Beer Me, Jesus
The ambiguously Christian leader of Catalyst Church is bored with hate and Hell
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Beer Me, Jesus
Sunday night. Humboldt Brews. Chairs, each adorned with a pen, comment card and a small polished stone, obscure a floor where the prior evening’s habitués swayed, with hops-filled bellies, against a layer of beer splatter and body odor-induced humidity to the music du jour. Where concertgoers customarily attempt to flag down the bartender with failed…
Kneeland This Morning, in Images
Local photographer Mark McKenna was at the scene of the police investigation in Kneeland this morning. He graciously sent along a few photographs, including one of District Attorney Paul Gallegos riding in a helicopter. Click the images to magnify them.
Final Tally: One Arrested, One Injured, One Safe and One Dead
From the Sheriff’s Office: Humboldt County Sheriff’s Deputies continue to investigate the shooting that was reported to official this morning. At about 2:00 p.m. deputies found the body of a deceased adult male near a marijuana grow site. The preliminary cause of death appears to be a gunshot wound. Deputies do not expect to find…
Police Search for Kneeland Shooting Suspect
At least one man was severely injured in shootout in Kneeland last night, apparently in a marijuana-related dispute. Police didn’t hear about the incident until this morning, when the wounded man is believe to have shown up at Kneeland airport seeking assistance. He is being Medivaced to Redding as we speak. Stay tuned, however. We…
Voluntary Spending Cap in Fifth District Race?
Earlier today we received a breathless press release from Jon Zaglin, a local Green Party member, announcing that Fifth District Supervisor candidates Patrick Cleary and Ryan Sundberg have reached a “groundbreaking agreement” to cap their campaign spending. This revolutionary accord was reportedly reached at a recent Green Party meeting after both candidates voiced their support…
Humboldt, Nicaragua … Whatever
H/t to my colleague Heidi Walters for noticing this homage to globalization.
Penis-free Pot Seshes With Randos
That’s the sales pitch for Seshroulette.com, a sort of Chatroulette for weed smokers looking to get faded commune with random, anonymous weed smokers on camera. Strictly medicinal, of course. (Cough-wheeeeze.) The site was created three months ago by one Dan “Chill,” a college dropout/Web developer from Playa Del Rey who nabbed his 215 for stomach-aches.…
Cypress Grove Sold to Swiss Dairy Conglomerate
One of the biggest success stories in local manufacturing — Arcata’s Cypress Grove Chevre — has been bought by the Swiss giant Emmi, according to reports reeling off the food industry news tickers this morning. Says just-food.com: Emmi said it plans to continue its growth, focusing in particular on the Italian, German, Austrian, UK and US…
Another Bummer
It’s back. Bummerfest, an all-day, all-local, all-indie, all-ages music festival returns to the basement of the Eureka Vet’s Hall this weekend after a few years off. The first Bummerfest took place in the summer of 2001. The kids who put on all-ages rock shows under the Placebo banner were without a venue, but bands wanting…
Yo Dog
Though the scene predates my birth by a few decades, even youngsters like me are aware that in the late 1960s, Northern California was the cultural hub of the known universe. Well, maybe not this far north. But the hippie hangover we experience here locally today is testament to the significance of what was happening…
Notes from a Kinching
Editor: In a letter last issue, Timothy Crlenjak asks the rhetorical question of the Tea Party Movement, “And you wonder why you are riduculed?” (“Mailbox,” Aug. 12.) I would dare answer that the reason people like Timothy ridicule the Tea Party is because that is what liberals do, as a substitute for actual dialogue. Demonization…
I’m a Bad Boy
Editor: Hank, baby — I know that you know which pronouns follow a preposition. So I nearly fell on the floor upon reading “even for we city dwellers” in your column in today’s paper. To avoid talking country hick-style, many of our fellow citizens overcorrect and use the nominative case in all circumstances to avoid…
Keep Cutten Rural
Editor: The mission of the Humboldt Coalition for Property Rights is to preserve the Humboldt County rural lifestyle. As such, we have grave concerns regarding the present form of the Forster-Gill development project (“Mega-Village,” Aug. 5). The Ridgewood Village plan is a hastily promoted project that is deficient of adequate citizen input. It is the…
Wardshopping
Once again, a candidate running for office in Eureka shows how that city’s ward system, in its current form, is flawed and perhaps even irrelevant. Michael Newman, chairman of the Greater Eureka Chamber of Commerce’s Board of Directors and adviser to Shaw and Petersen Insurance, is one of the three contenders for the soon-to-be vacant…
Be Brave, Young Pilgrim
Previews THE SWITCH. Romantic comedy about artificial insemination stars Jennifer Aniston as Kassie Singleton, a single gal who wants to have a baby, and Jason Bateman as her neurotic friend Wally, who kinda screws things up. 100m. Rated PG-13 for mature thematic content, sexual material including dialogue, some nudity, drug use and language. Opens Friday…
Hawk
Since Isobel Campbell, vocalist/instrumentalist and founding member of Glasgow-based Belle & Sebastian, left that band in 2002, she has become best known for honing a duet persona in collaboration with former Screaming Trees and Queens of The Stone Age vocalist Mark Lanegan. After a number of solo efforts, including the notable Amorino in 2003, Campbell…
Cajun Boogie
The young men who make up The Pine Leaf Boys all grew up in a region of southwest Louisiana steeped in Cajun culture. For example, the band’s button accordionist, Wilson Savoy, is the son of Marc Savoy, an accordion builder who recorded several albums with fiddler Michael Doucet of BeauSoleil. And, Wilson points out, “He has…
In Defense of SPAM (Part 1)
Spam! Spam! Spam! Spam! Lovely spam! Wonderful spam! Spam spa-a-a-a-a-am spam spa-a-a-a-a-am spam. Lovely spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam! Spam spam spam spam! “Spam Song” – from the Monty Python Spam sketch In 1986 I was given a menu from Mr. Whitekeys’ Fly By Nite Club, a memento from someone who’d…
Water Snakes
Sometime in the next few weeks, the federal Department of the Interior is scheduled to issue an opinion on the question of whether Humboldt County can finally claim the annual 50,000 acre-feet of Trinity River water that it was promised in 1955, when Congress passed the legislation that built Lewiston Dam near Weaverville and began…
Native Rushes
Caveat lector: Though I’m familiar with the handy mnemonic. “Sedges have edges; rushes are round; grasses are hollow right up from the ground,” I’m no botanist and I’m evaluating these plants from the point of view of a gardener. It has taken me years to clear the stodgy, banal nursery plants out of our yard.…
A Klamath Reunion
Up at the Trees of Mystery last Friday, the 49-foot talking Paul Bunyan statue — his sidekick, 35-foot Babe the Blue Ox, as ever by his side — was in fine form, keeping up a stream of inanities and news alerts: “Ashlee, oh Ahshleeeee. Oh, there she is: Ashlee, why aren’t you still sitting on…
Alien Invasion
For years conservative commentators have tried to warn us of the impending invasion and pleaded with us to stand in solidarity with them to ensure the continuance of our ’Merican way of life. Sadly, most were ignored. Others mocked. But who could possibly be laughing now that *they* have arrived? We should have listened. Lou…
McKinleyville Arts Night
McKinleyville Art Night will be Friday, August 20th, 6:00 to 8:00 pm. Join us for our community’s celebration of local art and artists for music, food and fun. You can find more information about the artists and venues and see additional images online at www.mckinleyvilleartsnight.com. 1) The Front Gallery & Glass, 1181 Central Ave. Charles…
The Coriolis Effect
Despite popular belief, you really can’t predict which way your bath water will swirl when you pull the plug by knowing which hemisphere you’re in. Because the Earth is spinning counterclockwise (as seen from above the North Pole), it’s reasonable to assume that your bath water spirals counterclockwise when you’re north of the equator, and…
Stepmonsters
They are gone now: he stuffed in the…
