Preparados
El grupo minoritario más grande del condado de Humboldt se organiza para apoyar su comunidad
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Preparados
La organizadora Renee Saucedo es pequeña de estatura pero se siente su presencia con su pelo grueso y rizado y sus cejas marcadas y expresivas. Frecuentemente se levanta en puntillas para mirar alrededor de la sala con su mano en la cadera. “¿Por qué tenemos licencia de conducir? ¿Es porque el gobernador ama a la…
Ready
The Organizer Renee Saucedo is small in stature but commanding in presence, with thick, curly hair and bold, expressive eyebrows. She often raises on to her tiptoes to survey the room, one hand on her hip. “Why do we have licenses? Is it because the governor loves la raza?” The crowd laughs. Almost 30 people,…
UPDATE: Borges Attorneys Respond to DA’s Statement on Jail Death
Update: The attorneys representing Daren Borges’ mother responded to District Attorney Maggie Fleming’s press release from last week: Attorneys representing the mother of Daren Borges, retired Humboldt State University professor Stephany Borges, have issued a statement in response to the announcement by Humboldt County District Attorney Maggie Fleming that her office does not intend to…
Scenes from a Sweep: Images from behind the Bayshore Mall and a look at what’s next
The Eureka Police Department led a multi-agency effort Wednesday to remove what Chief Andrew Mills called a “criminal element that has infiltrated” the network of homeless camps near the railroad tracks behind the Bayshore Mall. Dubbed Operation Safe Trails, the full-day sweep of the encampments involved more than 50 officers from at least seven agencies,…
ACRC v HWMA: Settled
A four-year battle over Arcata’s recycling is over. In 2011, the Arcata Community Recycling Center, a scrappy, built-from-scratch icon of the city’s ‘70s progressivism, closed its doors, not long after building an $8 million processing plant in Samoa. ACRC, in addition to its westside Arcata community dropoff center, had processed most of the Humboldt Waste…
The Early Bird: LeValley home from prison ‘sabbatical’
About nine and a half months after surrendering to federal prison, embattled local biologist Ron LeValley recently announced his return home with a grinning selfie taken somewhere on the North Coast and a plea for help paying down the debts incurred from his “sabbatical.” Since LeValley’s incarceration for conspiring to embezzle almost $1 million from…
HumBug: Ticks
As the song says, “Spring is in the air.” It fills my mind with visions of birds migrating, flowers blooming and ticks! I was reminded of this today taking a photo of a local alligator lizard in my back yard. I am not a person who says, “There is room for every living thing in…
COSMOSpolitan
Unless you live in a black hole (not recommended/possible), you know who he is, or you at least recognize him. Neil deGrasse Tyson (StarTalk, Death By Black Hole and Other Cosmic Quandariesis) is the man you see when astrophysics hits the headlines and it’s time to drop some science on national news. On Tuesday, April…
Hippie Heaven
On Saturday, April 11, the Manila Community Center is the place to be for one heck of a shindig. The Rosebud Jubilee is an all-day, family friendly fundraiser for Bella Vita Fire, a Dreammaker Project of the Ink People Center for the Arts, featuring a market from noon to 8 p.m. (free) Peruse vendor booths,…
Second Friday Arts! Arcata
For more information or to have your event listed, visit artsarcata.com or call Arcata Main Street at 822-4500. ARCATA ARTISANS 883 H St. Joy Dellas, paintings; Susan Morton, paintings; Jeff Langdon, photography; Michael Edwards, jewelry. ARCATA EXCHANGE 813 H St. Alex Nosenzo, photography. Music by the Mad River Rounders. Wine pour benefiting the Historical Sites…
Joyrides
Reviews FURIOUS 7. Seeing a decent blockbuster, much less one I’ve been looking forward to, is probably the closest I’ll come to a religious experience, so it seems appropriate to have watched Furious 7 over Easter weekend. (Another even less tasteful metaphor could be made about wandering in the desert of late-winter theatrical releases, but…
Don’t Take it for Granted
Editor: I read Jen Savage’s piece regarding her recent jury duty (“Civic Duty,” April 2). Thank you for serving and for sharing your experience. Being asked to make decisions that have such a great impact on victims and accused is not fun or easy. Our personal opinions about culpability are often out of sync with…
A Miracle
Editor: It’s hard for me to think about Csilla Adam (“Violence Foreshadowed,” March 26) without thinking about women who didn’t make it — of Danielle Nemetz of McKinleyville, of Sandy, Shelby and Shasta Miller, of all those being victimized right now, of all the agony endured by survivors of domestic violence, the rip in the…
Don’t Walk
Editor: Without Ryan Hurley, I would have forgotten to thank the traffic engineers who have installed countdown timers at some Eureka crosswalks (“Nerfing the World,” April 2). For those of us who, presumably, are less nimble than Mr. Hurley, these displays can be a great help in deciding whether there is enough time to safely…
The rain
The rain is the envelope that holds our bodies… limbs enervated by language. Heavy muffled love settling like wet air. — Catherine Munsee
Classics, Rock
Hi, Humboldt! This week’s Setlist comes to you from New Orleans’ Faubourg Marigny district, adjacent to the French Quarter, drenched in musical history, tasting of Sazerac rye and smelling like a barbequed shrimp po’ boy. No wonder, then, that we’re highlighting the jazzy greatness of Ryan Keberle and Catharsis taking place Monday night at the…
Socca It to Me
I absolutely love love love socca, or farinata as it’s known in Italy, or faina in Uruguay. My pop calls it socca, which is the French word. The fried flatbread hails from Nice, but the concept is found in various Southern climes. Whatever you call it, it’s a simple delight. Socca is especially helpful in…
Give It Away Now
Washington, D.C. is shaping up to be the most fascinating setting of the great American marijuana experiment. A series of political quirks have made the city’s marijuana-friendly lawmakers and residents agitated, but the outcome — a potentially commercialism-free, socialistic utopian marijuana share society — is being cautiously heralded by some analysts. D.C. had been moving…
Here There Be Dragons
Have you been spending too much time indoors fighting imaginary dwarves and knights online? Maybe you should try fighting imaginary dwarves and knights in the fresh air. Hold onto your 16-sided dice, because on Saturday, April 11 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Humboldt Botanical Gardens you can throw on your duct taped…
