When Yurok Native Shoshoni Hostler began beading as a hobby years ago, she never dreamed it would lead to museum exhibits and Hollywood actresses wearing her designs. She works as suicide program manager and associate marriage and family therapist for the Yurok tribe, but her artistic career has continued to grow — albeit somewhat accidentally. […]
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One Arrest in $1M Trinidad Heist of Jewelry, Gold Bars
The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office today announced the arrest of one suspect in connection with a $1 million heist at a Trinidad residence last week. Three to four suspects were reportedly involved in the May 11 burglary on the 1000 block of Stagecoach Road that was captured by a surveillance camera, making off with more […]
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Trade Routes
Piante Gallery shows work by painter Harry Blumenthal, sculptor Marilyn Andrews and jewelry designer Scott Mitchell this month. Blumenthal’s expressionist paintings are up front as you enter the gallery. Painted improvisationally with loose gestural brushwork, they’re largely populated with animals and their creaturely subjects prance or slink through brightly colored, vaguely Fauvist landscapes that all […]
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Bright Idea
As newly minted Humboldt State University graduates, Paul “Yashi” Lubitz and Holly Hosterman didn’t waste time figuring out the rest of their lives. While Lubitz, who had earned a degree in music and industrial technology, mulled over the idea of launching a frozen health foods business, Hosterman, who’d studied jewelry design, told him, “If you […]
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Perfect Winter Trips
The North Coast doesn’t really do seasons the way the rest of the world does. We don’t believe in dividing the year into four neat periods, each with their own weather. Instead, mix up our rain and fog, darkness and light in varying quantities and distribute it in ever surprising ways throughout the seasons. Our […]
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Hands Down
There’s something about clothing and objects designed by a singular imagination and made by an actual person’s hands. This pair of Humboldt shops rounds up quirky and beautiful things with personality and soul, like the people who made them. The Bodega H.A. Pearson, the vivacious owner of The Bodega, is known for her super soft, […]
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More Sparkle Than Eureka Can Handle
One of the biggest gem, bead and jewelry shows in the country ended up in little old Eureka this weekend. But at closing time Saturday inside Franceschi Hall at Redwood Acres Fairgrounds, Gem Faire vendors were feeling the fizzle. As some began to drape cloth over their wares — colorful skeins of bright and sparkly beads, humongous […]