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Andrew Goff
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Jackson/Downey at the Elks
The Elk’s Lodge in Eureka played host to not one, but two election night parties on Tuesday night with District Attorney candidate Allison Jackson and Humboldt County Sheriff candidate Mike Downey seemingly splitting the cost of catering. Around 100-150 supporters sipped drinks and chatted excitedly, while the two stars of evening made the rounds. Both […]
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HAF-time Show
It’s an impossible statistic to verify, but let’s just go ahead and declare Humboldt County the nation’s leader in “per capita artsiness.” Why not? With monthly arts nights in Eureka, Arcata and McKinleyville, the fine work done by local organizations like the Ink People, the Humboldt Arts Council, the Main Street programs, the Mateel and […]
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Earth Shaker
In 1964, Bob Dylan prophetically exclaimed that “The times they are a-changin’,” and a nation of disenfranchised youth believed him and reacted. In 1991, Kurt Cobain sarcastically declared, “Here we are now, entertain us,” and birthed a sea of flanneled cynicism that still hasn’t found justification to get off the couch. Similarly, in 1976, Harry […]
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Joy Kills Sorrow and John Ludington
If someone asked you in passing, "What kind of music does Joy Kills Sorrow play?" any simple categorization you rattled off to save time would likely fail to properly convey all the musical textures the group is capable of producing. Bluegrass? Acoustic folk? Sure, I guess those work. But anyone who heard the band perform […]
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Orick to be Center of Universe
Photo: Examiner.com . Last night, a buttload of local well-to-do’s met at the Mateel Community Center to discuss the potential impacts of marijuana legalization and its affects on the local economy. Little did those concerned that we’re about to plunge into an economic abyss know that their prayers for a brighter Humboldt tomorrow had already […]
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Prodigal Arkley
The Top One Story of 2010 What a year it was. We said goodbye to the Samoa peninsula after the Great Oct. 18 tsunami; the only people that will ever again inhabit towns like Manila and Samoa and Fairhaven will be underwater archaeologists, perhaps of the extraterrestrial variety. Three days later, the great earthquake swallowed […]