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When she closes her eyes, Marianne Way can sometimes still picture the teeth. It was around three in the afternoon in October 2008, and Way was taking advantage of a break in the rain to replace a lightbulb at the edge of her Fieldbrook driveway. The fixture stuck out of the ground in a small…
Tonight’s Setlist: A splash of this, a dash of that
Let’s say you wanted to create a band perfectly suited to play at Humboldt Brews… Its members would be from Colorado. They’d inspire dancing. They’d have instrumental chops that they’d use to showcase an understanding of folk music ranging from “gipsy” to “full-on mountain stomps.” They’d probably be produced by Dan Rodriguez of Elephant Revival.…
Tonight’s Setlist: Rock at the ‘bi
Oh, Nipplepotamus! Why would you play a show at the Alibi when I am out of town? Fans of the band are already ramping up for the trio’s Alien Scene album release show. For those inexperienced with the band’s hypnotic twist on surfy-psychedelic-indie-rock — go get yourself some. (If Alien Scene were subject to old-school…
Tonight’s Setlist: In Which We Celebrate the Freedom to Describe Oneself
Siren’s Song boasts “exotic dancer in full effect” for the tavern’s July 4 party. What constitutes “full effect” remains to be seen, but hopefully the offering is more original than it sounds. Speaking of sounds, those will be in attendance as well, specifically the “synthesized, rhythmic bass poetry” of Hypha, Wu Wei (a 21-year-old Los-Angeles-to-Humboldt-County…
Tonight’s Setlist: Ain’t No Party Like my Nana’s Tea Party
Gotta love a band whose tagline is “Party like your grandparents did.” Buddy Reed & th’ Rip it Ups apparently plan to positively destroy Plaza Grill tonight. The good times roll at 8 p.m., no cover. And, a little heads up from the band’s Facebook page: “It’s time to officially let the cat out of the…
Postal Consolidation Back on the Table
Eureka’s mail processing center is once again on the chopping block. It seems the United States Postal Service has once again put forward a proposal to consolidate Eureka’s processing facility into one in Medford, Oregon, which would cause a loss of local jobs and delay incoming and outgoing mail service for the North Coast. North…
Historically Dry
June 30 brought the close of the 2013-2014 water year, and it will go down in history as one of the driest ever recorded in Eureka. According to measurements by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s station at Woodley Island Marina, the area recorded about .35 inches of unexpected rainfall in June, bringing the year’s…
Update: Trophy Dog
UPDATE: This year’s Best in Show is Absolutely Talk of the Town, a smooth (damn right) fox terrier, here with her owner James Smith. No judging here — just love. We’re still waiting for the official results of the Lost Coast Kennel Club dog show in Ferndale this past weekend, but really, aren’t they all…
Look, an LFL!
That’s a “Little Free Library” to the uninitiated. And, according to our very own master of the field notes, Journal contributor Barry Evans, there’s a new one in town. Evans and his wife, Louisa Rogers, are in fact responsible for the thing, which resides on the Snug Alley backside of the Redwood Curtain Theatre. But…
Coroner IDs 26-year-old Killed in 101 Crash
The Humboldt County Coroner’s Office has identified the Arcata woman killed in a rollover crash north of Redcrest Saturday as 26-year-old Camille Louise Rand. The crash occurred at about 8:30 p.m. when Jonathan Rosales, 35, of Bayside, was driving his 2005 Dodge Ram pickup southbound on U.S. Highway 101, lost control of the truck, causing…
Tonight’s Setlist: Get Bent at Lil’ Red
The Lil’ Red Lion is owning this week with a Monday night gig by Boston’s Bent Knee, an atmospheric, avant-garde experience. One could invoke both Radiohead and Ravel in attempting to explain the impressionist nature of Bent Knee – or just check out the video below, complete with American flag for a 4th of July…
Updated. Our Miss California Contender
Tonight, at the William Saroyan Theatre in toasty downtown Fresno, the winner of this year’s Miss California pageant will be crowned after a buoyant Broadway-themed spectacular. And among the 54 contending young women is one of our own: Humboldt State University kinesiology student Kathryn Faull, Miss Central California Regional 2014. If she wins, she competes…
Pulp Mill Cleanup Continues
Trucks have hauled about half of the pulping liquors besieging the grounds of the Samoa Pulp Mill away, and the crawl of tankers continues steadily up to Longview, Washington, where the liquors are being refined and reused by a mill. Humboldt Bay Harbor, Recreation and Conservation District CEOJack Crider said the process has been smooth…
Saturday’s Setlist: Your Favorite New Local Band, Your Beloved Scene Veterans
High Crimes by Brianna Jo Thompson Sometimes a music lover gets jaded, wonders what happened to the youth. When did they stop playing guitar? Why are all the rockers in A-town over 40? But then comes along the melodic and crunchy High Crimes, which will infuse a much-needed dose of talented 20-somethings into the scene at…
Roll ‘Em!
It doesn’t matter if you prefer comedies, dramas, westerns or horror, if you’re a HumCo film fan, you have a lot to look forward to this summer. In addition to the new releases hitting theaters over the next few months, you also have three film series to choose from, plus the normal (normal?) selection of…
Tourist Trap
Hipsters, pack your bags. Eureka might be too mainstream for you now. The July-August issue of the American Automobile Association’s Via magazine features seven highlights from the “vibrant Northern California seaport, famed for teeming fisheries and towering redwood forests.” Carson Mansion, the Hikshari’ Trail, Samoa Cookhouse, Sequoia Park Zoo, Living the Dream Ice Cream, Humboldt…
Huffman Down!
North Coast Congressman Jared Huffman separated his shoulder Wednesday while, in his words, “trying to be 25 years old.” More specifically, the congressman was practicing with his fellow Democrats for the 53rd annual Roll Call Congressional Baseball Game when he dove for a ball and came crashing down on the hard infield dirt, according to…
Courtesy Titles
Ryan Burns in the Lost Coast Outpost questioned the appropriateness of Honest Engine, the name and logo of a Eureka car repair shop, after it appeared prominently in an advertisement beneath my last column (“Art Attack,” May 29.). That column was about a painting that many people deemed to be offensive to Latino students and…
Musical phlegm flam
I recently found myself sucked into a debate about whether a band member deliberately shooting snot rockets and spitting onto the audience during a show improved or diminished the live music experience. The guy who attended the gig thought being the target of bodily fluid projectiles ramped up the excitement. Most of the rest of…
The Korbel Conspiracy
Since 1992 there have been five episodes (including an unnumbered one) in Dell’Arte’s soap opera saga of the working-class Dugan family in the fictional North Coast mill town of Korbel. Korbel V: The Secret, now on stage in the outdoor Rooney Amphitheatre at Dell’Arte in Blue Lake, is intended both as a continuation and “an…
Hum Plate Roundup
Does a baby really need candy? Of course not. So what’s wrong with taking it? Go ahead and order off the kids’ menu. Little Devils You know that deviled egg recipe your aunt is so stingy with? Nobody wants it anymore. Instead we’ll be trying to recreate the one at Humboldt Smokehouse (310 Fifth St.,…
Stoned Yoni
Is there anything weed can’t make better? In the rush to imbue every last product imaginable with marijuana, we’ve seen creative candies, coffee, topical treatments, etc., etc. We’ve likely not seen the end of infusion-mania, but maybe this’ll make entrepreneurs stop for a moment and take a good, long look in the mirror. The California-based…
Awkward Moment
The photographs are instantly relatable and simultaneously mockable. There are the matching outfits, shirtless potbellies, screaming children and awkwardly posed studio glossies intermixed with candids snapped at the perfectly inopportune time. The best of them capture not just a family, but an era. One collection-defining shot — dubbed “the Magnet” — features a man in…
Did the California fog bring you visions
did the California fog bring you visions and love facing as far away from Brooklyn as an American can possibly be your children thick with curls running in the wet sand squishy toes and starfish pools (rows of invisible arms inside billowing bell shaped sleeves, saying come come come and be free) I hear the…
Before You Send Your Child Overseas
1. Everyone will gush, “What an amazing opportunity!” but few people will say, “Oh, yeah, that’s going to rip a chunk of your heart right out as you wave goodbye to your baby whom you’ve spent years protecting from the world only to now fling this being into risk’s open maw.” It’s OK to cry.…
Jersey Snore
Reviews JERSEY BOYS. When I visited New York years ago, the Four Seasons musical Jersey Boys was on Broadway and everywhere else in the city: billboards, the hotel TV’s information channel — it was inescapable. At the time, I thought disinterestedly, Who gives a shit? Now that I’ve seen Clint Eastwood’s stodgy, stagy, overlong adaptation…
The Blue Cross Blues
Editor: I want to underscore and applaud Emily Dalton’s column on the insurance mess in which we are now involved (“The Insurance Leech,” June 19). I am also a provider for Anthem Blue Cross. It has been five months since I have been paid for some of my clients. When I call them I am…
I’ll Be Missing You
I am so sorry to see the loss of Susan Masten as a planning commissioner (“Commission Turnover Continues,” June 19). She was a bright light in darkness. Kathryn Travers, Eureka
Good Riddance
Just like all the self-absorbed TV gasbags and hucksters that came before him, Corky’s just too full of himself to even take notice of just how much he isn’t going to be missed (“Bye Folks,” May 29). On second thought, I guess I do owe the man. If it hadn’t been for his early obnoxious…
Humboldt Out of My Backyard
Editor: I just stumbled across Thadeus Greenson’s piece “Behind the Brown Act” in the May 8 edition of the NCJ. In that piece, Thadeus Greenson compares local citizens, upset about a proposed ordinance that would prohibit them from growing their own medicine, to oil company executives bent on fracking. In an effort to match this…
Festival for All
It’s hard to describe Dell’Arte to people who aren’t from around these parts. There are clowns and theater and giant, costumed people on stilts, but none of those encapsulate the essence of Dell’Arte. It’s the sort of thing you just have to see to understand. The Mad River Festival is the perfect way to introduce…
