When was the last time you left the theater with everyone around you blown away? Last night, the performance ensemble Stomp delivered at the Van Duzer Theater. Whatever you thought Stomp was — it was more. Tickets are still available for tonight’s show. Yes, this is the popular group that turns everyday actions like sweeping […]
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Honey Cone
If you’re not going to treat yourself to an ice cream cone when it’s warm like this, you just don’t want to be happy. I went into Living the Dream Ice Cream looking for Dirty Monkey (chocolate, banana and peanut butter) but discovered instead orange blossom honey. It is the ideal end of summer flavor […]
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What to wear on the first day of school? Here’s what some of the newbies at Humboldt State University are working. Check out this first day chic.
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Sensed Presences and Heard Voices
I became aware of my guide, who was shrouded in a black monk’s cowl, an hour or so after I lost my bearings and realized I was lost. He — I’m sure it was a “he,” although I never saw his face — walked about 20 feet to my right and just slightly ahead of […]
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Anatomy of a Fire Fight
They were celebrating down in Hoopa when the storm rolled in on a warm, smoky Saturday. It was Aug. 10, in the middle of the annual Sovereign Day celebrations, when the tribe celebrates its independence with a parade, games, a rodeo. It had been a bad air quality day; smoke from the Butler Fire up […]
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The View from the Chopper
Congressman Jared Huffman came to town this week, along with veteran news anchor Dan Rather and his crew, to get briefed on the unholy clusterfuck that is our rogue marijuana industry. It’s an industry subsidized and metastasized thanks to the artificial price constraints resulting from the War on Drugs. On Tuesday morning, Sheriff Mike Downey […]
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Stream-sucking Grows Busted
Two busts east of Garberville yesterday turned up just the kind of ecological havoc that’s been infuriating environmentalists and getting the attention of our Congressman. Along with the usual guns, greenhouses and greenbacks ($198,000 at one property) Fish and Wildlife say they found pumps draining Mattole Canyon Creek, sucking up salmon and steelhead smolt, and […]
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Dog Owner Fail [Update: Suspect Identified]
UPDATE: From the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office: The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office has positively identified the suspect in this case as Salvatore Ted Arena, age 42, of Freshwater. The three dogs, Angel, Becky and Ginger, had belonged to Arena’s brother who passed away suddenly in February of this year. Arena began trying to surrender the […]
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Henry D. Thoreau Essays: A Fully Annotated Edition
Here’s something you might not know about Thoreau: Even after he was a published writer he worked in the family pencil business and contributed several technical innovations to the art of pencil making. Here’s something else: When Thoreau stayed for a year in the cabin on Walden Pond, there were active railroad tracks skirting one […]
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HSU: The Gateway Drug
A mission-style building with plaster walls and a red tile roof sits on the top of a hill in Arcata. From its perch, Founders Hall looks out on the rest of the mismatched buildings that make up the Humboldt State University campus. For 100 years, HSU’s roots have been growing into the surrounding community. From […]
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Weirder and Weirder
Simply put, the marijuana issue in America has gotten weird. Long confined to the dank and smoky shadows of the underground as a Schedule 1 narcotic, weed has come staggering into the sunlight of quasi-legality. And it’s a bit of a trip. Suddenly, there’s CNN’s chief medical correspondent, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, declaring that Americans have […]