Wildlife is on the move this time of year, which means drivers need to be even more cautious while traveling the region’s rural roads and highways. According to a joint release from Caltrans and the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, vehicle-wildlife collisions “typically peak” this time of year, when animals are migrating to their […]
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Hum Plate Roundup
Here’s what we’re ordering seconds of this month. If you’ve got a tip on good food around the county, don’t keep it a secret, let us know and we’ll investigate. Boardroom Decisions Somewhere in Los Angeles, a restaurant owner is poring over reclaimed barn wood samples and polishing the hell out of a concrete floor […]
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La Vie en Duck Fat
When the erstwhile bistro Zoe’s newly installed wood fire oven went cold, it seemed that once again you could find anything in Henderson Center (coffee, bike repairs, mole, a haircut, a drink, Japanese kitchen gadgets, Lao rice cakes) except a starched white tablecloth. Then Le Monde (2850 F St., Eureka), a French venture by chef Alex Begovic […]
Posted inArts + Scene
UPDATE: Shameless Paparazza Hounds Actors
UPDATE: Official confirmation has finally come from the Humboldt-Del Norte Film Commission regarding the famous folk we’ve been seeing around Eureka. In a press release this morning, Cassandra Hesseltine, who’s kept contractually mum up until now, stated that Jemaine Clement, Craig Robinson, Aubrey Plaza, Emile Hirsch, Matt Berry and Director Jim Hosking were all in […]
Posted inLife + Outdoors
Elk in the Surf
One morning this past July, Louisa and I were sipping coffee in our camper van. We were parked on the remote Usal Beach in the Sinkyone Wilderness when they emerged from the early morning fog like ghostly apparitions — a stately parade of five bull elk on their way to the beach for a morning […]
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A Magical Elk Moment on the Beach
This was the sight we woke up to a couple of mornings ago, off the beaten track in Mendocino County: My video shows the five-strong bachelor group of Roosevelt elk at dawn last Thursday on Usal Beach, in the Sinkyone Wilderness, south of Shelter Cove. In a couple of months, they’ll be putting their attack […]