Issue 809, Published August 27, 2026

From women's sufferage to union strikes, from the Mendocino Whale War and the Ocean Protection Movement to today's Trail Stewards and No Kings crusaders, the Mendocino Coast has long embraced artists who speak truth to power with their work. Mendocino's Kelley House Museum, repository of local history, opens a survey of art created here for social and political movements over multiple decades. The exhibit shines a light on anti-establishment defiance, a defiance that has shaped coast culture to this day.

Issue 808, Published July 30, 2026

Ask anybody about Great Day in Elk and they start smiling and can't stop smiling. Then they start talking about it and they can't stop that either. It's wild. It's crazy. It's fun on stilts. It's old fashioned. It's soulful. It's historic. It's goofy. It's epic. It's corny. It's 100 percent community. It's exuberant. It's delicious. Actually, 'fun' doesn't come close to describing what's been happening on the grounds of the Elk Community Center for the last FIFTY years!