Zoned For Kids
Hard-pressed Humboldt preschools may soon find some relief
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Zoned For Kids
Last Wednesday, Hilary Mosher, director of the Strongbridge Montessori School in McKinleyville, tried to explain to her students the bind their school is in. The building she’s been operating out of for the past two years was sold recently and she has until to the end of February to relocate. Mosher sat on a short…
The Other Hillary
Where there’s a Will, there’s a way. Just ask 27-year-old Fortuna native Hillary Will, the fastest female in the history of NHRA drag racing. Will, in her nitro-fueled, 8,000-horsepower dragster, will compete this weekend, Feb. 22-24, at the NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series at Firebird Int’l Raceway in Phoenix, Ariz. If she doesn’t do well,…
That’ll speech ’em.
Seems the stuffy old TriMet folks — you know (or perhaps you don’t), the Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District of Oregon — have refused to let the Karuk Tribe run a decidedly anti-Klamath-dams ad on their public buses. So today the Karuk, ACLU and Friends of the River turned around and slapped TriMet with a free…
Your Tuesday Tedium
In other words, what’s on at the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors and the Eureka City Council next week. We’re going to try to make this a regular Friday afternoon feature on the Blogthing. As a way to make those hellishly painful final hours of the work-week even more painful, we will delve deep into…
Alpha Blondy cancels tour / Gregory Isaacs replaces him in Arcata
African reggae star Alpha Blondy , who had been scheduled to perform at the Arcata Community Center next Sunday, Feb. 24 , has canceled the remaining dates of his American tour. An inquiry to the producers of the Ragga Muffins Festivals , a series of concerts planned for the West Coast featuring the singer from…
Compline 1-29-95
My car coasts to a stop where the…
Ab Fab
Sara and I went abalone collecting with our friend Mike last summer, but haven’t gone since. If the weather and the sea were nicer I imagine we would have been hooked. I love to clam, especially on the East Coast, where the water is warm, the bottom is fine white sand easy to rake and…
Exclusion Zone
One of the most challenging shows you’ll see around town right now is John Mahony’s photography at the First Street Gallery. As a river kayaker, Mahony is witness to the increasingly evident fact that there are few wild spaces left on the planet that are untouched by humanity. "You rarely go on a river without…
A Breakfast Odyssey, or Breakfasts I Have Known
When I was 16 and had my learner’s permit, my father conscripted me to drive him to a mine site several hours into the Chiricahua Mountains. We left Tucson at 5 a.m. and had breakfast around 7 at a truck stop in Wilcox. For the first time in my life, I could order anything I…
The Cram-down
It’s now been just over a year since the Pacific Lumber Co. and its various subsidiaries declared bankruptcy in a backwater courthouse in Corpus Christi, Texas. The past 12 months have mostly kept us both appalled and entertained. It was thrilling to watch the high-flying legal stuntwork deployed by the team over at Palco’s parent…
The Nightfeeders
CD by Nudity. Discourage Records. Chances are that if you’ve been grooving to the likes of Acid Mothers Temple, Earthless and Wooden Shjips, or taking advantage of the recent slew of psych/space rock reissues, then Nudity is more of what you’re looking for. The influences are easy to spot, and as the band will tell…
Unpredictable Individual
CD by Garth Vader. January 2008 saw the release of Mr. Garth "Culti"-Vader’s second album Unpredictable Individual. Rebellious and independent, the album is the evolved expression of a talented hip hop artist firmly centered in the place he lives. Garth represents California, specifically Humboldt, and of course the roughneck weed-growing culture, in more than 20…
Del McCoury Band
Live Feb. 8 at the Van Duzer Theater If a creek could gather itself together into human form and walk onto a stage to pour forth its voice it would sound like the Del McCoury Band. There, the clear, crisp water pattering over hard rocks, merry and relentless as Rob McCoury’s banjo headed pellmell toward…
‘The Golden State’ Heads South: Dell’Arte returns to L.A.
"It was a performance in Los Angeles in 1981 that kind of put Dell’Arte on the map," Michael Fields, the Dell’Arte Company’s producing artistic director, recalled last week. "We were doing Intrigue at Ah-Pah at the Odyssey Theatre." After the first weekend, when Fields was sleeping on a borrowed floor, someone handed him a copy…
Fool’s Film
Previews If it’s Valentine’s Day, it must be time for…new film openings. Four films open locally on Feb. 14, including the family-friendly The Spiderwick Chronicles from director Mark Waters (Freaky Friday; Mean Girls), an adventure story wherein Freddie Highmore plays twins Jared and Simon Grace, who find themselves transported to an alternate universe. As a…
Damages
"We’re looking for the smoking gun. I think Ross Swimmer had a lot to do with it. I also think there might be a Klamath connection. But that’s all pure speculation." — Clifford Lyle Marshall, Hoopa Valley Tribe Chairman The trouble with you non-Indian people — especially the media — says the Hupa man on…
Bandemonium!
We’ll start by forgiving the fact that the Mardi Gras/Carnaval Blow-Out and Dance Extravaganza coming up this weekend is on a Saturday, even though Mardi is French for Tuesday. Who wants to (or has time to) party on a Tuesday, what with work and all, even if it is Fat Tuesday? And we’ll overlook the…
Use Your Local Radar
A National Doppler Radar installation is conveniently located on Bunker Hill south of Ferndale. To see its value in forecasting rain or snow you should visit www.weather.gov/eureka. The following is an introduction to this amazing technology. Weather radar operates at two wavelengths, 5 cm & 10 cm, with ranges of 124 and 248 nautical miles.…
