Summer of Fun 2009
Organized summer activities for children.
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Summer of Fun 2009
Humboldt County has a wealth of organized summer activities for children. This is just a survey of what’s available. For more information, contact your school, church or pick up a copy of the Humboldt Kid’s Digest at a branch of the Humboldt County Library, the Eureka Chamber of Commerce or county agencies. Most of these…
Youth Protection Acts In Court
Times.” A federal judge will hear oral arguments a week from today June 9 on the Eureka and Arcata Youth Protection Acts — the DOJ-challenged measures heartily approved by voters last November to ban military recruiters from hitting up minors to join the military. Here’s the news release from Dave Meserve, who notes: Whatever the…
Awesomest Municipal Politics Story of the Year
reports.Awesomest Municipal Politics Story of the Year: Neither the city clerk nor the reporter nor the local Deep Throat understand the concept of rational numbers. “Idiocracy, here we come!” as one Redditor commented. “Brazil said she used the calculation of .66 multiplied by 206 to obtain the number. But using .6666 — a more accurate…
John Ross takes no prisoners – SFBG Politics Blog
John Ross takes no prisoners – SFBG Politics Blog: The former Arcatan, poet/activist/journalista/author was honored by the S.F. Board of Supervisors. He read the Supes a poem, included here. Tim Redmond
Sunshine Photo Contest
You’ve heard about Sunshine for Humboldt , the “non-profit civic association” that “celebrates the people and places that make our county a good place to live.” Heraldo took note of their website a few weeks back and if you listen to KINS, you may have heard their radio spots. Now it seems they’d like some…
Bigfoot Says So Long
Bigfoot has put his motel on the market and is summering in Oklahoma’s Kiamichi Mountains. So there.
Running The Cup
organic. From Runner’s Web we learn that McKinleyvillian and ultrarunner Todd Braje is the newest member of the USA 100K Team, which will be kicking up the dirt in Belgium on June 19 at the International Association of Ultrarunners (IAU) 100K World Cup. And from another trail runner, who interviewed Braje on his blog, we…
Organic Dairies Watch the Good Times Turn Bad – NYTimes.com
Organic Dairies Watch the Good Times Turn Bad – NYTimes.com: Can things get worse for the dairy biz? Yes. This piece does not mention the troubles of Humboldt’s dairymen, but highlights systemic problems that must be touching locals who went
McG + Terminator = McTerminator
Note: I’m just back from six weeks in Portland and despite the manifold gastronomic and cultural seductions of the city I managed to see 24 films. Among the standouts are the beautifully realized Tokyo Sonata from director Kiyoshi Kurosawa, about the disintegration of a contemporary Japanese family; Everlasting Moments, a wonderful historical film from Swedish…
Take Heart
On Tuesday, the California Supreme Court upheld Proposition 8, last year’s citizen’s initiative that amended the state Constitution to explicitly prohibit marriage between two people of the same sex. The reasoning behind the court’s decision was sound, given that it was tasked with considering a precise, technical matter of law. The actual result of the…
abstract dissident
He calls his new album Newspeak, a reference to George Orwell’s 1984 that’s far from accidental. Ivan Ives was born in Russia, son of a dissident artist. "My dad’s still not welcome there," he told me, calling from L.A. "Even though it’s kind of a democracy now, there’s still a lot of KGB around and…
Cutting School
Last week, Eric Grantz, superintendent and principal of Jacoby Creek Charter School District, sent a letter to parents with the latest bad budget news. "Due to the financial state of the State it has become necessary to reduce our school budget by $182,000 for the 2009-10 school year," he wrote. "This figure is in addition…
Smoke It Out
Editor: Finally. After presiding over countless huge Journal spreads and covers romanticizing marijuana and the Humboldt culture surrounding it, Hank Sims has actually said “enough” (“Town Dandy,” May 14). And here I was beginning to think he was the personal PR man for growers. Sorry, Hank. As Sims said, the incident involving AK-47s, bulletproof vests…
Byrd’s Sweet Song
Editor: First off, let me just say that Joseph Byrd is an excellent person and a friend of mine. Even so I can easily understand the outrage and often angry responses he sometimes gets to the articles he’s written here in the Journal. I am writing, however, to congratulate both Joseph and the North Coast…
Salt Lake Bigotry
Editor: Is the NCJ resorting to using Internet film reviews, similar to the Times-Standard (“Filmland,” May 21)? Furthermore, you chose a critic from Salt Lake City for a film not complimentary to religion (Catholicism, in particular). Why not dredge up a review by Mel Gibson? Suzanne Crothers, McKinleyville
Quixote Rides Again
Editor: I love you guys. The Journal covers the Humboldt beat wonderfully, from hot headlines to deep-digging investigations to whimsical features that are really about us. It even has the best ads. But nobody’s perfect. I have to agree with Mark Letlow’s letter (“Mailbox,” May 14). Is the foul language supposed to be sophisticated? Bold?…
The Plaza’s Cherry Blossoms
That they return to us each year…
The Right Stuff
By automatically offering my right hand when I meet someone new, I’m betraying my right-handed bias — and that of my culture, since the hand that I shake is also the right one. In fact, almost all the world favors right over left. For instance, soldiers universally salute with their right hands. Tools are generally…
Dinner at The Herbfarm
In Bradenton, Florida, there is a popular restaurant with a "roadkill" menu; entrees vary with season and availability. A mediocre Chinese restaurant in Paris charges $110 for soup with broccoli and tofu, and is nearly impossible to get into, being the favorite hangout of haute couture models and designers. In Nanning, China, The Red Guard…
Actor
St. Vincent is an unusual character. Berklee College of Music dropout, Polyphonic Spree alumnus, multi-instrumentalist, singer and songwriter, Annie Clark adopted her stage name, "St. Vincent," from the New York hospital where poet Dylan Thomas died (hours after being carted out of the White Horse Tavern). In 2007, after touring with Sufjan Stevens’ band, Clark…
101 Milestones
It doesn’t get any more Humboldt than Bill Morrill, creator of 101 Milestones. Morrill wasn’t exactly born here in Humboldt County, but he moved here in ’72 so forget about it. He’s been here for days. Some time ago, back in 2004, Morrill came up with the 101 Milestones concept. Morrill recognized how rich the…
Producing Laughter
As a teenager, Mel Brooks’ summer job at a resort hotel was insulting guests, parodying popular singers and improvising outrageous acts as a kind of court jester called a tummler. Entertainment was a major attraction for the mostly Jewish patrons of mountain resorts in New York and Massachusetts. The stage shows were directly in the…
Summer Festival Guide 2009
As they say in the song, "Summer’s here and the time is right — for dancing in the streets." Well, it’s almost summer, anyway, and time to think about all those summer music festivals, where, locally, the dancing mostly takes place in parks and meadows. The last couple of years a report on this seemingly…
