Seeing Red
The communist revolution hasn’t failed in Humboldt County, it’s just changed to meet the times
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Seeing Red
It was the first time I had ever heard the words "dialectical materialism" uttered inside a doublewide trailer. It was also my first glimpse into Humboldt County’s small community of communists. I had come to the right place. Sitting on a twin bed with his dog stretched out beside him in a sunlight-filled room in…
Aiy-yu-kwee Mobile Home Park Update
In January the Journal wrote about the residents of the Aiy-yu-kwee Mobile Home Park in Blue Lake who were being evicted from their homes. One of those residents, Hellen Studdert, has written an update about the situation. Well, it looks like it’s too late to save our homes, but thanks to the community for their…
Bomb Threats at HSU
Finals week … Art Building CLOSED Monday, May 12, 2008 09:26 a.m. The Art Building area of campus has been CLOSED to all persons until further notice. The University Police Department is investigating a second bomb threat on campus. The Science B Complex area has also received a threat. The University has closed both areas…
Letter from Johanna Rodoni
Dear Editor, I wish to thank everyone for the overwhelming support my family and I have received these past few weeks over the sudden and tragic loss of my husband Roger. The amount of love and prayers sent our way has been a comfort to us all. Losing Roger does not mean we have to…
Assume the Position
Well, you can take off the bumper stickers. Maxxam is out of Humboldt. That’s it for Charles Hurwitz . Twenty-two years later, and not a moment too soon, every card has been played. He’s getting up from the table, pockets quite a bit heavier, and moseying off into the Texas sunset. The once-proud Pacific Lumber…
Magnitude and Intensity
These terms are used in describing earthquakes. "Magnitude" is a measure of the energy released, so each quake has a single magnitude. "Intensity" is an indication of local shaking, which generally decreases with increasing distance from the source. For example, the 1992 Cape Mendocino earthquake had a magnitude of 7.2 determined from seismograph recordings compensated…
Third
Album by Portishead. Island Records Third is an unnecessary album. From the beginning, all Portishead needed in the way of legacy was a pair of albums that felt like they’d dropped out of nowhere — somebody’s attic, maybe, or rescued from the flooded basement of a bankrupt ’70s soul label. Portishead built songs carefully out…
Daniel Variations
Album by Steve Reich. Nonesuch. Steve Reich’s work stands today as one of the pillars of modern music. Along with his contemporaries Philip Glass and Terry Riley, his exploration of the potential emotional weight of the cyclical repetition of music phrases in the 1960s and ’70s was not only one of the last great movements…
Kimya Dawson
April 28 house concert in Arcata. House shows often make a virtue out of necessity, providing a place for touring bands that sometimes can’t find another venue, and providing a more intimate musical experience. The erasure of the segregation between audience and performer is a central tenet of the punk DIY ethic as well. So…
Sneeze
Achoo. I-am-not-my-sneeze! God bless you? Dainty and…
It’s Political
Casey Neill and the Norway Rats are on the road. I found Casey in Los Angeles getting ready to depart for San Francisco on a tour with a few more stops, including one in Arcata for a Saturday night show at the Jambalaya. Then its back to home base in Portland. Neill explains that the…
The Mint Julep
The Kentucky Derby is a hard luck race in a hard luck town. It was settled by people who tried to beat life with a pair of treys. The pickpockets are the only ones who go home winners on Derby Day. Unless you count the concessionaires, who put a nickel’s worth of bourbon in a…
Survival of the Fittest
Opening REDBELT. Jiu-jitsu master breaks his avoidance of prize fighting and steps into the ring when he must overcome a financial crisis. Rated R. 99 m. At the Broadway. SPEED RACER. Full-length live action film adaptation of classic Japanese anime series. Rated PG. 135 m. At the Broadway, Mill Creek and Fortuna. WHAT HAPPENS IN…
Jason Singleton Strikes Again
Driving through Eureka on 101, you may have noticed that a long-time fixture, the Arctic Circle, is all boarded up. On Tuesday, the Times-Standard had the report: The restaurant was sued in February over violations under the Americans with Disabilities Act. The case settled, and the owners, unable to afford the fixes required to become…
Rebuffeted
Last weekend, Chook-Chook Hillman of the Karuk Tribe got in line outside of the 30,000-seat Qwest Center in Omaha, Neb., at 1 o’clock in the morning and waited. The 23-year-old wasn’t hoping to catch a glimpse of his favorite rock star. He had a higher mission. He wanted to secure a spot in front of…
ArMack Maestros
Last Saturday night, the ArMack Orchestra hosted its 12th Annual Gala Dinner at the Arcata Community Center. When I told friends I was attending a "gala," they likened it to attending a ball, asking if I would wear taffeta and a corsage. Not quite. This gala’s theme was "Humboldt on the Bayou," and for $30…
Straining Water
On a recent Sunday evening, Mike Zamboni’s old Toyota truck grumbles noisily down the pot-holed dirt road that winds through Redwoods State Park out to Gold Bluffs Beach, north of Orick. With the sun setting, Zamboni jumps out of his truck, engages the 4-wheel drive and unlocks the contentious gate that allows a handful of…
