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CMJ: Day Two.
My second day in New York started off kind of slow, but grew throughout the day. Things didn’t really get moving or shaking till about 7 p.m., when I went to a press mixer hosted by Big Picture Media, the publicist for CMJ. I didn’t really know what to expect besides a bunch of press…
The Saddest Tree in the World
6th and F, Eureka.
What I Did On My CMJ Vacation — Day One
KSLG DJ Melissa Culbertson is covering the CMJ Music Festival for the North Coast Journal and KSLG. Follow her at @silygirl0. What I Did On My CMJ Vacation — Day One. By Melissa Culbertson Melissa Culbertson here in New York City all week long to attend the CMJ Music Marathon and Film Festival. (If you…
SoCal Public TV Further Boosts HumCo Pot Rep
Southern California public television affiliate KCET recently produced a report on Humboldt County — which they say is known as “the pot capital of the world” (eat it, Amsterdam!) — and our conflicted feelings about Prop 19. The segment was picked up last week by PBS’s prestigious big dog, the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. KCET…
ProPublica’s Pharm Payoff for Doctors Database — Who’s Local?
The nonprofit investigative reporting outfit ProPublica released yet another awesome project today, this time centered on the financial relationships between drug companies and medical professionals — the arguably unseemly, the blatantly sleazy and perhaps, in some cases, the actually illegal. Titled “Dollars for Docs,” the package includes a story that runs down current lawsuits charging that companies were…
Arcata Exchange Co-owner, Young Son Die in Plane Crash
Longtime Arcata resident Keith Newcomer, the original owner of plaza furniture store Arcata Exchange, was apparently the victim of a plane crash Saturday evening in northern Georgia, where he was visiting his son Christopher. The boy, who is believed to be around seven years old, has also been tentatively identified as a victim of the…
Patrick Park, Sera Cahoone & Sea Wolf – Oct. 7, 2010
So. Much. Plaid. The Depot was packed nearly to capacity on Thursday, Oct. 7, for three (mostly) acoustic musicians — Patrick Park, Sera Cahoone and Alex Brown Church of Sea Wolf. One disadvantage that acoustic musicians have is the audience noise. Despite most folks actually paying to get into the show, a couple of people…
The Hell That Is Los Angeles Now 40 Minutes Closer
Good news for the movers and shakers, those insufferable people who are always jetting off from ACV to points around the world: Starting in December, Horizon Air is going to offer direct flights both from and to beautiful Los Angeles! This is indubitably an upgrade of sorts. Used to be, to get to Lipstick City one was…
Eureka Moment
The grizzled fifty-something slowly marches along, up one sidewalk and down another, over the crosswalk and up and down once more. And again. He stares straight ahead, unsmiling as he traces the border between street and storefront, weaving a great big Old Town net as the boombox clutched in one hand broadcasts the spell: Walk…
Interested Parties
If the recent campaign finance disclosures for both Eureka and Humboldt County races are any indicator about how high the stakes are in this election, it is clearly evident that a number of special interests locally continue to fervidly pour oodles of cash into the election — a total of almost $1 million in just…
A USan Writes
Editor: I don’t understand it — maybe it is something in the air of the building the Journal occupies. The standards seem to be in a process of entropy. After the barrage of feedback you got on the article about a girl who likes to hang her bleeding body like a beef from hooks swinging…
Confession
I hate many things, but there’s nothing I hate quite as much as the American voter. Election season, currently flaring up like the recurring case of gout that it is, reminds me of this depressing fact. I’m know I’m not alone in hating American politics. Everyone does. But people — mistakenly, in my view –…
Many Kate Greens
Editor: I am writing to make a clarification in a political advertisement in the Oct. 7 issue of the North Coast Journal. My name is listed in bold print under “Child Care Advocates” as one of those who endorse Allison Jackson for District Attorney in the up-coming election. On another line, in less bold print,…
Heat and Light
Editor: Peter Lehman is right that Prop. 23, the initiative to postpone California’s climate action law, will have international consequences (“Airing Out Prop. 23,” Oct. 27). Prop. 23 would undermine greenhouse gas reduction programs other U.S. states and Canadian provinces that have agreed to work cooperatively with California to reduce emissions. It would set back…
Burstiner Hurrah
Editor: Thanks very much for publishing Marcy Burstiner’s eloquent article about First Amendment rights and distasteful articles, which appeared in last week’s North Coast Journal (“Media Maven,” Oct. 7). Her complex reaction to Ryan Burns’ blood-soaked article, your own (editor’s) reaction to readers’ criticism and the fundamental value of intellectual and press freedoms generally mirrors…
Fall Semester 2010, Five Weeks In
One student, his wife more than a week…
Love Letter
Editor: I want to thank Jennifer Savage for including such a stunning photo by Mairead Dodd and E. Christian Wisner in her latest “Art Beat” column (Oct. 7). The same photograph stopped me in my tracks some time ago when it hung in the hallway of HealthSport. The power of the beauty in both its…
Unhappy Camp
It might be time — way past time — for a sad little renaming ceremony for our cousin town deep in the hills. Things haven’t, in truth, been all that happy for a lot of people in Happy Camp ever since the spotted owl and the timber industry collided and collapsed in a heap of…
A Life Like Other People’s
Leaving the dour and obscure birthplace, the Working Class Hero travels far to lead a completely different life in a faster, posher, smarter capital of the world. But even though Alan Bennett went to Oxford, became a global celebrity soon afterwards (performing in the groundbreaking 1960s satirical review Beyond the Fringe) and later a respected London…
McKinleyville Arts Night
McKinleyville Art Night will be Friday, October 15th, 6:00 to 8:00 pm. Join us for our community’s celebration of local art and artists for music, food and fun. You can find more information about the artists and venues and see additional images online at www.mckinleyvilleartsnight.com. 1) Pathways Trading Company, 1183 Central Ave. justin hobart brown…
Fields
It took a little over a decade for the Swedish trio Junip to deliver their first full-length recording, Fields. Singer/songwriter José González, keyboardist Tobias Winterkorn and drummer Elias Araya originally formed Junip in 1989; a self-released EP, Straight Lines, came out in 2000. However, while Araya spent nearly five years in Norway (in art school)…
Oct. 15-31, 2010
Oct. 15. To fashion a cucumber into a rose, slice a long, thin strip from end to end (known in some vegetable garnish circles as a tongue) and roll it tightly so that it forms the shape of a rosette. Pinch the bottom together with a toothpick and proceed. Oct. 16. The only sensible way…
LEDs: The Future of Lighting?
Since their introduction nearly 30 years ago, compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) have made slow but sure progress in replacing incandescent tungsten light bulbs, which are essentially unchanged since Edison started selling them in 1879. Incandescents will soon be the dinosaurs of the lighting industry because they’re so inefficient, losing 98 percent of their energy input…
Love Bites
Both plays opening this week center on a man’s quest for the perfect woman. One thinks he found her, only to discover after a 20-year affair that she’s a man. The other has all the time in the world to search, as long as he feeds on fresh human blood. M. Butterfly by David Henry…
Register.
In the June 8 statewide California primary election, 35,937 of Humboldt County’s 75,404 eligible voters took the time to fill out some bubbles. Super weak. I know, I know, we’re talking about a primary in a midterm election year. Not the most thrilling stuff. So, maybe we’ll let the 53 percent who flaked on democracy…
Arty Party
The annual Beaux Arts Black & White Masquerade Ball is a longstanding tradition for the Ink People Center for the Arts, a dress-up party in celebration of the arts in general, and of course a fundraiser, since all arts organizations need funds to do what they do. This Inkers tradition references a couple of other…
Nine Bucks on Secretariat
Previews RED. Based on a DC graphic novel about a former black-ops CIA agent marked for assassination, this shoot-’em-up stars Bruce Willis as Frank Moses, a “retired, extremely dangerous” spy who reassembles his old crew (Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich and Helen Mirren) to fight the power. Directed by Robert Schwentke (The Time Traveler’s Wife). 111…
Chloe’s Legacy
On the Friday before Labor Day weekend, Karin Fresnel was on her weekly shopping trip at the Eureka Co-op when she noticed that she was being watched — first while standing in the beer aisle, then again at the meat counter. Finally, the petite, blond-haired woman who’d been following her through the store stepped forward…
Killer Diller
When William Benjamin Bensussen plays music, he calls himself The Gaslamp Killer. He has a slightly crazed steam punk look with wild hair and a mustache and chops from some forgotten era, but his name comes from his home turf, the Gaslamp District in San Diego, and he’s a modern DJ/producer in the electro/dubstep/mixmaster school.…
