Prodigal Arkley
In 2010, A Doofus Will Rise
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Prodigal Arkley
The Top One Story of 2010 What a year it was. We said goodbye to the Samoa peninsula after the Great Oct. 18 tsunami; the only people that will ever again inhabit towns like Manila and Samoa and Fairhaven will be underwater archaeologists, perhaps of the extraterrestrial variety. Three days later, the great earthquake swallowed…
Big Year, Big News
candidate. Twenty-ten is a very big year for us. It’s the Journal’s 20th anniversary. How humble are our beginnings? Two SE 30 Macs in one room in Old Town, Eureka. There were three of us then: I was in charge of editorial, Carolyn Fernandez and Rose Welsh were the production team. We didn’t have a…
Gallegos Challenger Announces
Gallegos Challenger Announces: The Times-Standard writes that former Deputy DA Kathleen Bryson will run against current DA Paul Gallegos in June 2010. ”Law enforcement has about had it with Paul,” Bryson told the T-S. No word yet from former environmental crimes prosecutor Paul Hagen, a widely rumored
Arrest in Reetpaul Singh Rana Case
Remember the case of Reetpaul Signh Rana, the San Francisco man killed in Humboldt County in late 2008? They found his body in Alderpoint and his torched car in Big Lagoon. The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office made an arrest yesterday: A suspect has been arrested for the 2008 murder of Reepaul Singh Rana whose body…
Keep It Simple
Theatre is hard to do, in the best of times — even without economic hardships affecting box office and production decisions. There are multiple challenges and pitfalls in every show. There may be more drama backstage than on — as I’m told occurred at one local theatre this past year: a lead actor’s significant other…
Month of Sundays
Singer/songwriter/bandleader Mark Harrison has swung back and forth between Memphis and Nashville without breaking ties with the musical influences that come from both sides of Tennessee. Starting in 1993, Harrison led his Memphis-based band, Snakehips, with their debut full-length, Lit, a solid recording that wore its T.Rex/Replacements/Big Star/Stones influences proudly, accompanied with that Memphis soul-based…
The Best Technology Writing 2009
Like a lot of writing on technology in the past couple of decades, Steven Johnson makes a good point and then overreaches. In his introduction to these pieces from Web sites and magazines (Wired, Discover, Atlantic, Technology Review, New Yorker), he points out that most of them are about the present, while tech writing has…
By the Fire
On a braided rug, twisted greens and burgundy,…
Humboldt Terroir
Nebbiolo. Oh, I’m beginning to get it — how humankind, for centuries, has been moved to wax poetic about certain wines. Why Jesus turned water into wine. Why, for thousands of years, Jews have ushered in the Sabbath each week by praising the Creator for the fruit of the vine. Nebbiolo. Moonstone Crossing Nebbiolo. Nectar…
Blue Moon Alert
Blue Moon, You saw me standing alone, Without a dream in my heart, Without a love of my own… I’m not afflicted with a dreamless heart or loveless own that often: Once every 2.7 years, to be exact, when a month has two full moons. Like now, for instance. The first full moon occurred on…
Then & Now
That’s it. The year’s over, along with the Aughts (or whatever you want to call the last decade). It’s not as dramatic as the end of the millennium, but it’s another turning point. Do you remember what was happening on the local music scene 10 years ago? Looking back you’ll see that much has changed,…
Return of Sad Clooney
Previews As 2009 becomes history Thursday night, so will one of Humboldt County’s movie venues. The Movies at the Bayshore Mall will close its doors permanently when its lease expires at the end of the year. "Honestly, it’s high time," General Manager Anibal Polanco said Tuesday afternoon. Attendance had dwindled in recent years to a…
Waste Water
Solve this riddle: The Eureka Redevelopment Agency owes the city’s wastewater fund more than $5 million. Yet, according to city officials, the city technically never loaned the agency that money (with one exception) — not from the wastewater fund or anywhere else. It spent the money on sewer system projects, just as you’d expect: repairing…
Arts Alive!
1. WORLD CUP 1626 F St. Marc McClendon. 2. THE INK PEOPLE CENTER FOR THE ARTS 411 12th St. Poems that Don’t Rhyme: Faith Dickens, Jorden Goodspeed, Lauren Kinney, Ruth Miller, Kristina Pederen, Charrisa Schulze and more. 3. HUMBOLDT ARTS COUNCIL at the Morris Graves Museum of Art 636 F St. Morris Graves Museum of…
