A parking spot opened on F Street — good luck, as I needed to deposit my paycheck before the weekend’s debit card purchases overdrew my account. With money so tight, those $33 overdraft fees, besides being stupid, can kill a person. Exiting the car, I noted the restaurant across the street. Regret pinged through me. […]
Jennifer Savage
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Art on the Town
Old Town Eureka shimmered with energy, as it typically does the first Saturday evening of each month. Hundreds of people swarming the streets, absorbing not only the art but the ambiance, the thrill of being out and about in a creative community. The north wind didn’t chill enthusiasm in the slightest. Arts Alive! is as […]
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Estranged Meadow
If you were a kid in the late 1970s/early ’80s and your parents loved you, then you must have gone to Disneyland, which means you must remember when Space Mountain glistened with newness and high tech. You also remember waiting … and waiting … and waiting … in the outside line expecting that once you […]
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Airborne With the Guardies
Perilous Plunge fans lined the docks, waving as the helicopter descended. Our flight mechanic, U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer Rick Vige, and rescue swimmer, Petty Officer James Moore, waved back. We hovered at about 10 feet, rotor wash radiating outward. Vige tossed the dummy, then Moore took his own plunge into Humboldt Bay. Pilots Lt. […]
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Hard Times
Crash. Freefall. Nosedive. The terms used to describe what’s happening to the American economy abuse us daily. One can picture the economy cartwheeling through the air, grasping for a parachute cord, whipped by the wind. But "the economy" is abstract — what’s really dropping are people. Into bed, where sleepless nights of worry await. Into […]
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Unstable Table
What would you get if you mixed The Bump Foundation’s funk, The Absynth Quintet’s jazz and the jam-based sounds of Likwefi? Not what you might think, at least based on Unstable Table’s debut eponymous CD. The band consists of Ryan Roberts (The AQ, Likwefi), Tim Lane (Likwefi, The Bump Foundation), Tommy FitzMaurice (Spank, The Bump […]
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The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
Teens may no longer be reading out loud with the family in the evening, but if you’ve created readers in your home, you can continue feeding their hunger with Young Adult Lit. Once the most maligned of genres, excellent books aimed at the 13-18 crowd now stand proudly alongside the latest Wally Lamb and Toni […]
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Magnum/Side Iron
Would someone unfamiliar with the guys in the band find Magnum entertaining? Laugh at Terrence’s antics, express amazement over his falsetto? Would he or she notice how seriously Bohner takes his drumming, note the fun Steve S. has on bass? Would someone who doesn’t know Deric Mendes recognize the irony in his guitar playing? Or […]
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Camel Rock rights (and wrongs) — Navigating the waves and attitudes of the North Coast
In Humboldt County, surfing doesn’t exist. Don’t believe it? Go ahead, ask the next guy parked outside Wildberries with a stack of boards poking out of the back of his Tacoma, salt crusted in his hair, cell phone and tidebook splayed on the dash. Ask, “So where’s the best place to surf around here?” He’ll […]