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Help ProPublica Investigate Internships
As part of its investigation into the use of interns around the U.S., ProPublica is hoping to raise funds to hire an intern of its own. The organization is asking for donations through Kickstarter — an online, crowdsourced fundraising company — to send an intern to college campuses around the country to gather stories from…
Intern Unrest
Behind her big wooden desk, bathed in green light reflecting off a rhododendron outside her window, Joy Soll tells business after business that what they want is illegal. “Many employers — if they can get away with it — will try to get unpaid interns,” she said. Soll is the internship coordinator for Humboldt State…
Pot, Pot Everywhere … Also a Hand Grenade
The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office had a big day yesterday, as one big pot bust led to a money seizure and then another pot bust, topped off with a hand grenade. It started at 8:40 a.m. in Carlotta, as the Sheriff’s Office Community Response Team and the multi-agency Humboldt County Drug Task Force served a…
Richard Marks Appointed to NCRA Board
The tie-breaking vote fell to 5th District Supervisor Ryan Sundberg, much to his chagrin. At today’s meeting, all five county supervisors commended the two high-quality candidates for the board of the North Coast Railroad Authority — Dan Hauser, a political veteran who served in the state Assembly, helped create the NCRA and spent two years…
More Banishments?
You may remember the plight — or comeuppance, some would say — of Arthur (“Arty”) Pliny Jones, the convicted drug felon and Hoopa Valley Tribal member whom the tribe’s council last year voted to banish from the reservation. In fact — quick update — Jones’ banishment has not yet been enforced; he appealed the decision,…
Summer Arts and Music Festival
According to the Mateel Community Center, summertime officially begins during the Summer Arts and Music Festival in Benbow. The festy-season opener was packed to the gills with good people and incredible music talent on Saturday, June 1. North Coast Journal freelancer Travis Turner was there and sent back a few images to make sure we…
‘Give it Over To The Fire’
The Superstars: See your favorite artists. Start with John Wesa in the north, hit Alan Sandborn in Arcata, finish up with Kathy O’Leary and the C Street galleries in Eureka. You love their work; rub elbows; they’re awesome. The Geographic: Focused and economic. Hit the hotspots. There are four artists in Arcata’s Stewart Building, four…
Into the Artist’s Lair
From a high wall overlooking my kitchen, the Angel of Purses and Keys monitors my distraction and does her best to keep me on track. Or at least that’s what I would imagine she does if I were prone to angels. But just looking at her in the morning makes me consider: black purse in…
Fennell and Bohn Seek to Rewrite Guiding Principles of General Plan Update
Next Monday, two county supervisors will call into question the 12 principles that have been guiding the county’s general plan update since March 2004. In an email to Planning Director Kevin Hamblin sent yesterday evening, 2nd District Supervisor Estelle Fennell offered a draft of 11 rewritten guiding principles. She explained that she’s “been hearing from…
Lemonade Day
This Saturday, June 1, young lemonade stand entrepreneurs will be out in force to quench your thirst. Launched in Houston, Texas, in 2007, Lemonade Day aims to make the lemonade stand experience an enriching one, giving young people a taste of establishing and running a business. The young entrepreneurs have been planning and preparing for…
Breathless
On June 8, 2009, Stéphane Mifsud set a new “static apnea” world record: 11 minutes 35 seconds. The 37-year-old Frenchman beat the previous record by a full 1 minute and 23 seconds, setting a very high bar for future competitors. Static apnea is what most of us would call “holding our breath,” the sort of…
Get Torqued!
Reviews FAST & FURIOUS 6. Since director Justin Lin took over this then-dying series with The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006), it has become one of the biggest, silliest and most satisfying franchises in movies. This time out, L.A. motorhead-turned-international super-criminal Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) and his crew have comfortably situated themselves in…
On Bob
First off, hi. Secondly, it would be disingenuous in a community this size to act as though a huge piece of this paper weren’t missing. Last week’s North Coast Journal was the first in seemingly forever to not include a page with “The Hum” emblazoned across the top. Obviously, business is not per usual. For…
Not Normal
In the musical Next to Normal, now onstage at North Coast Repertory Theatre in Eureka, Diana is a wife and mother who is being treated for mental illness. The story follows her treatment and how it affects her husband Dan and her teenage daughter Natalie, as well as Natalie’s relationship with her boyfriend Henry. Then…
harmony borax works
a terrible sanctity sanitized in salt and poison on the tongue — this land lifts in the inhabiting wind burns beneath necessity — below the broad arc of the sun sweeping the sky it dies — rusted ruins of a century’s waste foretaste of salt’s vanquish in the sea — this life that we waltz within…
More Rail Reactions
Editor: Found Mr. Burns’ article enjoyable and informative. But one minor nit to pick. The map graphic appears to misidentify the Van Duzen River as the North Fork of the Eel. Though the headwaters of each are very close, the North Fork proceeds south and joins the main branch of the Eel near Spyrock in…
Excuse Me, Can You Put that Out?
Editor: I enjoyed William Kowinski’s critique of Dell’Arte International’s graduating students’ three-part performance (“Creepy Characters and Clowns,” May 16). I attended, too, and although it was entertaining I would like to add my least favorite part of the evening’s shows: the constant smoking of one of the characters in the third piece. I didn’t attend…
Not the Lion’s Fault
Editor: “Ranger kills Mountain Lion” (Blog Jammin’, May 16) sums up the end result, but the article ignored the fundamental issue that a loose and unsupervised dog created the situation and responsibility for the “attack” belongs to the dog owner. The mountain lion “chased” the dog because the loose dog was a legitimate threat to…
Dona Blakely – After the Daze
As an artist, Dona Blakely has run out of patience. The environment is running away from us, wars of all kinds crowd around and technology distracts us to no end. Blakely is tired of it all and feels like we need to make a change. Who can spare a moment for sappy little bunny videos…
Drama Trauma
Editor: Kjeld Lyth, the axing of whose drama program was featured in a recent NCJ (“Re-imagining CR,” April 11), sent a message of farewell to the CR community, which I summarize here: “… I have been teaching here with unyielding passion, since many of you were children. … There has not been a single word…
Tenth of December
Few American short story writers have garnered as much respect or as many accolades as George Saunders has over the last couple of decades. A darling of The New Yorker and a frequent recipient of national story writing awards, Saunders has come to epitomize certain aspects of the turn-of-the-century American psyche. With his 1996 debut,…
First Saturday Night Arts Alive!
Arts Alive! is presented by the Humboldt Arts Council and Eureka Main Street. Opening receptions for artists, exhibits and/or performances are held the first Saturday of each month. Phone (707) 442-9054 or go to www.eurekamainstreet.org for more information or to have an exhibit or performance included. 1. EUREKA INN 518 Seventh St. Holly Garbutt will…
Ready For Our Close-Up
If you’re looking for an unparalleled thrill at the movies, you can forget summer’s special effects bonanzas. Superman stunts and Star Trek warps can’t match the exhilaration of recognizing someone or something from your own life up there on the silver screen. Case-in-point: In 2008, a sizable crowd turned out at the Eureka Theater for…
A Dream of a Dance
For those who were turned away from the standing-room-only performances of A Midsummer’s Night Dream in 2011, you are in luck. Director Heather Sorter has restaged her original ballet — a dance version of Shakespeare’s romantic comedy of errors — for the large venue of Eureka High Auditorium. This soiree into the Bard’s land of enchantments…
