The following is an incomplete list of things that were in abundance on the Arcata Plaza five minutes after midnight on New Year’s Eve (when the above picture was taken): Flood lightage Officers Parking spaces Quiet (‘cept for the generators running the aforementioned lighting.) What was missing from previous years?: People. Just two years ago, […]
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What You Clicked
Yes, it’s obligatory end o’ the year list time. No media outlet can resist. In this week’s Journal print edition, once again we’ve imposed on you, our reader, what we think are the Top 10 most important local events and issues of the year — ‘cuz we think we’re really smart, and stuff. But in […]
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Making Your Kids’ New Year’s Resolutions for Them
Ah, another arbitrary point on the human-made calendar is upon us. Time to capitalize on the built-in narrative and start making better decisions, citizen. Time to cut the gut! Pull the trigger on that gym membership! Eat fewer McNuggets! Make 2013 your year! What’s that? You were really banking on that other calendar’s end of […]
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Top 10: Wal-Mart Arrives
Ahh, 2012. The year Eureka finally got its smiley face. But so what? Why include the opening of a Wal-Mart among this year’s top stories? With nearly 9,000 locations worldwide, the world’s largest retailer opening yet another fluorescent-lit shop is certainly not a rare occurrence. Sure. However, no other single issue garnered quite the sustained, […]
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What You Clicked: A 2012 Humboldt Year In Review
Yes, it’s obligatory end o’ the year list time. No media outlet can resist. Thus, in this week’s Journal print edition, once again we’ve imposed on you, our reader, what we think are the Top 10 most important local events and issues of the year — ‘cuz we think we’re really smart, and stuff. So […]
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Will’s Final “To Do” List
So Humboldtian, you’re trolling the ol’ NCJ calendar lookin’ for something to do before the world ends this Friday? That’s cute. But if you really want to maximize your bliss in Humboldt’s final hours, y’all should mount up with me. Here’s our itinerary, if yer savvy: 4:30 a.m. – Rise. Shine. 5 a.m. – Purchase […]
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Plaza Prophecies
OK. You’ve heard what the “experts” have to say about how the world will end on Dec. 21. But we wanted to go to the source of real liberated wisdom in Humboldt County, the Arcata Plaza, and see what the amateur eschatologers there envisioned for the demise of our world. We did not take “I […]
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Humboldt Sign Of The Apocalpyse: Bohn/Lovelace Old Town Bromance
Think the all the hoopla surrounding the impending end of the Mayan calendar is a bunch of malarkey? Not so fast, skeptic! While we haven’t seen any lions loungin’ with lambs just yet, check this out this piece of local visual WTF-ness. The Journal‘s secret Old Town telephoto lenses picked up some shared supervisorial sentimentality […]
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It’s Totally Snowing in Humboldt
Humboldtian Amy Barnes chronicled some real, legit snow outside her window in Fieldbrook Tuesday afternoon. So there. Dottie Simmons sent us this picture from a bit farther inland in Dinsmore. Uh, this is what snow looks like when it sticks, coastal dwellers.
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The King Tide Rules (PHOTOS, UPDATED)
UPDATE 12/18: We updated our King Tide photos blog post with some non-King Tide comparative photos … like we should have done to begin with. Sigh. Live and learn. Thursday morning at 10:46 a.m., was when the North Coast was predicted to have its highest tide of 2012, i.e. THE KING TIDE. So the Journal […]
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Measuring I
Oh, maps. By now, after a year of being inundated by the red state/blue state visuals, you may have reached your map-intake limit. We get it. But, by golly, this past week the Humboldt County Elections Office released the final precinct-by-precinct voting results, meaning how you voted is just slightly less secret now. What this […]
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We Got the Cup!
For those who would seek to downplay Humboldt County’s long, celebrated, profitable marriage with marijuana, this has been a month that might make ’em wanna burn one down. As we’ve all seen by now, our beloved Humboldt State University incurred something of a PR nightmare when its announcement that it was firing up an […]