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Internet Dreamin’
Clad in a busy floral tie, white shirt and slacks, Larry Goldberg sits on the handrail of a single lane wooden bridge, with a bulky computer on his lap and a cellular phone the size of a dictionary beside him. The dirt road behind him curves in front of a barn and a logger’s hard…
(UPDATED) Martin Movement
UPDATE: Contract approved! —- The Eureka City Council is holding a special session at 11 a.m. Tuesday (April 29) to consider a contract with Eureka-based Wahlund Construction to complete part of the Martin Slough Interceptor Project — that long-in-the-making streamlining of pipes taking Eureka’s sewage to Elk River Wastewater Treatment Plant by Humboldt Bay. No,…
Fry-nemies
The Venn diagram of happy hour offerings with a circle for the satisfying, a circle for the wholesome and one for for the naughtily fun reveals a tiny triangle of overlap at its center. This is where you find Plaza Grill’s sweet potato fries ($5 during happy hour). The russet pile shows up sprinkled with…
Humboldt Music Promoter, Musician ‘Seriously Hurt’ in MMA Fight Saturday Night
A local musician and event promoter suffered a neck injury during the So You Wanna Fight amateur mixed martial arts event at Cher-Ae Heights Casino on Saturday, according to a report by John Ferrara at the Lumberjack. Steve Watts of Passion Presents was hospitalized in Redding following a body slam that immobilized him. Read more at the Lumberjack. Editor’s…
One Hot Firehouse
Several hundred people turned out this afternoon to celebrate the grand re-opening of the remarkably good-looking firehouse in Fieldbrook. Fire Chief Rich Grissom and his all-volunteer crew of fire fighters presented a plaque of appreciation to builder Gene Callahan and his wife, Chris, owners of Black Oak Construction. Skilled and unskilled workers, under the direction…
Tonight’s Setlist: Three Ways to Go
Let’s start with the sunnier side, specifically the bright light that is Westhaven Center for the Arts. Longtime folksinger Jim Page returns to Humboldt for a special evening hosted by the Northcoast Environmental Center and the Humboldt Folklife Society. Counting Bonnie Raitt and Utah Phillips among his admirers, Page needs little introduction — but if…
Blue Lake Rancheria Chairwoman Honored
It’s been 30 years since the Blue Lake Rancheria regained its federal status, and 20 years since Sylvia Daniels — who was instrumental in the rancheria’s resurgence — died. By the late early 1980s, the Blue Lake Rancheria hadn’t been recognized by the federal government for nearly 20 years, according to a Times-Standard article at…
Spam On
There are two kinds of people in the world: the kind who cringe and clutch their artisanal loaves when they hear about a Spam cook-off, and those who start imagining what hammy delights they might whip up. For the latter, behold the Spamley Cup Cook-off on Sunday, April 27 from 1 to 5 p.m. at…
The Condors Are Coming
The Yurok Tribe could be releasing some California condors into the wild somewhere along the lower reaches of the Klamath River within the next three years, according to the Associated Press and a news release from the Yurok Tribe (see below). It’s been about a century since the huge, ponderous condor — called Prey-go-neesh in Yurok — soared…
Wrecked Ship Was Eureka-Bound
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has located the sunken wreckage of the City of Chester, a passenger steamer that’s lain underwater near the Golden Gate Bridge for 126 years. “The 202-foot long steamship City of Chester had just left San Francisco and was headed up the California coast to Eureka with 90 passengers on…
Tonight’s Setlist: Sexy-Sweetness and Punk Fury
Venerable singer/songwriter Greg Brown graces the Van Duzer on Friday night. His songs grow like snap peas, stories and music trellising up into sweet, sharp, nourishing delights. When he croons, “Ah, you get the feelin’ things may be alright/On a summer evenin’ before the dark of night,” you believe him. Expect much triggering of nostalgia…
Mother of Student Killed in Bus Crash Sues FedEx
The mother of a prospective Humboldt State Student killed in an April 10 bus crash is suing FedEx, the bus line and the estate of the FedEx driver whose truck crossed the median and collided with the bus. The LA Times reports that Rosa Rivera, the mother of Dorsey High School student Jennifer Bonilla filed the lawsuit,…
Franken Stein
With the legion of esoteric, fancy-pants beers on tap at our local bars and restaurants, why would you brew your own? Why go through the hassle and sacrifice garage space just to bottle some beer? Well, because while you can probably find a Belgian cucumber ale if you look hard enough, it won’t be your…
Hart and Soul
Sometimes the thought of a multi-day music festival involving some sort of camping seems like a far-off idea for people with much more expensive and comfortable sleeping bags. And how family friendly is Coachella, really? Let’s try the low-key option happening right in Ferndale instead. The Old Hart Theater building, where Ferndale Repertory Theatre hangs…
Gang-green
Editor: My excitement at seeing the cover (“How Green Is Humboldt,” April 17) diminished when I read the article. I had hoped for so much more about the “eco-grooviness” of the businesses and citizenry, as well as county government. There was nothing about the prevalence of plastic packaging in our most eco-groovy food stores and…
Probing Probation
Editor: Thadeus Greenson has written a well-organized, informative, and essential masterpiece (“Unsealed,” April 10). Now, please follow up on what we are going to do about it. The needs for rehab programs, closer supervision of probationers and parolees, mental health services, family support, and early intervention for troubled youth are obvious. We can demand that…
Another Apology
Editor: My spouse, Susan McGee, and I have been residents of Eureka for the past eight years and are European-Americans. We are deeply disappointed in our city for deciding not to apologize to the Wiyot people (“Fumbled Apology,” March 27). As a family, we want to tell the Wiyot people how deeply sorry we are…
Everything old is young again
The latest gizmo in the Sharper Image catalog is a sleek, portable, wireless writing device. The catalog promises “no compatibility issues with word documents or printers.” And you can use it to “Jot a quick letter, address an envelope, or write the next great American novel…” Best yet, it looks just like an old-fashioned manual…
Train Coming?
The Upstate RailConnect Committee got thrown quite a curveball at its recent meeting in Weaverville. The committee, a working group of representatives from Humboldt, Tehama and Trinity counties and other interested parties, has been working for a couple of years now on figuring how to cobble together some $300,000 for a massive study to determine…
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Bay [T]rail Update No. 9 + CCT
I have a new favorite book. Well, it’s not that new and it’s not a real book. I just discovered online the 170-page report called “Humboldt County Coastal Trail Implementation Strategy,” published in January 2011. It’s about the dream of being able to transport yourself, sans car, along the California Coastal Trail in Humboldt County…
Summer Longing
People are itching for summer. The river calls. Trails await. Road trip ideas lace through conversation. Sometimes the music scene slows down a bit, what with the students gone and seemingly half the population on vacation. For now, however, we’re still enjoying the ever-bountiful live music options, some suitable for your summer soundtrack, others a…
Imperfect Love
Humboldt Light Opera Company typically mounts a big production in late summer and a smaller musical in spring, often staged at College of the Redwoods with accompaniment by a single pianist. Meanwhile, Redwood Curtain, which tends to specialize in contemporary “relationship” comedies, occasionally does a small musical with that theme. A few years ago the…
Cue Explosion
Not everything is about subtlety. As moving and understated as the narrative gaze in a French film may be, once in a while you want a blockbuster. It’s the same with food, and this month we threw on the 3-D glasses and indulged in the gastronomical equivalent of an action movie marathon. Pie Hard Pie…
The 4/20 That Wasn’t
Did you hear the crickets on Sunday? Downtown Arcata was slightly more populated with skunky tourists, and one lonely celebrator traversed H Street, tinny whoops and slides of electronic music belching from his waist-clipped radio. But overall, it was a doobie-day downer. Redwood Park was all but empty, reported HumRights executive director (and NCJ Media…
Predawn
in the grey moonless predawn on the coal asphalt soundless but a mutter of motor and tires you, silent as a black cat jaywalk in front of my alpine white BMW I see you, too late grey on black, hoodie on jeans swaddled in that black blanket flashes of a ghost white face and tube…
Panama: Linking the Oceans
The Panama Canal is a 50-mile long waterway connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. This year marks the centenary of the link that, in 1914, drastically changed global commerce by cutting 5,000 miles off the dangerous “round the Horn” route. However, if the architect of the Suez Canal, Frenchman Ferdinand de Lesseps, had succeeded with…
Afterlife
Reviews HEAVEN IS FOR REAL. So it’s right out there in the clumsily worded title. Although the premise of the movie — that a 4-year-old visited heaven, sat on the lap of the Christ and met the sister he never knew he had because she died in utero — includes a crisis of faith, ultimately…
