On the evening of Thursday, Aug. 4, a couple dozen people gather in the Pacific Outfitters parking lot for a guided walk, ready to take in the sights of murals underway for this year’s Eureka Street Art Festival. Leading the tour is organizer and local artist Jenna Catsos, who has been directly involved coordinating the […]
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Art in the Streets
Stock Schlueter dips his paintbrush in a deep forest green and pit-pats leaves onto a tree in the far-right corner of his painting in Opera Alley. His piece is an ode to a spot along Madden Creek he’s grown fond of. Beginning Aug. 11, more than 20 local and visiting artists transformed walls along Opera […]
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The Humboldt Four Head to Nationals
Four Humboldt State University mountain bikers boxed up each of their bikes and then paid more than $400 apiece to have them sent to Snowshoe, West Virginia, and back. The reason? The 2015 USA Cycling Gravity Mountain Bike Nationals. This weekend, HSU’s four riders are competing in the two highest levels of racing, professional and […]
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Meow, Baby
Rowr. On Saturday, Oct. 10, the Arcata Theatre Lounge turned into a bit of a cat house as the Alley Cat Cabaret & Purrlesque slinked onstage to raise money for the Companion Animal Foundation. Photographer Alexander Woodard was on hand (paw?) to capture the feline frivolity. The evening featured more kittenish kitsch from locals Blue […]
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All Species on the Plaza
Miss the sunshine, music and dancing on the Arcata Plaza already? Here’s photographer Alexander Woodard’s slideshow of the North Country Fair and All Species Parade on Sunday, Sept. 20. (See Saturday, Sept. 19 photos here.) The parade started with a symbolic busting of the Klamath Dam and a flood of fish, feathers and fantastic creatures […]
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Dancing around the Plaza
The first day of the North Country Fair on the Arcata Plaza kicked off on Saturday, Sept. 19 with more drums, dancers, jugglers and giant puppets than you could shake a belly dancer’s jangling belt at. It was all blue skies and bright costumes, as you’ll see in Alexander Woodard’s photographs here in the slideshow. […]
