The Journal has no idea why interwebs megastar Kai granted us the unsolicited photo bomb below. And we can’t really ask him about it — dude is pretty tough to get a hold of, being “homefree” and all. The picture popped up on his Facebook page last night with the following message attached: “big ups […]
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Will There Be Red Panda Sex At the Sequoia Park Zoo Today? Fingers Crossed, Y’all!
There could be some red hot love is in Eureka’s air this Valentine’s Day. In a savvy, timely move, the Sequoia Park Zoo chose today to introduce a new female Red Panda to their resident fluffy stud Sumo. (Sumo’s previous fellow bachelor Shifu has moved on to the Detroit Zoo to seek some tail of […]
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Jimmy Kimmel Picks Up Kai the Homefree Hitchhiker (VIDEO) (UPDATED)
UPDATE 2/13: Well, it would appear as if Kai’s 15 minutes aren’t up just yet. Last night Kai was again on Jimmy Kimmel Live in what could conceivably be a recurring segment … Kai’s Korner Movie Review. In this first edition, Kai “reviews” the Oscar-nominated Zero Dark Thirty. (Spoiler alert: he mostly talks about fluoride […]
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KIEM Camera Recovered Near Site of Amazing Google Street View Images
So, one of the cameras from last weekend’s “News Channel 3” theft was recovered earlier today, along with some cables belonging to the station. (See the press release below.) But more importantly (by which we mean way less importantly), the camera was recovered less than a block from what may be the greatest 360-degree panorama of Eureka […]
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Drinks at Sunset
There she is, shaking up something yummy in a photo in February’s Sunset magazine (click it to enlarge): Amy Stewart, Drunken Botanist extraordinaire, best-selling author, Eureka resident and of course, NCJ columnist. Stewart’s short piece on her cocktail garden comes with scrumptious photos and one of her intoxicating recipes. Plenty more will be available in […]
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Kimmel vs. HSU Now Actually a Thing [UPDATED]
UPDATE: National Public Radio, too? Yup. Click [audio-1] here to listen. Humboldt State University’s recent invitation/call out of late night host Jimmy Kimmel has been picked up by the Associated Press — the media equivalent of “shit just got real.” We blogged on Monday about the letter sent out by HSU President Rollin Richmond and […]
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This Week on The Marijuana Follies…
For your amusement, we pass along this anecdote from a friend of the Journal, as recounted on Facebook:
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‘Awesome’ Outside Lands
After a full festival dose of music, our teen correspondents Kaylee and Nick Savage-Wright report back from San Francisco’s massive Outside Lands Festival. Kaylee: Only a few hours after the first day ended, people were already reliving the events of the past 24 hours, already planning for next year, their talk full of words like […]
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Dave Chappelle Drinks “Regular Coffee and Cream” in Fortuna (UPDATED)
Where is Dave Chappelle? Would you believe Fortuna? The reclusive stand up comedy legend repped a black, stoner-font-emblazoned “Humboldt” sweatshirt when he was spotted by a few local residents in Fortuna’s Starbucks on Wednesday evening. The one time “Chappelle’s Show” star and a friend were taking a break from their motorcycle trip up Highway 101 […]
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New Contest: Comment Poetics
You’ve already heard about our 99 words or fewer Flash Fiction Contest (deadline April 10). We’ve decided to add a new contest, Comment Poetics with a shorter deadline, in fact it’s today only. Among the entrants so far: Repeat Journal commenter and big fan PHARM, who always begins with a compliment and seems to favor repetition: Very […]
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Guest Post: Storming StrangeBrew
Gwen Neu, a teacher who lives in Eureka, attended StrangeBrew in quest of the gender she found sadly under-represented in the Journal’s recent beer judging. Anyone reading the North Coast Journal a few weeks ago might think beer is a manly sort of beverage. Not so fast. Plenty of women were sampling, savoring and sometimes […]
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Carnival’s A-Coming
The almost-annual carnival is back at the Eureka boardwalk. It runs from Friday thru Monday July 4.