Bigfoot Trapped By Norcal Fanatic!
One man’s obsession with capturing the beast
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BIGFOOT TRAPPED BY NORCAL FANATIC!
When I awoke one morning last month, it hit me. Oh my God, I can do this. The next day was Saturday, Sept. 15, practically a holiday in the Humboldt Nation. Opening day of deer hunting season on the North Coast. The lightbulb moment: I would pose as a deer hunter. While thousands of legit…
Ecstasy and Agony
So there you are, wandering around the garden center, feeling like you are wasting your time because the garden is so overgrown that there’s not room to plant anything anyway. Back home, there are weeds to be pulled and the last of the summer vegetables to be harvested. The season has come to an end…
Durant, Durant
Everyone knows that October is harvest month, and that good food and marijuana abound. The 2007 National NORML Conference was strategically scheduled right smack dab in the middle of this magical time, down in Los Angeles. For those of you who aren’t hip on weed knowledge, the first thing you must know is that the…
Come to Jesus
The board of directorsof the North Coast Railroad Authority held its monthly meeting in Eureka last Wednesday. Many insightful things were said during the public comment period of that meeting. For me, the most insightful comment of all belonged to local realtor and staunch railroad supporter Marc Matteoli. “We’ve had some very serious setbacks in…
Topical Theatre
In times like these that try the soul, public crises lead to private cries of conscience, and to the inquiries numbered among the obsessions of art. Theatre, arguably the most public and the most intimate of arts, inevitably responds. There are several examples this coming week on North Coast stages, each addressing a different (though…
Another Blast
We seem to have a steady stream of blast-from-the-past bands coming through for shows at one venue or another, some more authentic than others. You know what I mean — iterations of Foghat and Iron Butterfly with just their drummers from days gone by, Mike Love fronting a band called the Beach Boys. Cher-Ae Heights…
Clooney Good, Wahlberg Bad
Previews Come back, Charlie Myers! There’s a zillion movies opening this week, and we have neither the chops nor the time to say anything interesting about them. So we’re just going to run through them rapid-fire, and hope that the massive Hollywood marketing campaigns can fill in the blanks. Assassination of Jesse James by the…
Forging Ethnic Food – The first in a series of culinary fakeries
I’m obsessive about culinary authenticity. Even in daily meals at home, I confess to being distressed if smothered pork chops and guacamole share the same table. Or pasta primavera and bratwurst, ouch! The discontinuity is almost painful. My mate indulges this nerdy compulsion. We tend to have ethnic continuity — Spanish, Jewish, Southern American, Italian,…
Peacham’s Autumn (Part One)
Silas Peacham sits astride his aging Minneapolis Moline,…
The Wordy City
The New York Times ’ wordsmith William Safire would have a field day if he visited Fortuna now. That’s because the City Council there is pulling out its hair over how future generations might define the phrase “preserving small-town qualities,” as contained in the city’s General Plan Update (GPU). At its Oct. 2 meeting, the…
Grab Your Pitchfork
Boy, that was a burly editorial in last Wednesday’s Eureka Reporter. Headlined “Professor’s depreciation theory not supported by North Coast history,” the editorial excoriated HSU Economics Professor Erick Eschker for daring to suggest that Humboldt County home prices may fall in the coming years. Earlier in the week, the Reporter had published a story about…
Why do we experience summer fogs?
Sprinkle flour upon a lazy Susan and turn it steadily in a counter-clockwise direction to simulate the rotation of the Northern Hemisphere. Roll a marble straight across the rotating surface in any direction. You will find that the path recorded in the flour curves to the right. This apparent curvature of trajectories is known as…
Hardly Strictly Bluegrass
For the past six years investment banker Warren Hellman has bankrolled an impressive free music festival in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. Held the first weekend in October, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass features a multi-generational array of roots-oriented acts, from traditional bluegrass to country-inflected punk, and this year was no exception. The weekend started with a…
Free Stuff: Bargains, Discounts And Other Things of Value in Northern Humboldt County, Calif.
Hell, everybody wants free stuff. And, damn, you see a book called Free Stuff and you’re just absolutely, hyperventilatingly certain that you’re gonna flip that thing open and behold a step-by-step guide to skating by without dropping a penny. Jackpot! With the quarter found on the floor! But sensitive-man-about-town Fhyre Phoenix has got more depth…
In Rainbows
By now, everyone knows what happened: Radiohead reemerged from nowhere on Oct. 1, announcing that they planned to release a new studio album in 10 days, and by the way even though they’re one of the biggest rock bands in the world they’d be releasing it themselves on the Internet, oh and also by the…
Two Photographers, Two Visions
Jeanne Scranton got her first camera when she was 8 years old and she’s been taking pictures ever since. However, she did not use a camera at all for her current show. Jeanne has recently discovered a new technique that is fascinating her — scanner photography. Jeanne fitted her flatbed scanner with a box spray…
