Best of Humboldt 2009
Best of Humboldt
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Best Of Humboldt 2009 — Readers’ Picks
BEST UPSCALE RESTAURANT Lonely Planet ranks Folie Douce "Arcata’s best dining option," and our readers expand that to "best in Humboldt County." Lonely P. praises F.D.’s "short but inventive menu of seasonally inspired bistro cooking." Seasonal is one of three key words the restaurant highlights on its web site, the others — organic and local…
Tractor Heist
On Monday, a demolition crew hired by the federal government returned to work at the decommissioned Centerville Beach Naval Station, west of Ferndale, and discovered several pieces of machinery had been stolen, according to a press release from the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office. Workers noted a gaping hole in a security fence, the release states,…
Exports FAIL!
Exports FAIL!: A Eureka couple got busted yesterday while speeding through Iowa in a pickup truck loaded with 116 pounds of marijuana and $7,000 in cash. A sheriff named Jeff Danker made the bust, with help from his canine partner. UPDATE: An astute reader recognized the name of the busted genius and speculated that he…
State Park Closure List Delayed
State Park Closure List Delayed: … according to the SF
In the Zone
Local business owners and accountants gathered this morning at Eureka’s Wharfinger building to have their nerd-wired, number-thirsty skulls ladled full of envigorating tax law concepts like “two-factor apportionment formulas” and “cross-jurisdictional vouchering.” And you missed it, sucker! Actually, if you or someone you’re fond of owns a business in Eureka, you probably should have been…
Swine Flu Hits HSU
This just in from HSU: News Advisory – H1N1 Humboldt State University’s Student Health Center (SHC) received its first positive test confirming Novel H1N1 (swine) flu virus in an HSU student on Monday, September 14, 2009. Many students have visited the SHC today with flu-like illness, probably reflecting a mix of conditions that includes H1N1.…
CR May Owe You $$$
subject. Remember that story you read in the Journal in August titled, “Fee-For-All”? In it Ryan Burns detailed how, “For six years, CR illegally heisted hundreds of Hamiltons from students.” It seems the College of the Redwoods was charging students for tests the state had already paid for. Today we received a press release that…
Redwoods Month
Redwoods Month: As you’ve undoubtedly heard by now, our redwoods trees are about to get a whole lot of attention between an Oct. National Geographic cover story and a Ken Burns doc on PBS. HSU is tickled red that the tree-top work of Prof Stephen Sillett will be in the spotlight in Michael Fay’s NG…
Better put in now for time off
A colleague was threading her way through the dredded plaza this afternoon, when a good citizen slipped this little white square of paper into her hand and said, “Be forewarned.” Ominous. Indeed. And as you can see from the little square, somebody thinks there’s going to be a real day-wrecker a year from now. A…
9/11 Prayers
Our own Andrew Goff noticed these tropically clad worshipers singing and praying in front of the county courthouse this morning and stopped to inquire about the occasion. A friendly disciple informed him that the group had gathered on this eighth anniversary of 9/11, with Old Glories and a wooden cross in tow, to pray for…
Best Of Humboldt 2009 — Staff Picks
Fifty-one weeks of the year we peer into your closets, nose into your affairs, spotlight your indiscretions, rat on you, question your integrity, demand answers, point fingers, get other people to point fingers, trot out your victims, laugh at your big ideas, nod seriously, expose your weaknesses, tap your knee, wipe a judging finger along…
Hanging On for Dear Life
We know the Earth goes around the sun. That’s what we were taught as kids, and we have no reason to doubt it … unlike the ancient Greeks. Like us, they saw the sun rising in the morning, swinging overhead and setting in the evening. The Earth felt as rock-solid to them as it does…
Town Halls Turn Angry
I remember Long summer days And quiet,…
Mike Check
Rep. Mike Thompson stopped by the Journal office last week, the day after his well attended town hall meeting on health care reform at Redwood Acres. He spoke with the Journal staff about matters national, international and local. Here’s an extract. NCJ: We’ve been looking at all the YouTube clips of all these town hall…
That Wacky Sandra
Previews Opening Wednesday, Sept. 9, is the animated post-apocalyptic sci-fi film 9. Director Shane Acker has expanded his AA-nominated 2005 short into a feature about creatures that form themselves from bits and pieces of our ruined world and who wonder why they exist at all. Rated PG-13 for violence and scary images. 79m. At Broadway.…
Humgrass
You’ve heard of the Northwest String Summit, the annual gathering of sting music bands and fans near Portland. Humboldt has its own version, on a much smaller scale: The String Thing. Chief instigator is Ryan Roberts, who plays guitar in Absynth Quintet, a stringband that falls somewhere along newgrass/gypsy-grass lines. He hopes to make the…
Arts! Arcata
AMPT Skateboard Shop 1040 H Street (25) Art from local skateboarders. Funds from sales will assist the effort to modernize our skate park. Arcata Artisans 883 H St. (4) Diane Sonderegger – ceramics; Marsha Mello – etchings; Barbara Wright – mosaics and fused glass jewelry. Wine being served to benefit Breast Health Project! Arcata City…
What’s the Matter with Fortuna?
Editor: Thanks, Bob Doran, for covering the health care meeting in Fortuna and greetings from the socialist stronghold of Arcata, where we have public roads, a fire department, public water, a library, a police department, where people use Medi-Cal and Medicare, collect government pensions, student aid, unemployment insurance, social security (which even has the dreaded…
Streetwalkers of the World!
Editor: Please, more stories about utterly futile crime suppression efforts ("Stung," Sept. 3). It’s useful to recall how our communal hypocrisy — women who have sex for money are "bad," boys will be boys, sin must be paid for, etc, — forces the police to commit casually destructive and pointless folly: arresting a poor woman…
Fun Facts
Editor: Last week Bob Doran wondered how the lion become synonymous with reggae music ("The Hum," Sept. 3). Amen, known as the hidden god, had a ram’s head; all the fish are dying, and the church is going down thanks to pederasty … all these things are related. This is the dawning of the Age…
