
today
9 a.m. T-ball Registration Boys and Girls Club Teen Center
read >9 a.m. Apple Solutions for Small Business See Event Description
read >9 a.m. Doris Niles Humboldt County Science Fair Humboldt State University
read >10 a.m. Annual Juggling Festival Humboldt State University
read >6 p.m. Americans for Safe Access Bayview Courtyard Complex
read >6 p.m. Apple Solutions for Small Business Fortuna River Lodge
read >7 p.m. Blondies Open Mic Night Blondies Food And Drink
read >7:30 p.m. A Midsummer Night's Dream Arcata High School
read >8 p.m. Karaoke at Bear River Casino Bear River Casino
read >8 p.m. Karaoke Blue Lake Casino
read >8 p.m. On the Wings of a Dove Carlo Theater (Dell'Arte)
read >8 p.m. Moscow State Radio Symphony Van Duzer Theatre
read >8 p.m. Random Acts of Comedy Arcata Theater Lounge
read >8 p.m. Antigone College of the Redwoods
read >9 p.m. Lisa Baney Cher-Ae-Heights Casino
read >9 p.m. Wig-in-a-Box Karaoke at Aunty Mo's Aunty Mo's Lounge
read >9 p.m. Aftershock Thursdays w/ Da Foot Clan Nocturnum
read >9 p.m. Children of the Sun (blues) Six Rivers Brewery
read >9 p.m. Skerdio, Psy Fi Red Fox Tavern
read >9:30 p.m. Woven Roots, Monk (reggae) Humboldt Brews
read >10 p.m. DJ/Thirsty Thursday Central Station Cocktail Lounge
read >previous columns
Oct. 23, 2008
Writing Water Wrongly
Editor: I read the the article by Heidi Walters about ...
read >Oct. 16, 2008
A tale of two streets (Wall/Buhne)
Cartoon by Joel Mielke.
read >Oct. 9, 2008
Not a Victim
Editor: It should be quite clear to you now that ...
read >Pedaling Scorn
By North Coast Journal Readers
Editor:
Since you guys are in the print biz, which involves writing, we who shall be known as “readers” wish to hell you’d know, as a matter of form, if the story involves bicycles, the work “pedal” will be in play. Not “peddle,” dammit! (See “Money, Dope and Potholes,” Oct. 23.)
And don’t get me started on the “breach”/”breech” issue. I realize English is quirky and exasperating in all its splendor, but with the standards of everything dropping faster than a sailor’s shorts on his first trip to a cathouse, somebody’s gotta draw a line and hold it!
NCJ, make us proud!
— Ernie Earnshaw, Loleta
Sweet Spot: Tough choice this week! We’re tempted to propitiate our future Central Valley masters, but a sundae unclaimed is a sundae opportunity wasted. Therefore, volunteer proofreader Ernie Earnshaw wins a Bon Boniere sundae for sending our favorite letter of the week. But really, for a minute there it was anyone’s game!

















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