Mall Town
The Bayshore Mall might look depleted, but hope still lingers in its halls
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Mall Town
Last Wednesday, before the mall’s official 10 a.m. opening time, the early morning mall walkers had already been churning up the white tiles for several hours as they did laps tracing the mall’s inside perimeter. The big gate to Kohl’s was rolled up, revealing a bright interior and a sea of boxes swarmed by freshly…
Dimmick Pays Mateel
The folks at the Dimmick Ranch just announced that they now hold the rights to the Reggae Rising festival free and clear: The Dimmick Ranch, LLC is pleased to announce that Tom Dimmick made the final payment of $50,000 to the Mateel Community Center prior to its due date of September 30th. This payment fulfills…
New Pot Club in Eureka
New Pot Club in Eureka: Hummingbird Healing Center, a medical marijuana dispensary, just opened its doors right across Harrison Avenue from St. Joseph Hospital. Here’s a review that was posted yesterday. They got the goods, it would seem. Interesting to note that the club is right over the city line, which runs down the middle…
Lamer Indeed
. Just in from the Sheriff’s Dept.: Humboldt County Sheriff’s Deputies arrested a McKinleyville man late Monday night after finding him driving through town with nearly 100 pounds of marijuana in his car. At about 10:15 p.m. a deputy was stopped at an intersection when a vehicle turned at the same intersection. The deputy smelled…
The MLPA Protest
Oddly, the protest outside the Red Lion Inn today — fishermen objecting to Northern California’s implementation of the Marine Life Protection Ac t — resembled nothing so much as the protest outside the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s hearings at the same venue three years ago . Stranger still, today’s protest happened on the same day…
Klamath Dam Deal Announced, Opposed
Negotiators representing various interest groups on the Klamath River today reached a landmark agreement with PacifiCorp, the hydropower company that owns four dams on the river. If consummated, the agreement will result in the largest dam removal project in history. This is very big news, and we’ll have much more about it in next week’s…
Tsunami Advisory
A tsunami from the massive Samoa earthquake earlier today is expected to hit Humboldt County sometime shortly after 9 p.m. tonight. We’ll have an update right here in just a moment. UPDATE: The National Weather Service’s Troy Nicolini tells KHUM’s Larry Trask that this will be a very small wave that should not affect anyone…
Tripping Through Our Triangle
Atlantic correspondent Christina Davidson, who’s been on a “Recession Road Trip” and posting essays along the way, veers through Eureka and picks up a prospector named Pie-Dog….
Anti-Vaccine Vandals Strike
The vandalized Six Rivers Medical Center in Willow Creek. Photo by Ken Malcomson Some time between 6 o’clock last night and early this morning, somebody (or bodies) journeyed between Willow Creek and Burnt Ranch spraying blood-red opposition to vaccinations on school buildings, medical clinics, sidewalks and the k-rails — concrete barriers — lining the highway.…
State Parks: Safe
hospital.”State Parks: Safe: Back when the last budget go-round was just getting started, Gov. Schwarzenegger floated the idea of closing a whole bunch of state parks to help balance the budget. Many people — the Journal included — viewed it as a ridiculous bluff, a bit of shock and awe as an opening gambit. But…
Local hospital fined $25k
Local hospital fined $25k: From the L.A. Times today in a story titled, “Eleven California hospitals cited for violations leading to death, serious injury.” “Redwood Memorial Hospital, Fortuna, Humboldt County. The hospital failed to ensure the health and safety of a patient when it did not follow its surgical policy and procedure. This resulted in…
Farce, Parody and Self-Parody
Previews Opening Friday, Sept. 25, is Fame, based on the 1980 musical about students at a New York high school for the performing arts. The soundtrack has been updated and the careers the students pursue have changed. With Debbie Allen and Bebe Neuwirth. Rated PG for thematic material including teen drinking, a sexual situation and…
Entranced
When your band is from San Francisco and you describe your music as psychedelic rock, comparisons to the psychedelic ’60s are perhaps inevitable. Such is the case with Wooden Shjips. "We think of ourselves more as a rock ’n’ roll band, but we get tagged with psychedelic," said Wooden Shjips "ringmaster" Ripley Johnson in a…
Segway to the Marsh
Jon O’Connor’s a little bemused that some people are freaking out on a local birding blog about his proposal to run Segway tours in the Arcata Marsh and the Arcata Community Forest. Yes, Segways. Those electric gizmos you stand on and lean where you want to go. "I wish they’d talk to me," O’Connor said…
Brace Yourselves
The venerable National Geographic and its associated media properties go ga-ga for redwoods this month. The October issue of the magazine is just coming out; it features a long story and photographic essay, as well as a format-busting foldout cover meant to give some idea of just how impressive the gloomy old masses of cellulose…
Care Package
Editor: I enjoyed the Journal’s presentation of several varying views of President Obama’s health care reform package (“Reform!?,” Sept. 17). Kudos! However, I have issues with a few of the points brought up by Ron Ross in his article, “Many Questions, Few Answers.” While I agree Pres. Obama is all over the place right now…
Cleopatra’s Last Breath
Take a deep breath. Notice anything special? Did you catch a whiff of Shakespeare, a dash of Socrates, a trace of Cleopatra? No? They were there, just the same. You just inhaled millions of molecules which each of them once exhaled. Let’s take a look at just one historic breath: Cleopatra’s last. This came, if…
Outside Lands
The heat was killing us. The walk through Golden Gate Park lasted forever. But finally, my mom, brother and I reached Outside Lands, the festival we’d been looking forward to for months. After cooling off with strawberries and ice cream, we scoped a spot for The Duke Spirit. People crowded forward as the band appeared…
The Sun Came Out
New Zealand singer/songwriter, Neil Finn, Crowded House’s frontman, has collected musicians, singer/songwriters and bands from all across the globe — for the second time. Finn’s new 7 Worlds Collide project brings alum members from his first effort — including his brother Tim Finn (Split Enz), Radiohead’s Ed O’Brien and Phil Selway, guitarist Johnny Marr and…
No Surprises
Yet another issue of Money magazine arrived at my house (my dad means well). Once again, the fact that I am not their target demographic couldn’t be more obvious. The cover story is "4 Steps to a Great Retirement." Without opening the magazine, I’ll try to think of how they’ll advise me to get from…
Dolled Up
Guys and Dolls is a classic American musical, derived from Damon Runyon’s stories about gamblers, hustlers and show biz characters of 1930s New York, with outstanding songs by Frank Loesser. Its Broadway premiere lasted from 1950 to 1953, and it’s been revived there five times since — the most recent Broadway run ended this June.…
Yo From Afghanistan
Some days, Air Force Sergeant J.G. Buzanowski’s mission in Afghanistan is concrete. Literally. A public affairs journalist currently stationed in Panjshir, Buzanowski’s been working with a provincial reconstruction team (PRT) that teaches self-governance, supplies humanitarian aid and assists with construction projects. Recently, the PRT was helping to build a new school — checking spacing on…
