Really?
A beauty pageant. For teenagers. From the Ink People. Really.
Cover Story
Really?
Fifteen-year-old Ivee Walker really likes getting her hair and makeup done, and that’s exactly what’s happening right now. She’s sitting in a padded swivel chair at Eureka’s Linden and Company Salon & Spa, a black drape cinched around her neck while owner Linden Tyler Glavich curls her hair. He meticulously glides two extended fingers down…
Judge Grants Preliminary Injunction on Richardson Grove Project
Press release from the Environmental Protection Information Center (EPIC): A federal judge on Wednesday ordered California state transportation officials to stop work on a controversial plan to cut wider highway lanes through ancient redwoods in Northern California’s Richardson Grove State Park. The judge granted the injunction that was being sought by a group of plaintiffs…
Yay for Us!
Or, more accurately, yay for Hank Sims, former NCJ editor, current caballero LoCO and author of the July, 2010 Journal cover story “General Lee,” which yesterday was named a finalist in the 2011 AltWeekly Awards. Huzzah, Sims! The category was Special Topic: Drug Reporting (among papers with circulation of 50,000 or less). Hank profiled Richard…
Fireworks on the Fourth
Lots of “oohs” and “aahs” last night on Eureka’s boardwalk.
Whale and Her Calf in the Klamath
The Inland Whale from Thomas B. Dunklin on Vimeo. A Gray Whale and her calf, in the lower Klamath River, roughtly 3 miles upstream of the mouth of the river. They have been in the river for over a week, and may stay much longer. In 1989, a mother and calf came in and spent…
Cancer is Crap
“Dude, have you seen the purple toilet?” While that question may initially strike you as potentially LSD-induced, non-hallucinating Eureka residents will back me that such a public oddity exists in reality. Proof, man: This plum Duchamp homage forced me to circle the block and pull over on I St. this morning on my way to…
Kinetic Klash Kontinues
Memorial Day weekend may have come and gone, and with it our world famous Kinetic Race, but the Kinetic kontroversy that surfaced before and during the race just took another major turn. As you may recall, a couple of weeks before race day, Justin Hobart Brown, son of the late “Glorious Founder” Hobart Brown, announced…
Emerging and Re-emerging
The term “emerging artists” figures prominently in this month’s Arts Alive! shows. The phrase is usually ascribed to artists who are beginning to master their craft, and who show promise and devotion to expressing their vision. Imagine a chrysalis opening up to reveal some lovely winged creature — emerging, moving forward. An exhibit titled e·las·tic:…
WRT Badness: Thornton > Diaz
REVIEWS: BAD TEACHER Setting aside all those inspirational Stand and Deliver sort of films about teachers who come through when the need is greatest and the student beneficiaries of that idealism, Bad Teacher tries to do for the profession what Bad Santa did for Christmas. Unfortunately, while I called Billy Bob’s delightfully nasty take on our beloved, over-weight icon in a…
Do-Si-Do Your Partner
The Humboldt Folklife Festival, July 16-23, offers some fantastic opportunities to kick up your heels. While the early part of the week is dedicated to concerts, dancing takes over Friday night, July 22: The annual Festival Barn Dance at the Arcata Vet’s Hall is not to be missed. Monthly barn dances held by the Folklife…
Why Was Garr Fired?
The tumultuous four-year tenure of Garrr Nielsen as Eureka’s chief of police came to an abrupt end Friday morning when City Manager David Tyson unexpectedly fired him without cause, reportedly giving him just minutes to clear out his desk, change out of his uniform and leave the building. While Nielsen’s stint in Eureka seems to…
On the Beat in July
One of the benefits of having the Morris Graves Museum in our midst is its ability to mount exhibits from outside our area. Starting on July Arts Alive! the Graves hosts a show called “Fiber Enriched” from California Fiber Artists, a group of diverse independent artists dedicated to promoting fiber art through public exhibitions and…
Hunker Down
Editor: Once again outside “experts” “who had never heard of Humboldt’s weed reputation …. a media myth” (“Happyland,” June 16) blather ostentatiously on how idiosyncratically dysfunctional we are here in goddess country. Fifteen percent of Humboldt’s businesses failed in 15 years? So what? What’s the norm elsewhere? Without qualitative comparisons with other regions, such statistics…
Beyond Boundaries: The New Neuroscience of Connecting Brains With Machines — And How It Will Change
The results of his research on brain-machine interfaces (BMI) has made Miguel Nicolellis a famous scientist, even capturing the attention of Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. This book describes his experiments, culminating in the monkey with electrodes implanted in his brain who played video games or controlled a distant robot just by thinking. Nicolellis…
Hang Your Hat
Editor: If we want real affordable housing, let’s build one-room apartments, small cottages, single-wide manufactured houses, and new alternative small-scale domiciles (“Agonizing Over Apartments,” June 23)! My mom’s first house cost $15,000. Do we need to only build expensive, large homes for an aging, poorer population? Dave Ellis, Eureka
Out On The Open West
It would be a disservice to simply state that singer/songwriter/musician Frank Fairfield is an anomaly. Those who have witnessed one of his several astounding local live performances armed with a banjo, parlor guitar, fiddle, his voice and one tube microphone, know he embodies each song with eccentric zeal, providing a glimpse into the raw spirit…
Missed Aches
Editor: Having just read the cautions set forth in Bill Walsh’s Lapsing Into a Comma regarding end-of-line hyphens, it was with pleasure taken at the Journal‘s expense to see “rear-range” in Zach St. George’s “The Right to Gather” article (June 23). Although not as humorous as the example set forth in Walsh’s book relating to…
Huge Meteor Plunges Into Sea (or Not)
“Huge Meteor Plunges Into Sea Narrowly Missing Tug,” reads the page one headline of Eureka’s old daily, the Humboldt Standard, for Sept. 13, 1930. “Tug Humboldt was towing the Norwegian motorship Childar out to sea on a 300-yard line when the flaming missile, comprising several tons of molten rock, dropped between the two vessels ……
Perdon
Editor: “Parroquia” has two “r”s and “Sagrado” needs only be used once (Calendar, “Latino Festival,” June 23). And thank you for promoting cultural events. Rodney Cabrera Brunlinger, Eureka
July Humboldt Happenings
Reggae on the River “It’s simple science. Look, when hippies start to nest in a new area, it draws other hippies in. With the right weather conditions and topography, it can lead to a music festival. One that lasts for days…” In the South Park episode “Die Hippie, Die,” Eric Cartman ominously describes the size…
High Points
Back in the day there were long-haired heads and crew-cut straights. Out of their separate habitats and in the same public space, they still experienced different worlds. Even the same words meant different things. I’m not so conversant with the current status (or vocabulary), but it seems fair to say that the Dell’Arte summer show,…
Feeling Festive
July brings the summer sun, at least some days, and summer festivals, lots of them. The biggest is the Mateel Community Center’s annual bash, Reggae On The River, sole survivor of SoHum’s Reggae War. The Mateel crew is ready to roll July 16 and 17 at Benbow Lake State Recreation Area with an even fuller…
2011 Fortuna Rodeo
Click here for the official 2011 Fortuna Rodeo Program Guide
Lights On
For North Coast Repertory Theatre, the first thing on the July agenda is keeping the lights on. In an already challenging economy for local theatres, NCRT urgently needs to replace lighting equipment that’s 40 years old. So the first of two fundraisers this month is Keepin’ the Lights On, a musical revue featuring show tunes…
Humboldt’s Best Fourth of July Ever
You know, the Fourth of July was already a pretty sweet holiday. Break it down: you get explosions, barbecue, baseball games, singing — albeit, generally horrible songs — and — sometimes — summer sunshine, mama! All in all, exceptional day. Every freakin’ year. But when the folks at the calendar factory were drawing up this…
The Deep End
Mission: Raise $25 million in the next year in order to build an indoor fitness complex on the Eureka waterfront, complete with an Olympic-sized pool and a gymnasium. Last week the Eureka City Council granted the aptly-titled Mission: Swimpossible nonprofit one year to develop plans and raise funding for the complex, which would be located…
Flaccid Flick
Editor: Midnight in Paris may have brought Charlie’s woody back but it took two Viagras just to get me through it (Filmland, June 16). I went on the pretense of Charlie’s review. I am normally not a big Woody Allen fan but like a couple of his flicks. And while I found the idea a…
Burning in Humboldt
Fire is a primal thing. It creates innate reactions in people. All over the world, and throughout history, mankind has gathered around fire. Playing with fire in not uncommon. Some create art using fire. The term “fire arts” covers a wide spectrum of performance, art and effects that have one thing in common: flames. Whether…
Freaky Deaky
If you’ve ever hung out at the Arcata Farmers’ Market after the band is done playing, you’ve probably seen Shea FreeLove, the Human Marvel. He typically sets up on the lawn with his act du jour, perhaps escaping from a straight jacket, walking barefoot on broken glass, or, an old favorite, having someone pound a…
The Will of Roots
We are many roots that grow deep Deep…
Swift, Cold and Deadly
It’s happening again. The boats, motoring slowly, carefully along the Trinity River, their crews scanning rocky banks and swift eddies. The Coast Guard helicopter sweeping above. Parents or friends, sisters or sweethearts, waiting. It’s all happening again, and it is almost certain to end badly. As surely as June brings sunshine to the pine-studded slopes…
Sounds of Summer
Formal evenings of stiff black tuxes, flowing gowns and ragged ticket stubs flee the classical music stage in Humboldt County when summer commences. Now the tempo relaxes into mellow weekend afternoons of traditional brass oom-pahs and eclectic organ noodlings. For a thrilling traditional brass band experience check out the Eureka Symphony’s Brass Ensemble on the…
Independence
Late Tuesday morning the amiable Zach Deputy was just waking up after a long, long road trip. “We went from Jacksonville to Vegas, 40 hours straight,” he explained in a call from his hotel. Zach is a modern day one-man-band who travels with a crew of three. Why? “I have more equipment than most seven-…
