The man from Alabama
How Tyrone Kelley’s roots influence his forest management
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The man from Alabama
How Tyrone Kelley’s roots influence his forest management Photos by Heidi Walters Laramie, Wyo., summer 1985. The bus shuddered along at a crawl and then stopped, brakes exhaling sharply — whshhhh . The driver pulled a lever, folding the door in with a thud, and stumped down the steps to the ground. A passenger, a…
Charlie surivives Ocean’s Thirteen
PREVIEWS Based on my experience with Fantastic Four, I found nothing particularly fantastic about the four. Nonetheless, opening Friday, June 15, is Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer , which brings back director Tim Story and the same quartet of actors as Mr. Fantastic (Ioan Gruffudd), Sue Storm (Jessica Alba — so beautiful, such…
Bummer
When the other shoe dropped, it did so very quietly. On Monday afternoon, not even Eureka city officials knew that relatives of Cheri Lyn Moorehad finally made good on their threat to sue the city and members of its police department. This despite the fact that the federal suit had been filed in San Francisco…
Hello, Tartuffe…
In his roundup of summer Shakespeare in the Bay Area, San Francisco Chronicle drama critic Robert Hurwitt noted the predominance of plays dealing with "bloody, conniving or inept abuses of power," including five separate productions of Macbeth. Even the four productions of The Tempest fit the trend, he writes, since "as famous as it is…
Press of ages
When Chad Helmonds entered Humboldt State University five years ago, he weighed 315 pounds — a football player, 6’2”, a big guy by any standard. He had lifted weights in high school as a part of his football training, so he took some notice of the weightlifting records on the wall the first time he…
Whild in the Streets
Whild Peach guitarist David Whild wasn’t quite sure what the band was doing in Bozeman, Mont. "We’re further and further from home everyday," he said when I called him at a Bozeman motel. Home is Atlanta, Ga., and has been since Whild and his musical partner Peach moved there from Dallas in 1994. "The thing…
Risotto, oh oh!
Risotto is an Italian dish that seems to have acquired, upon arrival in this country, an aura of mystique, as if its preparation entailed some kind of magical procedure. Is this true? Not that I am aware of. What risotto does require is the right kind of rice, a willingness to suspend multi-tasking for about…
A sunbeam in the studio
Janie Walsh’s life work on sale this weekend Janie Walsh didn’t want me to wait for her. She said to head on back to the studio; she’d get there eventually. "Getting old’s not for sissies," she called out with a laugh from the hallway, plodding slowly outside with a walker she painted in bright colors.…
Ten gardens
The annual HBGF Tour makes a stop in Ferndale The Humboldt Botanical Garden Foundation’s annual garden tour is set for Sunday, June 24 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Ten gardens in Ferndale, Fortuna and Eureka will be open for the day, and you’ll also be able to visit the botanical garden site itself at…
