How Does Your Garden Grow?
Romano Gabriel’s life told in dance
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How Does Your Garden Grow?
What sparks inspiration? What causes the muses to say: Give in. Release me? Sometimes it’s a subtle nudge: a small poem, splashes of paint on a canvas, a sketch, a few movement phrases put together in the dance studio. And sometimes the spark turns epic. A symphony resounds. A fully staged ballet unfolds. A sculpture…
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My Neighbor Just Tackled the Guy Who Was Crazy-Driving the Mayor of Fortuna Ferndale’s Truck [Updated]
Update, 6/27: Just spoke to Jeff Farley, the mayor of Ferndale. He said he’d just finished running a meeting of the Humboldt County Association of Governments (HCAOG) at Eureka City Hall when he got a call on his cell phone from a Eureka resident who’d gotten his number off some papers that the alleged car…
Sure, Take Lassie To Work
Dogs are cute. Fluffy. Scruffy. Loyal. Irascible. Smart. Hard workers, sometimes. Slackers, usually. Heroes. Bums — good for stories! And, of course, Man’s best chums. Which is why most everyone in the whole snookered world will be tickled as fleas to learn that tomorrow, June 24, is Take Your Dog To Work Day. Except, uh,…
Snakes Alive!
Last weekend, we spotted this unusually large western rattlesnake (Crotalus viridis) on the bank of the Trinity South Fork near Wild Mad Road (Nf-30).
County Will Hop To It On Rezone
We went to press before Humboldt County’s Community Development Services Director Kirk Girard came out of closed-door negotiations on Tuesday to announce a settlement with Housing For All, the housing-advocacy outfit that intervened in a lawsuit filed by Humboldt Sunshine. In the settlement, the county agrees to set a firm deadline to finish its plan…
Former Pastor Dino Cardelli Takes Plea Deal in Child Abuse Case
Dino Cardelli, the founder and former pastor of Arcata’s Calvary Chapel, has struck a plea deal in which he admits to the continuous sexual abuse of a minor under the age of 14 who was living in his custody. Cardelli was arrested last September and charged with one count of recurring sexual conduct, three counts of…
Birth of a Carson Nation
Eureka is finally Oprah-ready. As you may recall, Carson Kressley — ex-queer peepers for straight peeps — worked Humboldt into a frenzy last December while filming scenes for his new Oprah Winfrey Network show Carson Nation. Now, six months later the show is finally debuting next Saturday, June 25 at 10/9c. Here is the episode…
Student missing in Trinity River
Humboldt County sheriff’s officers were patrolling the Trinity River by boat on Monday looking for a Humboldt State foreign exchange student who was swept away Sunday afternoon. The student, 21-year-old Jian Kang from Renqiu, China, was wading in the Trinity River across from Tish Tang Creek Campground in Hoopa around 4:30 p.m. when he slipped…
County Unemployment Drops Again
It’s still not exactly a good number, but Humboldt County’s unemployment level dropped half a point last month to 10.8 percent. We did it by adding 600 industry jobs for the second straight month, according to data compiled by Dennis Mullins, a research analyst with the Labor Market Information Division in Eureka. The most growth…
Long after the sky
has spilt itself along the crust of…
10,000 Steps a Day
I’m a later-comer to pedometers, and probably would have been a no-comer if not for my iPod Nano. Who knew it had a pedometer function? I’m easily seduced by gadgets, and now carry it in my pocket from the moment I get out of bed in the morning. Ten thousand steps, that’s my daily goal,…
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Do You Believe in Slimy Miracles?
Do you live in Humboldt County whilst simultaneously boasting a pulse? Yes? In that case, my informing you that this Saturday, June 18 from 10 a.m.-5 p.m., the Arcata Plaza is the site of the 21st Annual Arcata Main Street Oyster Festival would likely just insult you. At this juncture in history, it is the…
Happyland
If we want to improve the economy here on the North Coast then we better watch what we’re saying. Because our incessant bitching and in-fighting is scaring off outsiders and majorly bumming out our kids. Also: We really ought to talk more about redwood trees — those things are our meal ticket. Those two messages…
Mercy Worthy
Editor: I was moved to tears by your article “Robert’s Vow” (June 9). This is a love story, and a tragedy. Who could possibly imagine this ever happening to them, or contend with the prospect of life after the untimely death of their child? The Parker family is in mourning, and I hope that the…
Dancing on the Square
Summer is almost here. It doesn’t begin officially until next Tuesday, June 21, but the Eureka Summer Concert Series is already underway. It started last Thursday with one of two local bands on the schedule, St. John and the Sinners (and/or their Fleetwood Mac alter-egos Mirage), who, we’re told definitely got folks dancing in the…
When veggies go vicious
Vegetables most commonly contaminated: Sprouts Spinach Tomatoes Lettuce Cucumbers Most common food-borne pathogens: E. coli Campylobacter Salmonella Sources of contamination: E. coli – fecal matter (runoff, animals, contaminated water, unwashed hands) Campylobacter – possibly more than 50 percent of chickens are infected, in addition to wild birds and cows (spread through direct contact…
Charlie Gets His Woody Back
Reviews MIDNIGHT IN PARIS. I’m in love with Woody Allen again. A committed devotee, I felt betrayed and abandoned by You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger last year. I’m happy to report, though, that the makeup sex provided by Midnight in Paris really is the best. Allen’s latest is completely captivating, entertaining and seductive.…
Doubts about Sprouts
With sprouts from an organic farm sickening thousands in Europe, farmers here in Humboldt County say they are the front line — perhaps the only line — of defense against diseases that can hitch a ride on the healthiest of foods. Those wholesome veggies that should be filling every plate can carry an invisible cargo…
A Mixture of Things
The Meat Puppets are returning. My good friend Vinnie has a souvenir from a previous visit, a chipped tooth, broken on someone’s skull in the mosh pit back in the day while engaged in something he calls “human bowling”. When I mentioned the incident to Meat Puppets founder Curt Kirkwood somewhere out on the road,…
Hilltop Vantage
Editor: Hats off to the intrepid developers of the Samoa Project! (“Samoa 2.0,” June 9) When the coming megaquake’s waves wash the many lives and new houses out to sea, I know the fearless speculators will be richer, in their fine homes, high up on some hill! Dave Ellis, Eureka
Graves Rebuke…
Editor: I have not been to Al and Alice Krause’s house lately but I am imagining that John Graves’ “shame on them” letter is on the fridge with the report cards, photos, and prizes (“Round ‘em up,” June 9). His letter expressed a righteous concern about the safety of Tess and Sara Krause, the two…
Lab Coats in Hollywood: Science, Scientists and Cinema
From Fritz Lang’s Woman on the Moon in 1929 through Iron Man 2 in 2010, Hollywood filmmakers have hired real scientists to work on their scientific fantasies. David Kirby looks at the phenomenon from a scientific point of view: What do science consultants do, and what do they and the filmmakers get out of the…
…And a Meheheh
Editor: First: Whoa, John Graves! Child Protective Services has a dismal history of actually doing their job (protecting children). Rather, they seem to be intent on arrogant abuses of authority, child snatching and lying while ignoring actual cases of abuse. Please don’t set them upon the Krauses as the Example Police, also. I shudder to…
Demolished Thoughts
For someone as prolific as Sonic Youth guitarist/vocalist Thurston Moore, it’s a bit surprising that his new record, Demolished Thoughts, is only his third solo effort. It’s clear that Moore, who has worked with a wide range of collaborators including NY No Wave figurehead Glenn Branca, Nels Cline, Mike Watt, Christian Marclay and Richard Hell,…
Hey Neighbor
Editor: Ryan Burns did a first-rate job of sorting through some of the rather arcane detail and language that surrounds conservation easements, in this case for the Usal Redwood Forest in northwest Mendocino (“Backwoods Statecraft,” May 19). Two points, though, stand in need of emphasis. One is what the Redwood Forest Foundation (RFFI) and the…
Got special interest?
MyPlate, the USDA’s new symbol of dietary correctness, was unveiled on June 2. It replaces the agency’s Eating Right Pyramid (est. 1992), which succeeded the Four Basic Food Groups (1956). Those four in turn represented a consolidation of the seven food groups the agency pushed in the 1940s, pared down from 12 during the Great…
Are You Italian?
Editor: I’m very sorry about posting obscenity on [Andrew Goff’s] Facebook page. My only excuse is that seeing him make fun of Romano Gabriel made me very emotional. (“Seven-O-Heaven,” April 14) Are you Italian, Andrew? You look Italian. You have a Roman nose. If you’re Italian, be proud! If not, pretend. I know Italian-Americans get…
