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‘Bigger Than All of Us’
A fire relief weekend across Arcata Plans for the Arcata Rising fundraising shows this weekend began coming together the night of the Jan. 2 fire. Sitting at Dead Reckoning Tavern, just a few blocks away from the devastation, and reeling from the conflagration they had just watched devour a block of shops, homes and studios,…
After the Fire
Dante DiGenova says he assumed the Jan. 2 evacuation of the storied Northtown Books, which he’s owned for 19 years and worked at for 35, was for caution’s sake. “Dog and keys,” were his only priorities on the way out. The store opened in 1965 in Northtown and H Street was its third location, though…
Arcata, Eureka Protests Call Out ICE and Trump
More than 100 students and community members showed up near the Cal Poly Humboldt campus at the David Josiah Lawson mural at the D Street Community Center for a student-led walkout protest on Jan. 23 in solidarity with Free America walkouts across the country. Participants brought signs or picked one up from a donated stack,…
Vision Creation New Sun
Alot of the problems in contemporary society can be traced to the servile tradition of western liberal compromise, and one of central stations of failure within that tradition is the long list of Nazi officials who died natural deaths as free men after World War II. One of the more egregious examples of this in…
What’s Good for Arcata
The fundraising events for those affected by the Jan. 2 fire in Arcata are legion, and the music shows alone are going to eat your weekend. But what are you going to eat? Luckily, local food folks are pitching in for the cause as well, and we’ve got suggestions for your community-minded grazing, in case…
Every Day Feels Like Low-Fired Clay
Annakatrin Burnham’s Flowstate At first glance, Annakatrin Burnham’s idiosyncratic sculptures are abstract and otherworldly — almost alien. Titling these quirky ceramics Trophies creates an immediate inroad for viewers to recognize their trophy-esque formal qualities: three-dimensional objects designed for display bearing a stable base adorned with a decorative stem or crowning object rising vertically from the…
The Oscars and Sentimental Value
Sure as death and taxes, the Academy Award nominations are once again upon us. The big news: Sinners has obliterated the previous record for previous nominations. Time now being what it is — some previously unknown, unknowable glue-trap of speed and paralysis — a lot of time has passed since the movie debuted and, I…
Moon Snail Pie
I was walking along Humboldt Bay when I heard, “Psst. Hey!” A Lewis’s moon snail (Neverita lewisii) was calling me from a shallow pool in the tidal mudflat. The snail said, “I want to enter the big baking contest. But those jerk-offs will never let a snail win. So, can you pose as me? Plus,…
