A Small-Town Affair
Carnelian Cove was a fiction, but she just knew there was something truly Humboldt about it!
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A Small-Town Affair
The environmentalists were at it again. Complaining that the waterfront project was going to ruin their town. That the environmental impact studies were flawed. That the whole process was corrupt. The project proponents just didn’t get it. Why wouldn’t people want such a nice development in their town? And now they were getting scary –…
Another take on the Creamery story
scenario.Another take on the Creamery story: Sphere, an AOL online news magazine, reports on the Humboldt Creamery/Ghilarducci story. Not much new here, although I don’t recall hearing about about Ghilarducci sacking Lisa Carnahan, who was streamlining the Creamery’s computer system to make it track finances more
MLPA Task Force Named
problem. Former Assembly member Virginia Strom-Martin and current Humboldt County Supervisor Jimmy Smith are among the appointees to the Blue Ribbon Task Force that will oversee local implementation of the controversial Marine Life Protection Act, according to an MLPA press release. (Click here for background info.) Local fishermen have expressed concerns that Marine Protection Areas…
Nadananda predicts vigilantes may battle cartel pot farms
Loggers.Nadananda predicts vigilantes may battle cartel pot farms: Interviewed by Bay Area news radio station KCBS, Friends of the Eel founder Nadananda warned that staffing cuts in state parks could lead to danger to the woods from Mexican drug cartels. The report concludes, “Nadananda says she thinks the situation may get so bad that vigilante…
Tyson, City Sued on Harassment Charges
Tawnie Hansen, the former Eureka Police Department dispatcher who found herself at the center of a fight between supporters and detractors of Chief Garr Nielsen, has filed a huge lawsuit against the City of Eureka and City Manager David Tyson. Hansen, who is asking for $1.4 million plus punitive damages, alleges that the city slow-played…
Bengals Call Up Purify
Bengals Call Up Purify: The Cincinnati Bengals have placed wide receiver Mo Purify — a Eureka native — on their roster, following another player’s season-ending injury. Purify had been playing on the Bengals’ practice team. That means there’s now two Eureka High grads in the Bengals’ lineup — Purify and linebacker Rey Maualuga. The two…
Rivers of a Lost Coast DVDs and Stuff
Filmmakers Justin Coupe and Palmer Taylor, whose haunting documentary Rivers of a Lost Coast tells of the unique, old-time rush on our North Coast rivers by an obsessed (and sometimes crafty) band of competitive flyfisherfolk, have let us know that the DVD of the film is now available. “The wait is over, the grab is…
Revenge of the Oldsters
Editor: The scariest prospect about Marcy Burstiner’s Nov. 5th piece (“Media Maven”) is that the KHSU staff might take her recommendation “to rip up the programming” seriously. KHSU depends in large part on listener contributions and underwriters (and I suspect the NPR stations that I have supported from Kent, Ohio to Albany, N.Y. do as…
Invention of the Alphabet (Part 1)
Take a moment to appreciate what you’re now doing: making sense of little squiggles on the page in front of you. It’s easy to take for granted our wondrous facility to read and write, but of course, it wasn’t always so. Before the invention of writing, people had no way of passing on knowledge or…
Surrender, Barack
Editor: I am writing in response to Hank Sims’ article “Dope and Duped” (“Town Dandy,” Oct. 29). I too watched the A&E special with mixed feelings, noting the insightful interviews but felt frustrated by the exaggerated suggestion of a climate of fear and violence in Humboldt County. I have lived here my whole life and…
Keep an Eye on the Sky
Big Star. Ardent/Rhin. The term, “Memphis Curse,” was bantered around quite a bit amongst musician friends when I resided there for three years in the 1990s. It meant that as soon as a Memphis band reached a plateau, as a unit, it inevitably would soon fall apart, disintegrate. The story of Big Star was often…
Chronic City
By Jonathan Lethem. Doubleday. Jonathan Lethem’s long been trying to create a hybrid form: an omnivorous novel that blends closely observed detail and vividly drawn realistic characters with elements of the fantastic. His earliest books were marketed as science fiction, but even then his models were those at the margins of the genre like J.…
Art (and Craft) for Art’s Sake
Anyone who’s seen Victor “Vico” Hernandez’s art work will recognize a similar vibrancy and ambition in his new venture, Humboldt Arts Project, a nonprofit visual and performing arts space. Described as a “fluid” group of artists, HAP’s first exhibition takes place Friday, Nov. 13, from 6 to 9 p.m. in the Feuerwerker building, 854 9th…
Brogue Wave
Movies about movies, plays about plays, movies about plays and plays about movies: They’re seductive halls of mirrors, spangled with cultural reflections and refractions, and ready-made metaphors about reality and illusion. There’s the fascination of what is on the screen or stage versus what goes on backstage, and the built-in theatricality of the characters: producers,…
Icebreaker
At a maximum security prison in Connecticut, I…
Mad About Coco
Previews Opening Friday, Nov. 13, is A Serious Man, the latest offering from Joel and Ethan Coen. Set in Minnesota in 1967, the film centers on Larry Gopnik, who is a professor of physics. Things aren’t going so well: his son is smoking a lot of dope, his wife announces it’s time for a divorce,…
By the Gills
As the fall salmon run on the Klamath and Trinity rivers draws to a close, a small group of sport fishermen and guides has been casting allegations into the teeming waters of the Internet, claiming that gill nets employed by the Yurok and Hoopa Valley tribes are systematically decimating the fragile fish population by ensnaring…
Say Aye
In a song titled "All in Favor" on the latest disc from The Mother Hips, Hips co-founder Greg Loiacono traces the history of an unnamed band, established under guiding principals laid down by someone called "Wrongway Ray": "He said don’t listen to your heart, instead follow these instructions towards the path of self-destruction: unlimited buffoonery…
The New River War
For a long time, the fight over the sickly Klamath River — once home to one of the state’s most magnificent salmon fisheries — has been between farmers and fishermen, dam owners and Native American tribes. Nowadays, though, most of those old antagonists have come together to agree upon a plan to restore the river…
Peons Welcome
There are any number of lessons to take away from last week’s elections to the board of directors of the Humboldt Bay Harbor, Recreation and Conservation District. Let’s focus on one that might otherwise be missed, so that future candidates for offices of all sorts can take note: Owning a business doesn’t automatically make you…
Arts! Arcata
1. Bubbles 1031 H St. Bluegrass by Clean Livin’. 2. Garden Gate 905 H St. Jim Crawford, mixed media and ceramics. Music by Striped Pig String Band. Wine served to benefit Arcata House. 3. Arcata Main Street 791 8th St. E.Chirstian Wisner, photographs. Wine served to benefit Arcata Main Street. 4. Arcata Artisans 883 H…
It Ain’t Easy
Editor: Last week’s article on HSU’s “Studies in Race” prompts me to reiterate that the pursuit of diversity, in itself, is a false goal. The proper goal is excellence, and if excellence is pursued, without discrimination, then diversity will be achieved and all will be well served. If diversity is pursued only for itself, then…
