Listen, Humboldt. I know your New Year’s resolution was to finally sculpt that bangin’ beach bod you’ve been craving others would crave for, geez … how many years has it been now? And you finally got your hands on a P90X set that your overambitious friend gave up on. This is it. Time to become […]
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McKinleyville Arts Night
1. Eureka-Arcata Airport. View artwork by Humboldt County artists. 2. Silver Lining, 3561 Boeing Ave., #D. Donna Jean Hooker, creative critters generated out of wire, stone and glass; Mark “Tree” Allen, rustic twig furniture; Good and Evil Twins, ambigram artwork; Music by Chris Parreira. 3. Plaza Design, McKinleyville Shopping Center. John Wesa, screenprints and serigraphs; Live music. 4. North […]
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Breathe Easy
Listen, Humboldtians. As you may have heard, yes, The Peking Acrobats will be gracing the stage at HSU’s Van Duzer Theatre on Tuesday, Jan. 17 at 7 p.m. Yes, these are the acrobats that were in Ocean’s Eleven. Yes, as always, death-defying feats will be in ample supply. Yes, the Seattle Times described them by […]
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We Planned Your New Year’s Day
Creatures of habit, we human beings be. As evolved as we like to think we are, able to own and snuff out aspects of our personality when we think we need to, we usually need some sort of painful push for change to initiate. An unflattering picture of your stomach hanging out of your shirt […]
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The Final Countdown
You braved Target’s Black Friday stampede. You endured Eureka’s tone deaf truckers. You even let your children sit on some stranger’s lap. ‘Tis the madness of the season. But the end is nigh. This week, the countdown of days until Christmas hits the single digits. While the reindeer’s share of local events has already come […]
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Keep Humboldt Weird
Assuming the skies are clear — a pretty big freakin’ “if” in Humboldt, for sure — this Saturday at 4:45 a.m. a red shadow will begin to slowly creep across the face of the moon before reaching full pepperoni status at 6:05 a.m. Is this latest lunar eclipse — visible in much of the western […]
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S.H.I.T. is Funny
Their business is funny. And business is (kinda) good. But be honest. Did you really think when Savage Henry Independent Times launched almost two years ago that it would make it past the gangly, newborn calf stage? We’re talkin’ print media, people! C’mon! But in S.H.I.T.’s logic-defying lifespan, Chris Durant, Monica Durant, Sarah Godlin, Josh […]
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Them Dadgum Zombies is Back
We thought the horrific Humboldt zombie plague had been eradicated. We thought we were safe. We were wrong. Last year, shortly after Halloween, the royal family of Kinetic kick-assery known as the Rutabaga Queens delivered such a cataclysmic, WWE-style beat-down on those brain-craving sumbitches, we felt confident they’d never show their stinky, decomposing faces ’round […]
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Tripping on the Tipping Point
At the Arcata Playhouse this weekend, the latest from Petrolia’s top theatre troupe, Human Nature, is another take on what the troupe calls “climate change comedy:” Two Old Birds or Tripping on the Tipping Point. The “old birds” (not that old) are David Simpson and Jane Lapiner, winners of the Danish Institute for Popular Theater’s […]
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Rise, Bronzes, Rise!
After 19 long years a-moldering in the rubble of an earthquake-collapsed foundry in Ferndale, bronze sculptures by artist Jack Mays have been pulled back into the light. Mays and the creative folks from Minds’ Eye Manufactory, a group of “makers” and artists, excavated the art works recently. The sculptures will be featured in the exhibit […]
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Intertribal Elders Dinner!
It’s one of the biggest parties of the year, and it’s not hard to figure why. First, the beautiful purpose: The Northwest Intertribal Gathering and Elders Dinner honors elders and veterans, those strong and oft-gnarled trunks without whom the young folks might flutter and drift into an aimless future. Second, the food and entertainment: This […]
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Humboldt’s Weed Stereotype in Event Form
We’ve all said it. “I’m from Humboldt County.” That phrase, when uttered outside the Redwood Curtain usually generates one of two responses. One, “Where?” And two, “Weed!” I’ll usually play along to a degree by informing people that, no, I didn’t bring any ganj with me but if they’d like to lick me like a […]