For the 55th time, the wild and wooly wheels of the Kinetic Grand Championship rolled through the Arcata Plaza, down the sandy dunes at Dead Man’s Drop, into Humboldt Bay (and hopefully back to shore) and southward on the long trek to Ferndale. After three days of escalating challenges, roadside repairs and grueling pedaling, Trashlantis […]
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Photos: Kinetic Day Two (by Sea)
After the sand has settled at Dead Man’s Drop on the first day of the Kinetic Grand Championship, racers prepared for the amphibious leg of the journey. Creatures great and weird hit the water of Humboldt Bay, making big waves and struggling not to capsize their way into a Golden Flipper award. Photographer Mark McKenna […]
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NCJ Preview: Kinetic Madness, Desperate Times
This week photographer Mark McKenna joins us to talk about the return of the Kinetic Grand Championship after a two-year COVID hiatus and what it’s like to shoot the wild ride over asphalt, sand and sea. This week’s issue is also full of opinions, including on Brett Watson, harassment and the limits of civil debate […]
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Kinetic Rides Again
The rest of the world is trying to get back to “normal” but here in Humboldt, we’re just happy to go out in the fresh air and get weird again. After two years of paused and remote races, the human-powered Kinetic Grand Championship once again rolled around the Arcata Plaza, down the Manila Dunes, into […]
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The Crown: Rutabaga Style
Like the rest of the world, we put our worries aside for a few brief hours of royal watching — the dresses, the headwear, the pageantry! We refer, of course, to the annual Rutabaga Ball on Saturday, May 19 at the Arcata Community Center. Once again, the queens assembled to judge a competition of wit, […]
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Giant Bugs! Bicycles! It’s Race Time
It’s not often you see grown men pedaling giant insects through the middle of Old Town, but this is one of them. The Kinetic Grand Championship (the Sculpture Race, to most people) has been rolling along, in one form or another, for over 40 years now (probably due to a lack of friction, yes, physics!). […]
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Every Mom’s Kinetic Dream
All children have asked themselves, “How do I show my mom how much I love her while simultaneously gaining a better knowledge of physics?” To the great relief of children and mothers everywhere, The Kinetic Universe and the Rutabaga Royal Family have supplied an answer. On Mother’s Day, Sunday, May 12, the Eureka Waterfront Amphitheater […]