For the Dec. 16 North Coast Journal‘s poetry feature, we published “Simple Winter Song (A Winter’s Solstice Carol),” whose lyrics and music were composed by Fortuna resident Steve Brackenbury. In our print edition, we ran the lyrics. In our online edition, we ran the lyrics and the sheet music. Now we present to you a […]
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Local Inventor in NYT
We first encountered Eureka inventor Doyle Doss hawking his hummingbird feeder helmets at the Arcata Farmers’ Market this summer (see below). This weekend that invention and more of his work were featured prominantly in “Behind the Many Faces of Innovation 2010,” in the busines section in the Sunday New York Times.
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Captain Beefheart, Legendary Avant Garde Musician and Reclusive Trinidad Resident, Dies
Rolling Stone reports that he died today due to complications from multiple sclerosis. Entertainment Weekly adds that he passed away “in a northern California hospital.” We’ll see what we can get. UPDATE: Assistant Coroner Charlie Van Buskirk that Beefheart died at Mad River Hospital early this morning. He knows this only because hospital staff called him with […]
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KGO-TV Wraps Richardson Grove
Pretty decent summary of the Richardson Grove controversy from a Bay Area television station, including comments from Kerul Dyer, Rob McBeth, Kim Floyd and Lost Coast Brewery. Somehow I missed the nude-in.
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The Eureka Inn Axe Attacker’s Tragic End
Back in 2003, a 29-year-old man named Cody Alan Dwire attacked someone with an axe outside the Eureka Inn. It was pretty startling at the time, as the attack seemed to be random and likely would have been fatal had another man not intervened. Recently, a reader alerted us to the shocking last chapter of Dwire’s […]
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Share It Fairly: How YOU Could Win House of Floyd Tickets!
So, you want to go see the Pink Floyd tribute band House of Floyd at the Arkley Center on Saturday night, but “the economy” just isn’t letting your brain part with the $38 it costs to get in. At the North Coast Journal, our readers are more important than just another brick in the wall! […]
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In the Fifth
It wasn’t all that early when we hit the election night parties in the Fifth District, but only the mail-in absentee ballots were in. It was neck and neck, less than 100 votes separated candidates Patrick Cleary and Ryan Sundberg. Both were in McKinleyville with supporters: Cleary at Six Rivers Brewery, Sundberg across town at […]
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Oh my God, look at those dragons
Early this morning, at the ungodly hour of 4:30, we were standing in front of the Tropicana Hotel in Las Vegas, waiting for a cab, when a young gentleman appeared, looking slightly disheveled from a night of pre-Halloween partying. He was in his stocking feet, carrying one Timberland boot in his hand. “Where’s your other […]
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Patrick Park, Sera Cahoone & Sea Wolf – Oct. 7, 2010
So. Much. Plaid. The Depot was packed nearly to capacity on Thursday, Oct. 7, for three (mostly) acoustic musicians — Patrick Park, Sera Cahoone and Alex Brown Church of Sea Wolf. One disadvantage that acoustic musicians have is the audience noise. Despite most folks actually paying to get into the show, a couple of people […]
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R.I.P. Rick Springer: Anti-Nuke Activist, Reagan Assaulter, Former Humboldter
Rick Springer protests at an anti-nuclear demonstration near the Nevada Test Site in 1992. Photo from Flickr user Mark Bult. Rick Springer, a former Humboldt County anti-nuclear activist who briefly became famous when he stormed a Ronald Reagan award speech in 1992, died Sunday earlier this week at his ranch in Gerlach, Nevada. He was […]
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Strix Vega At The Alibi, Sept. 25, 2010
I’ve been watching Strix Vega and listening to them grow for more than five years at this point. What started as an unmistakeable nod to the folky sounds of Neil Young, has grown into a psychadelic mix that touches on influences like The Doors and Pink Floyd. Saturday night, Strix Vega played two full sets […]