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On the Cover / By Kelley Lincoln

Reggae Falling

A devastating loss and what it means for a beloved SoHum nonprofit and its flagship festival

(October 12, 2017) At the end of August, the Mateel Community Center addressed a letter to its supporters, inviting everyone to a Sept. 19 public input meeting and sending shockwaves through Southern Humboldt....
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Views / By Cristina Bauss

Pity and Fury

In Southern Humboldt, a painful reckoning with the inevitable

(October 12, 2017) The first time I set foot in the Mateel Community Center was in the late 1990s to attend a benefit for a local woman who, it later would turn out,...
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Views / By Kym Kemp

Mending the Mateel

Why the community center needs saving

(October 12, 2017) When the counterculture — the barefoot, longhaired back-to-the-landers — poured into the hills and valleys of the Mattole and the Eel River watersheds in the 1970s, they needed a gathering...
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The Setlist / By Andy Powell

We'll Meet Again

(October 12, 2017) There's an old saying that goes, "Always leave 'em wanting more." I say, "When they don't want any more, always leave." Well folks, after two years, it's time for me...
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Poetry / By Melinda Pedersen

Bowing

(October 12, 2017) Our heads bow over a book Bow and bow again. We take turns reading pages Promising re-covery A loving cloak for raw emotions A shelter in discomfort. Lightning preceded the...
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Art Beat / By Gabrielle Gopinath

Paul Rickard's Plein Air Progress

Watercolors at the Trinidad Coastal Land Trust

(October 12, 2017) This month, watercolorist Paul Rickard is staging the last of three successive month-long shows at the Trinidad Coastal Land Trust's Simmons Gallery. The first focused on the land trust's properties,...
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Feature / By Jennifer Fumiko Cahill

Amy Stewart, Portland Bound

Author waits with boxes

(October 12, 2017) Amy Stewart is all packed up but not quite ready to go. The author of eight published books, four New York Times bestsellers among them, sips her coffee a stone's...
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Table Talk / By Wendy Chan

Purple Yam Dim Sum

Fall delights fit for a Prince

(October 12, 2017) Autumn. I can feel the warmth of the leftover summer sunlight on my cheeks. The smell of the crisp breeze, the taste of harvest sweetness put me in the...
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Life + Outdoors

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Get Out / By Jennifer Savage

Sharktober: Part Two

After the attack, a clarity

(October 12, 2017) If you lived in Humboldt County in October of 2012, you heard about the encounter. For me, the word came via my cell phone, which blew up with news that...
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Field Notes / By Barry Evans

The Bronze Age

Part Two of Two

(October 12, 2017) Last week we saw how the three-part division of history proposed 200 years ago — Stone, Bronze and Iron ages — might have been a foursome if the Chalcolithic, or...
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