Grave Matters
A brief history of the desecration of Native American cemeteries in Humboldt County
Cover Story
Grave Matters
You can find ancient Native American artifacts from Humboldt on show or in storage at several places in the region: the Clarke Historical Museum in Eureka, the museum of the Trees of Mystery in Klamath, University of California’s Hearst Museum in Berkeley, and the Favell Museum in Klamath Falls. And if you’re in the market,…
Michael Jackson is dead
The L.A. Times is reporting that the King of Pop has died. Let’s forget the disturbing later years for a moment and simply behold:
Stay Classy, Big Red
RT Rollin Trehearne , 92.3 FM ” Big Red ” morning DJ:
Palco Severance Comes Through!
Feel-good story of the week: 51-year-old Eureka resident Brian Connors, a friend of the Journal, has been one of the unluckiest people in Humboldt County in recent years. Back in December 2006 he was laid off from his job at Pacific Lumber. Then company’s then-parent corporation, the infamous Maxxam, promised him and 89 other laid-off…
The Greatest Band In The World
Concert promoters of Humboldt County, I command you to bring Gyoko to Eureka ASAP: Baykeeper fundraiser, maybe? BONUS:
Save-The-Redwoods Signs Off On Richardson Grove
Attention Jeff Muskrat: The list of corporate cronies being paid off under the table to not care about the dastardly Wal-Mart-driven plan to slightly tweak the course of Highway 101 through Richardson Grove grows longer every day. This time the Save-The-Redwoods League has sold its immortal soul to AmeriKKKan greed! In a letter dated Friday,…
Railroad Fanboys Dissed Again
Edition. The Humboldt County Board of Supervisors is poised tomorrow to deliver yet another slap to the cadre of railroad dreamers who have been hoping against hope, year after year, to restore freight service along the 10-years-dead Northwestern Pacific Railroad line and so develop the similarly stagnant Humboldt Bay into some kind of entrepot in…
Amy’s ‘Wicked Plants’ attack NPR
children.Amy’s ‘Wicked Plants’ attack NPR: “Things are not as placid and peaceful in the plant kingdom as you might believe,” not since Journal garden columnist Amy Stewart’s book “Wicked Plants” invaded the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens and NPR’s Morning
Hundred-Foot Waves
Pilot Rock is the outermost of Trinidad Bay’s scattering of sea stacks, located half a mile south of the tip of Trinidad Head. Half an hour of hearty paddling will get you there from Trinidad beach. Depending on the sources I found online, the top of the rock is either 93 feet or 103 feet…
Bi Valve
You beautiful palm-sized, living sea stone. It…
Balf Quarry
"What if you play guitar the way a girl jerks off?" asks left-handed six string slinger and singer Elisa Ambrogio, one half of the noisy free rock duo Magik Markers. The duo’s most recent release, Balf Quarry displays an alarming, compelling and sultry sound. Relentlessly improvising in all the right ways, M/M have exchanged their…
My World
Chicago-based reissue label Numero Group has released a number of collections of excellent out-of-print and never-released soul singles from the late 1960s to the early ’70s in their Eccentric Soul series. It begs the question why some of these artists, such as Richard Cook (on the Atlanta-based Tragar/Note label) or Renaldo Domino (on Chicago’s Twinight…
Homegrown Theatre
Dell’Arte Producing Artistic Director Michael Fields sits in a green plastic chair on the grassy slope in front of the Rooney Amphitheater stage. He’s watching Shannon MacMillan and Andrew Pheonix, students from the Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theatre, run lines from the beginning of the noirish "eco-thriller" Intrigue at Ah-Pah. MacMillan plays Scar Tissue,…
Town Holler
The general plan update: important opportunity or colossal bore? That may not be the central debate currently raging over the reshaping of our "county constitution," but the casually concerned citizen could be forgiven for asking that particular question after suffering through last Thursday’s four-hour blab-fest, formally known as The Continuing Town Hall Style Planning Commission…
Gross Negligence?
A high-profile case involving the death of a beloved community member and bicyclist took a puzzling turn last week in Humboldt County Superior Court, causing some to question the attentiveness of the D.A.’s office and law enforcement. The preliminary hearing in the case of The People vs. Alan Bear was about to begin last Wednesday…
1-2-3 Thumbs Up!
Previews Sandra Bullock plays Margaret, a book editor who forces her young assistant Andrew (Ryan Reynolds) to marry her so she can avoid deportation to Canada in the comedy/romance The Proposal, opening Friday, June 19. Rated PG-13 for sexual content, nudity and language. 107m. At the Broadway, Fortuna and Mill Creek. Jack Black fans can…
Rob Me Two Times
To my mind, this week’s cover story on the long history of Native American grave robbing in Humboldt County has a couple of pretty clear villains. (Please note that in no way do I speak for writer Tony Platt, a cautious and moderate man.) We’re talking about people so engrossed in their own time and…
Who is Jacob Fred?
There was some sort of time zone mix-up when I called Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey leader/pianist Brian Haas in Tulsa, his home since he was four. When we connected later I learned he was in a meeting with some people from the Tulsa Symphony Orchestra to plan a concert for early next year, in which…
Home Truths
Editor: I have never been compelled to write a letter to an editor until now. I am appalled at the use of my grandmother’s and my photo in your recent article, “Immediate Jeopardy” (June 4). I provided my opinion, all positive, to Ms. Harrison for her article; however she only chose to use my photo…
Third Friday McKinleyville Arts Night
1. The Front Gallery and Gifts 1811 Central Ave. Carissa Clark and Danae Kirtley, paintings and drawings; celestial rock with psychedelic visuals by Osiris. 2. Mirador Glass Miller Business Park. David Stratton, multimedia wave art; glass wave demos. 3. Conscious Home Miller Business Park. Sara Starr, watercolors and tile murals. 4. Eternal Source Glass Art…
