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- By Jennifer Fumiko Cahill and Anthony Westkamper / May 20, 11:22 AM
  
  HumBug: Aphid Cows and Ladybugs
- I recently wrote about spittlebugs and how their larval form covers themselves with a bubblebath of processed plant sap for protection. At the end of ... More 0
- Music Tonight: Sunday, May 20 0
- Amid Kelp and Abalone Die-offs, State Raises Urchin Limits 0
- Yaass, Kouign-amann 0
- Hive Mind 0

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- By Thadeus Greenson / May 19, 1:56 PM
  
  Amid Kelp and Abalone Die-offs, State Raises Urchin Limits
- The California Fish and Game Commission adopted emergency regulations this week aimed at reducing purple sea urchin populations off the North Coast. The urchin ... More 0
- Amid Allegations he Violated Environmental Laws, a Planning Commissioner Resigns 0
- The Village Project Heads to Arcata City Council Sans Recommendation 0
- Arcata Council to Mull Gun Safety Ordinance Proposed by NPA Students 2
- Caps and Gowns 0

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- By Collin Yeo / May 20, 4:00 AM
  
  Music Tonight: Sunday, May 20
- Metal is on the menu tonight at the Siren's Song at 6:30 p.m. for those suffering from twee-fatigue or iron deficiencies (price TBA). Join ... More 0
- Hive Mind 0
- Music Tonight: Saturday, May 19 0
- Hedwig Postponed Due to Injury 0
- Booty Call 0

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- By Jennifer Fumiko Cahill / May 19, 12:47 PM
  
  Yaass, Kouign-amann
- A few years ago, the kouign-amann (pronounced "queen ahmahn") stumped the contestants on The Great British Baking Show, causing a dramatic series of light ... More 0
- Jerk Chicken on the Plaza 0
- Party in a Crepe 0
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On the Cover / By Linda Stansberry

What's In 10 Years' Worth of Sequoia Park Zoo Animal Autopsies

(May 17, 2018) "Monty" was not feeling well. The 17-year-old male Pygora goat's osteoarthritis had stopped responding to medication. In the extreme upper age range for his species, which usually lives to 14,...
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News / By Linda Stansberry

The Surprisingly Dramatic Race for Auditor-Controller

(May 17, 2018) Does slow and steady really win the race? Mike Lorig, an accountant with the Department of Health and Human Services and a contender in this year's auditor-controller election, certainly hopes...
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Letters + Opinion

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The Week in Weed / By Thadeus Greenson

North Coast Left Out of Governor's Pitch to Crack Down on Illegal Cannabis

(May 17, 2018) It's no secret Humboldt County has many, many of cannabis farms. It's also no secret that the vast majority of them — between 80 and 90 percent by most estimates...
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Seriously? / By Jennifer Fumiko Cahill

Realistic Sex Robots to Save Us All

A word from your friends at HotBotix Engineering

(May 17, 2018) The Southern Poverty Law Center has categorized "incels," involuntarily celibate men who share and promote a virulently misogynist and violent ideology, as a male supremacist hate group. Self-proclaimed members of...
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The Setlist / By Collin Yeo

Call Me By Your Band Name

(May 17, 2018) The more creatively named bands featured this week got my wheels spinning down memory lane. Despite a preternatural and seething distrust of all things over and done with, I couldn't...
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Arts + Scene

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Filmland / By John J. Bennett

Free Gabrielle Union and Melissa McCarthy

(May 17, 2018) Reviews BREAKING IN. For longer than I'd really care to countenance (probably the release of Bring It On in 2000) I've found Gabrielle Union to be a consummately compelling actor...
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Front Row / By David Jervis

Hedwig Rocks

Guts and glitter at NCRT

(May 17, 2018) As a bridge between the rock, pop and soul music of the 1960s and the explosion of punk in the late 1970s, and the myriad subgenres that followed, there...
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Life + Outdoors

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Field Notes / By Barry Evans

Pyramid Woo

(May 17, 2018) The New Age began, as far as I was concerned, in the spring of 1970. Fresh in the Americas, I was completely captivated by woo — the more some phenomenon...
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Astrology / By Rob Brezsny

Free Will Astrology

Week of May 17, 2018

(May 17, 2018) ARIES (March 21-April 19): According to my assessment of the astrological omens, your duty right now is to be a brave observer and fair-minded intermediary and honest storyteller. Your people...
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