Without the Mill
Pulp workers adjust to a world that might not need their work
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Without the Mill
On Oct. 28, a dense fog poured into the towns around Humboldt Bay, stuffing the spaces between buildings with a white, impenetrable ground-to-sky murk. You couldn’t see 10 feet in front of you, and if you happened to be out on the Samoa Peninsula and stopped your car just across from where the Evergreen pulp…
Try Something Else
Yeah, yeah, yeah . It’s not that it didn’t happen. I’m sure it did. I’m sure it happened many times, in many places. Probably just about as often as the flipside version of it happened , more or less. You can make either case representative, if you really want to. But before you do, go…
Bayshore Mall owners face possible bankruptcy
empty storefront General Growth Properties Inc. , the Chicago-based real estate investment company that owns the Bayshore Mall , is in serious financial trouble. The value of shares in GGP, the second largest mall owner in the country, plunged Tuesday and Wednesday following a Securities and Exchange Commission filing on Monday in which they laid…
If you pine for the old ER
As Eureka Reporter online readers have already discovered to their distress, or at least puzzlement, if you try to summon the recently laid-to-rest newspaper you will encounter this cold note: The Eureka Reporter newspaper has closed its doors and is no longer in business. If you would like to speak with someone regarding business dealings…
A Bothersome Woman
Previews Opening Friday, Nov. 7, is Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, featuring the city zoo animals in a sequel to the animated 2005 film. Starring the voices of Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, Sacha Baron Cohen, etc. Rated PG for some mild crude humor. 89m. At the Broadway, Fortuna and Mill Creek. Role Models is a slacker…
Watch Your Tongue
Editor: Thank you for Ryan Burns’ excellent article “At the Orgy” about Humboldt Imps latest sex-positive event (Oct. 30). It must be mentioned, though, that Ghouls Gone Wild was not an “orgy.” This is an important linguistic distinction. An orgy involves multiple parties who have all consented to interact sexually with one another. It was…
Bad Account
Editor: As the spouse of a former member of the HSU accounting staff, I was astonished to see, in your Oct. 30 column, the bald allegation that “the university’s entire accounting staff quit in protest when the university changed software systems” (“Town Dandy,” Oct. 30). Nothing could be further from the truth. The university’s administrators…
Ammon error
“Rammin’ at Ammon,” an article about the “All Hollow’s Heave” disc golf tournament in last week’s paper, misidentified the winner of last year’s tournament. In fact, Shaun Bryars of Nevada City won last year, as well as this year. The Journal regrets the error.
Snap Snap
My family took advantage of this unseasonably warm weather last weekend to go canoeing on Stone Lagoon. As we landed at the boat ramp, after a day of paddling, a small car pulled up. It had no boat rack or trailer, so I was curious about what she was doing on the ramp. The driver…
Hardcore Locavores
When you leave quaint Ferndale behind for the curves of the rugged Wildcat, the Mattole Valley unfolds against the backdrop of a vast cerulean sea. Home to sufficiency-minded renegades, devoid of restaurants and geographically isolated, the Mattole Valley offers a recipe for creative, home-cooked, local cuisine borne equally out of necessity, political intention, environmental ardor,…
Cracking the Code: How to Win Hearts, Change Minds, and Restore America’s Original Vision
Just in time to read before long holiday dinners and the even longer religious and political "discussions" that follow, Hartmann’s newest book is the survival guide helping us chew and digest all the fat affixed to our arguments. If you read and re-read this book Hartmann promises "you’ll become an agent of change, in the…
Crossing Dragon Bridge
Steve Wynn, singer, songwriter and founder of L.A. band Dream Syndicate, is a journeyman — both literally and figuratively. Musically, since the dissolve of Dream Syndicate, Wynn has taken both a collaborative and solo path, with some of his strongest post-Syndicate work in collaborations. Wynn worked with Green on Red’s co-founder Dan Stuart under the…
Momix
Moses Pendleton, founder/director of Momix, is a complex artist known for crafting fantastical voyages out of the human form that straddle the line between spectacular art and circusy entertainment. Often his use of larger-than-life props, jokes and stunning backdrops become gimmicks diminishing his ultra-athletic and acrobatic dancers’ artistry. Wednesday night’s The Best of Momix was…
To Mumbai, Alice!
In Humboldt County, some people think about mileage when shopping for food. Not in terms of how much gas it will take to get to the Safeway, but how many miles the food traveled before it landed on the store shelf. Enviro-foodies tell us that if you care about global warming you need to focus…
Types in Turn
The Banana Slug moves more slowlythan the hour…
Humboldt: What’s in a Name?
The schooner Laura Virginia made history on April 14, 1850, by becoming the first vessel to enter our bay. Captain Douglass Ottinger and his second officer, Hans Buhne, promptly named the bay “Humboldt” after a German naturalist. Three years later, Humboldt Bay gave its name to our county when it was detached from Trinity County.…
Call the Fiscal Justice League
The world economy teeters on the verge of collapse. Stock markets in the U.S., Europe and Hong Kong resemble Richter readouts from the Big One. Wall Street brokers’ heart rates leap tall buildings in a single market rebound while here on the Main Streets of Humboldt County we look desperately for answers. What does it…
No Use for Retro
A few months ago when I heard that Mason Jennings is coming to town, I somehow confused his name with Mason Williams, the ’60s guitarist mainly known for one song, “Classical Gas.” I didn’t know about the other Mason, which may be understandable given that his official bio starts out describing him as “one of…
