Rio Dry
A fight over an old pipeline and water woes grip Rio Dell as a rebranding effort takes hold.
Cover Story
Rio Dry
Josh and Jaime Gay have begun keeping buckets in their shower. The initial runoff as the water heats up is collected and then lugged next door so their neighbor can water her vegetable garden. It’s the least they can do for a neighbor, Jaime says. The Gays, who have five children and a growing small…
No More Late Night Jail Releases, Says Grand Jury
The Humboldt County Grand jury is calling for Sheriff Mike Downey to enact changes to the county jail’s release policies, including a recommendation to end late-night and early-morning releases. “The people of Humboldt County would be better served if Humboldt County Correctional Facility stopped releasing inmates between 9 p.m. and 6 a.m.,” reads a report…
Five Things To Know Before You Attend Outside Lands With Your Teenager(s)
1. If your little darling still wants to hang out with you, savor it. This year’s event starts Friday, Aug. 8, but the best Outside Lands fest I went to was in 2009, because the two offspring I brought with me were 13 and 15, respectively. It was their first major music festival. They studied…
A Beginner’s Guide to Outside Lands
This Friday, Aug. 8 marks the seventh annual Outside Lands Festival in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. For all the fun festivals Humboldt offers, we don’t have anything like this — which means you and your friends are likely headed down to what is the closest major fest offering rock, hip hop and indie acts.…
Reggae Daze (Photos Part 3)
Saturday evening at Reggae on the River continued with one of reggae’s oldest performing groups, Third World. After its one-of-a-kind performance, sunshine-reggae group Iration further livened up the crowd and got guests ready for the living legend and reggae icon Jimmy Cliff. Cliff’s performance was elaborate, beautiful and electrifying to say the least. After returning…
Rio Dell Can Drink Again
Hey, Rio Dell: Stick a glass under that tap, turn it on, fill ‘er up and take a nice, long pull. Then maybe take a shower. Go ahead: According to a news release from the City of Rio Dell, the State Water Resources Control Board has lifted its drought-panic order forbidding the City from drawing water…
Reggae Photos Round 2!
With the fires in Southern Humboldt the festival buzz, attendees partied on well into Saturday morning. The first evening of the 30th Annual Reggae On The River featured performances by internationally renowned artists from around the globe. Highlights from the evening included outstanding performances from Sly & Robbie and The Taxi Gang and Michael Rose.…
PHOTOS! Reggae on the River 2014
The 30th Annual Reggae On The River kicked off scorching today, Friday Aug. 1, at French’s Camp, with temperatures reaching 106 degrees. Despite the heat, festival attendees remained in high spirits and gathered under the giant shade structure in front of the main stage to keep cool. Much to the crowd’s delight, the volunteer fire department…
Feds: Want Extra Water? Show Us Dead Fish
An appeal from the Hoopa Tribe for more water down the Trinity River yielded no increase, as the Secretary of the Interior announced this week that extra flows, requested to prevent a potential fish kill on the Klamath, would not be released. Mike Orcutt, Fisheries Director for the Hoopa Tribe, was in Washington, D.C. last…
Pretty Crafty
In this era of big box stores and assembly required furniture, it’s sadly too easy to forget the importance of quality over quantity. Why make your own beeswax candles at home, when you can buy a gross of them at Costco? The folks at Eureka Main Street and Origin Design Lab want you to put…
Down by the River
If you listen closely, you can almost hear the drum circles forming down in Piercy. Southern Humboldt will soon be swarming with reggae fans from all over the country. Reggae on the River ($250, $190) has drawn thousands of people to French’s Camp in Piercy for 30 years now (ignoring the years it moved around…
Tonight’s Setlist: Avant-Garde, Twangy and Influential Options
A-town #1To a certain group of avant-garde rock fans — do you count yourself among them? — Dead Rider and Free Salamander Exhibit are legend. Dead Rider pulls off loopy time signatures, seemingly random distortion and oddball bits of sound here and there, all while maintaining a sound hypnotic enough you can’t turn away. Reminds…
Script Beats Rock
Reviews HERCULES. It’s my own fault, really. I should know it’s a sucker’s bet to hang one’s hopes on the promises of a movie trailer. But Hercules and snake-in-the-grass director Brett Ratner tricked me with visions of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson battling a hydra, a giant lion and an even gianter boar. To be fair,…
KO’d
Editor: OK, call me sick and twisted, but the idea of fighting someone you don’t know in front of spectators seems really strange (“Fighter Down,” July 24). Paying $40 to watch two guys you don’t know beat the stuffings out of each other seems, well, sick and twisted. Making money off this seems just plain…
Market
Editor: Difficult to believe that there was no mention of McKinleyville Central Market in your one-sided piece (“McKinleyville Natural Foods?” July 24). You were so busy on the Eureka Natural Foods parade route with the horses that you failed to mention that the community has been served by a wonderful small-town market for several years.…
Two of a Kind
Editor: Ms. De Rooy’s petulant attempt to own the phrase, “Gang of Four” displayed her ignorance of history. The phrase was first used in 1976 to describe Mao’s wife and three associates who were held responsible for the excesses of the Cultural Revolution, and were tried, convicted, and jailed by the Chinese authorities shortly after…
Silent Supervisor
Editor: In recent weeks, I’ve noticed that you keep contacting Ryan Sundberg, Humboldt’s 5th District Supervisor, to comment on various things happening in our community. In fact, there are two stories in the current issue (July 24), about the new businesses coming to McKinleyville and your cover story, in which he failed to respond. In…
Our Sound of Silence
Humboldt State University loves posters. Well, some kinds of posters. The bookstore sells bland posters of famous paintings and rock stars each fall. The school holds competitions for academic posters about research. Posters for events cram bulletin boards during the school year. But you won’t see many other posters. In a few weeks, students from…
Rio Dell Rising
We’re all just poor folks and we just want low-income people here.” Adam Dias is wearing a battered camo hat, Carhartt pants and a hoodie. He rubs his goatee and then grins, confirming that his words are spoken with tongue firmly in cheek. He’s one of eight members of the Eagle Prairie Arts District sitting…
A Well Driller’s Life
Talk to a well driller long enough, and his devotion to making water gush up for yet another happy homeowner (or farmer or dope grower) becomes infectious. Makes you want to chuck everything and wade into the mud with a geology handbook to become a driller’s apprentice. “I still get a tickle in my stomach…
Interview with a Ganjier
Wind your way just north of Garberville, through the narrow driveway behind the Renner gas station and, if you can find a place to park, you’re in OG Kush heaven. On a sunny, windless day, light beams through a big, open-shutter door onto several rooms bustling with activity. Workers clip leaf bunches off of marijuana…
Re-Planned Parenthood
There’s a shuffle of nomenclature going on at the North Coast’s only Planned Parenthood clinic, which is about to take on new management. But despite recent money problems, people involved in the current and future management of the clinic insist the services Planned Parenthood provides to 9,000 North Coast residents will not change. Here’s the…
Rain
Rain for a day and a half steady like the patter of tiny feet the river Trinity a muddy rush to the Klamath dreaming itself the Mississippi salmon cheer
The Music Guide That They Don’t Want You to Read!
With just one surprising trick, you’ll never want for live music again! Just keep reading… Thursday: The results will shock you! We’ve all known someone who’s gone to Reggae at least once, right? Where are they now? Waxing their dreads and cleaning their scissors, that’s where! Maybe you’re — gasp! — that person! Then you…
Live Wire
The Wire Lady grips her cat’s nose with both hands. Deft twists keep the small object in constant motion as she defines subtle structures around its eyes. Almost imperceptibly, the 22-gauge, dark, annealed steel wire takes shape. While Elizabeth Berrien talks, ears emerge from a fistful of 14-inch strands in her left hand. Glancing down…
The More Things Change
The Poor of New York, now on stage at North Coast Repertory Theatre in Eureka, is a mid-19th century American melodrama, a classic of its kind. The story involves the machinations of an unscrupulous banker (played by David Simms) and his daughter (Brittney Sky Webber), and the effects of their manipulations on a family driven…
First Saturday Night Arts Alive!
Presented by Eureka Main Street. Opening receptions for artists, exhibits and performances are held the first Saturday of each month. For more information, phone Eureka Main Street at 442-9054 or go to www.eurekamainstreet.org A. ESCAPE SALON & SKIN 215 Seventh St. David Jernigan, photography. 2. HUMBOLDT ARTS COUNCIL at the Morris Graves Museum of Art…
Fortuna Arts Night
The Fortuna Downtown Business Association invites you to a fun-filled night of art, music, refreshments and merchant specials on the first Friday of every month. Enter to win $50 in Fortuna Bucks by picking up a “Passport to Downtown” at a participating business and getting it stamped at 10 more. BARKY DOGZ BATHHOUSE 1041 Main…
Trinidad Art Night
Upper Trinidad OCEAN GROVE 480 Patricks Point Drive. Afterparty featuring surf rock by Guns n’ Barrels. $5, 9 p.m. TRINIDAD MUSEUM 400 Janis Court at Patricks Point Drive. “The Trinidad Lighthouse 1871-Present.” Benjamin Green reads poetry and essays from his book “Until Only Silence Remains.” Trinidad East SAUNDER’S PLAZA EAST. Painting demonstration by Antoinette “Toni”…
