Humboldt’s got some strong women, some fierce women, some powerful women, some outrageous women, but even so, our badass women don’t always get the recognition that they’re due. Trinidad musician Maria Bartlett noticed that lack of recognition in our music scene, and so she did something about it. Bartlett launched a monthly women-only performance series […]
Emily Hobelmann
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Mountain Poem
Everything is better in the mountains Everything is glowing The clouds are better — more pronounced The lichen POP Top-lit trees shimmer and smile while Stout purple irises wave from the sidelines of Alderpoint Road A lone turkey with a pink-blue head manages traffic, and we stop as directed for our April first […]
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Rock ‘n’ Roll Women: Portraits of a Generation
The phrase “rock ‘n’ roll” describes a diverse genre of music, the makers and listeners of which span generations, class and cultural bounds. Rock can be unpretentious, raw, emotional, comical, glamorous, heartbreaking, dark or light. Rock is loved by many, and for some, rock music is a lifestyle. Indeed, rock is an attitude that can […]
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Weednesday, 4/20
Weed, green weed, Grow it from seed. Sell it for money, And buy what you need. Pot, smelly pot, Legal it’s sort of not. Blow up your house, But watch out for those cops. Cannabis, oh cannabis, Fuel for the long hippie bus. Everyone smokes so much, What’s with the Man’s big fuss? […]
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Shiny Portals to World Relief
Times are undeniably stressful, and it’s hard to think that miracles will happen when you’re preoccupied with natural disasters and radioactive particles raining from the sky. Some would argue, however, that thinking in terms of miracles is the only way out of this arguably human-caused quagmire. Consider Dr. Amit Goswami, the theoretical physicist and pioneer […]
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Snoop Dogg/Stephen Marley
The first of two big summer shows at Eureka’s Redwood Acres Fairgrounds brought the much-anticipated return of Snoop Dogg to Humboldt County. This past Wednesday (probably two Wednesdays ago by the time you read this), our North Coast hip hop devotees donned their hippest duds and headed to the Fair. Stephen Marley shared the bill […]
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Pot Hero
It seemed the whole NorCal pot activist community had gathered — not to mention patients, musicians, families and community members. The group smoked, danced and sweated in the July Upper Lake heat to live reggae acts and some weed-loving Mendo hip hop as well. Donations for the Eddy Lepp cause were collected, and a rainbow […]
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101 Milestones
It doesn’t get any more Humboldt than Bill Morrill, creator of 101 Milestones. Morrill wasn’t exactly born here in Humboldt County, but he moved here in ’72 so forget about it. He’s been here for days. Some time ago, back in 2004, Morrill came up with the 101 Milestones concept. Morrill recognized how rich the […]
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It’s Spock O’Clock!
Previews Once again we have but one opening in Humboldt County this weekend — Angels and Demons, yet another film based on a Dan Brown book. (Brown wrote The Da Vinci Code.) Tom Hanks and Ewan McGregor star in this film, which is directed by Ron Howard, who also directed the film version of The […]