You may recall that on Dec. 3, 2015, some damn fool(s) wrenched one of the 5 1/2-foot-long aluminum birds off Jack Sewell’s “Following Current Events,” kinetic sculpture at the C Street Market Square. The bird, which sat high up in the 23-foot-tall piece, never was returned. However, after a year of working to secure funding from […]
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Contest Countdown!
Hey, Shutterbugs, time is running out! The deadline to enter the Journal’s 2017 reader photo contest is fast approaching. So, between now and midnight on June 19, grab your camera and document your community, whatever that means to you — your people, your neighborhood, your city, your ecosystem, your culture — and send us your […]
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Splashdown: Kinetic Day 2
They survived the sand and dared Deadman’s Drop. On Sunday, Kinetic Grand Championship competitors got amphibious, using foam, floats, kayaks and paddles to navigate the waters of Humboldt Bay. Making waves (and making it back to shore) is no joke — listing craft, log jams and busted cabooses were just a few of the challenges. […]
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All Downhill: Kinetic Day One
After parading around the Arcata Plaza, teams competing for glory (or just trying to stay upright) took off on the 2017 Grand Kinetic Championship. As the crowd cheered on Saturday, the human-powered contraptions made their way to the Manila Dunes to face Deadman’s Drop, the steep, sandy, downhill challenge that’s toppled many a team. Photographer […]
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Bigfootin’
Did you see something up in Willow Creek on Saturday? Bigfoot’s stomping grounds were the site of a tribute to our hirsute local hero in Veteran’s Park. The cast of Animal Planet’s Finding Bigfoot, including homegrown hunter James “Bobo” Fay, showed up to sign autographs, swap stories and film the festivities. Elvis of the Bigfoot world […]
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First Contact: Steven Paul Judd’s Moving Pictures
When Kiowa-Choctaw artist Steven Paul Judd was a child, growing up on Indian reservations in Oklahoma and Mississippi, he contracted polio and had to go to the hospital. There, by his own account, he “saw TV for the first time.” It made a big impression. As luck would have it, the TV movie that was […]
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Dinsmore Homesteader’s Artwork Featured at deYoung
From Haight Street to a Humboldt County homestead: It’s a familiar story for many back-to-the-landers who arrived in our region in the late ’60s and early ’70s, fresh from the 1967 Summer of Love. Dottie Simmons, who settled down in Humboldt County in 1968, made her homestead near Dinsmore, raising kids, canning preserves and starting […]
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Logging On
Redwood Acres Fairgrounds transformed into the 79th annual Redwood Region Logging Conference in Eureka this weekend. The sounds of saw mills and chainsaw carvers at work and the whistle of a vintage steam railroad engine keep a large crowd moving among the massive equipment and logging displays. Also available were historic displays, a wildlife show, […]