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Best Of Humboldt 2010 — Staff Picks
Best Old Town Sunbather The sun comes out — when it comes out, oh, praise the sun! — and out comes John Tutuska. Skinny legs in baggy jeans cinched tight. Sandaled feet smooth-brown. Bare torso, creased arms and serene face baked to madrone. Tutuska sits in a chair or stands beside it — a dark,…
Best Of Humboldt 2010 — Reader’s Picks
Well, dang if the sun didn’t come back! We’re sure it has something to do with the return of all of those bright college students, their learnin’ fever burning up the Humboldt summertime gloom. And as the last dirty shreds of foggy gray drift off, we enter sweet autumn. The Time of the Sunshine. The…
HSU Natural History Museum Rescued
Humboldt State University today announced that its Natural History Museum will re-open to the public next week. The museum was closed to the general public just over a year ago as a result of drastic state cuts to education funding. (School children were still admitted to the facility.) The closure was expected to be permanent…
Settlement Announced in Skilled Health Care Case
The Humboldt County District Attorney’s Office has just announced a settlement in the omnibus lawsuit against nursing home operator Skilled Health Care. In addition to payments to members of the class-action lawsuit against the company, which was found guilty of maintaining illegally low levels of staffing at their facilities, prosecutors in the case will be…
Human Suspension: The Video
This week’s Journal features a cover story about the Eureka human body suspension scene by our own Ryan Burns. Entitled “Hooked,” the issue is moving out to newsstands now and will hit the Web tonight at midnight. Here’s a video that Burns and the Journal’s Andrew Goff produced about a human body suspension event at Empire Squared…
The Mayor of Camoapa
We ran into Mayor Rosaura Altamirano from Camoapa, Nicaragua on the Arcata Plaza, in town for the IBlock Party on Monday, Labor Day. With help from translator Nora Wynne, who works with the Arcata/Camoapa Sister City Project, we talked about how the two cities work together.
Dispatch from Lattvia
Editor: In her thought-provoking cover story last week about brownfield cleanup around the Humboldt Bay, I’m curious why Heidi Walters didn’t probe Caryn Woodhouse of the Regional Water Quality Board deeper about how they screwed up, big time, with authorizing a cleanup plan for Simpson Plywood that left levels of dioxin 50,000 times the allowable…
Cigarette Burns
Editor: About the new Eureka City ordinance prohibiting smoking in outdoor spaces, or rather the complaints about it: It’s hard to feel sympathy for those crying economic hardship when they continue to hand over thousands of dollars a year to the fat cat murderers who are profiting by selling slow death (“Outdoor Inhale,” Aug. 26).…
Feast of Reason, Flow of Soul
Editor: Thumbs up to the Town Dandy’s suggestion of “Get Old Town a Taco Truck” (“Town Dandy,” Aug. 26). But why stop at a taco truck? When I worked in Philadelphia my favorite lunch options were the taco trucks, the fast-food Chinese trucks and the classic East Coast hot-dog/soft pretzel trucks. Thanks for bringing back…
Two Byrds, One Stoned
Editor: A few years ago you had a food columnist named Joseph Byrd who had such an elevated palette that he condemned all the top restaurants in Northern Humboldt, saying that none of them would make it if they were down in the Bay Area. It is an amazing coincidence that you now have a…
Jesus: The Aftermath
Editor: “Beer Me, Jesus” came across as poorly conceived and poorly written, from the juvenile title and lousy cover photo to what I assume must be unintentional humor (Aug. 26). As an acquaintance of mine said with regards to the article: “It must have been a slow news week.” The articles doesn’t reveal much about…
Tidal
Who can find that other place- clouds torn…
We Wanted to Believe
Editor: Gotta hand it to Andrew Goff — equating the aliens of BridgeFest with the reputation of a candidate for governor, throwing in a voting recommendation, then proceeding to dissuade attendance was a shrewd bit of satire and marketing savvy (“Alien Invasion,” Aug. 19). With the free promotion we were generously given by all the…
Arts Alive!
First Saturday Night Arts Alive! Is proudly presented by USBank, with Eureka Main Street and the Humboldt Arts Council Opening receptions for artists, exhibits, and/or performances Sept. 4 6-9 p.m. Phone 707-442-9054, for more information. 1. WORLD CUP 1626 F St. Rachel Schlueter.1a. ST. INNOCENT ORTHODOX CHURCH 939 F St. Group show, paintings, drawings, prints…
Sept. 1-15, 2010
Sept. 1. Members of the mint family are frequently, but not always, distinguished by a square stem and a characteristically bracing but pleasant aroma. Coleus is a member of the mint family, as is Callicarpa, the American beautyberry. Sept. 2. There are those who believe that European honeybees should be allowed to have their crisis,…
September Puzzlers
These should give your brain a work out. First correct answers e-mailed to me wins you a Humboldt Mud at Old Town Coffee and Chocolates — with me along for company. (Be still, my heart!) Four Triangles: Arrange six wooden matches, without breaking, so they form four triangles, each side of which is equal to…
Best of Humboldt? Your Word
If you aren’t terrified to get up in front of a crowd of strangers and make a speech, I think you have a bit of the psychopath in you, which helps explain our political mess. To get up in front of a crowd of strangers in print is even scarier, because you can’t take back…
Blues Hues
It’s that time of year again. Labor Day weekend is upon us and with it comes blues time — the 14th Annual Blues by the Bay down along the waterfront in Eureka. As always the party brings blues people — fans and musicians — from all over with many different hues of blue in evidence.…
Taut, Terrifying Tilda
Previews THE AMERICAN. George Clooney stars as an American assassin in Italy in this thriller from Dutch director Anton Corbijn, whose background is in music videos (U2, Depeche Mode, etc.). Rated R for violence, sexual content and nudity. Opens Wednesday at the Broadway, Mill Creek and the Minor. GOING THE DISTANCE. Romantic comedy about a…
Best of Humboldt 2010 — Readers’ Picks
Best Restaurant What makes a restaurant “the best”? Judging from the range of comments on dozens of local eateries in this hard-fought category, it really depends on the diner. Recurring words and themes regarding 3 Foods Café included: unpretentious, atmosphere, comfortable, affordable, fun and delicious (not necessarily in that order). As one commenter put it,…
Bigfoot’s Big Party
My favorite sighting of Bigfoot was the time I ran into him in downtown Las Vegas. I know, I know, I should have reported it. But he didn’t want me to. He was on vacation, he needed a break from the 24/7 pestering he endures year round — well, yeah, sometimes he likes the attention…
Transcendental Elephants
The five folks who make up the Nederland, Colo.-based string band Elephant Revival call their music “transcendental folk.” The self-created genre sets them apart from typical folk and old time string bands, and sets a tone with hints of higher spiritual plains and Thoreau’s transcendentalism. But what about the elephants? Fiddler Bridget Law tells a…
