Event organizers Same Old People were surrounded by a large crowd attending the first day of the 44th annual North Country Fair held on the Arcata Plaza on Saturday — with just one big change in tradition. The Northcoast Environmental Center’s All Species Parade swapped days with the Samba Parade, surprising a lot of attendees […]
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Top That
Wearing formal hat wear on the sixth annual Ladies Hat Day at the Humboldt County Fair on a hot, smokey Saturday got you free admission into the horse races and a chance to compete for some big prizes. See some of the feats of fashion in the slideshow below. More than 50 women, men and children […]
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Humboldt Style: Opera Alley Block Party Edition
Smoke from wildfires settled like a hot fog on Saturday evening, after a day of record-breaking temperatures. Undeterred, the crowds showed up in style for the first ever Opera Alley Block Party, which closed off the street in front of the Clarke Museum to make way for vendors selling beer, rum punch and barbecue, while […]
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Poor Reggae on the River Attendance Leaves Mateel Community Center’s Future in Question
Redway’s Mateel Community Center is in a state of crisis after its biggest annual fundraiser, Reggae on the River, not only failed to meet revenue projections but left the center with a “significant” debt. “Very challenging times lie ahead, there are difficult decisions to make, and the future of both ROTR and the MCC is […]
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Century Celebration
It took four days to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Creamery Building in Arcata this past week. Building owners Lisa and Brian Finigan, of Arcata, have spent the last 40 years rejuvenating the building and hosting an eclectic mix of tenants in the center of the emerging Creamery District — so they and friends […]
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The Painting on the Wall
The lift parked in the alley behind the DePaul Building is down low enough for Duncan Jago to chat. The Bristol artist’s black pants are spattered with the same pink, lavender and aqua paints he and assistant Joe Murdter have been putting up on the building’s south wall, just across the street from the mural […]
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Irie Stylings at Reggae on the River
Instagram-ready festival wear has become its own species of personal expression. The styles at Reggae on the River are certainly qualify, whether on performers, fans or the vendors, workers and volunteers who make the show possible, including volunteer security personnel, medics, food truck operators, cooks, camera people, sound technicians and journalists. Oven-like August temperatures presented a […]
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Angels of Hope Gets a Makeover
Community Paint Day turned lots of would-be shoppers into artists helping paint a mural at the Angels of Hope Thrift Store on Saturday, July 29 in Arcata. “I just came by to shop at the thrift store, and they gave me a paint brush,” said Jessica Young, of Arcata. “We were at the store to […]
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Paint the Utility Box You Want to See in the World
Before you tag that utility box for free, consider getting paid $500 by the city of Eureka to do a mini-mural. A new program called Eureka Box Art! (somebody loves those exclamation points) will pay individual artists or groups to paint boxes of varying sizes around town to both beautify the mundane blocks of metal […]
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Respect the Quilt
Quilters, says Susie Freese, are like Rodney Dangerfield. “We get no respect,” she said in a telephone interview a month before the Heart of the Redwoods Quilt Show. “People don’t really understand what we do, and they don’t know how to value it.” Freese and the 175-member Redwood Empire Quilters Guild to which she belongs hope […]
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This Show Sucks
While you’re out at Arts Alive! looking at ceramics and skateboards tonight, you may want to follow the sound of fuzzy, crunchy guitar to Studio 424 (424 Third St., Eureka) for the Ultra Super Last Minute DIY Punk as F#ck Flyer Show. The small gallery hosts a “haphazard trip down memory lane” for local punk […]