Soccer Dreams
Coaches hope a new French connection will increase the joie de foot on both sides of the pond
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Soccer Dreams
All last Wednesday, on a bright green field behind Pacific Union School, bunches of kids — mostly girls — between the ages of 11 and 14 manipulated soccer balls with a French accent. "We must jungle," they joked, mimicking their French coaches affectionately, when it was time to practice juggling the ball — keeping it…
A Beery Exultation
Greenopia, a research company that puts together “green guides,” has declared Eel River Brewing Co. among the saintliest when it comes to green beer production. In a ranking system where four “Greenopia leafs” gains you entry to hopsy sainthood, Eel River earned three. Here’s what Greenopia said: Eel River is a small craft brew that…
Prop. 8 Challenge: not ’til 2012
Prop. 8 Challenge: not ’til 2012: After a fierce internal debate among same-sex marriage advocates over when to take the issue back to voters — 2010 or 2012 — The Sac Bee is reporting that it’ll be the latter/later
Duffy Out, Cleary In for 2010 Race
building-products.com. Yes, it’s almost a year out yet, but the races for the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors are undoubtedly the top ticket in our corner of the world — money, power, screaming, dirt — and so it’s never too early to bring the advance intel on the next go-round’s fight card. This week’s news…
CRC Orick Mill to Close
up!CRC Orick Mill to Close: The tiny town to our north loses 47 jobs as California Redwood Co. moves to consolidate the Orick sawmill with the Korbel mothership, reports
The State Budget: Still Screwed
The State Budget: Still Screwed: Sure, the state budget cuts will be painful, even devastating to many people and organizations. But at least we have a budget, right? Not so fast. As noted in today’s L.A. Times, many of the cuts approved by the governor may turn out to be illegal. In fact, a bunch…
Eureka Now!: The Blog
Times.Eureka Now!: The Blog: Undaunted by unanimously tepid reviews here on the Blogthing, Ryan “Captain Buhne” Hurley has bloggified his faux-Fox series Eureka Now!. Second ep
HSU Natural History Museum to close
HSU today issued the following press release announcing the upcoming “permanent” closure if its Natural History Museum at G and 13th streets in Arcata “due to this year’s severe and unprecedented state budget cuts”: Humboldt State University will be forced to close its Natural History Museum permanently by the end of August. The closure is…
Not funny, people
Previews Opening Friday, August 7 is Julie & Julia, written and directed by Nora Ephron, reuniting Meryl Streep (Julia Child) and Amy Adams (Julie Powell) in a film about the famous PBS chef and a woman who tries to spice up her life by trying to cook all 524 recipes from "Mastering the Art of…
Nights in the ICU
When St. Joseph Hospital placed five night-shift nurses from the intensive care unit on unpaid administrative leave in June, no one was told why, including the nurses themselves. As hospital administrators launched an internal investigation, rumors inevitably began to circulate ("Locked Out," July 2). Whatever happened, people whispered, it must be serious. Suspension without pay…
Crooked Music
Crooked is not a term most would associate with music, but that’s how Susan Anderson described a tune played by the local Quebecois band, Mon Petite Chou, at the Humboldt Folklife Festival last Saturday. I knew what she meant because a few years back, when I interviewed Jeff Kazor, leader of The Crooked Jades, he…
Co-existing
Whacking at the wild cucumber (sounds elegant is…
Hiroshima: 64 Years On
At 8.15 a.m. on Aug. 6, 1945, a tiny amount of uranium-235, weighing no more than a single sheet of paper, transformed into energy above the city of Hiroshima, Japan. The resulting explosion was equivalent to 15,000 tons of TNT, causing about 60,000 immediate deaths and perhaps three times that number over the next few…
Mythomania
The SF-based band, Cryptacize, a branch from the Deerhoof family tree, has definitely grown and solidified with its sophomore release, Mythomania. It’s an angular, oddly melodic and engaging piece of work, expanding upon its preceding 2007 release, Dig That Treasure, the band’s spare, more minimal debut. Founded by former Deerhoof guitarist Chris Cohen, Cryptacize bears…
The 48th Annual Orick Rodeo
Orick. The settlement past the elk and the schoolhouse. Land of tall trees and unrivaled ocean shores. Blink your eyes and you’re past it. Most of the year Orick is an insulated community, a hardscrabble town dealt a raw deal in terms of economic opportunity. Orick. The rodeo. This town’s premiere weekend put on by…
Il Grande Cocomero
Boxes full of watermelons in grocery stores invite us to touch, smell, weigh with our hands, employ whatever method of assessment we rely upon to choose the specimen to carry home, cool, slice and savor. And quite of bit of that happens in this country: According to USDA figures, domestic per capita use of watermelon…
I Sing the Body Erotic
"But why is a big blue dot on a big white canvas an important enough painting to hang in a museum?" I asked the professor this during a Los Angeles County Museum of Art field trip years ago. My husband was enrolled in art history. I’d tagged along for fun. We stood in front of…
Un-Godly Beauty
Editor: R. Thomas Palmer states that "creationism and evolution both begin with the Big Bang." This is a huge, but very common, misunderstanding of the theory of evolution (Field Notes, July 16). Evolution is a biological theory that addresses genetic change in biological populations, and there was nothing for biology to study for the first…
Gosh, Josh!
Editor: Joshua Kinch’s letter to the Journal (July 30) was very enlightening. I can’t believe how misinformed I was! I thought the increase in unwed mothers might have been related to Reagan-era regulations (continued by both Bushes) restricting education about and distribution of birth-control technologies, and limited teaching about human reproduction in public schools. Gee.…
Big Box o’ Fish
Editor: Normally I try to stay out of the fray of letter writing, but a letter by Gary Graham Hughes titled "Grovewashing" (July 23) needs a reality check. I’m wondering if Mr. Hughes, and the other few but vocal opponents of the Richardson Grove project, have noticed that there is a Costco and a Target…
Correction
Last week’s story on the Northcoast Environmental Center’s financial travails, "The NEC’s Subprime Mortgage," incorrectly identified Don Tuttle as a former Humboldt County public works director. In fact, Tuttle was deputy director of that department, not the director. The Journal regrets the error.
Sick Time
There is one national story that will directly affect every resident of Humboldt County: passage of health care reform in Congress. If it passes it promises insurance for those who don’t have it and possibly hundreds of dollars in savings each month for those who do. Over the past two weeks, you could find in…
