Welcome to Pot City!
To save the Humboldt County economy from legalization, we have to become the Napa Valley of weed. Here’s how.
Cover Story
Welcome to Pot City!
If you grew up in the Emerald Triangle, marijuana permeates the fabric of your life in ways people from outside the area cannot imagine. It threads throughout much of the social and political aspects of the Humboldt world. But it is with money, money, money that this intertwining is most apparent — and this financial…
Now that I got mine
You might as well know… Grocery Outlet ‘s wine selection is 20 percent off through April 3 . I opted for the Barking Sheep Malbec – review here – love those Argentina reds. And they have the ” pure and elegant ” Sirius vodka, too – $36.99 elsewhere, but only $11.99 at GO. Pair it…
Pot o’ Green Gold
Where do the arguments for and against legalization peacefully cohabit? Why, in the morally phlegmatic realm of Internet capitalism, of course. Step right up! Are you a grower concerned about your children’s future (and those monthly Escalade payments)? Buy a bumper sticker: Are you a socially permissive budget hound (or utopian hippy)? Buy a bumper sticker:…
199: Another One Bites the Dust
Goog. Just so’s you know: Highway 199 is currently closed in both directions due to another massive landslide. Caltrans is saying that it won’t be open again until tonight, at best. You can call 1-800-427-7623 for info and updates.
Thompson’s Earmark Wish List
Rep. Mike Thompson, our perennial squeaky wheel in the U.S. Congress, has requested $387 million from the federal gubmint for 128 projects including: $80 million to restore salmon habitats $5 million to widen Hwy. 299 for big semis (do the Richardson Grovies know about this?) $5 million for St. Joseph Hospital’s new tower construction $3.9…
Buy American Pot
As addressed in Kym Kemp’s cover story and Hank’s latest Town Dandy , many locals are fretting about legalization summoning economic ruin upon Humboldt County. Could very well happen. But what are the implications of this argument ? The comedic minds behind Reason TV imagine an honest campaign from the American Marijuana Growers Association:
C’mon, Google Broadband!
C’mon, Google Broadband!: Humboldt County’s Redwood Region Economic Development Commission launches its bid to bring the Google municipal mega-broadband initiative to our fair county. Their finely crafted pitch to our new Google overlords gets in plenty of well-deserved digs at the goofball yokels who have jumped into lakes and renamed their towns to win the…
Free Film Rumors Roil Humboldt County
. We’ve been getting a lot of chatter over the transom today, and it all centers around an alleged free showing of the acclaimed documentary Food, Inc. next Friday night at the Arcata Community Center. As we walked down to the taco trunk for lunch, news of this event was on everyone’s lips. Could it…
Pyramid Geometry
Of the 90-odd pyramids in Egypt, not to mention hundreds more in South and Central America, Cyprus, the Sudan, Thailand and Burma, there’s only one Great Pyramid. That’s because the pyramid of pharaoh Khufu (Greek Cheops) is the biggest. Consisting of over two million blocks and weighing over six million tons, this tomb is simply…
Mans Piss
Two men alone in a locker room I…
Naked Yoghurt
I was 21 years old, and had never cooked a thing. There I was in Manhattan, part of the FLUXUS school of avant-garde composers and artists, acolytes to John Cage. And because Cage was into Indian food (in 1960, virtually unknown in the United States), we all were into Indian food. In the New York…
Vile Village
Previews Opening Friday, March 26, is Hot Tub Time Machine. The title would seem to say it all, but if you need to know, the film is about four bored guys who are able to travel back to their glory days in the ’80s thanks to an unusual hot tub. I suppose you can get…
Post-Jurassic Painter
"I need to face it man, I’m addicted to the sound of the ball when I shake the can… It’s graf time, c’mon." So says Chali 2na in "Graf Time" a paean to graffiti on his latest disc, Fish Outta Water. "My love for graffiti was what got me into hip hop," explains the baritone-voiced…
Notes from the Hustings
Ticket to the Fights Need more proof that this is going to be a bruiser of an election? The most recent round of financial disclosure tells the tale. Between Feb. 1 and March 17, candidates for local office collectively raised over a quarter of a million dollars, according to the Fair Political Practices Commission Form…
The Stuff They Like
Sure, a buncha states’ AGs are suing over it. Sure, some people think we’ve rounded the bend and are now hellbent toward permanent commieland. And, certainly, many others think it doesn’t measure up to the ideal of single-payer health insurance. But those cheering passage of the $940 billion Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, signed…
Legalize
This week, we’re delighted to run our friend Kym Kemp’s sober and insightful essay about how Humboldt County should prepare for the inevitable legalization of marijuana in California and elsewhere. Her story hits newsstands just as the national media — The New York Times, the Associated Press, National Public Radio and others — picks up…
Good Intentions
Editor: Your story about retiring US Fish & Wildlife Service manager Phil Detrich provides a fascinating personal perspective on many of the major environmental issues which have impacted the North Coast and Klamath River Basin over the past 20 years ("The Biocrat," March 18). I worked as an environmental activist and Klamath Forest Alliance director…
Our Global Hellhole
Editor: Thanks for William Kowinski’s excellent review of David W. Orr’s "Down to the Wire: Confronting Climate Change" (March 11), especially this quote from the book: "Climate change, like the threat of nuclear annihilation, puts all that humanity has struggled to achieve — our cultures, art, music, literatures, cities, institutions, customs, religions and history, as…
The Smartest Readers
Editor: The "Mailbox" section last week seemed particularly good (March 18). Each letter eloquently continued a discussion raised in a previous issue. And the writers took care to support their positions with facts while fair-mindedly acknowledging the opposing side. I wouldn’t want to be in your shoes having to award that Bon Boniere sundae. Contrast…
The Professor and Other Writings
A professor of 18th century literature at Stanford for the past few decades, Terry Castle was previously known best as the editor of such books as The Apparitional Lesbian: Female Homosexuality and Modern Culture. The Professor and Other Writings, which compiles her literary journalism from the past decade along with a book-length autobiographical essay, is…
Ne! The Soul of Marta Kubišová
Maverick Czechoslovakian singing legend Marta Kubišová, whose peak in popularity came in the 1960s, should be an international household name — on a similar level as Serge Gainsbourg or Asha Bhosle. However in August 1968, when Soviet-led troops and tanks rolled into Czechoslovakia, it ended all liberal reforms that had been implemented from the beginning…
