Jack Lincoln is one of the latest strutting habitués of the brick sidewalk in front of Old Town Coffee & Chocolates, in Eureka. Handsome, too: blue head, changeable neck — it goes creamy white when he’s content, says his person, Nick, and red when he’s excited (equally with anger, happiness or lust). On this sunny […]
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Small Business Planning With Zoltar
For several years now, a certain fancy foretune-teller has heckled and charmed walkersby in Old Town with his commanding come-hithers. And for a diviner-in-a-box, Zoltar’s been surprisingly mobile. He spent a few years in front of Sea Breeze Candy store down in the Bayfront One complex at the foot of F Street. After that closed, […]
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Parking Lot Monitors
This was nothing new. All the cars parked under the row of big Leyland cypresses that divide the parking lot at First and D streets were kersplatted in white drips and blops. And the pavement all around these bombed cars was, as usual, devastated. Whitewashed. Just like every day before this. Oh, maybe it was […]
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Humboldt Sign Of The Apocalpyse: Bohn/Lovelace Old Town Bromance
Think the all the hoopla surrounding the impending end of the Mayan calendar is a bunch of malarkey? Not so fast, skeptic! While we haven’t seen any lions loungin’ with lambs just yet, check this out this piece of local visual WTF-ness. The Journal‘s secret Old Town telephoto lenses picked up some shared supervisorial sentimentality […]
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Ben Franklin Smokes a Joint on My Shirt
Sad news. That awesome carnival on the Eureka waterfront is packing up. Soon it’ll be headed down the road, off to brighten the lives of people in some other lucky town. I managed to pop four balloons and win this golden Easter egg of a shirt, which features a droopy-eyed Benji bragging about the resiliency […]
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Female Cage Fighter Tackles Eureka Transient
The Journal moved its offices to Old Town Eureka two years ago to be in the middle of the action, but this morning’s events weren’t exactly what we had in mind. I’d just stepped outside our door to make a phone call when a group of young people sprinted past, hung a left at the […]
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The Case of the Missing Hondas
If you have a 1990s Honda and like to spend time in central Arcata, it might be a good idea to make sure your locks are in really, really good shape. Someone, probably someone with a few altered keys, has been taking aging Hondas, driving them around for a day or two, and then leaving […]
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Sticky Jared
Last night I moved into my buddy’s place, where I’ll be staying for the summer. He works for 2nd District congressional candidate Jared Huffman. So there I am, brushing my teeth like I do most every night, and I spot a note on the counter: Sweet. Seems like a nice guy. Good penmanship too. But why […]
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Jesus Christ, Chester Cheetah Invited to Wal-Mart Opening Ceremony Mega-Party Extravaganza Festivities
Holy crap! Wal-Mart may have been coy about moving into the Bayshore Mall, but its grand opening is gonna be off the chain! Get ready for a week-long explosion of orgiastic consumer pageantry the likes of which Eureka has never seen. According to an apparently genuine invitation sent to the Journal and other local media outlets, the festivities […]
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Uh, Who Keeps Bringing Us Flowers?
Prettys! Brightly colored, construction paper-wrapped wildflowers adorned the North Coast Journal doorway when the earliest-rising employees arrived this morning. Keeping up a tradition that our more seasoned colleagues estimate dates back at least a decade, the flowers were delivered in a fashion predominantly employed only by our most favorite blog commenters: anonymously. We’re assuming our […]
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How I was (temporarily) banned from the KIEM News Channel 3 Facebook page
I arrived at my home on H St. in Eureka Saturday afternoon around 3:30 p.m. and soon found myself sucked into Facebookdom. Scrolling down my newsfeed, I was confronted with the following screaming status update: News Channel 3 A GUNMAN MAY STILL BE ON THE LOOSE IN EUREKA. … SEE WHAT OUR CAMERAS CAUGHT AS […]
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Tristan and Zoltar
“Psst,” said Marty L’Herault, waving a hand from inside the velvety dark curve of his horse-drawn buggy parked on the side of F Street. The setting sun had shellacked the fronts of the old-timey buildings around the plaza in gaudy gilded pinks, and the pigeons had all tucked in behind their spiny rain-gutter fortresses for […]