Concrete Activists
As the courthouse camp crumbles, Occupy protestors seek more fertile ground
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Concrete Activists
On a misty Tuesday evening, as the setting sun shot liquid silver through an overcast sky, a couple dozen progressive activists came together at Sunny Brae’s favorite (and practically only) gathering spot, the Coffee Break. The activists, a casually dressed bunch that skewed toward middle age, had recently split in exasperation from the local Occupy…
Forest Protectors Nab Grants
Two tracts of local forested land can breathe oxygen-rich sighs of relief today after the state’s Wildlife Conservation Board approved two major grants that will protect their riparian habitats. The City of Arcata received a $650,000 grant to expand the 793-acre Arcata Community Forest by 22 acres. The acquisition will help link the city-managed community forest…
Steve and Dave’s = Steve and Dave’s
The notice outside Steve and Dave’s bar (and formerly BC’s) has had a few of us regulars worried: “Public Notice of Application of Ownership Change,” it says. Does this mean my Monday night pool date is going to go to the dogs? (For the record, my pool sucks.) Was nothing sacred? It’s all good. Steve…
All Tuesday’s Fatness
Feeling “fat” and happy? If you attended last night’s annual Mardi Gras romp at Six Rivers Brewery the answer is likely “Oui.” Wall-to-wall sweat-drippy bods sucked up visual and aural joy expelled by dance ‘n’ drum troupe Samba Na Chuva and 10-piece Calypso pan band Steel Standing. Here’s your evidence. The above shots were snapped…
KRFH Wants a “Woodie”(UPDATED: NEXT VOTING ROUND)
2/21: HSU’s student-run radio station KRFH has made it into the Top 25 in mtvU’s Woodie Awards voting in the category Best College Radio Station. I don’t think I need to tell you what to do next, do I? Be a good citizen and Rep Hum by voting HERE. UPDATE 3/1: It would appear that…
EPD Seeks Public’s Help in Missing Person Case
From the Eureka Police Department: The Eureka Police Department is asking for the public’s assistance in locating a 50 year old woman named Esther Harris. Esther was reported missing by her father in January. Esther has also used the last name of Cunningham and has a street name of “Miss Jo”. Esther is about 5’06”,…
Hare/Ball Scheme Goes Awry
Press release from the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office and visual approximation below: On 02-17-2012, approximately 8:00 p.m. a Humboldt County Sheriff’s Deputy, assisted by two California Highway Patrol Officers conducted a probation search at 371 Phillipsville Road, Phillipsville after receiving information from citizens of possible drug activity occurring at the residence. When the officers…
New Sequoia Park Zoo friend!
Meet the Sequoia Park Zoo’s newest kid magnet Dorsie the porcupine! I know what you cynics are thinking: “Ho hum, I swerve to miss hitting those things with my car all the time. Get me a freakin’ rhino already!” But this is when Dorsie’s inspiring personal story sucker punches you in the cute receptor. You…
Dredge Report
Just in time for the weekend comes some lazy-by-river reading (in case that spring-like weather returns): the California Department of Fish and Game’s new proposed regulations for suction dredging! Well, if you’re an avid goldbug who’s getting a little tired of the panning life, who misses the motorized dredge days, you might indeed find this…
Piano concert postponed
Due to circumstances beyond his control, specifically a cancelled flight out of Baton Rouge and the general dearth of planes flying into Humboldt County, pianist Anton Nel will not be performing at Calvary Lutheran Church tonight as scheduled. A somewhat distraught Pearl Micheli, organizer for the Eureka Chamber Music Series, apologized and asked us to…
Drugs? Guns? Nooo…BIRDS!
OK, if you’re really good at this gig, you were up before dawn, shivering on the back porch in your Life is good® flannel jammies, listening for peeps in the dark. Or warm-up squawks… “Hm, yes, Zonotrichia leucophrys, I believe I expected you,” you muttered into the darkness. Damned sparrow had carried on all night.…
Drugs! Guns! Eureka Police Department POPs Five
(From left to right: Brittany Lee Bryan (age 26 of Mckinleyville), Sarah Marie Nichols AKA Sara Scott (age 27 of Eureka), Adam Daniel Sundberg (age 32 of Mckinleyville), Douglas Albert Camilli (age 31 of Eureka), Douglas Clyde Camilli (age 57 of Eureka). From the Eureka Police Department: On 2/16/12, at about 11:46 AM, the Eureka…
The Runner’s Lament
I hate running. Running murders the knees, cranks the hamstrings tight as drums, and inflames the hips. In theory running is a cheap, accessible sport. In reality most runners arrange their schedules around running. They rise in the dark, haul sweaty sneakers to work to run during lunch breaks, and skip happy hour in…
Running for Haters
1. Vary your workouts. Alternate short and fast with long and slow. 2. Be a running tourist. Explore the Community Forest, Ma-le’l Dunes, and from Old Town to Henderson Center. 3. The more water-logged your sneakers, the heavier they are. Dry those suckers out. 4. Run alone. 5. Run with other people sometimes. Base your pace on the slower…
The Argument
Inside the heated debate, Right outside on the…
People Power
Editor: Thank you for Sean J. Kearns’ coverage of the large group from Southern Humboldt who went to Sacramento to advocate for restored funding for home-to-school buses (“School Bus Breakdown,” Feb. 9). The article showed what a massive undertaking the trip was, and also gave a good background to the underlying budget issues at the…
Eye Ballin’
A long, long time ago, way back in the 19th century (1886 to be more exact), the city of Arcata took a great leap forward with the establishment of a weekly newspaper, the Arcata Union. A temporary small step backward came toward the end of the 20th century when the paper’s later-day publisher downsized the…
Working Class Anti-Hero
In 1956, John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger transformed British drama almost overnight. With its non-upper class characters and setting, and its contemporary street sensibilities, it played throughout England and catapulted British theatre into the modern age. It helped ignite a new generation of playwrights in England and America, from Harold Pinter to Edward Albee,…
Cowboys and Indians, Fiddlers and Tejanos
“Oh, give me land, lots of land under starry skies above; don’t fence me in. Let me ride through the wide-open country that I love; don’t fence me in. Let me be by myself in the evenin’ breeze, and listen to the murmur of the cottonwood trees, send me off forever but I ask you…
Mardi Gras Humboldt-style
Bone chilling winds tell us that winter is finally here, for real. Time for another Winterfest, the third annual. What started out as a barhopping offshoot of the sunny Mad River Summerfest morphed into an indoor beer festival with a slew of microbreweries pouring for a Mardi Gras-themed affair at the Arcata Community Center. The…
Empty Promises
Reviews THE VOW. There is a moment, midway through The Vow, when Rachel McAdams flubs a line, spits chocolate into her own hair and falls apart laughing. The scene is obviously an outtake, and we cut away before she or costar Channing Tatum fully break character. It’s a completely organic moment, and it happens to…
Feelin’ Sublime
Will and Andrew plot a path to Humboldt music superstardom.
Psychedelic Republican
Karen Brooks endures a public identity crisis.
Fan of Field Notes
Editor: Barry Evans, you have a way of twisting my dials and tuning out my comfortable senile static. Your article on copiers (“Not Your Father’s Evolution,” Feb. 2): bless you, we are all copiers and must be in order to sustain the status quo of progress. The better things become (ample food, shelter, peace, health, titillation, etc.)…
Plato’s Revenge: Politics in the Age of Ecology
If a stream of recent books are correct (I’ve reviewed several here, by David Orr, Bill McKibben and Paul Gilding), much of this century is going to be significantly and catastrophically different from today, due primarily to energy and ecological limits amplified by the climate crisis. The authors all made strong cases for what is…
Pelican Praise
Editor: Sometimes I read a poem that pulls at my breath, makes me bite my lips, put my hand to my heart– I want to be able to tell someone, to tell the poet, to have someone else be there in the poem with me. ? Monte Merrick’s poem, “pelican in the dunes,” (Feb. 9)…
The Long Drought
Great empires are traditionally founded on the banks of great rivers such as the Nile, the Yangtze, the Indus and the Tigris-Euphrates complex because people need food, and food crops need water. Which is why the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico, together with the land farther south into Belize, Guatemala and Honduras is one of the…
Tramp
After gaining a critical buzz and a growing fan base since the release of Sharon Van Etten’s 2010 breakthrough, epic, the Brooklyn-based, singer-songwriter has lived a fairly nomadic life: loads of couch surfing and lodging in motel rooms spanning the globe. In between frequent tours, Van Etten recorded Tramp, a new studio release that captures…
