Hobart’s Children
Family and followers battle over Kinetic heritage
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Hobart’s Children
The sale of Hobart Brown’s Ferndale Victorian wasn’t your usual trustee’s auction. Out front of Humboldt Land Title Co. in Eureka, a trio of costumed Kinetic Rutabaga Queens adorned with bronze crowns held picket signs and a photo of Hobart. “Hobart’s legacy must live on!!” they implored. One queen, Shaye Harty, conversed with Hobart’s ex-business…
A Post-Dams World
In some people’s nightmare’s, ya take down the Klamath Dams and a world-engulfing blob of hell-deep muck that’s accumulated around that dam for too many years will engulf the downriver world, smothering all salmon, salmon fry, lamprey, lamprey younguns, and everyone else silly enough, in that scenario, to call the Klamath River home. And, oh,…
Mandatory unpaid vacations at T-S
If you thought the Times-Standard’s victory in the battle of Eureka dailies meant a return to gluttonous days of plenty for the 154-year-old paper, think again. MediaNews, the Denver-based parent company of the T-S , today announced that all employees — company-wide — must take a one-week furlough sometime during February or March. That means…
Flying Dogs
5000?Flying Dogs: Near-lethal
Paging Jeff Muskrat
A reader writes: my cousin might be one of the treehuggers if theres a guy thats 28 and name is cody sides he’s my cousin and we need him to come home bc mine and his great grandma u. v. sides is passing away and he needs to come home please tell him to come…
Confidential to Redway
Don’t do this: A driver weaving his pickup on Highway 101 in Petaluma was arrested early Monday, suspected of driving drunk and traveling with several pounds of marijuana for sale, the CHP said. A CHP officer spotted the Toyota Tundra at about 2:45 a.m. as it moved unevenly south on the highway near East Washington…
Save Rural Humboldt – on MySpace
I’m not really into MySpace, but I’ve had a MySpace page for a few years (writing about music, it’s pretty much mandatory). Today I checked my Space for “friend requests,” which typically come to me from local or far away bands or musicians. A request that came in yesterday was something different. I’m not sure…
IMHO
We’re still wondering about the deal between the Times Standard and the late Eureka Reporter that mandates the T-S running E.R. op ed pages twice a week. Does anyone read Peter Hannaford’s submitted editorials before they go to print? Is the page sent as camera-ready copy? Now we make little copy-editing mistakes every week in…
KHUM Fan Feed
guilty.KHUM Fan Feed: Every song and commercial played on KHUM, updated in real time with
BLACK CAB SESSIONS
adorability.BLACK CAB SESSIONS: “one song. one take. one cab.” – in London – some great musicians (including Richard
Every Beatles Song, Ranked
Every Beatles Song, Ranked: JAMSBIO ranks every single Beatles song, from worst (“Revolution 9”) to best (“A Day in the Life”). The gimmick is the least of it, though — writer JBev provides an incisive couple of paragraphs on each number. Excellent
Garden Noir
Beloved Journal garden correspondent Amy Stewart dwells on the dark and deadly side of the plant kingdom in Wicked Plants: A Book of Botanical Atrocities , forthcoming from Algonquin Press in May. Above: Please find the book’s chilling, creee-eeee-eepy trailer!
A choice meal
The Humboldt Pro-Choice Coalition held its 27th annual Choices Breakfast this morning at the Baywood Country Club in celebration of the 36th anniversary of Roe v Wade. Local dignitaries like HSU President Rollin Richmond and newly elected First District Assemblyman Wes Chesbro joined members of Clergy for Choice, employees of Six Rivers Planned Parenthood and…
Here Comes the Navy!
The United States Navy is coming to town! The Seattle Post-Intelligencer — a newspaper that’s about to fold , incidentally — reports that the United States Department of the Navy will hold a public hearing in Eureka on Feb. 2 . Concerning what, you ask? Concerning the proposed Northwest Training Range Complex , the department’s…
Oscar nominated pics open locally (finally)
Nominees for the 81st annual Academy Awards were announced yesterday morning and as it turns out, three of the five films up for Oscars for “Best Picture” are just now coming to theaters in the Humboldt County hinterland. We’re trying to decide which one to see first. Director Danny Boyle ‘s Slumdog Millionaire opens tonight…
The Change Card
Like countless other Americans, Anthony Mantova of Carlotta saw in the election and inauguration of Barack Obama an opportunity — not for something grand and abstract like restoring the world’s faith in the United States or breaking down racial barriers, but an opportunity nonetheless: Mantova is trying to sell Barack Obama’s business card on Craigslist…
Floodgates Open
Previews Film fortune finally smiles upon filmslumdog Humboldt County. Opening Friday, Jan. 23 is Slumdog Millionaire (see review below); Milk (see review); Revolutionary Road, directed by Sam Mendes with Kate Winslet reunited with Leonardo DiCaprio in suburban angst (Rated R. 119m. At the Broadway); The Wrestler, featuring comeback kid Mickey Rourke as a pro wrestler…
Electric Cars and Stuff
The chattering strand of fourth and fifth graders snaked out of the bright yellow school bus, hustled through a gap in the cyclone fence and filed into the open door of Dow’s Prairie Elementary School. "Drop your backpacks and go straight to the library," their teacher instructed. "We’re gonna go watch the inauguration." A concentric…
Collective Consciousness
Is there such a thing as the Humboldt sound? Maybe, but then again, maybe not. There are a lot of distinct music scenes in the county, some of them intersecting, some discrete. Identifying a common thread is well nigh impossible. There is, however, something of a Humboldt groove that ties together one big slice of…
Weedkiller
Back in December, when we selected and wrote about Humboldt County’s “Top Ten Stories of 2008” (patent pending), reporter Ryan Burns came across a startling fact. For the first time in many, many years, Humboldt County’s unemployment rate had just slipped beneath the state average. For the first time in living memory, more Humboldt County…
Restodollars
Editor: Thank you, Seth Zuckerman, for putting your finger right on it (“Bond Freeze,” Jan. 15). Water and park bond funds are economic stimulus, infrastructure development and training. Those dollars support local vendors and contractors, improve ecosystem health and public access, extend scientific understanding and educate the public about the world we live in. A…
Necessary Stories
Editor: I must take issue with the letter in the Jan. 15 edition about the Journal’s Dec. 25 cover story, “Saving Sam.” The letter-writer expressed her being upset that the Journal had “decided to undress Sarah Price so publicly.” She said the article by Heidi Walters was “an intrusive move.” And she complained about the…
Considerate Cartooning
Editor: This is the second cartoon you’ve published regarding the mental capacity of Winco shoppers (“Contraceptive Programs,” Jan. 15). I think it is rude and very unjournalistic. I am a Winco shopper. The employees are kind and considerate. The prices are excellent. What happened to those good cartoons by Hugh Dalton? Oh, I guess he’s…
Ready for My Close-Up
On most days, the only way I get through my life is by reminding myself that it’s okay to have very relaxed standards about pretty much everything. The whole house needs to be vacuumed, but it’s not as if Good Housekeeping is coming over to do an inspection later this afternoon, and besides, nobody ever…
Crlenjaked
Editor: The battle of Measures F and J, as described in the “Town Dandy” of Jan. 8, is a battle that never had to happen. The way to defeat Dave Meserve, Jack Nounann and Amy Goodman is for every family of Bush dead-enders to make sure at least one of their children enlists in the…
Pre-dawn Saturn
Trying to stargaze from downtown Eureka is a bit like someone suffering from agoraphobia setting up camp in the middle of Times Square: not the smartest move. Still, the optimists in our ranks can try to spot a few glimmers in the night sky, especially the most prominent ones. My shortlist would definitely include the…
Magnum/Side Iron
Would someone unfamiliar with the guys in the band find Magnum entertaining? Laugh at Terrence’s antics, express amazement over his falsetto? Would he or she notice how seriously Bohner takes his drumming, note the fun Steve S. has on bass? Would someone who doesn’t know Deric Mendes recognize the irony in his guitar playing? Or…
Is It The Sea?
Kentucky-based singer/songwriter (and part-time actor) Will Oldham has had a number of noms de plume or personas that can be a bit confusing, especially when going through, and sorting out, his musical history. He has recorded as "The Palace Brothers," under his own "real" name, Will Oldham, and, since the 1999 release of I See…
808s and Heartbreak
Kanye West has come a long way since The College Dropout, way back in the distant, innocent year of 2004, when he was idealistic and almost naïve (if a record full of raps about how awesome he is and how he deserves to be a best-selling rapper can be deemed naïve). 808s and Heartbreak would…
Freaks, Not Greeks
Last April, Crawdaddy: A Freak Tragedy, produced by a Canadian mask and puppet group, the Calgary Animated Objects Society (CAOS) in conjunction with Dell’Arte and Four on the Floor Productions, came to the Arcata Playhouse for two weekends of workshop performances. In the two performances I saw of that show, Crawdaddy (played by James Griffiths)…
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give god a gun let him defend himself…
