Author’s Note: The report below speaks of football when to some readers it means soccer, or perhaps futbol to others. The season continued to sputter along last week when, following two games lost the previous…
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Author’s Note: The following article refers to football, because the ball is a foot long, and this is America. Last season, the Panther football team went to Potter Valley and won a 68-64 offensive slugfest…
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. It’s raining! Well, it is that time of year and hopefully everyone got their roofs fixed, gutters cleared, wood piles tarped, and…
I met Beverley at her home at the Philo Pottery Inn and we sat in the lovely garden with some ‘real’ tea and biscuits (cookies) as we began our chat. Beverley was born in 1951…
It’s not quite up there with Schwarzenegger’s celebrated “fuck you” to Tom Ammiano, but Gov. Jerry Brown gets off a halfway decent zinger in a signing statement attached to his approval of Senate Bill 769,…
The country roads in our valley are decorated with blowing cornhusks and broken pumpkins, remnants of crops not intended for human consumption, as the autumn harvest is in full swing. I get a tour of…
“You are the music while the music lasts.”— T.S. Eliot Long ago, in a time when records were big round vinyl things activated by spinning them on turntables while running needles through their grooves, when…
Conveniently enough there's a Wijn bar on Rustenburgerstraat now where you head left for the frazzled Bed and Coffee. By frazzled, I mean things have changed considerably at the cheap little non-hostel hostel in the…