Good taste runs in families. In Arcata, Halleh Paymard keeps her Southern California family’s restaurant tradition alive with breakfast, brunch and Bloody Marys at T’s Café North. And in Eureka, the Tanski family makes its home at Gabriel’s with Italian dishes and remarkable wines. Gabriel’s216 E St, Eureka (707) 445-0100 Tuesday – Thursday, 11:30 am […]
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By Hand
Sun streams in the window. The café cat, Luna, sprawls across a polygon of light, licking her paws. An espresso machine purrs as customers of Mind’s Eye Coffee Lounge line up for a mid-morning hot beverage fix. A door in the back of the coffee machine and counter opens into a shop with works in […]
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Family Business
Good taste runs in families. In Arcata, Halleh Paymard keeps her Southern California family’s restaurant tradition alive with breakfast, brunch and Bloody Marys at T’s Café North. And in Eureka, the Tanski family makes its home at Gabriel’s with Italian dishes and remarkable wines. Gabriel’s Misheal Tanski handles the bar Saturday afternoon between a busy […]
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By Hand
Sun streams in the window. The café cat, Luna, sprawls across a polygon of light, licking her paws. An espresso machine purrs as customers of Mind’s Eye Coffee Lounge line up for a mid-morning hot beverage fix. A door in the back of the coffee machine and counter opens into a shop with works in […]
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Grazing
A sketch from the comedy show Portlandia mocks a food-aware couple at a farm-to-table restaurant who demand specifics about their chicken. Unsatisfied with the animal’s name and history, the couple asks the waiter to hold the order until they’ve visited the local farm that raised the animal. Far-fetched joke? In Humboldt County, the source of […]
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Grazing
A sketch from the comedy show Portlandia mocks a food-aware couple at a farm-to-table restaurant who demand specifics about their chicken. Unsatisfied with the animal’s name and history, the couple asks the waiter to hold the order until they’ve visited the local farm that raised the animal. Far-fetched joke? In Humboldt County, the source of […]
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Perfect Summer Trips
This is the time of year about which English poet John Keats waxed romantic, describing, “Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness/ Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun.” Keats not your thing? OK. Hip-hop duo Twiztid, bosom friends from Detroit, rapped thus: “Seasons change and summer turns to fall/ Every minute of my life, I remember […]
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Humboldt’s Swinging News Scene
For its size, Humboldt’s lucky to have the robust print/online media scene that exists here. A daily paper. A couple of weeklies, including the one you’re reading. Monthly magazines of varying quality. A thriving news website, the Lost Coast Outpost, just hired award-winning news guy Ryan Burns away from the North Coast Journal. That’s just […]
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Paper Power
Friday, 2:02 p.m. A bearded man wearing wire-framed glasses breezes out of the Arcata Police Department. The man wears a dark purple shirt with an awkwardly mended sleeve and a gray fleece vest. He’s carrying a sheaf of papers recording recent events in the city’s crime continuum. He plops the printed stack atop a nearby […]
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No Static at All
And on the radio you hear “November Rain” / That solo’s awful long but it’s a good refrain / You listen to it twice cuz the DJ is asleep / On the radio. — Regina Spektor Scanning the airwaves between Los Angeles and San Bernardino. Nothing interesting. A classic rock station’s playing Foreigner’s “Double Vision.” […]
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Unleashed
Trinidad Beach. Low tide. A pair of marine biology students measure tide pool lengths and depths. A couple wanders behind a haystack rock for a romantic moment. Children check out sea urchins and starfish, firmly attached to damp rocks. Sudden chaos. Two dogs race at each other from opposite ends of the beach. Barking wildly. […]
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Struggling to Save Seals
Mork slides out of the pool, barks sharply and sails across his pen on all four flippers. The feisty northern fur seal pup bares sharp teeth and hisses at a camera — and the humans standing outside his pen. “He’s got a tremendous amount of attitude,” says Dennis Wood, founder of the Northcoast Marine […]