No freaking joke — the Eureka Inn is going to have a semi-stealth grand opening tomorrow. The Journal just spoke with owner Libo Zhu, who was answering phones at the desk when we called. Zhu said that the company didn’t wish to make a splash because they’re just starting with a few rooms at first. […]
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Arcata Company Lands Pearl Jam Gig
StreamGuys, an Arcata-based company that provides streaming media services (like allowing you to listen to KHUM online, for example), is now fulfilling the flannel-clad dreams of diehard grungers everywhere: Earlier this week, Pearl Jam, the seminal (as in semen, to which the band’s name refers) Seattle angst-rockers, launched Pearl Jam Radio, an online, ’round-the-clock feed […]
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Humboldt?
USA…” Interesting thread on the Rollitup.org website, a collection of forums on topics including General Marijuana Growing, Seed and Strain Reviews and Cooking With Cannabis. Someone calling himself “KongoBam” posts in a forum called “Toke N Talk,” although it would seem another forum, “The Black Briefcase” (business discussion, stock advice, financial management) might have been […]
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Delta Bails
Delta Airlines is giving up on the Arcata-Eureka airport. A press release from the Humboldt County Department of Public Works this afternoon announced the bad news. The Atlanta-based carrier started twice-daily regional service from here to Salt Lake City, Utah, just 15 months ago. They were enticed here via a concerted effort from the Redwood […]
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Convenient. Flexible. And, oh yeah, a total rip-off.
We warned you. And by now, you may have received the first sign of the banking industry’s compulsion to treat you like you’re: a.) stupid; b.) disposable; c.) stupid and disposable. Now look, we like the tellers at the local Chase branches. They’re friendly, helpful, everything you could want when you’re making a deposit or […]
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Former Creamery CEO Ghilarducci to Plead Guilty to Fraud
The Ferndale Enterprise has the scoop.
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Lost Coast Communications buys KXGO
Big news in the local radio world: Lost Coast Communications is buying KXGO from Redwood Broadcasting. This brings the Ferndale-based radio group up to four stations, the others being the KHUM flagship, the “new rock” station KSLG and KWPT, The Point. LCC CEO Patrick Cleary confirmed the purchase. “It’s a great station. It’s a real […]
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Old Town Bar and Grill: Saved!
It looks as if the Humboldt County building worst damaged in Jan. 9 earthquake is gonna be saved after all. Three days after the earthquake, the Eureka City Council met in emergency session to permit the destruction of the former Old Town Bar and Grill building, which sits on Second Street in between D and […]
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Ferndale Horse Races Rescued Again
Horses will return once again to the Humboldt County Fairgrounds this year, marking the 114th season of racing at the Ferndale track. This was hardly a sure thing. On Friday, the California Horse Racing Board narrowly approved a summer season racing schedule that allows Ferndale five days of non-overlapped racing (Aug. 18-22) and four days […]
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Movie Theater King Speaketh
If you’re gonna bitch about the state of our local theaters — the pre-movie commercials, the dearth of foreign and indie fare, the expensive concessions… take your pick — at least be polite. Otherwise your complaints may end up soaking in high-fructose sludge at the bottom of a theater trash can. “We don’t mind constructive […]
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Buy local! Holiday gift sure to please
Because what could be better than a piece of Absynth? Quintet, that is. Would you like to give a friend a slot as the sixth member of Humboldt’s renowned* gypsy-jazz-string-happy Absynth Quintet? Or have the erstwhile male models** follow them about for part of a day a la Jonathan Richman in Something About Mary? Or […]
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Another take on the Creamery story
scenario.Another take on the Creamery story: Sphere, an AOL online news magazine, reports on the Humboldt Creamery/Ghilarducci story. Not much new here, although I don’t recall hearing about about Ghilarducci sacking Lisa Carnahan, who was streamlining the Creamery’s computer system to make it track finances more