Stress Fracture
Is College of the Redwoods broken, or finally healing correctly?
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Stress Fracture
College of the Redwoods’ main campus — a herd of squat wooden buildings overlooking green pastureland and Humboldt Bay from a wide shelf at the base of a redwood-draped hillside, seven miles south of Eureka — sits on a network of active fault lines. Not by design, mind you. The campus was constructed in the…
Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki: The Journal’s science guy touches on the nuclear bomb this week from a technical angle – here a piece titled “Purpose of Remembering,” written by Eric Freed, a Catholic priest who directs HSU’s Newman Center, published today in The Japan
Cinephile Paradiso
For fellow film lovers who, upon discovering the recent closure of Arcata’s Video Experience — supplier of multi-region-code, rare, cult, imported and otherwise snob-pleasing DVDs — went into a depression darker than Death’s robe in The Seventh Seal , don’t despair! Your beloved Janus , Tartan and Criterion Collection deluxe edition remastered discs are just…
How to Avoid Shouters
August is vacation time for Congress and all the Congresspeople are out talking with their constituents — for the Dems that means drumming up support for Obama’s health care plan. If you’ve been following the news lately, you’ve heard about the anti-health care protesters shouting “just say no” at various Democratic Party town hall meetings…
Hunter: ‘Time to do other things’
Dennis Hunter won’t be running for re-election to the Humboldt Bay Harbor, Recreation and Conservation District, leaving his Eureka-based seat up for grabs in the Nov. 3 election. “I promised my constituents I would finish out the term,” Hunter told the Journal by phone Tuesday evening. “I think it’s time to do other things.” Former…
Gadget Alert!
resident. Business Week has a story about our very own King of Gadgets, Bob Crane of C. Crane, the Fortuna-based company. You may remember Hank Sims’ curious tale involving C. Crane a few years ago. Anyway, the Biz Week thing’s a candid Q and A, and if you didn’t already like the guy, you just…
$2,482,499
$2,482,499: That’s how much the County of Humboldt is set to lose under the recently passed state budget, according to a handy database set up by the Sac Bee designed to “See how much your local government will lose under state budget.” Add to that $2,482,499 from the county cofers (which amounts to $19 per…
BuhneTV
that. Ryan Hurley dons the slick-talking Young Republican look for the debut of Eureka Now! , an action-packed Headwaters Funded YouTube “news” magazine.
Harvest time
While dozens of amateur horticulturists supplement their income during Humboldt County’s annual trimming of the harvest, a multi-agency law enforcement effort aimed their blades a little closer to the root, eradicating nearly 30,000 marijuana plants in just four days. CAMP, which I believe stands for Cops Amping Marijuana Prices, joined forces with the Humboldt County…
Killer algae on the Van Duzen
The Humboldt County Department of Health and Human Services today issued the following warning: AGENCIES WARN AGAINST VAN DUZEN RIVER BLUE GREEN ALGAE FOLLOWING DOG DEATH Due to its potential health risks, the Humboldt County Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Environmental Health and the North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board, are…
Arts Alive!
1. WORLD CUP 1626 F St. Bill Pierson, photographs of Africa. 1a. F ST. CAFÉ 1630 F St. Rachel Schlueter, Juno series. 2. THE INK PEOPLE CENTER FOR THE ARTS 411 12th St. 2nd annual group show: Steven Coach, Amanda Devons, Jennifer Graham, Eric Korbly, Sarah Mitchell, James Reid, Mike Schwabenland, Lauretta Weltsch, Andrew Daniel,…
More Simple Cooking
A previous column introduced the newsletter Simple Cooking and the writing of John Thorne, whose book Pot On The Fire won a 2001 James Beard Award, and who has been called the best American food writer by both Gourmet and Connoisseur magazines. Based on the newsletter’s success, John and his wife Matt have published six…
Noam Chomsky: Copernicus of Linguistics
He is the Copernicus of language studies, and by extension, of much of what goes on in the human brain. Until Noam Chomsky (now 80) came along in the late 1950s, linguistics mostly consisted of cataloging and comparing languages from remote parts of the world, attempting to discover family trees and perhaps — in the…
Bittersweet
In the years before my brother and I…
Laugh List
Kimberly Haile (formerly known as Kim Hodel) has had featured roles with the North Coast Repertory Theatre, including Roxy in Chicago and Charlotte Corday in Marat/Sade, but this time she’s central to the success of Love List, the buoyant comedy now earning laughs at NCRT in Eureka. It’s not that she carries it by herself.…
The NEC’s Subprime Mortgage
By now we’ve all heard plenty of stories about people who bought houses they couldn’t afford, at the top of the market and with no money down. Those luckless homeowners, many of them foreclosed upon long ago, will forever be a symbol of this decade’s great financial collapse. Still, there haven’t been many stories quite…
Harlan Ellison: Dreams With Sharp Teeth
Dark fantasist Harlan Ellison is an anomaly: a writer working in the most collaborative of mediums (television and film) who sees his words as sacrosanct, an award-winning short story writer who demystified his art by practicing it publicly in bookstore windows, and a controversial social critic who came to prominence in the revolutionary ’60s, yet…
Humboldt Folklife Festival
The commitment to people’s music was evident in the layout and performers of the 2009 Humboldt Folklife Festival. The week-long series of folk concerts and dances culminated in a free Saturday festival in Blue Lake. Wandering musicians, vendors, workshops on musical techniques, dancing and singing fostered both appreciation and skill. Add in a staggering amount…
Chide T.E.A.
Editor: With regard to the recent Tea Parties ("T.E.A.’d Off," July 23), I feel the group is well intentioned, but misdirected because Corporate America is not paying its fair share of taxes. While the U.S. has some of the highest "STATED or GROSS" taxes, virtually no one pays that rate due to deductions (including multi-gazillion…
Priceless Savage
Editor: I really appreciate and applaud Jennifer Savage’s musings on behalf of the financially beleaguered (Savage Money, July 23). She beautifully blends sympathy for fellow sufferers with practical, grounded insights and easily applied advice. Her column this week about economic profiling accomplished the near-miracle of making me feel positive and successful about my own totally…
Sactomonious
Editor: So sorry to read your headline article about the Snafu in Sacto ("California Renovation," July 23). Embedded in the "ideas" for a better day is the Fantasy Wish List of the Liberals: Rework Prop. 13 (something the voters want left alone!); rework the 2/3 majority vote needed (totally disenfrachising the opposition party); raise taxes…
Orphan adopts horror formula
Previews Opening Friday, July 31, is the third film from Judd Apatow as director, Funny People. Adam Sandler is stand-up comedian George who is given a year to live by his doctor. When he meets struggling comic Ira (Seth Rogen), George becomes his mentor. Rated R for language and crude sexual humor throughout, and some…
Emotional Landscapes
First time I heard Boz Scaggs he was playing guitar and sharing vocal duties in the seminal ’60s version of the Steve Miller Band – Children of the Future was one of my favorite records, particularly side 2, where Boz reigned. Raised in Oklahoma and Texas, Scaggs met Miller in 1959; they played in bands…
TJ’s Support Group
Attending a session of the We Want Trader Joe’s Committee can make a girl kinda hungry. They meet Wednesday afternoons inside Fortuna’s branch of Redwood Capital Bank in Strongs Creek Plaza on the south end of town — but, so you know, the bank has no official interest one way or the other in whether…
