This week in print, Aug. 20-27, 2009

Previous Issues

news

on the cover

Know When To Kill Them

Dope, guns and Republican blood lust in Mendocino County

news story

Fee-For-All

For six years, CR illegally heisted hundreds of Hamiltons from students

news story

Fostering Change

Humboldt Creamery’s dairy farmers stay alive, but with new masters

news story

Cuts and Confusion

State budget cuts weighing heavily on the disabled

news story

Museum at the Crossroads

Dreams of SpongeBob buoy the spirits of Natural History Museum supporters

savage money

Programmed for Poverty

It’s our base animal instincts that drive us to overspend

music

the hum

Red Hot Country

Rooster McClintock’s new CD, plus a busy Saturday night and jazz at Benbow

in review

Call From Restricted

By Doug Gillard. 347 Records.

arts

stage matters

Monsters and Lovers

Mid-Run Reviews of Ferndale and HLO Musicals

filmland

Loving Zooey

Plus: The Hurt Locker is one of the best war films ever made

booknotes

Inherent Vice

By Thomas Pynchon. Penguin Press.

Today

Ba-Dum-Chh Comedy Night

Comedy / 8:30 p.m. Cher-ae Heights Casino, Trinidad. Local blue comedy troupe makes with the funny. If you get offended, don't go! cheraeheightscasino.com. 800-684-2464.

Petunia and the Vipers (hillbilly swing)

music / 9 p.m. Riverwood Inn, 2828 Avenue of the Giants, Phillipsville.

Les Craig

music / 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. All Dogs Biscuit Bakery and Olivia's Beastro, 2910 E St., Eureka. Singer/songwriter performs. alldogsbakery.com. 497-6273.

Whomp Whomp Wednesdays

music / 9 p.m. Nocturnum, 206 W. 6th St., Eureka. 498-7388.

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