‘Bait and Switch’
Did Anthem Blue Cross use Obamacare to swindle Humboldt customers?
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‘Bait and Switch’
It’s early March, and a group of local insurance agents are at wit’s end. The enrollment period for health insurance plans offered under Obamacare is in its final throes, and the headaches began just as soon as Covered California got off the ground. There’s the typical stuff one might expect from a massive overhaul of…
Tonight’s Setlist: OU Offers Jazzy Joyride
Wednesday offers a rare delight: OU and Amy Denio bring a Mediterranean joyride comprised of folk jazz with funky rhythms and lush vocals in Sardinian, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and English at the Arcata Playhouse tonight. Show starts at 8 p.m., doors open at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $15 students, Playhouse and RJA members, $18 general and…
Sundberg Taps Paine for Planning Commission
Humboldt County has a new planning commissioner. This morning, 5th District Supervisor Ryan Sundberg advised the board that he has appointed former long-time Willow Creek Community Services District Manager Steve Paine to the county planning commission to fill the post vacated by his last appointee, Susan Masten, who has resigned after serving for three years.…
Tonight’s Setlist: Rock for All Ages, Singer-Songwriters Hilarious and Profound
So here we are at Tuesday. Placebo’s bringing Louisiana grunge/garage rockers Ghostfoot to the Ink Annex, along with Andrew Endres Collective (PDX jazz fusion), This Weeks Leader and Companion Animal. All ages, obv, with a $4 cover for members and a $6 cover for non. No drugs or booze, please. Check out Ghostfoot’s “Reaper,” below…
Jail Death Investigated: Updated
UPDATE: According to Sheriff’s Lt. Wayne Hanson, the man who died in the jail has been identified as Daren Ethan Borges, 42, of Eureka. An autopsy is scheduled for Saturday. PREVIOUSLY: Officials are investigating the death of an inmate inside the Humboldt County Correctional Facility. According to a news release from the Humboldt County Sheriff’s…
Shell Shock
It was a rough room. At both ends of the long table in the window at Mazzotti’s on the Arcata Plaza, judges were bemoaning an entry with over-seasoned and undercooked bread and wondering aloud who would plate up closed clams for a competition. The annual competition for best raw and cooked oyster, as well as…
Something’s Fishy
There’s no better time for a good, old-fashioned fish fry than Father’s Day. On Sunday, June 15 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., the 57th annual Trinidad Fish Fest (free) takes over Trinity Street. That means you have five hours to take in all the vendors, crafts, live music and food, so much food. It’s…
UPDATED: Official: Sewage Spill Won’t Spoil Oysterfest
Friday afternoon, on the eve of Oysterfest, the Humboldt Community Services District dropped a bombshell of a press release, alerting the public that a massive sewage spill occurred in the Humboldt Hill area and that some may have flowed into Humboldt Bay, spurring the California Department of Public Health to halt oyster harvests as of…
Photo Contest Countdown
Hey Humboldt, you have just seven days left to snap a portrait for the Journal’s Faces of Humboldt photo contest! From May 29 through June 20, use your camera, tablet, phone or any other snazzy device you may to capture the faces of Humboldt County. Photos should be submitted as high-resolution JPEGs via email to…
Clued in to The Cutters: Humboldt’s Rockers Reunite
From the proverbial back-in-the-day Dearest Readers! I’m happy to announce that the back-togetherness of one of Humboldt’s most beloved and rockingest bands is official: The Cutters blew up the Arcata Playhouse last night with what felt like the cool version of a high school reunion. You know, with all the people you cut class with. Remember how…
Aw, Shucks
Humboldt County welcomes the summer with a traditional bivalve brouhaha and beer to boot. Every June, the Arcata Plaza is overtaken by keg-tappers, shell-shuckers and hullabaloo-havers for the Arcata Bay Oysterfest. This year, the melee of mollusks and merriment takes place on Saturday, June 14 from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. (free). That’s right —…
A Councilman’s ‘Dying Declaration’
In what appears to be a sworn declaration signed less than a month before he died, former Eureka City Councilman Lance Madsen claims Eureka City Attorney Cyndy Day-Wilson lied to him and tried to get another city hall employee to do the same in an effort to cover up her allegedly distributing a confidential and…
Eat Your Weedies
Will this be the most pot-friendly World Cup ever? In host nation Brazil, marijuana possession is tolerated, if illegal — an arrest leads to a warning and community service, according to the “legality of cannabis by country” entry on Wikipedia (yeah, yeah, don’t use it as a resource, kids). Of course, the U.S. men’s team…
God Getting Old
Just for practice, I created another planet. Took me a week, and it was still unmanned! And now I’m stiff and sore all over. Went to cancel it, but couldn’t remember where I put it. Now it’ll probably run into one of the others! So I went to check out Earth. It had been a while. My…
The Big Cheese
“I want people to think of Lucas Thornton when they think of murals in 20 years,” says Lucas Thornton. Confident and proud after completing his latest large-scale achievements both at home and internationally, the local artist and up-an-coming muralist spares no syllables when discussing his long-range plans. “If I could have a mural lined up…
Second Friday Arts! Arcata
Arts! Arcata is Arcata Main Street’s monthly celebration of visual and performing arts, held at more than 30 participating locations in Arcata. Visit www.artsarcata.com for even more information about the event or call 822-4500. ARCATA ARTISANS 883 H St. Betsy Roberts, metal work; Michael Edwards, jewelry; Jeff Langdon, art and photography. ARCATA EXCHANGE 813 H…
Correction
An elections results box on Page 20 of the June 5, 2014 edition of the North Coast Journal inaccurately listed State Senate candidate Mike McGuire’s party affiliation. McGuire is a Democrat. The Journal regrets the error.
Top Chef
Reviews CHEF. I will say, with no reservations (sorry), that I enjoyed this more than any movie this year. There’ve been bolder statements, as 2014 hasn’t exactly been a banner year so far. But for me, Chef lives in the rarefied air of legitimately great mainstream American cinema. It’s not a crazy tone poem, an…
Canvassing
Editor: I enjoyed Ken Weiderman’s article about, and especially his interview with artist Sheldon Skillie (“Breakdancing with the Spirits,” June 5). While I live too far away to attend the gallery showing, I’ve followed and appreciate his works. He seems to be able to shift media with fine attention to the details needed to successfully…
After the Poll
Editor: While I appreciated your article, “Your Doorstep… Where Elections Are Won” (June 5), after this election I’m not sure that’s where elections are won. The turnout for this election was pitiful and a large part of the MIAs were younger people who, it seems, don’t vote. I phone banked for Kerrigan and soon realized…
No More Hornet Guys
At Coast Central Credit Union in Arcata, the newcomers had set up camp outside and were menacing customers. A similar group had taken up inside a shed in Kneeland where a man keeps his lawnmower. Yet another hung around, prickly-humored and uninvited, too close to a home’s window and garden hose. These were the new…
Enchantment
Hello! I’m here to tell you about some live music performances that will enhance your life, make you more attractive to others and ensure that you don’t become the kind of person binge-watching reality TV. Don’t say I didn’t tell you Here are some reasons you want to go to the Palm Lounge on Friday…
The Big Mad
For more than a generation, it’s been mad in Blue Lake in June, ever since Dell’Arte created the Mad River Festival of stage performances. The festival got pretty hefty for a while in the ’90s, and in more recent years it’s been smaller. But this year it’s bigger than ever, absorbing seven weeks of the…
Pop Roast
Even amid sea changes in family and gender roles, with parents sharing more equally in childrearing and wage-earning duties, Father’s Day continues to kind of suck rocks. More and more dads are changing diapers and making dinner, so where are the brunches and spa days? Where is the birthstone-encrusted man jewelry? One mother I know,…
