Netflix docuseries revisits the obvious REALITY CHECK: INSIDE AMERICA’S NEXT TOP MODEL. “That is the only way you change. That is the only way you get better: by someone calling you on your shit.” These are the words of legendary supermodel Tyra Banks at the close of Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model, Netflix’s […]
Sasha Senal
Sasha Senal (she/they) is a writer, environmental educator and aspiring farmer. She can be found exploring Humboldt forests (not unlike her home redwoods on the Sonoma Coast) and considering Black eco-feminism.
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‘Wuthering Heights’ and Fennell’s ‘Wuthering’ Lows
WUTHERING HEIGHTS (2011), adapted by British director Andrea Arnold, tells a truth. The international film industry has seen many adaptations of Emily Brontë’s 1847 Gothic novel — often construed as a tale of forbidden love and irreconcilable differences with some directors opting for a more strict approach and others setting their imagination loose upon the […]
Posted inOn the Table
Culinary Compassion
Retired chef provides fresh food for homeless pets A month ago, as the cold rain of winter was beginning to shift into frame, with the fortunate retreating to their homes, Samaya (who asks that her last name be withheld) was running errands when she noticed a person on the street with his two dogs — […]
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No Kings II
Humboldt speaks up and packs the block From Germany to Ireland, Canada to Mexico, New York City to Eureka, nearly 7 million people in the U.S. and worldwide took to the streets on Oct. 18 to speak their minds about fascism and to embolden communal support at the No Kings II demonstration. Here on the […]
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Protesters Talk Back to Authoritarianism
On Sept. 20, as the North Country Fair in Arcata was bringing folks from all walks of life together in celebration, another type of assembly was taking place in front of the Humboldt County Courthouse. There, dozens of North Coast neighbors took to the street to protest the current administration amid a host of other […]
Posted inArt Beat
A Different World is Considered
Three artists at CR In the Floyd Bettiga Art Gallery at College of the Redwoods, we all knew what artist Laura Corsiglia meant when she said, “there are so many problems in the world.” These days such a phrase is a dime a dozen but standing there watching the rain come down onto the concrete, […]