Propping Up Schools
Two tax measures would generate billions, but which promises more for local education?
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Propping up Schools
Perhaps some — OK, probably most — of you are daunted by the task of studying up on the 11 statewide ballot propositions on the November ballot. You might even be considering the easy-weasel way out: Just vote for the prez and drop it in the box. We’re certain that some of you, however, know…
Tonight’s Controversial Capleton Show Will Be At …
After weeks of fyah spewin’ between dancehall enthusiasts and LGBT activists, Bonus Entertainment’s Beau DeVito just made the following announcement about the location of tonight’s controversial Capleton show via da Facebooks: CAPLETON @ the ocean grove tonight…30adv at peoples records arcata and nhs arcata….doors at 9…Blaaze it !!! That would be the Ocean Grove Lodge…
Found Footage Shows Bigfoot Going on Murderous Rampage
The hoax is over! It brings us no joy to report this terrifying news: The legendary Bigfoot, long portrayed as a shy and benevolent forest dweller with rubbery extremities, has been revealed as a savage and calculating predator. His latest rampage was captured by a television crew right here in Humboldt County, where they’d come to…
A Different Sort of Green House
Green buildings are the wave of the future. And our local schools are catching that wave with students from Arcata and McKinleyville high schools Humboldt Regional Occupational Program building trades construction class involved in the planning, design and every phase of the building process of a just-completed green home in McKinleyville. The kids and their…
Getting Rowdy With Big G
Journal stringer and electronica fan Travis Turner contributed this piece about Wednesday’s big, big EDM show presented by World Famous at Blue Lake Casino featuring Big Gigantic and Adventure Club. by Travis Turner If your life has been missing ample amounts of rowdy saxophone, electronic bass and live drumming, then you are probably ready for the monstrous…
One Bright Saturday
Saturday was a great day for art in Humboldt, starting in the morning with dozens of artists circling the Arcata Plaza with vibrant colors for Northcoast Children’s Services’ 25th Annual Pastels on the Plaza. Sponsors make a donation to the nonprofit and either find an artist to represent them or one is assigned. The ephemeral…
News from Elsewhere – about us
In case you missed them, a couple of California’s major dailies ran Humboldt-centric stories this week. A travel piece in the Sacramento Bee titled “Arcata both embraces and rises above its cliches” offers a tourist-eye view of Arcata describing it as “a little bit of everything: a college town, a neo-hippie enclave, a haven for environmentalists…
Apples of My Eye
Ah, autumn. So soft, so gray, so indistinguishable from what passes for summer here in Northern Humboldt. You southern Humboldters must feel so smug all wrapped in your golden layers of summer tan. Here in Arcata autumn is primarily evidenced not by weather changes but by fresh green produce and visitors. The highway exits are…
“Machiavelli”
Big time bass fans, this one’s for you. Coming straight outta Healdsburg, CA is 710 Records founder and bass-music producer extraordinaire, Bleep Bloop. His soundcloud profile describes its clamourous compositions as “bass dipped in liquid question marks and rolled in lazers.” Truer words have never been written … peep the good reverend’s titilating tunes below.…
Telegraph Avenue
Michael Chabon’s new novel aims to be many things: A story of missing fathers and abandoned sons, a recollection of ’70s black pop culture, and the modern story of an indie record store fighting the corporate behemoth that would displace it. An ambitious mix of characters and themes, it would seem to be another example…
True Christians
Editor: The letter about Mitt Romney, Mormons and Christians (“Missionaries, Not Troops,” Sept. 13) was on the mark in many ways. Had the writer added “Some” to the opening sentence of the third paragraph (“Christians are so hung-up with the rules that they forget that Jesus …”) I would not have felt prompted to respond. Many Christians…
Tanoaks, Tannins and Tanning
What makes an oak tree an oak? Acorns, right? Almost right. The tanbark oak, or simply tanoak (Lithocarpus densiflora) is the single North American exception to the rule. Its acorn is more like the spiny husk of a chestnut, plus it has different leaves, bark, flowers and wood from true oaks, genus Quercus. As…
Lying Supervisors
Editor: I just sent the following email to the three supervisors that claim the General Plan Update (Blog Jammin’, Sept. 20) is too difficult to understand:?I’ve had a copy of the GPU for a couple of weeks now and I haven’t yet garnered the gumption to try to read it because it appears insurmountable. However, IT’S…
Draw, Humboldt
Chalk one up for tradition! This Saturday, Oct. 6 marks the 25th anniversary of Pastels on the Plaza. Since 1987, artists of all levels have been gathering on behalf of local business sponsors to illustrate sections of Arcata Plaza pavement to raise funds for Northcoast Children’s Services. Businesses like, oh I dunno, the North Coast…
Better ‘Best Of’?
Editor: I guess it was too much trouble to include the address and phone number of every winner you reviewed for best bakery, restaurant, ice cream etc? (“Best of Humboldt,” Sept. 20.) Oh well that’s what the Yellow Pages are for right? As far as your choice of best Asian restaurant goes (you can look up…
Bacon = Brought Home
You’ve undoubtedly been horrified by the headlines. Every major news outlet knew it had a story that would provoke more American fury than a botched football call. Thus, the dreaded 2013 bacon shortage was everywhere last week, threatening to force healthier breakfasts on a populace that would have probably been OK with a few less…
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Time Trials
Reviews LOOPER. Rian Johnson’s image of the future is a familiar one, riddled with immense poverty and constant, thoughtless violence. In Looper, Johnson, whose previous directorial efforts include Brick and The Brothers Bloom, focuses less on the details of his futuristic world and more on the abstract possibilities it offers. Set in Kansas (presumably…
Freedom to Love
When we caught up with neo-pop songwriter Rufus Wainwright, he was staying at the Henry Miller Library in Big Sur. “They gave us this beautiful house in exchange for a concert, so my new husband and I are on our honeymoon,” he explained. (Wainwright married his longtime companion Jörn Weisbrodt in August.) At the…
Senseless Tragedy
It was overcast and still quite dark that morning, Sept. 27, when the three women parked their cars at Three Corners Market, put on reflective vests and checked the batteries in their headlamps. Maggie, Jessie’s dog, had her flashing collar turned on as usual. Then they headed out running north toward Arcata on the…
Green Rescue
Editor: There is no doubt about it, we are living through an emergency. No more time for blame and punishment; we need to move into rescue mode. Emergencies call upon us to bring forth all our courage to deal with them. We can’t ignore them — lest all we hold dear perish. Fortunately there are…
A Slow Trip Down the Avenue
Sometimes there are things in our lives that we pass by so often we forget just how special they are. Over the years my family has made the long drive down to the Bay Area enough that we have reduced the trip to a series of bathroom stops with a refueling in Willits. The…
From Big Foot to the Bible
Ten pink flamingos? Check. Thirty-nine large pink donuts? Check. Space Ghost, Batman, Wonder Woman and a dancing Big Foot? Check. This might sound like a laundry list of images from that dream you had the night you ate way too much Thai curry, but it’s not. It is a partial list of the objects and…
The Grow Tax
In the middle of the night a couple of years ago, two men used a large knife to slice the screen on Bonnie MacRaith’s kitchen window. The men, slight of stature and wearing dark clothes, had cut the screen and were trying to climb through a kitchen window when MacRaith’s dog Kenai, a husky cross,…
Trouble Is My Business
The Humboldt County Library’s Eureka branch resumes its “Based on the Book” movie series in October. This time out it’s “Trouble Is My Business,” with four Tuesday night screenings of films based on Raymond Chandler’s crime novels featuring hard-boiled L.A. private eye Philip Marlowe. First up, Tuesday, Oct. 9: The Big Sleep, the classic Bogart/Bacall vehicle directed…
Equinox
Hard knocks both ways, the sun beating back…
