‘Save the Trees!’
A plan to build a water tank in Rohner Park Forest has awakened the Friendly City’s inner treehugger
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Save the Trees!
Engineering consultants to the City of Fortuna have recommended that a new, 2-million-gallon water tank be built in the city’s Rohner Park Forest. It would mean cutting at least 69 trees — many of them towering, 100-year-old second-growth redwoods and firs — and 18 gigantic old-growth stumps that have become raised islands of hoary forest…
Rob Gunsalus answers some questions
If you read Kevin Hoover’s report in this week’s Arcata Eye about on what’s going on at KHSU, you came away with some unanswered questions. Hoover raised a slew of concerns and put them to HSU V.P. for Advancement Robert Gunsalus via cell phone (Mr. G is on vacation). Hoover noted, “During a fragmented conversation…
Live Folk! And More!
It’ll be up and running on northcoastjournal.com at 7:30 p.m. — “Flying Fingers” night at the Humboldt Folklife Festival! This’ll be the first of four consecutive nights of live music from the fest, streamed to your home. Then, on Saturday — all-day folk bonanza! If you read this before 7:30, go on and over now…
Bow Down to Bob
Editor: It has come to my attention that it is time to eat my words of yesteryear. I once wrote a letter complaining about Bob Doran as a journalist for your publication. Since then I have bumped into Mr. Doran at many events that any average journalist would not take the time to investigate. I…
Drawn Out
Indoors for days, I’m gone in the sweep…
On The River
With Mark Shikuma If not for a bit of trouble along the way, 2008 would have marked the 25th anniversary of the quintessential SoHum music festival Reggae on the River. To avoid enflaming the ire of non-irie Reggae fundamentalists (and we’re not talking about the Rastafarian kind), we’ll skip the history of “the troubles.” Suffice…
Keeping the Faith
I first became aware of Brian Tripp when my College of the Redwoods art class met at his apartment in downtown Eureka. It was a trip. He lived in a second floor loft apartment, one big room, and every inch of the floor (less a narrow pathway) was covered with boulders and hunks of wood.…
Welcome Back Hellboy
With Emily Hobelmann Previews DARK KNIGHT.Batman returns to destroy organized crime in Gotham for good. Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and some menace. 152 m. At the Broadway, Mill Creek, the Minor and Fortuna. MAMMA MIA!Film adaptation of musical uses the music of ’70s supergroup ABBA to tell the story of a bride-to-be…
Visit to America
There we were, a good portion of my extended family, just about ready to indulge the perennial Humboldt itch to get someplace sunny and warm, at least for a couple of weeks, at least every other year. And though I didn’t have any real illusions going in, I would say that the moment that illustrated…
Fire Without End
Five firefighters from different parts of the country climbed out of a gray truck on Sunday morning. Dense smoke pressed against their red helmets, hot and heavy like a clothes iron. They all wore yellow shirts tucked into green fire-resistant cargo pants as they pulled supplies from the back of the truck. They didn’t get…
My Favorite Waste of Time
Album by Freedy Johnston Singing Magnet Records Singer/songwriter Freedy Johnston is a strange artist. His last studio record, Right Between the Promises, was released in 2001. Since then, he has released an album of unreleased material, The Way I Were: 4-Track Demos, 1986-1992 (2004), and a solo concert album, Live at McCabe’s Guitar Shop (2006).…
Creature From the Black Lagoon: The Legacy Collection
Universal Has there yet been a remake of a genre classic that’s better than the original? Now they’re trying it with Creature From the Black Lagoon, slated for release next year. Do yourself a summertime favor and see all three Creature features from the 1950s, on this nifty two-disk set from Universal’s Legacy Collection series.…
The Death of Don Juan
Elodie Lauten Unseen Worlds In the current world of modern composition, no movement has been more influential than minimalism. With the canon of bona fide first-generation minimalism set almost in stone with the big four (La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich and Philip Glass), not much is left undiscovered. However, much less examined is…
Si, PV and LED
Silicon, PhotoVoltaics and Light Emitting Diodes are of growing importance. Here’s how they work, using the analogy of a playground slide (or RAMP). Throw kids up onto it so they slide down, pile up at the bottom, and circuit around for a repeat. In photovoltaic cells, solar photons do the throwing and the kids are…
30th Humboldt Folklife Festival
In its 30th year, the Humboldt Folklife Society’s annual summer music festival has grown to eight days — four evening concerts, two dances and two admission-free daytime events. That many shows usually brings to mind touring artists (and high ticket prices) but it is Humboldt’s own musicians who fuel the labor of love that began…
An Outlaw Cook in Humboldt County
“We’ve never had such a breakfast: heaping cuts of wild pig, some with skin, some with crust-crunchy bones, and a smoky tenderloin chop….” Photo courtesy of flickr.com user drazz. This is a memoir of a Humboldt County legend, a restaurant that broke all the rules, sold incredible food cheap and, like a meteor, came and…
Third Friday McKinleyville Arts Night
Third Friday McKinleyville Arts Night is presented by members of the McKinleyville business community. Receptions for artists, exhibits and/or performances are from 6-8 p.m. on the third Friday of each month. Phone 834-6460, for more information. 1 Mirador GlassMiller Business Park on Nursery Way. Jamie Vallaire, Photochroma,photographs. 2 Community Art WorkshopMiller Business Park on Nursery…
Eastern Promises
Editor: I guess it all boils down to expectations. We really didn’t know what to expect. We knew we were getting a Chinese child between the age of 10 and 13. We knew that they were here for approximately nine days. We knew that the kids would go to school from 8:30 a.m. until noon…
WalMart Welcome
Editor: Please don’t perpetuate the myth that Arcata has locked out chain stores (“Small-Box”, July 10). It’s only formula restaurants that are limited to nine by the City Council. Borders, Crate & Barrel, the Gap — nay, even Home Depot — are free to establish themselves within the city of Arcata, without restriction. In fact,…
Dino Fight
Editor: In the July 10 issue, North Coast Journal publisher Judy Hodgson published a letter to advertisers, explaining why the Journal will have to raise its rates. Hodgson lamented that fierce competition between the two local dailies, the Eureka Reporterand the Times-Standard, is keeping local newspaper advertising rates artificially low. “Their owners have very deep…
Skills Pay Bills
Editor: Quite a while ago, I read in your paper about unscrupulous auctioneers selling, undisclosed, unbuildable lots in Shelter Cove to unsuspecting buyers, essentially ripping them off (“Buyer Beware!” April 22, 2004). I believe the article’s message was shame on the auctioneers and shame on the Humboldt County Tax Assessor. Now you’re helping steal from…
