Watching out for the people

Vol. I No. 4 Friday, October 7, 2005 From all corners of the county: NewStory HSU President Blasts Arcata's Support of Medical Marijuana Sex, Drugs and Military Recruitment High School Board Candidates, Part I Competing Visions in Eureka's Bay Race Harbor District Candidates, Part I University Cops Enforcing Their Laws in Arcata? Old Town Security Partially Privatized Permitting Process Reorganized Under Fire Pulp Mill Pollution Dominates Discussion The Development Fight that Wasn't A Night of Violence in Eureka Peace Rally Reveals Underlying Conflict In the Know Creative Venues: Auberjonois Gives Liquid Performance in Ferndale Famed 'Deep Space Nine' vet gives tear-jerking 'Love Letters' CD Preview: Way Beyond the 'Yellow' Song Coldplay breaks hearts again with 'X & Y' Artistic License: Spirit and Free Will Persevere Through Poetry Christa Larrit recites deeply personal 'Figures upon Figures' Film in Focus: This Corpse Has a Pulse Burton's 'Corpse Bride' Does a Double-Take on Romance Poet in Residence: Carnielon Stones Opinion Editorial: Skateboarding is Not a Crime Eureka Councilmembers should think twice before criminalizing youth and repeating rent-a-cop experiment Guest Opinion: Rogue Soldiers or Rogue President? Scapegoating the small-fry Getting Graphic: Recruiting Now for the Titanic Artists take empire to task Perspectives on Globalization: AIPAC and Espionage: Guilty as Hell Pentagon analyst plea bargains, threatens to expose Israel's Washington cabal Vagabond Journalist: Replacing the Press with Police Musical chairs in Arcata City Hall GreenView: Media Reform Seems to Interest All Sides The letter Shawn Warford wouldn't print Calendar: 10/7-10/13

Spirit and Free Will Persevere Through Poetry Christa Larrit recites deeply personal 'Figures upon Figures' Artistic License By David Giarrizzo After meeting Christa Larrit at Buddy Brown Blues fest, I was so impressed with her haunting, smart, and self-analytical poetry, I got on the mailing list! Some of the privileges of being on an email list is you receive invitations and information that otherwise you would have to read about in a paper. Wait a minute! That’s what we are! Anyway, I received some great samples of work from Krista and also an invite to Old Town Coffee and Chocolates on October 5th. To my surprise, it was not one, but a few brave souls including Christa, our gracious and angelic hostess. Christa did a number of poems from her latest book.   Untitled A woman stands cross-armed wearing a dress made of metal triangle sheets showing nipples pierced with silver. She stands guard between woman as she was and woman as she will be so that whoever approaches this point may ask -- Will that metal allow me to pass? Christa Laririt is a poet and performance artist who recently released her second full-length book of poetry titled Figures upon Figures (March 2005). Christa grew up on a farming ranch in Central Oregon and received a Bachelor of Arts in Literature and Education at Simmons College in Boston. While working with authors at The Glendon Association, a non-profit psychology association in Santa Barbara, CA, she created Calliope Books publishing company . Her first book of poetry, Rose's Collage (May 2003), is a journey through her personal experience with domestic violence. Her perseverance of free will and spirit is monumental through the imagery she projects. Through Calliope Books, she also creates handmade journals and compiled an anthology chapbook titled Erotica, Dreams, and the Personal Political (April 2005). This is a recommended read, inexpensive, short, yet rich. Cat Neurosis She's at it again. Scratching her claws. Ripping up the threads of the carpet. Tearing the fibers of the screens. Clawing and ripping. Sniffing and getting at something in some form of cat neurosis. I tell her to stop. STOP! INDIA, STOP! She freezes and looks at me. What? It's nothing but carpet and window screens and curtains. I wonder in each house if the landlord will notice, if I will have to pay the price. They usually don't notice. But I do. She also attacks the furniture, the wood dividers, the leather sofa, the canvas bag, the leather purse, the wicker chair legs leaving permanent claw marks in all. When I open the door to outside, she runs for it every time, chases after another cat, runs up a tree, hides in the bushes, or turns right back around with a meow for safety from rain or the unknown and goes back to scratching ripping clawing with cat neurosis, obsessed with that other thing she can't quite get at. Currently residing in Arcata, CA, Christa hosts open mic poetry readings and performs spoken word at cafes and bookstores. She previously performed at Trinity Tribal Stomp Festival, Dancing Poetry Festival, University of California in Santa Barbara, a benefit reading for Domestic Violence Solutions, and a benefit reading for this year's upcoming Camp Betty Campout! Old Town Coffee & Chocolates hosts a free open mic poetry reading the first Monday of every month from 7:00-9:00 p.m. at their 211 F Street location. Visit www.calliopebooks.com for more on Larrit’s work.        Also In The Know: Creative Venues: Auberjonois Gives Liquid Performance in Ferndale Famed 'Deep Space Nine' vet gives tear-jerking 'Love Letters' CD Preview: Way Beyond the 'Yellow' Song Coldplay breaks hearts again with 'X & Y' Film in Focus: This Corpse Has a Pulse Burton's 'Corpse Bride' Does a Double-Take on Romance Poet in Residence: Carnielon Stones

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