The city of Blue Lake celebrates the late Joan Schirle, award-winning and beloved theater pioneer and founding artistic director of Dell’Arte International, on Sunday, Feb. 4. Events for Joan Schirle Day (as proclaimed by the city in November of 2023) include breakfast from 8 to 11 a.m. at Mad River Grange, Joan Schirle videos from […]
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NCJ Preview: Reinstating a Fired Sheriff’s Officer, Joan Schirle and Mocking Shakespeare
This week we’re digging into records the Journal went to court for to find out what went on in the arbitration proceedings following the firing of Sgt. Jason Daniels of the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Department. Daniels has been reinstated despite accusations of sexual assault and violations of sexual harassment and conduct rules, including text messages […]
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Reflections on Joan Schirle’s World
Every morning when I sit at my dining table, I see the card Joan Schirle sent me this last holiday season. “Hope to see you in the New Year in person!” she wrote in effortlessly fluid green script, signing off with a heart and a big curly J. And every morning when I sit down […]
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In the Prime of (Artificial) Life
Anyone who’s spent any time online in the last few years has undoubtedly encountered a chatbot — that helpful cyber-entity that’s always ready to (try to) answer your questions. Now imagine that chatbot — and its self-limiting conversational skills — has left cyberspace and moved in with you, taking on the holographic form of a […]