Station Identification
With the controversial termination of KHSU’s general manager, listeners and underwriters wonder if their radio is about to be sanitized
Cover Story
Station Identification
Lance Hardie, a volunteer at public radio station KHSU, was upset. None of the people calling the shots at KHSU had any true love for the station, its mission, its service to the community of listeners. Humboldt State University, owner of KHSU’s broadcast license, was calling the shots from above, and without consulting the people…
Humboldt: Street View’d!
We’ve been waiting for a year ; now it’s finally here ! From Rio Dell to Patrick’s Point, Humboldt County has been added to Google Street View! Now’s when the fun starts. We’re going to give some kind of prize — TBA, but awesome — to the Street View sightseer who finds the best Humboldt…
Batley in at ER?
The word coming over the transom this morning is that longtime Eureka Reporter staffer Diane Batley has been tapped to replace departed editor Glenn Franco Simmons. This would seem to confirm some earlier intel we had received, one part of which was that a thorough nationwide talent search came up bupkis. Batley is 32 years…
The Lipizzaner Backlash
As always, we are gratified when one of our hard-hitting news stories busts out of the page and acquires a life of its own. And such has been the case with Heidi Walters’ pretend expose of the city of Arcata’s attempt to quash the “World Famous Lipizzaner Stallions.” In the real world, we understand that…
Reggae on the River 2008
July 19 at Benbow State Park In front of an adoring crowd, Culture’s lead singer Kenyatta Hill dedicated his performance at Reggae on the River to his deceased father, the roots star Joseph Hill. The senior Hill helped found the band and penned such esteemed roots classics as “Two Sevens Clash” and “Zion Gate.” Gigantic…
Gojira
It’s the movie that launched at least 30 sequels, but the original has rarely been seen in the U.S. For most Americans, Godzilla: King of the Monsters started the franchise in 1956, and things devolved from there: from the barely comprehensible mashup of Raymond Burr attempting to interact with Japanese footage to badly dubbed city-stomping…
Before Travel
The moon leans down through my window And…
DIY Cheese
It’s hot. Really, really hot, in a way that you lucky Humboldters may be lucky enough to only recall as a theoretical concept. I am sitting on my bed, huddled like a junkie over and under a precariously stacked slalom of fans whirring away in dissonant hums, waiting for the timer to ding its happy…
Stop the Press
Local news merchant Jack Durham sits in his sunny, cozy office behind his office phone, keyboard and a ’90s desktop Mac computer. Hundreds of issues of faded McKinleyville Press newspapers are strewn haphazardly on the bookshelves that line the sidewall. A wooden pachinko machine leans against the back wall. He says he’s taking that with…
A B- For X
Previews The new X-Files film made a believer of few people, so opening on Friday, Aug. 1, is the latest summer wannabe box office hit The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, starring the suddenly busy Brendan Fraser. Fraser reprises his character Rick O’Connell who, along with his son (Luke Ford), wife (Mario Bello subbing…
The Unknown Coast
The Unknown Coast By Hank Sims We’re going to have more on this next week, but we’d be remiss if we didn’t once again note that the Mendocino Redwood Company has officially and (all but) incontrovertibly won. They will be the owners of the Pacific Lumber Co. by the time you read this, thanks to…
On The Rise – Again
Well, it’s that time of summer, time for Reggae — again. You might be thinking, wasn’t Reggae on the River a couple of weeks ago? It was. This weekend it’s Reggae Rising, the massive festival at Dimmick Ranch on that familiar bend of the Eel River. By all accounts RotR was a successful venture, raising…
First Saturday Night Arts Alive!
Presented by the Humboldt Arts Council and Eureka Main Street. Opening receptions for artists, exhibits and/or performances are held the first Saturday of each month. Phone 707-442-9054, for more information or to have an exhibit/performance included. 1. WORLD CUP 1626 F St. Robert Daugherty, black and white photographs; Burt Severy, sculpture art. 1a. F STREET…
Last week’s cover story, “Lazio’s Last Stand”
Last week’s cover story, “Lazio’s Last Stand,” contained several errors in respect to the Bayfront One property development. First, there are two other partners in the property, apart from Greg Pierson and Larry DeBeni, who were cited in the article. They are Susan Rasmussen and Catherine Dunaway. Second, the article misstated the city of Eureka’s…
The Way It Was
Editor: “Lazio’s Last Stand” (July 24) was well done and of great significance to the harbor issues of today. It is also the perfect, living example of why local governments should not get involved in economic development. They should leave that to the private sector, guided by the marketplace. Go down and look at the…
Restaurant Reminiscence
Editor: On July 4, 1973, my wife and I visited Eureka for the first time. We were living in Illinois and on vacation, traveling the coast from San Diego to Victoria, B.C., and eating seafood every chance we got. The desk clerk at the motel recommended Lazio’s. The dining room was full when we arrived…
Waterloo
Editor: I realize that previewing movies is subjective, but after reading Charlie Myers’ inane review of Mamma Mia! I had to respond (“Filmland,” July 24). Myers says the “musical’s lame story” is adapted from the very popular British West End stage production. I had the pleasure of seeing it last year on Broadway where it…
Rose of Di Rosa
Editor: Thank you, Amy Stewart, for visiting the Di Rosa Preserve, and for writing about it (“Dirt,” July 24). I spent three years as a volunteer there, guiding tours. Rene never called us docents; he said our main purpose was not to lose anyone on the property. Rene’s collection always surprised me, and I left…
Luminous Color
I’d recognize Joan Gold anywhere — her paintings that is. I only met her for the first time last week to interview her for this article, but I have been looking at her paintings for more than 10 years now, and they are very distinctive. Mostly it’s the colors. Some artists have a particular “palette,”…
Concretions
Meter-sized spherical rocks decorate Bowling Ball Beach three miles south of Point Arena in Mendocino County. They have gathered there into rows on a corrugated wave-cut platform eroded into inclined sedimentary sandstones. These hard spheres are not boulders abraded by rivers or surf, but are erosion-resistant calcite-cemented spheres eroded directly from those inclined softer sandstones.…
Feed the Animals
By Girl Talk. Illegal Art. “Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to bear witness to the holy union of these two songs: Do you, Jay Z’s ‘Big Pimpin,’ take this, The Jackson 5’s ‘ABC,’ as your overdubbed remix of a partner for as long as drunken college students think it’s catchy …” A classic…
