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The Big Game

The big football match-up between the league’s top two teams, the AV High School Panthers and the Mendocino High School Cardinals, was played in Mendocino Saturday beneath a beautiful blue sky and a warm sparkling…

Eccels & The Curse Of Dr. Suzuki

Along with the souls of a few forlorn and unlucky violin works of the eighteenth century, Henry Eccles’s G Minor Sonata published in 1720 has spent much of its afterlife in the Purgatory of the…

The Machine Stops

E.M. Forster, best known for his novels Room With A View, Passage To India and Howard’s End, published a great short story in 1909 entitled The Machine Stops, an extremely prescient imagining of a future we may soon inhabit. Forty years before the advent of television, Forster foresaw computers and the worldwide internet, the demolition of the global environment, and the total collapse of technological society.

Mendocino County Today: October 16, 2013

STRONG TYPHOON HEADING FOR JAPAN AND FUKUSHIMA NUKE SITE News-Asia/Agence France-Presse in Tokyo — A typhoon described as the “strongest in 10 years” was closing in on Japan on Tuesday, on a path that will…

I Have Always Been Afraid Of Men

When I was a child, I wrote “I hate Daddy” on the flowered yellow wallpaper above my bed in my room in Baltimore. When my friends asked why and how I'd gotten away with this,…

Valley People

A PAIR of smash and grab car break-ins Sunday evening, one in central Boonville in front of the Hotel, one on Anderson Valley Way at the apartments. Deputy Walker said the two robberies occurred “sometime…

The Fight Is Everywhere

This past December 22nd, more than a month before The Warbler began a 65-day occupation of a Ponderosa pine in the southern part of the boggy town of Willits, CA, British forest defenders occupied trees…

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