Used to be when the Humboldt County Drug Task Force sought legal advice before executing a search warrant, it called a local 707 number to the District Attorney’s Office. Now task force members mostly dial a long distance number, and the county legal expert is 750 miles away, working remotely near Palm Springs. The […]
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Relaxed Reelection
Mellow, all of it: The soft lullaby music from the gypsy-jazz quartet of strings, the red-bulbed lighting, the soft cushioned seats, the low key comfort food, the deep red wines and dark beers. Nerves didn’t need calming at the election gathering at the Arcata Playhouse Tuesday night. Palms were wet from the condensation of drinks, […]
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Hempin’ It
Leave the garden alone and get to the Mateel Community Center in Redway this weekend for the 22nd Annual Hemp Fest. The three-day event has multiple strains of entertainment for the cultivated marijuana activist — laughs, music, art, food and some stimulating conversation too. Things kick off Friday, Nov. 2, with comedy night. Weed and […]
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The $38 Million Label
At farmers markets along the North Coast, buyers look farmers in the eyes and know with certainty that the fruits and vegetables were engineered by no more than the earth’s warmth and water. There’s little mystery about it. Pure. Raw. Food. But buying groceries at supermarkets is a different story. In today’s agriculture, some […]
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Best Place to Send an Outsider
It’s almost become cliché. Every year we ask, where’s the best place to take your out-of-towners? And every year it’s the same answer: Fern Canyon. Hey, it’s good enough for Steven Spielberg’s CGI dinosaurs (“Jurassic Park II” was partially filmed at Fern Canyon in the late 1990s). But with the canyon’s 50-foot walls covered in […]
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Best Coffee Roaster
For most of us, our alarm clocks only half awaken us. Consciousness isn’t fully realized until our pupils dilate after the nose wallows in the smell of ground coffee beans wafting through the air. Last year we asked you who had the best cup of coffee, but this year we wanted to decide Humboldt’s favorite […]
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Best Music Venue
The letters seemingly fall from the sky and stack vertically above the neon-lit marquee, spelling out the name of one of our fair towns: A-R-C-A-T-A. The iconic sign above the Arcata Theatre Lounge has become the focal point of the city’s skyline. And thanks to a rebirth in the past decade, the theatre is also […]
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Best Radio DJ
The needle’s stuck. For the second year in a row, KHUM’s Mike Dronkers is Humboldt’s favorite radio DJ. Dronkers’ weekday midday show, “You and Meme,” features music from accapella to zydeco and commentary about life and local news, which he says he tries to deliver in a way that makes sense to normal people, […]
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Best Playground
For a professional jungle gymnast, this result was a huge upset: Eureka’s Sequoia Park?! Let’s talk about another place, first. Janes Creek Meadows Park, aka “Spinny” park, looks like a mini NASA training facility. It has elliptical pods that orbit with such force that your eyes roll back. The professional jungle gymnast in me thinks […]
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Best Restaurant for a Vegetarian
Wildflower Cafe & Bakery beet the stuffing out of the rest of the competition here. Having never been there myself, I romained skeptical. However, after dining there last week with a few friends, lettuce say that we’re with the voters. For those of you who think a vegetarian menu is a missedsteak, I invite you […]
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Best Bar
Of all the beer joints, in all the towns, in all of Humboldt, voters liked The Shanty most. If you’re keeping score at home, that’s a hat trick with back-to-back-to-back wins for the Eureka dive bar with the key lime facade and iconic Martini glass neon out front. You don’t three-peat by dumb luck. A […]
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Best Wish Ticket
There are certain things you can count on in Humboldt County: The fog will roll in, Safeway never has enough registers open, Betty will be tending bar at Everett’s, there will be a Craigslist missed connection about a Wildberries employee, Tad will be clad in nurse’s scrubs and protesting something, and Missing Link Soul Night […]