Well, poor Johnny Redwood is gone, but one of his dreams, “Redwood Adventures TV,” is going straight to the top — New York — as a finalist in the TV pilot category at the NY International Independent Film and Video Festival, which starts this Friday. In case you’re there. More about it here.
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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 […]
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Fire Contained at Humboldt State
A fire broke out earlier today in Old Music Building 8A on the Humboldt State University campus. The cause of the fire is still unknown. At 1:30 p.m. HSU faculty noticed smoke coming from a locked custodial closet in the music building, according to HSU spokesman Paul Mann. After the fire alarm was pulled, university […]
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How Do We Miss These Things?
It looks like The Marching Lumberjacks posted this Kabuki interpretation of the (Alleged) Great Arkley Shove way back in October. But it flew right past us until a sharp-eyed loyal reader brought it to our attention a few minutes ago. The pertinent routine begins at minute mark 4:30. Deeply unfair to everyone involved, no doubt.
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Outsider artist left out in the cold…
Apropos of our recent story about Northcoast visionary artist Reuben Sorensen, who some claim is an outsider artist, the other Journal (from Wall St. not G. St) sheds new light today on just how hard it is to get into the outsider world. NEW YORK — This morning, Ross Brodar plans to rent a 24-foot […]
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A conversation with Myra Melford
You could say 2007 was a good year for jazz pianist Myra Melford , who released two different albums that garnered acclaim and landed on jazz critics’ top 10 lists. Spark ! , for the Palmetto label, paired her with reed player Marty Ehrlich . On Big Picture (for Cryptogramophone ) she worked with bassist […]
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Plus ça change
The team at the Anderson Valley Advertiser dug up this little excerpt from Kenneth Rexroth’s An Autobiographical Novel and reprinted it in last week’s issue. This would have taken place sometime in the 1920s. At last we came to the California border and the first day into the state we took a detour away from […]
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Carver Uncut
The New Yorker ‘s “Winter Fiction” issue was just published; it contains a couple of eye-opening pieces by and about one of Humboldt County’s most notable writers of fiction: Raymond Carver. In an unsigned essay , the magazine reveals that what we have come to think of as Carver’s ultra-sparse style was actually the work […]
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The Christmas Vibe
Our food writer Joseph Byrd, who moonlights as a music instructor at College of the Redwoods, sends along notice of the following seasonal recording made by a friend, Seattle-based vibraphonist Tom Collier. Notes Joseph: Ed Macan, himself an excellent vibes player, says it was done with four mallets in one pass, no overdub. So now […]
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Happy Birthday, Sara Bareilles
Friday, Dec. 7, is Sara Bareilles ‘ birthday. She’s just turned 28. Yes, that’s Sara at the top of the front page on today’s Times-Standard . (She’s in this week’s Journal too and she has also showed up on the pages of Rolling Stone , People magazine and Entertainment Weekly .) The L.A.-based singer songwriter […]
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Eureka Books: Sold!
It could have been a real tragedy for Eureka intellectual life, but what a happy ending! Eureka Books, an indispensable Old Town institution, has been bought by two of the bookiest people we know: Scott Brown, editor of Fine Books & Collections magazine and pinch-hitting columnist , and Amy Stewart, celebrated author and Journal gardening […]
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Muddy’s Hot Cup gets quieter
This official announcement (from Muddy’s Hot Cup) came in Tuesday morning. Look for further details in the Hum this week. – Bob December 4, 2007 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: No More Music at Muddy’s — Again? Live entertainment at Muddy’s Hot Cup of Northtown is cancelled until further notice. In a hearing with the department of […]