The local all-ages music scene just can’t catch a break, or if they do, it’s the wrong kind. Earlier this year you had The Placebo shut down amid permitting hassles at the West 3rd St. warehouse. Then Out of the Sun in Fortuna suffered a similar fate. The reopening of The Vista as an all-ages […]
Bob Doran
Freelance photographer and writer, Arts and Entertainment editor from 1997 to 2013.
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Railroad Wackers Army Assembles
It began with an outdoors column by Journal publisher Judy Hodgson detailing a day of “civil disobedience” spent cutting blackberries and brush along the railroad right-of-way between Arcata and Eureka. She followed with a publisher’s column saying in part, The response to the story was immediate and overwhelming. How can we help? Where can I […]
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Happy Merry
There are 12 shopping days until Xmas, but don’t start counting those partridges yet, not unless you’re part of the Christmas bird count. The "Twelve Days of Christmas" you hear about in song start on Christmas Day and run until Epiphany (the day the wise guys came to call). What with the proximity to the […]
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Homeland Security $ for SoHum – don’t worry, it’s a good thing
It’s always nice when pork-barrel politics helps out your friends. And who is more deserving than SoHum’s backwoods volunteer firemen? WASHINGTON – Today, North Coast Congressman Mike Thompson (CA-01) announced that the Beginnings Volunteer Fire Department in Redway will receive a federal grant of more than $97K. The grant will be used to replace degraded […]
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Food Safety Alert! Metromint Flavor Water!
This just in from the Co-op folks: December 6, 2007 The North Coast Co-op has received notification from the FDA and the California Department of Public Health that Soma Beverage of San Francisco is recalling its Metromint Flavor Water with Best Before 2008/12/21 due to possible Bacillus cereus contamination. Bacillus cereus is an agent of […]
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Happy Birthday, Sara Bareilles
Friday, Dec. 7, is Sara Bareilles ‘ birthday. She’s just turned 28. Yes, that’s Sara at the top of the front page on today’s Times-Standard . (She’s in this week’s Journal too and she has also showed up on the pages of Rolling Stone , People magazine and Entertainment Weekly .) The L.A.-based singer songwriter […]
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Footloose?
Melody Walker and friends call the "Ladylike Open Mic" at Muddy’s Hot Cup "Menstrual Monday," providing fodder for all sorts of bad puns I won’t repeat here. On Monday of this week Melody was not singing at Muddy’s, nor was anyone else. She called me that evening to explain that live music at Muddy’s is […]
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Positively F St.
Smashed potatoes? You read it right. I found those intriguing words on a Post-it note my wife Amy left on our kitchen counter a few weeks back, then by chance saw them again on the menu of my new favorite restaurant, the F St. Café. We’ll get to how that happened later, but first let’s […]
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Muddy’s Hot Cup gets quieter
This official announcement (from Muddy’s Hot Cup) came in Tuesday morning. Look for further details in the Hum this week. – Bob December 4, 2007 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: No More Music at Muddy’s — Again? Live entertainment at Muddy’s Hot Cup of Northtown is cancelled until further notice. In a hearing with the department of […]
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Thanks
Hey, thanks for picking the paper up on this Thanksgiving weekend, and happy Thanksgiving to you, our readers. Without you — well, I’d probably still be slaving over a hot stove and carving turkey at some local eatery. As you might guess, the Thanksgiving holiday tends to put a crimp in the local entertainment scene. […]
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Post-Vocal Symphonies
My co-worker Heidi asked me a question at the office the other day, something along the lines of "Do you know anything about a band from Canada coming to town? I can’t remember the name but my friend says they’re good." "Are they Quebecois?" I wondered. I’d heard about that show. She didn’t think that […]
Posted inArts + Scene
Hobart Brown RIP
Considering the rumor that Hobart Brown’s last words were, “Alert the media,” chances are you’ve heard the sad news: Ferndale’s world-renowned artist died from pneumoniain the early morning hours of Wednesday, Nov. 7, at Redwood Memorial Hospital in Fortuna at the age of 73. Best known as the “Glorious Founder” of the Kinetic Sculpture Race, […]