Holiday Gift Guide 2009
Week 1 of 5
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Holiday Gift Guide
Look for links to all five online Gift Guides on the Journal’s home page this holiday season. We have a lot to be thankful for this holiday season. Really, it could have been worse. Remember a year ago? Yes, we had a shiny new president and – well, a sack of hope. But we also…
Heroics At Sea
Fortuna. 5:36 p.m.: The fishing vessel Scomas radios the Coast Guard at the Humboldt Bay station to say it’s sinking off Punta Gorda. The Coast Guard launches a rescue boat and a helicopter. 6:20 p.m.: The helicopter arrives to find that the fishing vessel Midori is towing the waterlogged Scomas out of shallow water. 2:04…
Shooting in Orleans
After being shot last night, Hoopa resident Nolan Eugene Colegrove, 27, managed to seek help at an Orleans home where medical personnel responded and transported him to a nearby hospital, according to a Sheriff’s Department press release. Colegrove is in stable condition. At 10:15 last night, Humboldt County Sheriff’s Deputies responded to a call from…
Robo Justice
UPDATE: As Robo-noted below, the Facebook movement is up to 43 members and counting! As one marijuana grow-hard drags Arcata Eye Editor Kevin Hoover into court , another has taken to the ‘Net in an effort to shut down the “propaganda rag,” which any self-respecting member of “our local culture” will tell you is merely…
Adopt a redwood seedling?
Adopt a redwood seedling?: State of the forest industry piece in the Press Demo centers on Redwood Forest Foundation’s efforts to find homes for orphaned baby redwoods growing in greenhouses near
The Coz Sticks It To Humboldt
Bill Cosby’s target-easy cuteness at Central Washington University’s homecoming bash sure tickled the locals. The Daily Record reported that he “kept a sold out crowd rolling with laughter for two straight hours.” High — hahahahahaha!!!!! — light: Before starting his show, he made sure to congratulate CWU’s victory over Humbolt [sic] State. “Humboldt State is…
2,600 fewer jobs
efficiently. The jobless rate in Humboldt County crept higher in October, according to stats just released from the California Employment Development Department’s Dennis Mullins, who works in the EDD’s North Coast Region, Labor Market Information Division. In October, the unemployment rate hit 11.1 percent. It was 10.4 percent in September. But we’re doing better than…
Zander’s Continuing Adventures
This week, former Redwood Region Economic Development Commission Executive Director Jeff Zander was scheduled to appear in an Iron County, Utah court of justice to face felony charges: nine counts of theft and forgery pertaining to a stolen checkbook belonging to his wife’s ex-husband. The alleged crimes, a relatively minor episode in Zander’s storied career…
Not Out of Love
Last year when Billboard magazine marked its 50th anniversary with a list of the 100 best selling artists of all time, The Beatles topped the list followed by Madonna, Elton John and Elvis Presley. Down at No. 83, in between Bee Gee Andy Gibb and Nelly, came the soft rock combo, Air Supply. Australian singer…
Eye Blackened
There’s no love lost between the Arcata marijuana grow house scene and Kevin Hoover, editor/publisher of the Arcata Eye. As neighborhood backlash against grows increases, as police takedowns become ever more common, and as national media take unwelcome notice of the quirky little town with 1,000 indoor pot farms, growers have pinned their frustrations on…
Marine Reservations
Another round of Marine Life Protection Act Initiative meetings takes place this week on our very own North Coast stomping grounds, including sessions in Eureka at the Red Lion Hotel as well as a field trip to Trinidad for a sit-down with the Trinidad Rancheria at the Seascape Cafe on the pier. And it’s that…
Down and Dirty
A lawsuit was filed last week. It alleged, among other things, that Eureka City Manager Dave Tyson sexually propositioned a former employee of the Eureka Police Department while she was still in the city’s employ. It alleged, further, that Tyson had touched the employee “in a suggestive manner.” It alleged, further and somewhat murkily, that…
River Keepers
Editor: Thank you for the article regarding gill netting on the Klamath and Trinity Rivers (“By the Gills,” Nov. 12). It is important to note that despite multiple dams, massive water diversion, temperatures up to 76 degrees, no fish ladders, a fish kill of more than 60,000 and hazardous chemicals running into the water, the…
Deconstruction Misunderstood
Editor: Ryan Burns article “Studies in Race” (Nov. 5) provided some valuable insight into Humboldt State University’s social engineering project. I know about the nature of this because I was subjected to it while pursuing a higher education at Humboldt State University. A rather simple formula is used to promote this anti-Western, anti-white agenda: The…
Mad at Mos
Editor: I started to read last week’s “In Review” (Nov. 5) with some excitement, hoping that Andrew Goff would address the cause of the catastrophe that was the Mos Def show at Nocturnum on Oct. 29. I have been searching for answers as to why I paid $25 for a performer who showed up at…
Generosity
Several reviewers of Richard Powers’ last novel (including Margaret Atwood in the New York Times, me in the San Francisco Chronicle) lamented that his recognition in the form of major awards was long overdue. The Gold Bug Variations, Galatea 2.2 and Plowing the Dark were among the deserving, while his 2003 opus The Time of…
Rossed Out
Editor: You do a disservice to your readership by including articles by Ron Ross, apparently as a balance to insightful articles by authors such as Steven Jones and Tim Redmond (“The Broken State,” Oct. 29). I have written a rebuttal of Ross’s views of the health care crisis, and Chuck Harvey of Fieldbrook wrote a…
The Mighty Leonotis
Here’s the problem with a plant that blooms in the fall: You might never see it in bloom in the garden center, and as a result you might never be inspired to plant it. The best fall-blooming plants tend to be tough, shrubby, perennial-type things that just don’t look very glamorous in a plastic pot.…
Correction
Contrary to what was printed in last week’s “Town Dandy” column, it was KHUM, not KHSU, that broadcast the Bay Stewards’ debate between candidates in the recent election to the Humboldt Bay Harbor, Recreation and Conservation District. The Journal regrets the error.
Two Left Feet Dance Project
In out of the way places, as well as in big cities, dance struggles to stay alive. As a modern dancer in New York, I watched studios, even prestigious troupes like Alvin Ailey, get priced out of their rent, moving from location to location. The Creamery in Arcata has long been a center for dance…
Invention of the Alphabet (Part 2)
Read any account of how the alphabet came into being and you’ll find a reference to the sarcophagus of Ahiram, king of Byblos (modern J’beil, Lebanon) around 1000 B.C. The stone sarcophagus has been housed in the National Museum of Beirut since shortly after its discovery by French archeologists in 1923. From 1982 to 1997,…
McKinleyville Arts Night
The Front Gallery & Gifts, 1181 Central Avenue. Crystofer: paintings; acoustic rock by Rick Bitter. Pathways Trading Company, 1183 Central Avenue. Johnny Wood, gemstone guitar picks. Mirador Glass, Miller Business Park. Andy Lucas, jewelry and creations. Curves, Miller Business Park. Laura Jones, digital prints and mixed media drawings. Conscious Home, Miller Business Park. Patti Stammer,…
Alt. Turkey
Thanksgiving came early to Bayside this year. Well, not exactly Thanksgiving, rather a grand meal on a Sunday in November centered on turkey and fixings — mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, roasted butternut squash — served to an intimate crowd of 160 plus at the Bayside Grange. The event, "Eat From Your Watershed: An Awesome Autumn…
Wild Hair
I’ll never see 40 again There’s no reversing…
Apocalypservice
Previews Fans of Stephanie Meyer’s romantic vampire series can rejoice: The Twilight Saga: New Moon opens Friday, November 20. As the second installment begins, Bella (Kristen Stewart) is distraught over the abrupt departure of Edward (Robert Pattinson), but finds solace with Jacob Black (Taylor Lautner). Add werewolves and stir. Rated PG-13 for some violence and…
