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Bird’s Eye View

Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. Perhaps we should take a moment to reflect on the passing of these Valley folks who left us in the past fifteen…

More Miserables

On Christmas Day, several new movies hit the big screen. The most notable this year was the latest version of Les Miserables, which opened to critical acclaim. I sat in seat K2 at the 10am…

The Goldeneye Diaries

Winemaker Zach Rasmuson unexpectedly gave us another four-day weekend. He and 43-year old assistant winemaker Bo Felton were apparently flying to a ranch in Omaha to do a vertical tasting for Warren Buffett of Goldeneye’s…

Mendocino County Today: January 3, 2012

WHO’S BOMBING HER NOW? By Bruce Anderson Most AVA readers are probably aware, however dimly, that a woman named Judi Bari was nearly killed in Oakland by a car bomb in May of 1990. The…

‘How Necessary Is Public Vindication?’

On May 20th, 2011, a confused and nude Claudia Pedreros was found wandering on a remote Trinity County road. Her two and a half year old daughter, Sophia, was missing and later found drowned in…

Rewriting Kerouac

“Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.”  — Jack Kerouac More than fifty years after his novel was first published (in 1957), a movie has finally been…

The Bear Hunt

One time many years ago Augie, Frank and I were hunting in Trinity County. We started north of the small place named Xenia but there wasn't much in the way of deer. It was after…

‘We Don’t Negotiate With Terrorists’

Back in 1997, Warner Bros applied for a permit to make a movie on the Mendocino Headlands, a state park. According to the summary of the application ultimately approved by the California Coastal Commission, Warner…

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