Start making your clattery-boned, orange-vested, hard-hatted, gloved and virtuously reeking calaveras now — 35 of them — for those iconic worker-denizens of the Arcata Community Recycling Center. On Jan. 12, the ACRC will be no more. Shut. We steal this portentous news straight from the reliably fresh slate of Hank Sims’ Lost Coast Outpost. Sims […]
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McK’ville Gets Their Goats
Oh, yes, the town “where horses have the right of way” has a fond and willing eye for the goats, as well. That is, there do not yet appear to be any of those n-o-o-o-o-o-ot-t-t-t-t—h-e-r-e!!! bleatings issuing from the grassy flats of McKinleyville’s Dow’s Prairie, where local-cheese-company-gone-global Cypress Grove Chevre has announced it will put […]
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Salzman Sues Arcata Over Panhandling Law
Political activist/consultant/sign maker Richard Salzman (above right) filed a lawsuit in California Superior Court yesterday against the City of Arcata, claiming that the liberal mecca’s panhandling ordinance is unconstitutional. Ordinance no. 1399, which narrowly passed the Arcata City Council last March, made it illegal to panhandle “in an aggresive manner.” It also prohibits panhandling in certain […]
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4/20 in Arcata a Bit ‘Off’
Things were damp in Arcata’s Redwood Park on April 20, the unofficial holiday also known as 4/20. The park’s grassy meadow was surrounded by caution tape. Police on the scene said a crew had spread fertilizer earlier in the day and no one was allowed to cross the field. Arcata Police Chief Tom Chapman was […]
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Choose Love Art Show Looking For Submissions
In Jen Savage’s Art Beat column, this week, she mentioned the upcoming Choose Love art show, to be held during the November Arts Arcata, at Redwood Raks. Six Rivers Planned Parenthood’s Advocates for Choice committee is looking for both submissions of love-themed art (for show only, or to donate to SRPP), as well as performers for […]
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Strix Vega At The Alibi, Sept. 25, 2010
I’ve been watching Strix Vega and listening to them grow for more than five years at this point. What started as an unmistakeable nod to the folky sounds of Neil Young, has grown into a psychadelic mix that touches on influences like The Doors and Pink Floyd. Saturday night, Strix Vega played two full sets […]
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Ukesperience At North Country Fair
By the time Sunday rolled around last weekend, it seemed like most folks had had enough of being soaked to the bone on the Arcata Plaza, but the ones who stuck out the weather were in for a slightly overcast treat, late in the afternoon. Ukesperience played on the Garden Gate stage at 9th and […]
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Music! at Arts! Arcata
The streets were alive with music last night as Arcata celebrated its monthly arts night.
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A-town Anti-Prom
Fun flash! (Emphasis ours): The Arcata Costume Prom is a high school age dance put on by local Arcata teenagers who found the proms instituted by their schools to be lacking in style and not serving the whole student population. The Costume Prom was created to fulfill many dance styles and musical taste from Jazz […]
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Two Crows Electrocuted
The power outage in part of Arcata this morning (including the Journal office) was caused by a pair of crows shorting out a transformer according to PG&E spokesperson Jana Morris, who called KHUM in response to an inquiry from DJ Mike Dronkers. Since there were two crows, Dronkers surmised that the electrocution was perhaps related […]
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Busking, Valley West
Traveler Alessa Bakkum busks for some room money in the Valley West shopping center. She’s also featured in our cover this week on Arcata’s proposed panhandling ordinance … although busking per se is not the target of the ordinance.