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The Cancer Collaboration
One Sunday evening a couple of Januarys ago, several Humboldt County cancer doctors got together for dinner at a home high atop a hill in Bayside. Ellen Mahoney, a renowned breast cancer researcher and surgeon, lives there with her husband, Luther Cobb, a general and thoracic surgeon. Mahoney pulled some of her frozen homemade sauce…
Think Hitting a Deer is Bad …
Please, watch out for the highway horses! These fuzzy pets were hurrying across Highway 96 in Hoopa today.
The Klamazon Delegation
On Feb. 14, a group of young people from local tribes will travel to the Amazon to meet with activists and indigenous groups — including people with the Arara, Juruna and Xikrin tribes — who are trying to stop construction of the Belo Monte Dam. A news release from the Klamazon Delegation (one of the…
Pray for Rain: Mike June and Jess Klein at Robert Goodman Tonight
The only thing keeping me from planning my night out with Mike June and Jess Klein tonight is this stupid cold inhabiting my face. But you, you without the snot and the coughing, you should not miss this chance to drink in the talent that is June and Klein. June’s latest album, Talking Revolution Blues, kicks off…
Blue Lake’s Rise Continues
Fantastic news from Blue Lake – Dell’Arte gave out 10 Blue Lake Rising grants last night following the inaugural Mad River Alliance Steelhead Days event. Blue Lake resident and musician Claire Reynolds shared an overview of the awards, including one bestowed on her band, Patronus. “The projects ranged from the Old Crows’ plan to put…
From the Hum: No excuses!
Wow, Saturday. Live music options as colorful and diverse as a box of Jelly Bellys. Here we go… Bang for your buck New wave darlings Space Biscuit headline at the Jambalaya with San Francisco’s solid alternative rock power trio The Institution. Opening the night is local electronica artist — are you ready for it? —…
Tattoo Hue
Ready yourselves Tuesday Jan. 28 at the Van Duzer, when the electrifying Grupo Corpo from Brazil takes the stage at 8 p.m. ($45, $25 kids). Building upon the rhythms of their Afro-Brazilian roots, these dancers are masterful technicians working with dance styles and influences layered one upon another: the expressive hips and staccato ribcages of…
From the Hum: Happy Birthday, P.C.!
Look who’s having a birthday! A-town all-star Pete Ciotti! You know Pete from Big Pete’s Pizza, the Jambalaya, Nucleus, Full Moon Fever and far too much more to list in this small space. Join him for P.C.’s Birthday Bash with funky Motherlode (he’s also in this band), hot jammin’ DJ Rickshaw and sexy Samba Da…
4th Amendment Rights and SCOTUS SWAG
When the United States Supreme Court took up the only criminal case on its calendar this year, a local attorney was at counsel table. Arcata attorney Jeffrey Schwartz — husband to the North Coast Journal’s Media Maven, Marcy Burstiner — didn’t argue the petitioner’s case, but was asked to sit in and advise by appellate…
Updated: Feds Investigate Loleta Elementary
The federal government is launching an investigation into allegations that the Loleta Elementary School District has discriminated against Native American students. The Americans Civil Liberties Union of Northern California received a letter this week from the United States Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights informing it that the office has officially launched an investigation…
Go Fish
Stop talking about the one that got away and get one on record. Saturday Jan. 25 begins the Mad River Steelhead Days, two weeks of fishing-related competition and festivities that run through Feb. 8. Tickets ($35) get you into the whole kettle of fish and register you for the contests, and the proceeds go to…
From the Hum: Soul Night, Thursday edition
Photo courtesy Freak Photo Well, hey — it’s Soul Night at Humboldt Brews. On a Thursday. “We figured, what better way to start off a new year fresh than try out a Friday morning hangover?” say the purveyors of aforementioned soul. Hop aboard with Jaymorg, King Maxwell, Matt’n’Adam and more. You can never go wrong…
A Little Kick
It’s not spring. I wish it was, food-wise, but it isn’t. My diet is suffocated by a robotic procession of root vegetables. British cookbooks extol the pleasures of cozy winter cooking, but I live in California, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, and I can’t eat any more cottage pie. Plus, your name is ridiculous. No more mashed Swedes,…
Feeling Squirrely
Hey McGuinty! Our family just moved here from the East Coast, and we’re having difficulty finding a place to live. It’s never easy, but we wouldn’t have guessed that having pets would be a proverbial scarlet letter amongst local realtors. Allen, our 3-year-old flying squirrel, is cute, cuddly, has an incredible disposition (though he suffers…
Sonido de la Luz
Remembering Pablo He understood. Each of us is a pulse of sound, scrap of cadence, shaky rhythm doubting itself, random song sputtering along in the redwood duff. What he did was listen to himself. Who does that? He rapped and rattled, playing it all out, sending himself ahead of himself. Among the waves glittering, chewing…
End of an Era
For the first time in 56 years, Eureka officers are policing the streets without Murl Harpham in their ranks. “It’s really the end of an era for the department,” said Mayor Frank Jager, marveling at Harpham’s career, which spanned six decades before he officially retired as a captain on Jan. 15. Harpham started with the…
Timber Words
Editor: Last week’s front page “Red Gold and Greenwashing” (Jan. 16) did a great job fuzzwashing Green Diamond’s obsession with short-term profits at the expense of the local ecology, economy and the fight against global climate change. With absolutely no mention of the last five-and-a-half years of tree-sitting that has challenged and exposed Green Diamond’s…
Kinder Words
Editor: I read the letter from Mr. Cortez, (“Mailbox,” Jan. 9) and while I respect his right to express his feelings, I feel compelled to explain that not all black people use the N word. Mr. Cortez, have you met someone from another country? Be assured that this word is not universal. And as for…
Correction
Last week’s cover “Red Gold and Greenwashing” contained an error. Humboldt County produced 220,000 MBF (1 MBF = 1,000 board feet) — more than 200 million board feet — in 2012.
A High Endorsement
Pot talk reached a fever pitch in the nation’s capital this week, culminating with President Barack Obama taking his strongest stance since taking office, saying in an interview released in the upcoming issue of the New Yorker that he thinks marijuana is no more harmful than cigarettes or alcohol and that he supports state legalization…
Defending Singleton
Last month I ate at a restaurant in the French town where Van Gogh once lopped off part of his ear. The bathroom was so small, I could barely squeeze through the door. “This,” I thought, “is what it is like without the Americans With Disabilities Act.” That’s the law most people equate with public…
An Unusual New Year
It’s an unusual start to 2014 on stage, with a couple of rarely seen plays opening this week and a play that won’t be seen at all. Oedipus the King by Sophocles is probably the most famous of the Greek classics. But if it isn’t performed (as it apparently hasn’t been for a long time…
New Recruit
Reviews JACK RYAN: SHADOW RECRUIT. It’s been 24 years since novelist Tom Clancy’s hero Jack Ryan debuted on the big screen with young Alec Baldwin in the cold war submarine thriller The Hunt for Red October. Harrison Ford’s iconic portrayals in Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger gave way to a wobbly Ben Affleck…
Scratch that Itch
Judging from the videos and photos capturing the Sunday night Palm Lounge scene, a better-than-decent crowd turned up for last week’s La Luz gig — and as fast as that particular all-girl surf pop act from Seattle is rising, any chance to catch them should not be missed. Good on ya, Humboldt! Thirsty for some…
Out of Hibernation
Ok, Humboldt. It’s time to get over it. Enough whining about the frost, your shivering and your wool socks. It’s not that cold out. You know what they call crisp air, blue skies and frosty mornings in most parts of this country? Fall. Most of us don’t even own a real winter coat or a…
