On Seriously?
Editor: What a treat to read Jennifer Fumiko Cahill’s deliciously subtle sarcasm (“Our Democracy is Crumbling Before My Eyes and Women Still Won’t Sleep with Me,” Sept. 11). It’s a style that you don’t see much these days. I hope we’ll see more of it. I’m sure she should win an award for writing it.…
The Art of Tattoo:Inked Hearts
Organizers Ted and Amy Marks from Nor Cal Tattoo expanded on their annual February Inked Hearts Tattoo Expo in Blue Lake by adding a first-ever Inked Hearts Summer Arts Tattoo Expo event on Sept. 13 and 14 in The Sapphire Palace room at the Blue Lake Casino and Hotel. “It looks like a success, as…
Love Will Tear Us Apart
“And when you became Denise, I told all your colleagues, those clown comics, to fix their hearts or die.” — David Lynch, as FBI Chief Gordan Cole, to Denise Bryson, a transwoman and FBI agent played by David Duchovny Some artists seem supernatural in their attenuation because they show empathy during ignorant and careless times,…
A Different World is Considered
Three artists at CR In the Floyd Bettiga Art Gallery at College of the Redwoods, we all knew what artist Laura Corsiglia meant when she said, “there are so many problems in the world.” These days such a phrase is a dime a dozen but standing there watching the rain come down onto the concrete,…
Demons Out!
The Conjuring: Last Rites THE CONJURING: LAST RITES. Since The Conjuring premiered in 2013, director/producer James Wan’s extended horror universe has been a reliable source of scares. Real-life (though less credibly real) paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren have served as a well of exploits from which to draw, with Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga…
What We’re Not Talking About
On Sept. 10, two young American males brought guns to campuses and opened fire. One, perched atop a Utah Valley University roof with a hunting rifle, shot and killed Charlie Kirk, a high-profile extreme right-wing activist. His death has launched an outpouring of grief among public figures, countless speeches and essays lamenting the loss of…
Magical Comb Jellies
When I was a kid, my babysitter was a witch. She was a typical pointy-hatted, spell-casting witch. But she was also a marine biology major at Humboldt State University, so she’d take me on her broom to the beach after school to look for washed-up stuff. One day she said, “Look, my lovely, the beach…
About Proposition 50
Editor: We are in serious trouble! We have a special election this Nov. 4th in California to vote on Proposition 50: The Election Rigging Response Act, and I implore everyone to vote Yes on Prop. 50. The GOP senators in Texas and Missouri have gerrymandered their voting districts against Democrats. This is a countermeasure and…
After Afghan Quake, many male rescuers aided only men, avoided women
(headline, Boston Globe) The moon burns bright enough to see but I’m not allowed glasses it’s all blurry to me The night is so quiet there’s hardly any noise no more cries from the little boys We looked at each other disbelieving the shake moved in a panic as the walls started to break We…
