Waiting for Chinn
Like it or not, a Eureka day center will give homeless advocate Betty Chinn a home base
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Waiting for Chinn
Starting to drizzle, again. A narrow man wearing hoodies, torn jeans and flip-flops approaches Betty Chinn as she gets into her midnight-blue catering truck. This is Lynn “Frank” Khoury, 55, a former trucker from Florida. “Hey Betty,” Khoury says. “Do you have any more of those heavy-duty rain ponchos? I’ve been using this plastic to…
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Kimmel vs. HSU Now Actually a Thing [UPDATED]
UPDATE: National Public Radio, too? Yup. Click [audio-1] here to listen. Humboldt State University’s recent invitation/call out of late night host Jimmy Kimmel has been picked up by the Associated Press — the media equivalent of “shit just got real.” We blogged on Monday about the letter sent out by HSU President Rollin Richmond and…
Dan O’Gara RIP
Storyteller Dan O’Gara died Monday at the age of 76 at UC San Francisco Hospital surrounded by his family. O’Gara was flown to the hospital following a massive stroke that came on unexpectedly while he was cutting wood near his home in Trinidad. In recent years O’Gara was best known as founder of the North…
HumBrews Show Cancelation
From HumBrews’ Facebook page:
Perfect! HSU Invites Jimmy Kimmel to Speak at Graduation
Well played, Rollin. Humboldt State University has formally requested that late night host Jimmy Kimmel speak at this year’s commencement ceremonies. As you’ll recall, the television yuk-slinger scored some laughs at HSU’s expense in November in a segment playing up the college’s new Interdisciplinary Marijuana Research Institute, portraying the Humboldt student body as “pot-obsessed slackers.”…
Game Change (Update: $?)
(Update after the break.) On Jan. 1, the California Department of Fish & Game made the switch to its new name: California Department of Fish & Wildlife. New year, new name — and new game, perhaps? Actually, that old monicker was already a relic, according to our new congressperson, Jared Huffman, in a Los Angeles…
Take This Money
Dear local nonprofits, government entities and aspiring community builders, Look at you! We know you have big ideas and plans for making the Humboldt world better and booming in 2013, dontcha? Only one problem: Some jerk went and cut down all the money trees. If only there was a big ball of cash somewhere…
Fie on Feinstein
Editor: In the article about the Point Reyes oyster farm (“Oyster Ouster,” Dec. 20), it failed to note how many times the operators were cited for operating outside of established laws and regulations. As to the backing of Sen. Feinstein, she has proven over and over not to be a friend of the environment through…
Your “Woo!” Immortalized
You made it through New Year’s Eve. You made it through Christmas. Hell, you even made it through the Mayan end of the world whateva-ocalypse. Now, as Humboldt enters its post-holiday, student-less cultural lull, you have your options: you can either enjoy the peace, cowering under a warm blanket, or you can look extra…
Django Gets Even
Reviews DJANGO UNCHAINED. Only people who take themselves too seriously don’t like Quentin Tarantino movies. Such people include Spike Lee, New Yorker critic David Denby, and me on Christmas. Lee has said he won’t see Django because it’s disrespectful to his ancestors, and he’s had a beef with QT from day one. Denby got on…
Post Holiday Chocolates
Post Holiday Chocolates
The French Solution
Editor: Barry Evans confronts our confusion over the proper use of English, particularly in regard to pronouns (“Lord, is it me? [Or is it I?]”, Dec. 27). He reminds us that according to traditional grammar, “I” is a subject pronoun, while “me” is the corresponding object pronoun. Saying “me” in the wrong place could mark…
World Without End
Editor: Loved “The Signs and Wonders” page (Dec. 20). Thanks to Rex and Mark for the photos. Nanc Frazel, Eureka
Correction
The Journal’s Dec. 6 review of Jo Deurbrouck’s book “Anything Worth Doing” incorrectly described a boat and misspelled a name. Clancy Reece’s boat was a wooden dory, and the correct spelling of the main character’s name is Jon Barker.
If I Could See the End Coming
If I could see the end coming, I would wait for it. Where? Beside the sumacs, under the beech where the animals I’ve grieved are a trellis of bones. I’d ask the Carolina wren to spill out her song, and as the world condensed, hyacinths, peonies, stargazing lilies would bloom together, bathing everything in…
Galore
There are two epigraphs at the beginning of this marvelous novel. The first, from Gabriel García Márquez, suggests we’ll encounter strains of magic realism in the pages ahead. The second, from Psalms, hints that the book promises a rich language, a unique cadence and an emphasis on story as opposed to character. Both, it turns…
Six Puzzles for the New Year
Here’s a sextet of puzzles I’ve collected from various sources to start 2013 off on the right foot/side of the brain/side of the bed: 1. Did William Shakespeare help create the King James Authorized Version of the Bible? Proponents of this idea have been claiming for a couple of hundred years that he left a cryptic…
Arts! Alive 2013 kicks off with 80 artists at Sewell Gallery
You’ve made it through the holiday season, for better or worse. Now, with the weight of overly ambitious New Year’s resolutions squarely on your shoulders, you stare out across the abyss of another year, having just sworn off everything that made the previous year tolerable. What is one to do? Well, you could spend the…
