The Mormon Moment
Once-outcast religion in the spotlight as Romney accepts presidential nomination
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The Mormon Moment
Elder Mitchell Camper sits in his musty study room clutching his Mormon Missionary Handbook and reads aloud a few pages to his inseparable missionary companion. The wallet-sized booklet with 82 pages of small font disappears in his big hands. It’s filled with so many rules that they seem to be spilling over the binding. The…
Redwood Curtain Tasting Room is Open
…for growlers, kegs and merchandise, anyway. Tasting Room Manager David Franklin called to let us know that the previously announced closing only lasted a couple of days. So while you’ll have to wait until the new tasting room opens (date TBA) before you can sit around a barrel with friends enjoying frosty pints, you can…
C U, GPU?
The Humboldt Sentinel reports on a stunning ideological coup attempt at Monday’s special meeting of the Humboldt County Supervisors, wherein the conservative majority moved to invalidate the nearly complete General Plan Update and potentially start from scratch. According to the report, Fifth District Supervisor Ryan Sundberg complained that the document, which has moved through a…
It’s a bird…It’s a plane…It’s SuperFederalGrant!
The following news post is by North Coast Journal intern Scottie Lee Meyers: It was welcome news when the Arcata-Eureka Airport received a $750,000 federal grant last month to help bring a new eastbound route to the area. The airport has seen turbulent times in the past couple of years – airlines have left, ticket…
Cruisin’ Like Barney
Well, this is embarrassing: Apparently I’ve been sitting on a humongous color-scheme-change scoop. Over at the Lost Coast Outpost there’s a contest to guess — or, rather, suggest — the Sheriff’s new colors for his cruisers, which will be revealed all nice and proper tomorrow in a press conference, according to a news release posted…
I coulda been Cruz’n
My dad took cars for trade sometimes when a client couldn’t pay a bill. That’s how, when I was a kid, we ended up at different times with the ’65 Mustang, the ’67 Caddy and the sleek, square Mercedes whose age I can’t remember. All were old, all had second homes at a one-man auto…
Blood, Booze and Obama
Reviews LAWLESS. From a distance, Lawless looks like about nine-tenths of a great movie. Director John Hillcoat (The Proposition, The Road) specializes in methodical, nuanced meditations on men of violence. Here again he constructs a reality that demands severe action of its inhabitants. That reality, backwoods Tennessee circa 1930, is drawn from a novel by…
Too Confused to Vote?
Editor: The cartoon (by Joel Mielke, Aug. 30) depicting the three people who failed to secure valid signatures for the Arcata City Council ballot pokes fun at the filers, but begs the question: who signed their petitions and what does this say about the random citizen’s awareness of their voter registration status? I am guessing…
The Cool Car Guys
So there you are, schlumping your way home late after work on the 101 corridor in your homely old Honda — groceries in the back, evening sun in your eyes, list of to-do-nexts on your mind. Passing by Target as you enter Eureka, you once again notice the handful of young guys in the…
Peeps Ain’t Corps
I plan to incorporate myself. I can do that for $100 in California. You should do the same. As Burstiner, Inc., I’d have corporate free speech rights. And that seems to be pretty strong protection these days. Last month, an appellate court in D.C. told the federal government it couldn’t force tobacco companies to put…
Where Have You Gone, Uncle Vanya?
As the 2011-12 theatrical season ended in August, I took it as an opportunity to set aside the year’s musicals, contemporary comedies and clown shows for some different theatrical experiences. Unfortunately my travel budget doesn’t even extend to Oregon, so I must bring contrasting productions home, where I can travel in time as well…
Moby-Duck
Some books tell a complicated story so engagingly that every few pages bring another grin of discovery, a mental “Wow, how cool is that.” Moby-Duck is one of those books. Before you’ve finished it, you’ll know about container ships and sea ice, childhood and toys, the six degrees of freedom and the ache of…
The Un-Fair
Free entrance to the rich, Double fees for…
Occam’s Razor and the Face on Mars
The story goes that the greatest philosopher of his day, William of Occam (1285-1349) invented the Law of Parsimony, which has come down to us as the principle of “Occam’s Razor.” Roughly put, it says that when you’re trying to explain anything, you should “shave away” unnecessary premises, making no more assumptions than are strictly…
Stories by the Sea
That night, the fox had trotted into each of their dreams. But in the morning, none of the storytellers would remember him. Maybe a vague tickle on their noses where the fox had breathed, whisker-close as he watched their eyes skitter under closed lids. Maybe they tasted his musty blackberry scent on the backs…
Ladies, Play With Your Balls
Take me out to the ball game Take me out to the crowd Why is that man in that dress, you ask? I guess he thought it matched his catcher’s mask! So make sure to pack extra nylons That slide to home is a pain! Cuz’ it’s one, two, three runs you pout At…
Shiny Cars! Hot Wings! Homosexuality!
What could these three things possibly have in common? They will all be rightfully celebrated at individual, geographically overlapping festivals in Old Town Eureka this coming Saturday, Sept. 8! Oh my! Is this town big enough for three clashing events? We report, you decide! First and probably most important, this weekend sees the culmination of…
Reign of Chair
At the advice of Clint Eastwood, Will chooses his boycott of the week.
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Illuminating the Dark
For most of us there is that one artist that easily slides out of the iTunes quiver, loads itself into the Bose and fires you straight into the night. Reaching for it is as thoughtless as picking out socks. You know the music; you hear it in your sleep and hum it while walking down…
