There is something radical in making beautiful art in the abandoned parts of our public space, vulnerable not only to the elements but to any art critic or competitive painter. Imagine spending hours on a painting only to find it scrawled on, or painted over by the next muralist, or your medium simply demolished. The […]
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Duh. More water good for fish.
The research arm of the National Academy of Science (the National Research Council) has reversed its previous findings on Klamath River flows. According to a recent press release from OregonWild, a Portland-based environmental organization, the NRC has determined that increased flows in the Klamath River are likely to benefit salmon. OregonWild, once part of the […]
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The Essential Schlong
It once was one of my very favorite things in the world, but about 10 years ago my copy of Tumours, the song-for-song cover of Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours by the mighty Schlong , went missing. Then, a few weeks ago, I find it sitting there on a bookshelf like it had never left. My turntable […]
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Wednesday Morning Papers
Evergreen Pulp is back in the running for that defunct Weyerhaeuser pulp mill in Cosmopolis, Wash. According to the Daily World, Evergreen’s bid involves a joint deal with the local public utilities district. Evergreen would get the mill and the PUD would get the mill’s biomass plant. Reporter Aaron Glantz has a piece about the […]
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Piling On the NCRA
Who didn’t think it would come to this? The Environmental Protection Information Center, Friends of the Eel and Californians for Alternatives to Toxins, as well as two Marin County environmental groups, today announced their intention to file an amicus brief in the City of Novato’s lawsuit against the North Coast Railroad Authority. The environmental groups’ […]
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Grow Houses and Cloned Redwoods
Strange story in the New York Times this morning about an effort to clone the biggest and most impressive redwood trees, so that they may be planted in groves around the world. Apparently they’ve been planting freak redwood forests here and there for years now: One of the largest nonnative redwood forests is near Rotorua, […]
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Chilling New Theory
Over at Rambling Jack’s Laboratory, McKinleyville Press editor/publisher Jack Durham clinically lays out the evidence in the case of the recent Klamath Ox Kill. What you see may disturb you. Better not let the kids click through.
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Morning Papers
Two Peoples, One Place, the new Humboldt County history by Ray Raphael and Freeman House, gets a great review in the San Francisco Chronicle. (The NCJ had the honor of launching the book last month.) Balloon Track East? Local kazillionaire Rob Arkley’s company, Security National, is developing a 130-acre industrial park in Plympton, Mass., according […]
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Holiday Gift Guide
Each year we go to our regular Journal advertisers, all those locally owned mom-and-pop stores, with the question, "What do you have in your store that would make an unusual or clever gift?" We want to give our readers some thoughtful ideas for holiday gifts that are available at stores owned and operated by their […]
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Ferndale’s Id
Stuart Altschuler, a psychotherapist who moved to Ferndale from West Hollywood last May, recently found out the hard way that in this small town, being a gay man who’s spent the greater part of his life counseling others about AIDS/HIV and issues of sexuality isn’t something to boast about. It’s reason for your neighbors to […]
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Added To Pipe
Humboldt Blogs blogfeed users, please extend a big blogthing welcome to: The mysterious Kym K, aka The Redheaded Blackbelt. Our scenester pals at the Arcata Eye.