Cover Stories
For the Love of Bowling
Co-opting blue collar culture in the name of irony is nothing new. Head up to Portland or over to Brooklyn and you’ll find numerous bowling alleys brimming with floppy-haired 20-somethings striking poses in carefully wound scarves and too-small cardigans. In these parts, things are — unsurprisingly — different. We laugh without inhibition. We are sincere…
The Essentials
E&O Bowl 1417 Glendale Drive, (technically McKinleyville, but closer to Blue Lake) 825-9160 Hours: Noon till whenever they’re not busy enough. Cost: Monday through Thursday: $2.75 per person per game, Friday through Sunday: $3.75 per person per game. $2.50 for shoes. Open Bowling: All day Monday, Thursday, Friday and Saturdays; until 6 p.m. on Sunday…
Fortuna Family Arrested For Various Marijuana/Gun Related Offenses
Press release from the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office: The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office Community Response Unit (C.R.U.) obtained a Humboldt County Superior Court Search warrant for two residences after an approximate month long investigation which began with a crime tip. The warrant authorized the deputies to search a residence in the 2100 block of Law…
Yep, It’s True: TJ Maxx Is Coming
A friendly clerk at Kohl’s in the Bayshore Mall said the other day that, no, the prospect of another competitor isn’t threatening. Kohl’s can handle it. It’s known, said the clerk, for its customer service, especially at the Eureka store: “We were just voted No. 1 in customer service in our region, out of 106…
Six Rivers Planned Parenthood is “The Worst”
The Eureka arm of the 40 Days For Life campaign, the human prayer shield camped out in front of Six Rivers Planned Parenthood since Feb. 13, wrapped up operations over the weekend on Sunday, March 24. Done. (For previous Journal coverage of the prayer-a-thon, clicketh here.) So what did we learn? Be careful what you…
Journal a Winner
The California Newspaper Publishers Association has honored the North Coast Journal for award-winning work in eight categories this year, ranging from investigative reporting to feature writing, from cartooning to graphic illustration. We just got the CNPA awards notice in the mail late last week, and there are lots of congratulations to go around in this…
Brownouts, Be Gone
Humboldt State University students designed a cool device to try to help the 50 million households in the world relying on renewable energy mini-grids avoid brownouts by distributing their load on the grid more evenly. And it seems to work. They conceived the grid-share idea, reports environmental research web, when HSU grad student Karma Dorji,…
Clint’s Our Man!
The San Francisco Chronicle has a feature today about Humboldt County cattleman Clint Victorine, who raises organic grass-fed beef down in the Eel River Valley. It’s a modern-day rags-to-riches — or niches — tale. Local boy wants to raise cattle. Has no family spread to inherit. Old-timers tell him it can’t be done. He…
Jazz for Don
Eureka gets jazzy this weekend as the Redwood Coast Jazz Festival returns, bringing music and dancing to six venues around town. The festive weekend starts Thursday, March 21, at 5 p.m. with A Taste of Main Street, where you can wander Old Town sampling wares from 24 different food producers, everything from sushi and pizza…
A Plea for Animals
Editor: Adara’s mom here. I just finished the article (“Beasts and Children,” March 14), and I think it’s wonderful. I do think the issue is more complicated — animals at no-kill shelters that are kept in cages for extended periods can end up physically damaged, as my mom’s cat was. She has a hunched back and can…
Good Dog
When she sees me Her tail wags It is the best Hello of friendship I have known She does it everyday. She likes to bury her head In my chest I like to lie my head Upon her furry warmth and quick heart We rest. She follows my lead Defends my limbs Coaxes…
Sorry! Chubby Checker Will Not Be Measuring Your Penis
Holy wow. It’s not every week that a bonafide cultural icon just twists his way into Humboldt. But, by golly, on Saturday, March 23, musical legend Chubby Checker will take the stage at Cher-Ae Heights Casino and, we’re guessing, perform “The Twist.” Geez, if he’s savvy, he’ll perform it three or four times. Why?…
Called It
Reviews THE CALL. Despite a few original twists and turns, and an impressive performance by Abigail Breslin, this would-be thriller is just another mid-March waste of time. Los Angeles 911 operator Jordan Turner (Halle Berry) takes a call from a terrified young girl whose house is being broken into by an anonymous prowler. Jordan manages…
Picketing for Help
More than a hundred protesting nurses, their families and friends filled up two blocks of sidewalk in front of St. Joseph Hospital last Wednesday evening as rush-hour traffic raced by on Harrison Avenue. Most of them wore red — the color of the California Nurses Association — and hoisted red-and-white signs: “RNs picketing for patient…
Crazy
LoCura is a crazy cool multiculti band based in San Francisco’s Mission District whose Spanish name has a dual meaning. “One way it means ‘madness,’ but ‘lo cura’ also means ‘the cure,'” explains vocalist Kata Miletich (who is also Spanish). The band got its start when Kata and her guitarist partner Bob Sanders moved to…
Cut Bosses, Not Music
Editor: The College of the Redwoods, our community college, is not representing, at all, the will of the community at large (“CR faces the music,” Blog Jammin, March 14). It has become another top-heavy institution, prostituting itself to the whims of the cronies serving on its board. To eliminate the programs which actually serve this community is…
Leashes, Yes!
Editor: We commend Deidre Pike for discussing the damage to marine mammals by dogs running loose on beaches (“Unleashed,” March 7), and we commend the Journal for publicizing this long-standing problem. Another serious result of allowing dogs to run free is that they chase birds. Birds have a very high metabolic rate and have to feed…
Leashes, No!
Editor: Who wouldn’t be horrified by a dog attacking a baby seal? Deidre Pike begins and ends her article “Unleashed” with vivid stories of dog mayhem (sandwiching a close-up color shot of dog turds). The article seems meant to stoke the sentiment that dogs should be absent or on-leash everywhere. Outdoor recreation is regulated by…
Not Just Beach Issue
Editor: I was so thankful for the article calling attention to the age-old problem of dogs being allowed to roam free, and the nuisance that is to the rest of us. I have noticed that many pet-owners are in denial about the troublesome behaviors of their pets. They don’t notice when their dogs are disturbing…
Which Came First?
I once owned a T-shirt that read, “Stock up on eggs for Passover and Easter.” I bought it overseas, along with some other bits of shirt-bound poetry like “On the Road With Feeling” and “Head For These Seafood Values.” But “Stock up on eggs for Passover and Easter” was always different. It seemed both completely…
Police, Press Both Crucial
Editor: Thomas Jefferson famously wrote that he would prefer newspapers without a government to a government without newspapers. By enabling outsiders to challenge the government, freedom of the press provides a potential check against abuses from government. I’m glad your editor exercised freedom of the press by describing her recent experience with a Eureka police…
Columbus of the Pacific, Part 2
Last week, we saw how the monk-navigator Andrés Urdaneta was summoned back into the service of his native Spain to find an easterly route from the Philippines to New Spain, present-day Mexico. The first land sighted by Urdaneta on his groundbreaking (seabreaking?) voyage of 1565 this side of the Pacific was almost certainly Cape Mendocino,…
Be Fair on Fire
Editor: I would like to respond to the two letters (“Show Some Remorse,” Mailbox, March 14, “Fire Wasn’t Trivial,” Mailbox, March 7) the Journal has published recently about the character of Barry Evans and Louisa Rogers and their story (“The Fireball” Feb. 21). Barry and Louisa are friends of mine. I met with Barry shortly…
Coasting (Part 2)
Over the years I have walked as much of the Humboldt County Coast as possible. The extraordinary wild and windy Lost Coast is the equal of any coastal walk I have taken anywhere in the world. It combines solitude with stunning landscape and incredible intertidal shoreline. Not far behind is the Carruthers Cove to Skunk…
The Humboldt Choice
Is this it? Will wonders.
