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The Cost of Getting Clean
It is around 8:30 in the morning in Eureka. Inside a white Victorian, soft morning light shines through a stained glass window onto the landing of the staircase. Stillness radiates from the walls the way it does when a house is full of people sleeping. In the wood-paneled living room, a motivational tape plays on…
Rallies Hail Gay Marriage Decisions
With chants and kazoos, cheers and party horns, more than 100 people sent up a joyful noise in front of the Humboldt County Courthouse this evening, celebrating a pair of Supreme Court rulings on gay marriage. Drivers honked in shared jubilation as they passed, and Susan McGee marveled that the support had begun sounding the…
Prop 8 Ban Stands
The U.S. Supreme Court announced this morning a pair of rulings that thrilled gay marriage advocates in California and around the nation. Justices declined an appeal from supporters of Proposition 8 — which banned gay marriage in California after passing in 2008 — essentially upholding a 2010 ruling by a federal judge that found the…
Stake-out
The wooden stakes planted in the Manila dunes are gone again, spurned as an un-sanctioned environmental experiment. The Manila Community Services District removed them today, and is storing the slats at its office if someone wants to pick them up. According to Steve Werner, a Humboldt County building and planning supervisor, the district had to…
Funnel of Love
The fair is back, and with it the deep-fried carny cuisine we love. Oh, don’t look like that. All over the world, people of different cultures and creeds are united by a universal love of fried dough. Purists insist on powdered sugar only on their funnel cakes, or else a little cinnamon sugar. Really, it’s…
More Beer, More Problems
Editor: At this year’s Oyster Festival in Arcata, the plaza was fenced off and a $10 admission was charged (“Oysters, Beer and Cash,” June 6). Arcata Main Street stated the main reason for the admission charge was to pay for additional festival security. The large attendance and with beer sales expected to top last year’s…
Correction
Last week’s “From the Publisher” column contained some factual errors. Rex Bohn was elected to the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors in June, and the board, rather than any one supervisor, voted to appoint Lee Ulansey to the county Planning Commission. Also, former supervisor Erv Renner smoked a pipe, not a cigar.
Bikes and Booze
There is a fine art to wine and food pairing — the notes and tones of the right wine will bring out the flavors of a dish, and the balance of sensations in a dish will affect the taste of the wine. There is a similar art to pairing the right outdoor activity with the…
Third Friday McKinleyville Arts Night
Join us for our community’s celebration of local art and artists for music, food and fun. You can find more information about the artists and venues and see additional images online at www.mckinleyvilleartsnight.com.”East-West No. 2,” from Lien Truong’s “Chronicles of a Protagonist” series, is on display at the California Redwood Coast – Humboldt County Airport.…
The Bible of Psychiatry
The bombshell came a few weeks before the recent publication of DSM-5, the fifth version of the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Thomas Insel, director of the National Institutes of Mental Health (the world’s largest psychiatric research organization) wrote that the symptom-based DSM suffers from “a lack of validity” and…
Planning Ahead
On the upside, the Van Duzer Theatre provides a respectable venue for the bigger-name acts that HSU’s Center Arts succeeds in bringing to town. On the downside, something about the room inflicts a certain sedate, even prim, self-restraint upon audiences. The default vibe is that of sitting still and clapping politely. Perhaps it’s the lack…
Stonerpocalypse
Reviews THIS IS THE END. I feel somehow out of line for not liking this movie all that much. For years now I’ve been tracking the careers of the principal actors, who all play tweaked versions of themselves here. And as a writing team on movies such as Superbad and Pineapple Express, Evan Goldberg and…
About That Supes “Coup”
Editor: “Leadership Seriously Lacking” could well read “Humility Seriously Lacking” re the county Board of Supervisors’ decision to betray and traduce the General Plan Update (“Publisher,” June 13). The wisdom of Thomas Paine is apposite again, these 2 ½ centuries later: The secrets of governments, like the secrets of men, are always their defects. As…
Thanks, Ken
Editor: Thanks for the recent, inspiring “Art Beat” pieces (May 30, June 13) by Ken Weiderman focusing on local artists. Few of us really know how to view art. Mr. Weiderman’s concise interviews educate the reader with passion and sensitivity. His sumptuous sentences describe the artists’ intent, use of form and color and show us…
KEET at the Crossroads
On the outskirts of southern Eureka sits a faded, light-blue building, which — except for the looming broadcast tower and small parking lot — looks like a slightly larger version of the homes that surround it. From here on Humboldt Hill, KEET-TV beams some of our favorite shows to Humboldt County and beyond: Downton Abbey,…
You Are Going to The Fair
If you’re averse to dust, fast cars, barnyard droppings, clowns, bleating kids, baby animals, knowing-eyed weird birds, snakes, beverages, greasy fingers, dancing, smart-dog-and-cowboy-on-cow action, rabbits, chickens, pies, quilts, flowers, art —even fine art! — and carneys, then you’d better make a contingency plan for June 20-23 (Thursday-Sunday). That’s when the 2013 Redwood Acres Fair “The…
Safe at Any Speed
According to that studious set at Stanford, it takes just four minutes for single men and women meeting for the first time to decide whether or not they click. Huh? According to a Stanford study published May 2013, researchers scrutinized the interactions of 1,000 speed daters and determined that in four minutes, people have enough…
