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Fugitive Music: The Zone of Interest & the Chorus of Souls

Few if any moviegoers will stray into The Zone of Interest thinking it’s a biopic about Fed Chairman Jerome Powell and his tight-fisted monetary policy. They know beforehand that they’ve come to see a Holocaust…

‘Almost Immediately’

The highlight of Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting was Vietnam Veteran Don Shanley’s statement to the Board dressing them down over their ill-considered and abrupt eviction of the Veterans Service Office from their nice little…

Alternatives To Palace Demolition

A lot of effort is being put into a local campaign to show how decrepit the Palace Hotel, a downtown Ukiah landmark, has become.  The historic structure's current condition is thanks to two owners -…

PG&E To County: After Us, You’re First

By a far and wide margin, the single most significant item discussed at Tuesday’s (Feb. 6th) BOS meeting occurred in the waning moments immediately prior to adjournment when the Supes were giving their usually routine…

A Palestinian Poet Drops A Poetic Bomb

No doubt you have been hearing, seeing and reading the news from Gaza. You may have a clear understanding of what’s happening there. That’s all fine and good. But if you’d like to read a…

Preston House Memories

I was an active 4-H member of the Hopland 4-H Club in the 1950s. One of the activities I remember well is that the Mendocino Spartan 4-H Club put on a fair right in the…

Captain At The Mouth

Charles Fletcher, or Captain Fletcher as he was often called, was a sailor who was the first to settle at the mouth of the Navarro River sometime in the early 1850s. He ran a ferry…

The House of Usher

The night that word came through that Usher would be headlining the Super Bowl halftime show this year, you had a dream that you were trapped in a deserted warehouse pursued by a pink tank.…

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