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Going Once
The elevated walkway into Humboldt County’s Courthouse seems suspended in air, one flight of stairs above the homeless, the occupiers and the rumble of Fifth Street traffic. This pale patch of concrete is where hopes disintegrate and homes are lost. Almost every weekday morning, as precisely as if they were figures from a mechanical clock,…
EPD Goes Through the Roof…
… literally! Later, they issued this press release: (Click pictures to enlarge.) On 3/08/12, at around 11:00 AM, investigators with the Eureka Police Department’s Problem Oriented Policing Unit responded to a residence in the 3300 block of G Street, Eureka to look for a wanted fugitive. POP had received information that a parolee-at-large, Michael Wayne…
Need a New Head?
[image-1] Because, maybe, you lost yours when you stuck it in the sand? Or when it floated off in the clouds? Or, you know, when it disappeared after a long journey into some dark, murky place… If only, if only, you or someone much like you — an otherwise sweet and decent person — had…
Calling As and Os
Guess some of us have been stingy with our blood lately, eh? The Blood Bank has put out an urgent call for donations of blood types O+, O-, A+ and A-, citing a slump in donations and “modest increases in usage of blood components.” Come on, open a vein! Here’s the schedule for the bloodmobile…
Eureka Man: “I’ll give you $8,000 in weed for that motorcycle.”
From the Humboldt County Sheriffs Office: On 03-06-2012, approximately 9:30 a.m. a deputy sheriff working undercover assigned to the Humboldt County Sheriffs Office Community Response Unit met with two suspects at the corner of F street and Harris Street, Eureka. The deputy was meeting with the two suspects after one of the suspects, Jason…
Stolen Gun Recovered at Arcata Super 8
From the Arcata Police Department: On 3/6/12, the Arcata Police Department conducted a felony probationary check on Triston Crossland (26) of Blue Lake, who was staying at the Super 8 Motel in Valley West. As per the terms of Crossland’s probation, a search was conducted of his property and two firearms were located. One of…
Competition Dreamin’
Wow. June? We might bust outta the one-airline airlock as early as June? That’s the word from Jacqueline Debets, Humboldt County economic development director, who says yesterday’s special Headwaters Fund board meeting was held in a rush to speed up negotiations for a fiscal guarantee. “American Airlines is saying, ‘Can you do this now?’ They…
The Lone Trail
Giddy news reports say he’s just looking for love. That pursuit, plus his long absence in the Golden State, must explain the Kardashian-sized obsession Lone Wolf OR7’s fans have for him. But perhaps the gray wolf — who wandered from his home pack in Oregon into California recently, taking a circuitous estimated 2,000-mile route –…
Bad Neighbors?
A couple of weeks ago, after we reported on an apartment fire at the corner of Church and Pine streets in Eureka, some readers commented that the fire was no surprise. The building, they claimed, was a blight, filled with drug-using, music-blaring, trash-dumping delinquents, all overseen by an absentee landlord who didn’t much care. The…
Plaza Design Lockout
UPDATE March 5: Woodworkers, artists and others who left consignment goods at Plaza Design will get their unsold pieces back, Ross Welch, executive director of the Arcata Economic Development Corp., said Monday. What about people with gift certificates, or those who made deposits on furniture they ordered? “I don’t know yet,” Welch said. ORIGINAL POST:…
Oh, How ‘Bout Another Weed Bust
From the Arcata Police Department: Officers from the Arcata Police Department served a search warrant at a residence in the 2000 Blk of 11th St on Thursday morning. Upon entering the residence, officers located a marijuana growing operation consisting of over 250 growing marijuana plants. Over one pound of concentrated cannabis, or “hash” was located in the home along with…
Humboldt Weed Plucked in Salt Lake City
From the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office: On 3-1-2012, approximately 12:00 p.m. Humboldt County Drug Task Force Agents served a Humboldt County Superior Court Search Warrant in the 1400 block of West End Road, Arcata. Agents obtained the search warrant after being contacted by the Utah Highway Patrol on February 2nd, 2012. The Utah…
Close Encounters
Humboldt Movie Times ALBERT NOBBS. The Oscars have come and gone, leaving the unrequited nominees to walk away, heads held as high as possible. The fervor surrounding The Artist (not undeserved) drowned out the competition, leaving masterpieces like Albert Nobbs in the dust. The story centers on Glenn Close’s title character, an Irish woman living…
Sight Seeing
Take a trip through the Humboldt menagerie.
Occupy not Over
Editor: Interestingly enough the connection to world politik, American cultural complacency and widespread public ignorance could not be more clear. A battered Occupy movement now relegated to tabling in front of a courthouse. I guess the anti-Occupy won. The silent majority spoke, within their designated lines a few Fridays ago, as well as in the local…
I Mean… What Humboldt Does
Oh, this what we meant to say.
Street Food
Slipping out the back door of the Alibi way past midnight on a Saturday, my stomach growling for food, I was dreading the probable line at Don’s Donuts. There would be famished teens, street people and half-drunk bar patrons waiting to order SE Asian sandwiches, pizza slices or classic sugar-bomb donuts. But right down the…
Brain Transplant
If you’re in the business of swapping body parts, I suppose the only time when you’re better off being the donor than the recipient is in the case of a brain transplant. With an organ like a heart or liver, you get it from someone who has recently died or perhaps, in the case of…
Old Ideas
The title for Leonard Cohen’s new album, Old Ideas, was the original title for Cohen’s previous studio album, 2004’s Dear Heather. As opposed to the bare production (and cheesy keyboard arrangements) that dominated Dear Heather, Old Ideas is fitted with a sharper suit — acoustic guitars, drum, bass, organ — that elegantly adorn Cohen’s intimate…
Take the Money and Run With It
My little girl plans to take her savings and buy a gong. That’s because whenever guests come to dinner, the conversation among the adults at the table gets so lively the poor kid can’t get a word in. When she wants to add her pipsqueak voice to the conversation, she figures, she’ll just hit the…
Distrust That Particular Flavor
William Gibson is the first-generation cyberpunk fictionist (Neuromancer, “Johnny Mnemonic”) who coined the term “cyberspace” in a short story, first used “the matrix” to describe the web, and is credited with inventing the concept of virtual sex, all before any of this was realizable, and a decade or so before he even had a computer…
Juicy Fruit Breakfast
My Grampa sold candy, Stored in an ancient…
All in Your Mind
The late Hobart Brown would undoubtedly approve. The upstairs bedrooms in the Ferndale Victorian that one housed his Hobart Galleries, along with his studio and living quarters, are once again full of art — the walls hung with paintings and more in progress on easels. The gallery space downstairs currently features bronze sculptures by the…
Steamed at ‘Burned’
Editor: After reading Zach St. George’s article “Burned by the Wait” (Feb. 23), I was struck not so much by the contents of the article, but by the glaring omission of any consideration of the actual cause of Ms. Thompson’s and 10 other individuals’ abrupt trip to homeless status. What concerns me is the author’s…
Higher Learning
It’s a sunny Saturday in Southern Humboldt and a dozen or so people are seated on folding chairs in a windowless room, listening to two enthusiastic young San Francisco lawyers talk about race, gender politics and the history of feminism. Oh, and marijuana. Welcome to 707 Cannabis College, where “higher learning” takes on a whole…
What’s Canada Day?
North of the border, Canada Day is a federal holiday commemorating the first day in July 1867, when three British colonies united to become a single country, Canada. It’s akin to our Independence Day, but more about interdependence. Then there’s the New York City improv combo, Canada Day, founded by Harris Eisenstadt, a drummer born…
All Kinds of Good
To shamelessly co-opt the sentiment of the latest Springsteen single, in HumCo, we take care of our own. So there. Now, it would be foolish to assume that there is some inherent region-specific generosity that souls of Humboldt dwellers are innately filled with — there’s probably other tight-knit, compassionate communities out there somewhere. But judging…
On Their Way
MORE MUSIC: Music & More Grid / Events Calendar Fans of folky indie rock know the work of Portland’s Blitzen Trapper, especially since the band’s cool breakthrough album from a few years back, Furr. Perhaps you heard BT play “Might Find It Cheap” earlier this winter on Letterman. American Goldwing from 2011 is the latest…
