Curtis Otto Retrospective and Sale
If you’re in Grant’s Pass, Oregon before March 25, you can stop into the Grants Pass Museum of Art for a jam-packed retrospective of the late Curtis Otto’s paintings. Otto, a fixture in Humboldt County’s art scene, died in his Eureka home on Nov. 7 at the age of 92, leaving behind a community of…
New Kid’s Channel Coming to KEET
Kids, adjust your rabbit ears. Local PBS affiliate KEET is planning to launch a new, 24-hour children’s programming channel this year. The channel will feature PBS Kids shows, according to a press release, offering educational and entertaining programming outside of the classic kids-times — Saturday mornings and before and after school hours. KEET General Manager…
Arcata’s ‘Nonprofit of the Year’
The Arcata Chamber of Commerce recently named Arcata House Partnership its 2015 nonprofit of the year. Arcata House Partnership — which was nominated for the award by the chamber board and then given the top honor by a chamber-member vote — was recently featured in the Journal’s Feb. 25 cover story “Homing the Houseless,” which…
HumBug: Spring in the Air
A walk on a recent sunny day yielded quite a few butterflies. All were busy, few staying in one place long enough to pose for a picture. There were many Pieris marginalis (aka margined whites), which are often mistaken for their close relatives the cabbage butterfly. I saw two Nymphalis antiopa, or mourning cloaks, one…
TL;DR : Five Things we Learned from our Winter Photo Contest
Busy week? We get it. Here are some highlights from this week’s cover story to get you caught up. This week’s cover story showcased the top 10 finishers in our Winter Photo Contest and, frankly, it taught us a few things – and reinforced a few others – about why we call Humboldt home. In…
Run, Hide, Fight: EPD Prepares Residents for Active Shooter
“Don’t ever say it won’t happen here,” said Eureka Police Capt. Brian Stephens, who led a training on active shooter situations to a packed audience at the Sequoia Conference Center on Thursday afternoon. The presentation, which included several training videos and a demonstration with volunteers from the Eureka Boys and Girls Club, had practical advice…
Mayor Jager Joins Pro-Camp Camp
On the evening of Tuesday, Mar. 1, the Eureka City Council unanimously approved a resolution to support the Humboldt Area Center for Harm Reduction’s needle supply program, opted to send the Eureka Police Department’s little-used mine-resistant ambush protected vehicle back to the federal government and, after a smatter of discussion and dissent, approve changes to…
Pyramids, Schemes
Reviews TRIPLE 9. For a crime thriller released in the off season, Triple 9 has a remarkably A-list cast, most of which does an admirable job in service of a movie that doesn’t quite know what it’s doing. Still, it propels forward as a very watchable story with some panache, courtesy of director John Hillcoat…
The Laws of the (Schoolyard) Jungle
Rudyard Kipling wrote the original Jungle Book stories in the 1890s while living in Vermont, but the root of the stories lies in colonial India, where he spent time as a child and young adult. There, stories abound of children snatched from villages by wolves, a very few of whom returned as children crawling on…
High-Value Veggies:
While growing your own vegetables is often touted as a way of saving money, that hasn’t been my experience. On the surface, it sounds like a $3 pack of seeds can be turned into a bounty of fresh vegetables with only the minimal cost of water, but in practice, the costs of compost and fertilizer,…
Mush!
“You’ll want to hang on for dear life,” Sara Borok says, handing me a helmet. “It’s going to be a bumpy ride.” We’re going on a training run with the Northern Humboldt Sled Dog Team. Borok, a local dog trainer and canine fanatic, says mushing must be in her DNA, and admits that as a…
Homeward
Editor: Thank you, Thadeus Greenson, for such a well-written, comprehensive article on a well-documented solution to homelessness (“Homing the Houseless,” Feb. 25). While initial costs may be high, the long term results are much more cost effective as indicated in your piece. In addition, the current plan has the high potential to add a substantial…
Incredible Resolution
Editor: The most amazing aspect of the detection of gravity waves (“Field Notes,” Feb. 25) is the resolution required: The gravity waves caused the arms of the interferometer to stretch and shrink by one part in 1021. Multiplying the diameter of the Earth (107 meters) by that strain (10-21) equals 10-14 meters (the diameter of…
Biting Back
Editor: A recent letter writer expressed concerns (“The Shark Bites,” Feb. 18) about the Ferndale Repertory/Arcata Playhouse production of the Three Penny Opera — a collaboration of the 20th century German playwrights Bertoldt Brecht and Kurt Weil. The letter was particularly concerned that this production wasn’t faithful to the intent and language of these two…
Frost Ahead, Frost Behind
Steve Kimock, no stranger to Humboldt County, returns this week to share new songs from his upcoming release, Last Danger of Frost. Frost is not yet firmly behind us here, and the tone of Kimock’s guitar sounds at times crystalline and icy, but never cold. Some of the acoustic tracks off of the instrumental album…
Humboldt on Tap
Creamy foam, thick and pale brown, floats atop the dark brew Jacob Pressey sets on a comfortably cluttered bar at Humboldt Regeneration. Outside the roll-up door, rain hammers the corrugated green awning and douses the parking lot of this industrial strip behind McKinleyville’s Central Avenue. Inside, beer fans are in hoodies and knit caps, idly…
History
A small crowd clustered at the top of the stairs of the Humboldt County Planning Department on the morning of Feb. 26, waiting for the doors to open. In their hands, they clutched land use permit applications for medical marijuana cultivation. “We’ve been gearing up all week for a big day,” said interim Planning Director…
Arts Alive!
Presented by Eureka Main Street. Opening receptions for artists, exhibits and performances are held the first Saturday of each month. For more information, call 442-9054 or go to www.eurekamainstreet.org A TASTE OF BIM 613 Third St. Nancy Flemming, paintings. ADORNI CENTER 1011 Waterfront St. “Sticks-n-Stones,” Gordon Trump, sculptures, plus Kyoko Clark, Barbara Saul, Paul Ricard,…
Winter Photo Contest
We Humboldtians are a hardy lot. When the weather turns inclement, sure, we spend plenty of time with our be-socked feet propped up in front of the fireplace, but we also recognize that life can’t stop because of a little liquid sunshine. In fact, many of us revel in getting outside and letting the elements…
On the Waterfront
A hundred or so Eurekans experienced a strange thing last week: A well-attended public meeting — about a major proposed development on a large, key piece of bayfront property — that was nearly devoid of rancor. It’s hard to say what resulted in the unilateral positivity; maybe those “I Like Eureka” stickers are really working.…
The Bounty of the County
“After my bantam Bootsy survived two visits from the neighborhood hawk, I began taking shallow depth-of-field morning poultry portraits,” said Matthew Rooney. This month Rooney shows pictures of chickens, local produce and fungi at Ramone’s under the series title Myrtletown. He shot the images with a Nikon D800 camera in natural light, and every bud,…
