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Dead and Disconnected
William Cody Waldron’s birthday came and went two Mondays ago, on Sept. 23. If he is alive, he is now 71 years old and, quite likely, drunk. But chances are he is not alive. Chances are, he is mystery corpse “John Cooper-Gulch-Swamp Doe,” found burned beyond recognition on March 14 in a swampy homeless camp […]
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 performances are held the first Satruday of each month. For more information, phone Eureka Main Street at 442-9054 or go to www.eurekamainstreet.org 1. EUREKA INN 518 Seventh St. Lauren Cogan Jones, mixed media. 2. HUMBOLDT ARTS COUNCIL at the […]
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Trinidad Art Night
The last Trinidad Art Night of the year! 1. TRINIDAD TRADING COMPANY 460 Main St. Locally crafted art. Music by Kahish Kverda. 2. WINDANSEA 410 Main St. Local art and gifts. 3. TRINIDAD MUSEUM 400 Janis Court at Patricks Point Dr. “Large Baskets from the Permanent Collection,” and “Photographs of Native Americans of Northwest California.” […]
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Truffle Kerfuffle
Well, not really, but it’s fun to say. Brace yourselves, people: Venlo has a new owner. Jonah Ginsburg, a real estate agent at Mikki Moves, saw the listing in the office and decided to buy the Old Town chocolate shop. He says he’s not a chocolatier, but he’s learning. And he’s got help. Manager Ken […]
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Video: Fire Claims Eureka Home
A Eureka house went up in flames this afternoon. Humboldt Bay Fire responded to the home — on the 2600 block of G Street — as area residents looked on.
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‘Tis But Rain
The mud is just making it more medieval. It’s also making admission free. Over at the Excalibur Tournament and Medieval Market Fair next Mad River Hospital, LARPers, jousters, knights, ladies and wenches are still going on with the show. Due to rain, admission is free. Also the jousters are “mud-skiing,” a rare medieval practice about […]
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Going Medieval
The field beside Mad River Community Hospital is empty, with only a painted sign for the Dark Horse Tavern on the stable. But in a few days, it’ll be filled with tents and a tavern, populated by knights, knaves and a village of Vikings. Men and women will clash with swords and sticks, and jousters […]
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Ganja Capitalism
The pharmacy bottles pictured above are part of a collection of old cannabis-industry flotsam that belongs to “an unofficial historian in Mendocino County.” A slideshow of the collection recently appeared on High Times online, and the post should prove enlightening to anyone who considers medical marijuana a recent invention. One photo shows tall, green tins […]
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Printing the Journal
If you’re reading the paper version of this week’s North Coast Journal, you’re holding a product that was created last Tuesday night on the Samoa Peninsula. Western Web, which occupies 24,000 square feet in the Fairhaven Business Park (in a space previously used as a machine shop by the Samoa Pulp Mill), has been printing […]
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Captive Audience
Reviews PRISONERS. When we were small, my brother and I decided to play a joke on our parents and disappear for a while. This only amounted to a couple of hours hiding out above the garage, and I couldn’t understand why Dad was so upset when he found us. A few decades of living have […]