Re-Imagining CR
State’s new mission distresses fans of music, drama and historic preservation
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Re-Imagining CR
Kjeld Lyth flicked on the main lights inside College of the Redwoods’ new multi-million dollar Performing Arts Theater and strode agitatedly in, pointing out annoyances: noisily flushing toilets in the bathrooms that might disrupt quieter theatrical moments; loud fans in the back of the theater, which could make hearing difficult from the rear rows; large…
Bomb Scare Closes CR Campus [Re-updated]
UPDATE #2: Looks like it was a false alarm triggered by a bogus Facebook post. The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office announced this afternoon that a search of CR’s main Eureka campus has been completed by a law enforcement super-team that included the FBI, Eureka Police, Humboldt County Drug Task Force, Humboldt State University police, College of…
CONTEST!
Water bottles Check Canned foods can opener pot to cook in Check. Still ain’t ready. Come on, readers, you know you can do better than that tripe, up top. Here’s the gig: It’s National Poetry Month. In a lot of states, including California, it’s Earthquake Preparedness Month. It’s also Wednesday afternoon and there’s been news,…
Serial Suddenlink Snipper Strikes Again
Suddenlink reports, once again, a vandal cut off Internet, phone and cable service for 10,000 customers in Arcata, McKinleyville, Trinidad and Big Lagoon overnight. The company recently doubled a reward — to $10,0000 — for information leading to an arrest and conviction of the serial cable-cutter, and hired the private investigation services of Eureka’s Cook…
Eureka Police Sergeant Arrested for Assault
Eureka Police Sgt. Adam Laird, was arrested this morning by investigators from the District Attorney’s office on suspicion of assault while on duty and falsifying a police report. Eureka Police Chief Murl Harpham gathered the media in a brief press conference this afternoon to announce Laird’s arrest, which followed a joint investigation between his department…
Pot Farmers’ Market Lights Up in NorCal
How did Humboldt County get beat to the punch on this one? (Insert lazy stoner joke here, if you must.) According to a story from the quarterly magazine Modern Farmer, Northern California’s first marijuana farmers’ market is being run from a big purple warehouse outside the City of Sonoma. And the venue is helping to spark…
After the Marathon
Humboldt State University Professor Tasha Souza was stopped in her tracks by crowds fleeing explosions after finishing the Boston Marathon yesterday — a race she attended to honor a lost friend. Souza was unharmed, but the day was already a poignant one for her, because she’d been running in honor of her friend Suzanne Seemann,…
A New Journal-ista
We’re all happy to welcome Grant Scott-Goforth, an Arcata native who will be writing, editing, comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable along with the rest of us here at the North Coast Journal. You might recognize his byline from the Times-Standard (sorry, Kimberly Wear, but hat tip for spotting and growing local talent). Grant…
Parks and Heck (and Roads)
Going to the Board of Supervisors meeting tomorrow? To, perhaps, hear the depressing report on the state of our state’s roads and their desperate repair needs? The report goes county by county, discussing embarrassing things like their PCI (pavement condition index, where a new road rates “100” and a failed road is a “0”). Humboldt…
The Lady Ain’t Coming
An email came in this morning from Grays Harbor Historical Seaport Authority, the folks behind the tall ships that were supposed to be docked at the Adorni Center over the weekend. Trouble at sea means only the Hawaiian Chieftain arrived. As noted in a press release: “Due to continued severe weather off the California coast,…
Stop Cutting Health Care
Editor: “RNs picketing for patient care,” “safe staffing now,” “some cuts don’t heal” — these words haunt me. I have been complaining about this for years (“Picketing for Help,” March 21). The core of this issue goes back to March 16, 2011, when AB 97 passed the state Legislature. The bill created a 10 percent…
Get Your Port On Part 6
Get Your Port On Part 6
Humboldt Discovered Again
Humboldt Discovered Again
On the Edge of Your Feet
This year’s choreography concert by HSU dance majors neatly balances technical ensemble work with emotionally immersive solo and duet pieces. The evening is a given for modern dance lovers, but the inclusion of work by theatre-based choreographers Keili Marble and Lizzie Chapman should also make this an appealing event for those who enjoy “The Vagina…
Summer Cocktail Crops
OK, it’s not summer yet, but if you’re starting plants from seed, now’s a good time to get going. These should all be planted in early June, or as soon as the last of the chilly spring weather is past. If possible, shelter them from the strong winds we sometimes get in early summer. Here…
The Fourth Quadrant
Texting as a form of communication is barely 20 years old, although at least one texting term goes back nearly a century, to 1917, when Admiral John Fisher wrote Winston Churchill (then minister of munitions), “I hear that a new order of Knighthood is on the tapis. OMG! (Oh My God!) Shower it on the…
Visiting the Cemetery in April
Samuel Drenteln visits cemeteries because the dead are easy to get along with. Their ineffable presence is comforting. Especially at nightfall, in the rain, cemeteries have a dreamlike quality of inconsequence and unreason — like life. At dusk, the tombstones appear to reach all the way to the horizon…
Assembling a Reality
A man stands with a hammer in his right hand, arms casually slung at his sides. His jacket, a deep gray-black, blooms with bulgy pockets. Behind him, a mountain of sunflower yellow rises up just past shoulder height to a peak haloed with soft cinnamon, olive and foggy gray. His gaze is focused into…
Hug a Poet Today
California Poets in the Schools, which puts poets-in-residence in schools for short or long-term stints, was founded in 1964 — the same year many other wondrous things happened, including passage of the national Civil Rights and Wilderness acts. Hm, maybe there’s some synergy in those coincidences. A program, you might say, was created to haul…
Death
We’re all hurtling toward death, every minute of every day. Some Buddhists teach that fully grasping our transience, knowing we could go in an instant, is one key to living fully in each of our fleeting moments. At the end of all those moments, though, the people we love will have to deal with life…
The Long and Short of it
This month, a federal claims court judge approved a settlement agreement that may finally lay to rest the interminably long Jessie Short case, in which thousands of mainly Yurok Tribe members are owed money stemming from a 50-year-old lawsuit. Now, almost all that’s left is the check-cutting — but that will come after attorneys finish…
Who is HumCPR?
Editor: Hurrah and thank you for Ryan Burns’ superb article (HumCPR Rising, March 28) that finally answers the question, “What is the real objective of this organization?” I think the Journal’s timing is spot on. If this expose had appeared before these two HumCPR foxes were appointed to the Planning Commission hen house, the article…
Fresh Bloodbath
Reviews EVIL DEAD opens hard: A young girl wanders a forlorn landscape until two hillbillies throw a sack over her head and haul her into a basement filled with dead cats. A shifty witch intones spells from a sinister book. The girl’s actually harboring a demon; the only way to free her is cleansing fire.…
Green Fire
So, we’re heading into another Humboldt Green Week. The now-annual celebration heralds the coming of spring and all things green and growing as we approach the stoner holiday 4/20 (April 20), a week from Saturday, and Earth Day, April 22. (It’s a long week.) It’s a collection of loosely related events promoted by a…
Journal Trickery?
Editor: Since the Journal’s high-piled righteousness dwarfs mere fairness, I can’t share many of my thoughts on Ryan Burn’s odd article about HumCPR, which implied that fundraising and candidate-recruiting is immoral if done by anyone but Mark Lovelace. (Where did you come from, Clif Clendenen?) Oh well. I’ll use my 300 words to play…
Money, Oh Money
Editor: Seems ironic that the 40 Days of Prayer campaign that you Blog Jammed about (“Local Planned Parent Labeled ‘The Worst,'” April 4) accused Planned Parenthood of being “driven” by money. PPs response to the campaign? A fundraiser. Dave Barry, Eureka
