“This is exactly what we’re looking for,” exclaims Keith Bouma-Gregson, his arm submerged to the elbow in a gelatinous muck that looks like a combination of snot and the ooze from Ghostbusters. Carefully, he extracts a dark green blob and rolls it between his fingers. “Are you worried about handling it?” someone asks. “Well,” he replies. […]
Jacob Shafer
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Not Ready For Our Close-Up
By now you’ve seen After Earth, or you’ve heard the epithets tossed its way: boring, turgid, narcissistic, M. Night Shyamalan. About the only nice thing anyone can say about the Will Smith vanity project (currently sitting at a cool 11 percent positive rating on meta-critic site RottenTomatoes.com) is that it co-stars some purty redwoods. Of […]
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River Robbery
Imagine a stream. Cool, clear water dances over rocks smoothed by time. Pond skaters skim the sunlight-flecked surface. Dragonflies flit between clumps of grass. Birds chirp in the trees overhead. And under the water, tiny endangered salmon — coho, Chinook, steelhead — dart among the shadows. Now imagine that same stream dammed, poisoned with chemical […]
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Higher Learning
It’s a sunny Saturday in Southern Humboldt and a dozen or so people are seated on folding chairs in a windowless room, listening to two enthusiastic young San Francisco lawyers talk about race, gender politics and the history of feminism. Oh, and marijuana. Welcome to 707 Cannabis College, where “higher learning” takes on a whole […]
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The People in The Park
The Jim Demulling Memorial Veterans Grove is just a patch of grass sandwiched between Highway 101 and downtown Redwood Drive. It’s home to some spindly trees, a flagpole, a placard with the inscription, “May Peace Prevail on Earth” and, on any given day, a few to a few dozen homeless people. Those homeless people are […]