Editor’s Note: Runners up are listed only if they garnered 50 percent or more of the winner’s total votes. Best Bar to Take a Date WINNER: The Speakeasy RUNNERS UP: Plaza Grill, Siren’s Song Tavern Best Dive Bar WINNER: Shanty RUNNER UP: Alibi Best Happy Hour WINNER: Mad River Brewery RUNNER UP: Shanty Best Sports […]
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Bonus Round! 2013
Ah, the “bonus” category. Let us be very clear: Bonus does not imply “non-essential.” Rather, these are the things that get at the very essence of a truly Humboldt experience. We think you voters did a pretty good job capturing that in your replies — with a couple of gauche exceptions. (Wedding Rock. Really?) Without […]
Posted inArt Walks + Festivals
First Saturday Night Arts Alive!
Presented by the Humboldt Arts Council and Eureka Main Street. Opening receptions for artists, exhibits and/or performances are held the first Saturday of each month. Phone (707) 442-9054 or go to www.eurekamainstreet.org for more information or to have an exhibit or performance included. A. GALLERY GARAGE Ninth and F streets. “Noche Humanos,” Kelly Myers, artist/writer, […]
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Doctor Sleep
An ancient band of vampires camouflaged in the trappings of middle America and roving the interstates in search of special children to prey on, a protagonist tortured by alcoholism and past traumas both supernatural and self-inflicted, a little girl wielding an awesome and terrible power — these are the ingredients of Stephen King’s newest novel, […]
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Johanna Rodoni Was at County Fair Board Meeting the Night of Her DUI Arrest
Johanna Rodoni, a local cattle rancher, executive director of the Buckeye Conservancy and a former county supervisor, attended a meeting of the Humboldt County Fair Association Monday evening before getting arrested for allegedly driving under the influence. Rodoni is a longtime member of the fair association’s board of directors. The board meeting adjourned at about 8:30 […]
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Best Of: The Making of
Your picks for the Best Of 2013 are all over this week’s Journal, which is on stands today (and online tomorrow). If you grabbed the paper already, you saw Journalista and boss artist Lynn Jones’ magnificent hand-carved redwood frame adorning the cover. Check out this video of Lynn designing and creating the frame, with tunes […]
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Project Censored
This year’s annual Project Censored list of the most underreported news stories includes the widening wealth gap, the trial of Bradley Manning and President Obama’s war on whistleblowers — all stories that actually received considerable news coverage. So how exactly were they “censored,” and what does that say of this venerable media watchdog project? Project […]
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Building on Faith
Every day but Sunday, pickup trucks congregate outside Fieldbrook’s Volunteer Fire Department. Workers hang from the firehouse roof, demolish walls, climb scaffolding and mix concrete. It’s like a barn raising — a testament to what can be accomplished when a community works together. The project has been a long time coming. Firefighter and contractor Gene Callahan […]
Posted inLetters + Opinion
Paper Power
Friday, 2:02 p.m. A bearded man wearing wire-framed glasses breezes out of the Arcata Police Department. The man wears a dark purple shirt with an awkwardly mended sleeve and a gray fleece vest. He’s carrying a sheaf of papers recording recent events in the city’s crime continuum. He plops the printed stack atop a nearby […]
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That Darn Cat
Regular weed columnist Ryan Burns is in New York this week, and he declined my suggestion — in the name of investigative journalism — to pack some of Humboldt’s finest on his cross-country flight to test just how lenient the TSA’s gropey screeners are (see the Oct. 10 “Week in Weed”). So instead, I’m here […]
