In our YouTube era, bemoaning the shortening American attention span has… Whoa, speaking of which, did you guys see that crazy in-and-out dunk this week on YouTube? So crazy! Anyway, where was I? Oh, right. It takes a lot to hold our gaze these days. Mixing it up never hurts. Taking the “variety is the […]
Andrew Goff
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Question: Sexy Time? Answer: Booya!
Odds are, like many Americans, you have found yourself with friends during a pedestrian game of Trivial Pursuit thinking, “You know, this game just isn’t ‘sexy’ enough, dagnabbit!” You’re not alone. Pleasure-seeking board game enthusiasts have long bemoaned the puritanical leanings of the Hasbro higher ups. I mean, ‘People & Places’ and ‘Sports & Leisure’ […]
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Out of the Woods
It’s getting harder to remember, but there was a time when Humboldt County’s cash crop wasn’t the ganja. Weird, I know. Maybe you’ve noticed those other big plants majestically covering our hillsides — biggest in the world, baby. Yeah, we used to cut those down. All the time. Of course, I’m admittedly too young to […]
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Hold Onto Your Coat
Whether you know it or not, odds are you’ve caught a glimpse of The Flying Karamazov Brothers before. Founded in Santa Cruz more than 25 years ago, they’ve worked as street performers and performed on Broadway. They juggled in the film The Jewel of the Nile, and once juggle-jammed with the Grateful Dead. More recently […]
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A Radio Quinceañera
We’re all okay now, so it’s easy to forget the uncertainty many of us felt following the deceptively-large-feeling earthquake that rocked the North Coast on Jan. 9, 2010. I mean, it felt like “The Big One.” For all any of us knew, a Deep Impact-ish tidal wave was about to Atlantis-ize HumCo for good. Grab […]
