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Lions and Dragons in Old Town
Arts Alive! on Saturday in Eureka had the usual art and music lineup, but Old Town also featured several costumed May the Fourth Star Wars characters and a big crowd at the third annual Eureka Chinatown Street Festival – Year of the Dragon. The festival on three blocks of E Street in front of the Clarke […]
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Making change: Booze
Let’s talk about alcohol, creator of (sometimes toxic) relationships, (occasional over-) sharer of secrets, balm to some (destroyer of many). Welcome to the final installment of Making Change, a six-week series on the hows and whys of personal, social and political change. I type this from Ottawa, where I’m with people from frontline communities and […]
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Doubting Shakespeare, Part 2: Problems
“They’re both bonkers!” — Stanley Wells, Britain’s leading Shakespeare expert, on the opinion of preeminent Shakespearean actors Sirs Derek Jacobi and Mark Rylance, that the Stratford man didn’t write the Shakespeare canon. Last week, I noted that the traditional “Stratfordian” belief that a wool merchant from Stratford-on-Avon in England was the author of the Shakespeare […]
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Making Change: The Internet
Let’s talk about the faces we show to and hide from the world, and how the internet magnifies them all. Welcome to part five of Making Change, a six-week series on the hows and whys of personal, social and political change. For as long as I can remember, I’ve experienced the phenomenon I refer to […]
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Doubting Shakespeare, Part 1: Stratfordians vs. anti-Stratfordians
On April 26, 1564, 460 years ago, the baptism of one “William Shakspere” was recorded in the provincial town of Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire, England. According to the conventional story, this glover’s son grew up to become the greatest writer in the English language, author of 38 plays, 154 sonnets and three long poems. But was […]
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Hot Tomcod Action
Welcome to Washed Up’s Xucation Channel where we present science education in a format that people will actually watch. In this episode, a lady visits a gentleman and we learn about an interesting fish. “Hey handsome, bet you can’t resist these.” While he fails to resist those, let’s discuss the Pacific tomcod (Microgadus proximus). This […]
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An Advocate’s Journey
I’ve long believed volunteering is the best way to get to know a community when you move to a new place. In 2014, I moved to Humboldt and spent my first few years picking up casual volunteer shifts when I could, gravitating first toward community cleanups and zero waste sorting at festivals, then toward helping […]