82 YEARS AGO THIS MONTH

[Craig McDonald]

Ah, February: Valentine’s Day…President’s Day…the month for sneaking across borders, plundering graves and stealing the heads of national icons…. That’s right hombres, 82 years ago this month, some skulking types broke into Pancho Villa’s grave and made off with the magnificent bastard's head, the MacGuffin that drives the plot of HEAD GAMES. So raise a glass (mescal, tequila…pick your poison) and make a toast south (if you think the head stayed down there), or maybe toward Connecticut in the event Skull and Bones did end up with the sucker. “Viva Villa!”

[L.J. Sellers]

Saying hello and offering another Valentine's day factoid: 149 years ago, on Valentine's day, Oregon became a state. So it's also a birthday party here.