Category Archive: general
April 21, 2008 at 4:50 pm
by dff
· Filed under general, favorites, Art
Review and photo by Larry Wagner, North Coast Photographer Guild
If you like opera, or even come close to liking it, you might want to see Opera Fresca’s latest, Barber of Seville. It is playing at Cotton Auditorium this Wednesday and Saturday at 7:30 PM.
The six leads are all up and coming stars from around the world – Venezuela, Spain, New York, etc and super talented. The staging is beautiful and the opera is very funny and approachable – no Wagnerian arias. I had the enjoyment of photographing the two dress rehearsals, then went on Sunday afternoon. I am going again on Saturday. It is amazing to see such talent in little Fort Bragg. (Bring a coat – it is cool in Cotton Auditorium).
The attached photo will give you a feel for what you are in for.
Larry
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April 20, 2008 at 1:39 pm
by nancy
· Filed under general
Saturday, May 3, 9 a.m - 12 p.m
Mendocino Hotel Conference Room (Albion Street)
Here’s a great way to help out this worthy cause and have lots of fun meeting interesting people coming in for the festival. Volunteers are needed for the Film Festival, May 29 - June 1, at venues around Mendocino to help take tickets, make popcorn, usher, etc. We are also looking for specialists who can help as projectionists and venue managers. Volunteers receive a voucher to attend a screening during the festival and are invited to the post-festival volunteer thank you party. Contact: Mendocino Film Festival Volunteer Coordinator, Aimee Hanson, toll free at 877-685-7152 or by email at Aimee@OuiOrganize.com.
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April 15, 2008 at 5:21 pm
by bruce
· Filed under ecotourism, general, hikes, attractions
Mendocino Village has long been the focus of tourism on 70 miles of the Mendocino Coast. Don’t get me wrong, Mendocino is one of a kind. But places like Fort Bragg and points south are coming into their own.
This past weekend, my friend Wild Bill and I took a quick overnight camping trip to Gualala Regional Park, located on the south side of Gualala River, in a grove of redwoods, including a grove with some old growths. 
Fantastic beaches, walks and a nice little town nearby. I also saw my first sign for $4 per gallon gasoline at the Chevron in Gualala.
We stopped at Queenie’s Roadhouse, one of our favorites, in Elk for breakfast. As we waited for our meal to arrive, the fog ended two beautiful clear days. After breakfast we head to Point Arena to hike out to Stornetta Preserve’s waterfall, which also was shrouded in some fog. By the time we got to School Creek road, we hit the fog-free sunbelt. Read the rest of this entry »
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April 15, 2008 at 4:01 pm
by dff
· Filed under general, events, drives
Here’s a fun thing happening tomorrow soon. If you’re into classic and exotic cars, a bunch of them will be around town in Mendocino and the area on Wednesday, April 30, 2008.
APRIL 16, 2008
18th Annual 4-Day California Mille 1000-Mile Back Roads Tour to the Mendocino Hotel
The California Mille (MILL-ay) salutes Italy’s famed Mille Miglia (thousand mile) race that ran from Brescia to Rome to Brescia from 1927-1957. Cars that could have qualified for the original event are eligible to apply for entry in the California Mille to Mendocino.
This year’s cars will include some l5 Jaguars, 11 Alfa Romeos, 9 Mercedes-Benz as well as such rarely seen and exotic makes as Talbot-Lago, Nash Healey, Allard, Aceca-Bristol, Hudson Hornet, Kurtis, Cisitalia, Cunningham, and Delahaye. Participants are expected from l5 U.S. states and six nations: Australia, Colombia, Switzerland, the U.K., Canada and the U.S. Three 2008 Mille entries completed last year’s Peking-to-Paris marathon.. The 1000-mile route will take the Mille west on California Street, into the Presidio, and across the Golden Gate Bridge, then northeast to the wine country. A number of the guests are staying at the historic Mendocino Hotel and Garden Suites and the Hill House Inn where special food and beverage offerings will be made available to the race participants as well as other guests, visitors and locals who wish to enjoy this spectacular car collection. On Day 3, the 180 Mille guests will assemble at the Mendocino Hotel for a gourmet dinner and then return to the San Francisco area.
The California Mille, a not-for-profit event presented by Amici americani della Mille Miglia, is one of series of motoring tours under the direction of Martin Swig. The Mille is sponsored by San Francisco’s Fairmont Hotel, Blancpain Watches, the Lodi Wine Growers, British Motors Jaguar, KSFO 560 AM Radio, Symbolic Motor Car Company, the Nob Hill Gazette and UBS Switzerland.
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April 15, 2008 at 12:35 pm
by dff
· Filed under general, events, Art
This review is by Larry Wagner, photographer and avid play-goer.
Don’t miss The Shaker Chair, the current play at Mendocino Theater Company. A new production, having had its World Premier in 2005, is the story of Marion, the level headed type who wears sensible shoes, trying to deal with:
1. her radical friend, Jean, who is incensed by the management of a local pig farm
2. her sister, Dolly, who is distraught over the philandering of her husband, Frank
The play is funny. The dialogue is creative and challenging, with hardly anyone finishing a sentence – but you know what they are trying to say, and the cast is marvelous. Ann Kyle Brown is totally credible as Marion, as she struggles with the meaning of the Shakers’ philosophy and their uncomfortable straight-backed chairs; Ann Woodhead is delightfully devious as she enrolls Marion in her schemes; Michelle Deering, a newcomer to the MTC stage but obviously well trained in drama, displays wonderful talent as the weak-willed, sniffling wife to the callous, Frank (played by Allan Droyan). Incidentally, Frank has the most wonderful comeback line I have ever heard, proving there is no defense like a good offense (and I won’t tell you what it is). He was lucky that in its deliverance he didn’t have every woman in the audience come down on the stage and throttle him.
The cast was rounded out by Michael Rossetti and Monica Lancaster who play eco-terrorists, Tom and Lou. They are appropriately scary.
Kudos to the Artistic Committee for finding this play and to Carter Sears for a wonderful job of directing.
The play is without intermission and you will be out of there by 10 pm. It runs from April 3 until May 4. Call 937-4777 for reservations.
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