Roasted
Coffee and Internet voodoo at the Sacred Grounds libel trial
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Roasted
On the stand last week, Pamela Olsen, co-owner with her husband of a small coffee roasting company called Bayside Roasters, cried when she recounted the feelings she had gone through in November and December of 2005. On the Sunday before Thanksgiving of that year, she got a call from one of her customers telling her…
Reggae River Rising
The battle over the future of the multi-million dollar Reggae on the River music festival down Southern Humboldt way rages on. After devolving into a nasty war of words in the blogosphere, with commenters taking pot shots under the cloak of anonymity, flames rose high last week with a pair of announcements that came almost…
Hanging on the telephone
Let it not be said that there is no good coming out of the Pacific Lumber bankruptcy hearings currently underway in Corpus Christi, Texas. Yes, severance packages for laid-off employees have been frozen. Yes, around 3,000 people or business entities, a good number of them local, have been stiffed out of money owed them by…
Sunshine, Symbols and Remembrance
The sun came out Monday and everybody seemed drunk on it. Down in town, in Arcata, a man in one backyard had pulled off his shirt to bare his muscled pale arms to the warmth. A woman in her garden was in a tank top. Everyone dangled jackets and sweaters under their arms as they…
Scourge of the gophers
Welcome to the second in a series of interviews with Humboldt County gardeners. Today’s chatty gardener is Janet Sclar. She’s been gardening in Hydesville for six years, and she works as a farmer’s market vendor and does customer service and web design for her husband’s mail-order nursery business, Amity Heritage Roses. What’s the best thing…
More Than Refrigerator Paintings
The first weekend in March is going to be pretty exciting, and not just because it’s my birthday. Humboldt State will be hosting the Education Encounter, which combines the forces of the Diversity Conference and the Education Summit. The Education Summit was initiated by the late Eric Rofes, whose untimely death last year left the…
In the Night Kitchen
It’s hard to miss the Community Kitchen at the new Eureka Co-op – just look at the back of the store for the giant capital letters spelling KITCHEN, and the slightly smaller "cooking demonstrations." So far the room has mostly been used for meetings, everything from dental hygienists and Boy Scouts to the Co-op board…
Feel the Pulse
Bob Marley was born on February 6, 1945 at Nine Miles, Saint Ann, Jamaica. Legend that he is in the world of reggae, his birthday is still commemorated long after his death, and most years the Bob Marley celebrations stretch through the entire month. The Ragga Muffins Tour is one such Marley-esque congregation, a string…
