Many of us have been pressed into sedate suits and neutral colors by day jobs or a misplaced sense of propriety as we age, but if you’ve been squashing down your inner goth, Halloween’s the perfect time to indulge that irresistible pull toward everything dark, black and a little bit creepy — especially in the […]
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Murder in Arcata
It was January of 1862 and Arcata’s last adult Native American resident, Lucy Romero, had been told her life was in danger but she and her children had nowhere to go. Indians in the mountains were being hunted like animals and those sent to the reservations risked starvation. Women faced the threat of rape and […]
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Bay Battle
About a decade ago, the makeup of the Humboldt Bay Harbor, Recreation and Conservation District began to change. Since its inception as the manager of Humboldt Bay and its tidelands in 1973, the various iterations of the district’s board had largely envisioned Humboldt Bay as a working harbor; with fishing and shipping as its primary […]
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Dizzying Heights
Reviews EVEREST. Writer Jon Krakauer has no patience for this adaptation of his work: He’s called it “total bull.” He has, of course, also seized this as an opportunity to steer potential readers back to his Into Thin Air, the book upon which Baltasar Kormákur’s (Contraband, 2 Guns) intermittently compelling, occasionally breathtaking, consistently harrowing movie […]
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Safe Harbor
There’s no question Humboldt Bay is one of our most crucial resources. But depending on whom you ask, you’ll get a different reason as to why. Maybe it’s those kayak trips on calm days around the bay’s islands. Maybe it’s the deep water port that offers so much shipping potential. Maybe it’s the crab harvest […]
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Reclamation
This is the story of a tribe, a man, a garage sale and a collection of artifacts. It’s the story of a reunion that almost wasn’t. It begins and ends not in Humboldt County, but in the Columbia River Plateau. In October, Allen Maret will travel 600 miles from his Arcata home to a tiny […]
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Paste, Posters, & Telephone Poles
Similar to many of the changes that have come along with an evolving music industry, show promotion has morphed and permutated throughout the years. At a local level, the days of wheat pasting yielded to staple guns and telephone poles, to hoofing it around town throwing up 11-by-17-inch posters in supportive local businesses, to emailing […]
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Humboldt on Tap
Nobody ever told bourbon makers about zero waste. They’re a peculiar lot, holed up in Kentucky, stacking charred bourbon barrels by the millions into drafty, seven-story warehouses — and then getting rid of every single barrel. It’s a bourbon thing, and I’ll get back to what it means for Humboldt beers in a moment. First, […]
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Sauerkraut
Some of our favorite foods are fermented, such as beer, wine, bread, cheese, pickles, salami, yogurt, tempeh, vinegar, kombucha, kimchi and many more. And whether you are a devoted foodie with a well-stocked fermentation station on your kitchen counter or just somebody who loves a Reuben sandwich, one of the simplest and most satisfying fermented […]
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Infusions
A recent report by the Guardian shows that alcohol sales in Colorado grew in the years after the state legalized recreational pot, seemingly dispelling an argument that pot advocates have made that alcohol consumption would decrease with easier access to marijuana. It’s unclear if possible alcohol temperance was a selling point for Colorado voters, but […]
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Can Humboldt County Solve Addiction?
Editor’s Note: This is the second in a two-part series looking at addiction on the North Coast. The first installment (“What’s Killing Us?” Sept. 10) analyzed the theories of addiction and its causes. The first thing you see when you walk into detox are the names of the dead. A wooden plaque on the wall […]
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Keeping the Story Straight
When Sir Walter Scott wrote, “Oh, what a tangled web we weave,” he was no doubt thinking more military than marital battlefields, but Neil Simon’s Rumors, written almost two centuries later in 1988, is still as relevant today in reminding us that, when we first practice to deceive, we still need to be able to […]