The current edition of the Ferndale Enterprise takes note of the story from last week, ” Hobart’s Children ,” and takes issue with what is deemed misinformation regarding the painting above by Viola McBride. The tangled story of the disposition of Hobart’s estate included a brief description of the tours of Hobart’s Galleries led by […]
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Try Something Else
Yeah, yeah, yeah . It’s not that it didn’t happen. I’m sure it did. I’m sure it happened many times, in many places. Probably just about as often as the flipside version of it happened , more or less. You can make either case representative, if you really want to. But before you do, go […]
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Toyon extends deadline to Halloween
Toyon This just in from Jim Dodge , one of our favorite local authors and faculty advisor for Humboldt State’s literary magazine, Toyon . Because of a discrepancy between public postings and an old website, TOYON , Humboldt State University’s Journal of Art and Writing, has extended the deadline for the 2009 volume to Friday, […]
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Pastels on the Plaza is on!
The sidewalk is a little bit damp, but artists are doing what they do the first Saturday of each October, creating art on the Artcata Plaza for the benfit of Northcoast Children’s Services. There’s patches of blue sky overhead and it looks like it may be a beautiful day aferall. artists working this morning on […]
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correction Amy/Lila – start time 6:30 p.m.
Amy Stewart / Lila Nelson Due to a data input error, today’s Journal has an incorrect start time for Friday’s Amy Stewart reading at College of the Redwoods. Songstresss Lila Nelson will sing starting at 6:30 p.m. before Stewart reads. Here’s the full press release: CR’s Visiting Writers Series presents New York Times best-selling local […]
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Artist of the Year
Linda Wise with sculpture titled "Caribou" Artist of the Year — in Eureka anyway — and that’s the judgment of the city’s Art and Culture Commission . Did you know Eureka had such a thing? Not sure what else they do, but they’ve chosen artist/trash picker Linda Wise for recognition. “My art points out that […]
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Letter from Lila
Lila Nelson – Photo by Sheldon Sabbatini. Arcata’s favorite singer/songwriter Lila Nelson celebrates the release of a new CD, Letter Home , with a show Friday, Sept. 19, at the Arcata Playhouse , where she’ll be backed by Mom and Pop rhythm section, Tim Gray and Marla Joy and guitarist Greg Lojko from The Rubberneckers […]
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Bigfoot Daze
We got a note today from our friend Richard at the Humboldt County Convention and Visitors Bureau : If yer looking for something to blog today, I wanted to share something that might be fun, given that this weekend is Bigfoot Days and that 2008 is the so-called Year of the Bigfoot (he turns 50 […]
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Eureka declared one of the best
The folks over at the Humboldt County Convention and Visitors Bureau want you to know that Outside Magazine selected Eureka as one of the best towns in the America, ranking it No. 8 on a list of 20. The blurb incudes shout-outs to the Accident Gallery , the Boardwalk, the Arkley Center (identified as the […]
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Truckin’ Kissin’ Cuzins
Every once in a while a press release falls through the cracks. This event should have been in this week’s calendar, but it wasn’t. How about something completely off the wall this weekend? Music, entertainment, food and drink on the theme of truckers and kissing. Not your obvious combination but surely a recipe for good […]
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Robbins Video
Missed Saturday’s festivities in Blue Lake? Here’s a clip from Dell’Arte’s presentation of the “Prize of Hope” to Tim Robbins and the Actors’ Gang. Warning: The sound is pretty bad for the first few minutes, but once you get to Robbins everything sorts itself out. UPDATE: And when I say “clip,” I mean an hour […]
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Dell’Arte Pics
5:16 p.m.: They’re getting ready to hold a press conference over there in Blue Lake — if you zip over to northcoastjournal.com you can catch it. Tim Robbins and his gang will be there. 5:40 p.m.: It’s over now. Check back at northcoastjournal.com at 7:30 p.m. for the Award of Hope presentation , and afterwards […]