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Read more about the article Issue 809, Published August 27, 2026

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.

Read more about the article Issue 804, Published March 26, 2026

Issue 804, Published March 26, 2026

'Creativity is not a luxury. It is not a side project. It is the skill that makes all other problem-solving possible.' The Center for Arts and Innovation.org, from the essay 'Beyond art: why creativity is the key to solving our biggest challenges.

Read more about the article Issue 803, Published Fabruary 26, 2026

Issue 803, Published Fabruary 26, 2026

Larger than life and twice as crazy, the fierce activist and defender of 'God's Whales,' Byrd Baker, joined Greenpeace in confronting enormous whaling ships from Russia, Korea, and China in an inflatable Zodiac, enrolled his friends in a movement he started in Mendocino to end the wholesale slaughter of whales, which contributed to the establishment of a two hundred-mile zone off US coastlines and ended most whaling in the open seas worldwide.

Read more about the article Issue 801, Published December 19, 2025

Issue 801, Published December 19, 2025

Strength. Grace. Power. Artistry. Danger. Drama. Beauty. Excitement. Determination. Precision. Elegance. These attributes describe students of aerial silks, trapeze, straps, and other forms of sky-high arts Mendocino kids have been studying under Bones and Holly Newstead and other teachers for two decades. On gossamer ribbons, a generation of world-class artists from Bones' CircusMecca fly, swing, drop, twirl, rotate, and pose with spectacular skill.

Read more about the article Issue 800, Published November 20, 2025

Issue 800, Published November 20, 2025

Sometimes It Takes Something Really Bad to Find Out How Good People Can Be The Fort Bragg Food Bank, now named the "Mendocino Food Network" to reflect the many changes that have allowed it to expand services to every corner of the county, is a lifeline for many people and families. a thriving hub of goodness.

Read more about the article Issue 799, Published October 30, 2025

Issue 799, Published October 30, 2025

Scientists, divers, and fishermen are merging their knowledge and experience to help nature regain its balance after the tragic collapse of the coast's bull kelp forests and they are joined by a community that seeks to support and further their extraordinary work.

Read more about the article Issue 798, Published September 25, 2025

Issue 798, Published September 25, 2025

Highway 1 between Fort Bragg and Westport has been 'slipping' for many years. Caltrans and a contractor that promises to 'deliver on the impossible' are waging a ferocious battle against time and Nature to save the crucial highway.

Read more about the article Issue 797, Published August 28, 2025
Fort Bragg's Pioneer Merchants--The Shafsky Family

Issue 797, Published August 28, 2025

In the 1800s, the four Shafsky brothers made their way from Moldova to Fort Bragg and established a small business with a horse-drawn buggy full of wares to sell to loggers and fishermen who had settled here.

Read more about the article Select Issue 796, Published July 31, 2025

Select Issue 796, Published July 31, 2025

Diana Coryat and Loreto Rojas —journalists/filmmakers/teachers/podcasters/radio personalities—have been interviewing and recording oral histories of Latinos who arrived on the coast beginning in the 1950s, many around the same time Back-to-the-Landers also discovered the coast's allure.

Read more about the article Issue 795, Published June 27, 2025

Issue 795, Published June 27, 2025

Marilyn Wagner, daughter of Betty and Ernie Schoefer, who created the Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens, recounts the dramatic history of the coast's horticultural Utopia. She was there from the very beginning!

Read more about the article Issue 789, Published December 19, 2024

Issue 789, Published December 19, 2024

Art Group's Progressive Work Wows! Artistic works produced and shown in Fort Bragg's Art Explorers Studio & Gallery are receiving accolades and recognition far beyond the coast. The nonprofit was established twenty-five years ago to provide time and space for artists with developmental differences and neuro-diversity to learn, make, and thrive.

Read more about the article Issue 788, Published November 21, 2024
Of the Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, and Finnish immigrants who settled in Fort Bragg at the turn of the twentieth century, Finns made up the largest ethnic group. For the town's Alleyway Mural Project, artist Lauren Sinnott created a vibrant pictorial history that illustrates the physical and philosophical contributions the proud, resourceful Finns made to the character of the town.

Issue 788, Published November 21, 2024

Of the Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, and Finnish immigrants who settled in Fort Bragg at the turn of the twentieth century, Finns made up the largest ethnic group. For the town's Alleyway Mural Project, artist Lauren Sinnott created a vibrant pictorial history that illustrates the physical and philosophical contributions the proud, resourceful Finns made to the character of the town.