The World is Yours, Oyster Farmer
Or will be, if the Harbor District can open more of the bay to mariculture
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The World Is Yours, Oyster Farmer
The oyster farmer stands in the stern of the small gray skiff, clear-eyed, a bit of smile on his wind-nipped, broad face. Weather’s supposed to turn nasty, but he’s just wearing waders over his jeans, a black cotton sweatshirt under his orange life vest, and a tan ball cap that doesn’t cover his ears. With…
Pickup Overturned on the 101 Safety Corridor
Yikes! If you’re headed north out of Eureka tonight you might want to take another route. A pickup and a large trailer are blocking one lane of traffic on 101 between the Bayside and Indianola cutoffs. Thankfully, firefighters on the scene reported that no one was hurt in this wreck. (These photos get bigger if…
Old Safeway Morphs Into…
the new Veterans Affairs medical clinic. You might have driven past the shell of the old Safeway on Harris Street recently and wondered what all that construction was about. The Safeway closed when the big new Safeway opened farther up the road. Pierson Company has gutted the old structure and is now upgrading it to…
Westside Group Wins $3.3M Grant to Renovate Jefferson School
It looks like all the hard work, political frustrations and financial investments of the Westside Community Improvement Association (née Jefferson School Committee) have paid off. In a press release issued today, the group announced that it and the Redwood Community Action Agency have received a whopping $3.3 million grant from the California Department of Parks and…
American Airlines Deal Falls Through
It has been on the ropes over the past week, but now the deal to start twice-daily service between the Arcata-Eureka Airport and Los Angeles International in June has been officially and indefinitely postponed. American Airlines subsidiary American Eagle announced March 23 that a deal had been struck, but the announcement proved to be premature.…
Vote for Me – But This Isn’t a Political Sign!
It seems like a simple thing to label an advertisement as political or not. There’s the message — on a political sign it usually goes something like, “Elect so-and-so for whatever.” Then there’s the color scheme — red, white, and blue seem to show up a lot. Last, take a look at the image on…
Arrests at Courthouse Protest
Humboldt County Sheriff officers arrested a half dozen protestors Saturday night on the steps of the County Courthouse. A crowd of around 120 had assembled in answer to an invitation to a post-Arts Alive! candlelight vigil to protest the “urgency ordinance” passed March 27 by the Board of Supervisors in response to complaints about the…
Postpone Your Illicit Outdoor Activities, Eurekans
Reschedule that steamy walk through Old Town with your Zumba instructor, wait ’til tomorrow to resume your impulsive car window-smashing, and for Zeussakes put on a damn shirt! We’re guessing you don’t want your dalliances preserved on the most trafficked website in the cosmos. So, just for today, cool it. Back for another look since…
Get Down to the Dirty-Dirty
In the world of electronic music - from bass junkies to hip-hop dub enthusiasts to screaming techies — nothing gets the heart pumping and hands sweating like mentioning a show guaranteed to bring the grime. This doesn’t mean the type of audience the show attracts or the amount of psychedelic concoctions that might be floating…
Mr. President: How and Why the Founders Created a Chief Executive
As the current presidential election looms, Ray Raphael’s new book, Mr. President, offers rich food for thought about the original intent behind the presidency. In particular, we learn that many of the Founding Fathers were not convinced it was a good idea. Raphael adeptly takes us back to that moment of (in)decision, reminding us of…
Billboard Boycott?
Editor: One way to discourage the billboards along Highway 101 (“Billboard Blight,” March 29) is not to patronize the businesses on the billboards. If these businesses were to discover that billboards are not cost effective, they will then seek other means of advertising that do not affect our view of the bay. If the billboard owners cannot…
Much “I Do”
The production of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing now on stage at North Coast Repertory Theatre in Eureka is light on its feet. The action and the language move swiftly and intelligibly. There are basically two stories to tell: the melodramatic tale of false accusations made against a noble’s daughter that disrupts one love affair,…
Salmon Celebration
Those familiar with the work of Michael Guerriero may be surprised by his latest show, opening this weekend in HSU’s First Street Gallery. The mixed-media works on paper and canvas are different from what you’ve seen from the artist, who works at his home studio on a mountainside near Bridgeville. While he’s known for refined…
“New”
You never know exactly what you’ll find when you venture to a Dell’Arte show: It could be melodramatic, could be slapstick, possibly gory grand guignol, perhaps some impassioned dance routine or a twisted musical comedy. There’s usually some warning, so you can be somewhat prepared. But this weekend as the Dell’Arte Company presents something it’s…
Hunting Season
The second best Jesus-y holiday is just around the corner, kiddos! ‘Tis Easter time! Woot! This year there’s even more reason to be thankful! Like, for example, be thankful you don’t live in Europe! There, according to what was on NPR recently, egg producers are blaming new, stricter EU relations for an ill-timed egg shortage…
The Tao of Jeff
Reviews JEFF, WHO LIVES AT HOME. The good comedies are always harder to find. Movies like Bridesmaids or The Hangover, with their incessant advertising, are impossible to avoid. Whatever entertainment value they might hold is lost before we enter the theater; they can’t live up to the hype. Jeff, Who Lives at Home had no…
It’s Alive!
This Saturday is the first one in the month, which makes April 7 Arts Alive! night in Eureka. That’s “arts” plural — not just art on walls, although there’s plenty of that. And, to quote Dr. Frankenstein, “It’s Alive!” You’ll find some of the usual musical suspects in some of the usual places: human jukebox/accordionist…
Politically Correct
green is as green does loyal is as…
Go Crabs Go
Go Crabs Go
Spanning the Gap
One of the mysteries of ancient civilizations, for me, is why it took so long for engineers of old to figure out the true arch. All buildings need openings for doorways and windows. The earliest and simplest way to span an opening is with a lintel, a flat piece of stone or wood or, nowadays,…
Capitol Will
Will’s trip through the halls of government inspire him to get involved.
Thinking, Fast and Slow
How does the human mind work? Each publishing season unleashes another cascade of books addressing that subject from a wide array of perspectives. This recent one got a lot of attention, partly because the author won the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economics for his work on decision-making. Based on an experimental psychological approach, Kahneman’s premise…
London Lost Here
Editor: Regarding the reference (in “The Death of Redevelopment,” March 29) to the “local legend” of Jack London’s fight in Old Town, it was more than that — according to the Washington Post. The same paper that brought us coverage of the Watergate scandal was apparently listening to Eureka’s version of “Deep Throat” when it…
The Coming Night
Here On the north coast of California The…
No, Really, Adams
Editor: While I admire Sylvia De Rooy and often find myself in agreement with her, I think her letter (Mailbox, March 29) misreads history. Sylvia wrote “I think this county has an awful lot of people who are hurting and who understand that the only way out of this hurt is with a truly progressive…
Not in My Court Yard
Any driver with half a brain knows that if you flip the finger to a passing cop he will pull you over. And if you chalk “Fuck the sheriff” in front of a county court, well that’s trouble. Someone did that. And now there’s trouble. You have the right to do both. The First Amendment to…
Dissent is Messy
Editor: What we are seeing here is what we are seeing all over the country. Namely, that it is easier to love the tenets of the United States Constitution than it is to allow those tenets to be acted upon. That’s because when actual dissent happens — the dissent that is the hallmark of our…
Every Sperm Is Sacred
Pregnant women who want their tubes tied after delivery could soon find that their hospital options have dropped sharply. Both St. Joseph and Redwood Memorial could put a halt to such elective sterilizations, which — depending on whom you ask — violate the teachings of the Catholic Church. That would leave just Mad River…
Flaming Art Invite
Editor: Is that bike crime or art? (Blog Jammin, March 22). It must be Art! We’ll call it Transitional Art! You want to see Flaming Art? Try leaving your car, unattended, anywhere on Highway 36 for more than 24 hours! Skylar Blue, Bridgevill
Classic Lunches
Editor: Bravo that Humboldt schools coalesce a student’s botanical curiosity with a reduction in food budgets (“School Lunch 2.0,” March 22). I’m glad we’re replacing garbage calories with living nutrients. Soup is good food. School lunch is nothing like “1985. Or even 1965,” as Jada Calypso Brotman wrote. ?I had my first school lunch in 1971. It…
