is not, in Buddhist terms, skillful speech to call anyone an idiot,…
MENDOCINO COUNTY has needed a slaughterhouse forever, and maybe we're about to get one. The Economic Development & Financing Corporation (EDFC) will hold a public meeting next month to discuss potential plans for a local…
WE’VE COMPLAINED for years that California River Watch, vaguely based in Occidental (Sonoma County), is operated as a shakedown racket by a man named Jack Silver. Silver rifles the reports filed by municipalities with the…
A CLOSER LOOK at the thuggish dismissal of Kathy Corral reveals that the overall survival of the Anderson Valley Health Center might be more precarious than many of us thought. The dental clinic has been…
The first time I saw one of the Big Blue Towers, I was perched about seventy feet above it, albeit more than a half-mile to its north. It was this past Friday, May 17th, and I was sitting in a four-by-eight platform suspended from the crotch of a several-hundred-year-old valley oak tree, which stands like a sentinel on the edge of an Oregon ash grove north of Willits, adjacent to Highway 101.
Mendocino County owns 57 acres of “productive timberland” near Little River Airport on the Coast. The property was profitably logged back in 1996 during the “cut and run” days as Louisiana-Pacific and Georgia-Pacific finished decimating…