Libby Maynard, co-founder of the Ink People for the Arts in Eureka back in 1979, retired recently after 42 years as its executive director. She was offered much love and appreciation from a wide range of community members at the Ink People Street Party and Celebration of Libby Maynard at the Synapsis space in Eureka […]
Leslie Castellano
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Eureka’s Appetite for Fast-food Chains
The peeling exterior of Annie’s Cambodian belies its bustling interior, decorated with paintings and carved wooden statues, and warm with the smell of dishes cooked with lemon grass, anise and kaffir lime leaves that have won it a steady following. It’s a customer base used to seeing Chin and Annie Chau, as well as their […]
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Eureka’s Poet Laureate David Holper
Congratulations, Eureka, you have your first poet laureate. David Holper, a 61-year-old professor of English at College of the Redwoods and brave judge of the NCJ annual Flash Fiction Contest, got word of his selection this week and a press release from the city is expected soon. Holper is a graduate of the University of […]
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No Country for Old Young Men
I’ll admit I am a bit of a jerk. I try not to be but my heart is heavy. The first election I was old enough to vote in was Bush vs. Gore and since then it’s basically been a backslide through unending war, recessions, bailouts for the financial industry and lately a gross turn […]
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In Transition
Thesis Festival Dell’Arte’s annual Thesis Festival represents the graduating MFA students’ transition to the world beyond school — a world to which they will bring the totality of their three-year immersion in theater of place. The four pieces presented are all very different, reflecting the broad range of techniques studied, but all also very much […]
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3rd UPDATE: Bergel, Arroyo, Castellano Take Council Seats; Seaman in as Mayor
3rd UPDATE: The Humboldt County Elections Office just released its final election night report and the Eureka City Council races seem settled. Here’s the quick rundown of the latest results: Ward 1 Leslie Castellano built her early lead and never looked back. With the final election night report, Castellano finished with 47.78 percent of the […]
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Musical Transmitters
I’ve been bloviating a lot here lately, so I’ll make this short and sweet. I heard a sound last week, a most unique and wonderful sound, and I would like to share it with you, inasmuch as I can transmit that information via the printed word. I went back-country snowboarding on Horse Mountain last Monday […]
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Synapsis Studio’s Future up in the Air
A couple of weeks ago, Synapsis Performance Collective, a group of artists, dancers and performers that has been renting a space at 47 W. Third St. in Eureka for the past 13 years, learned that in six weeks, its rent would be doubling from $1,065 to $2,200 per month as of Oct. 1. It’s a […]
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The Next Generation March on Wells Fargo: ‘Divest’ the DAPL
A group of seven young protesters gripped a long white banner reading, “Divest,” which stretched across G Street in Arcata. As the youth leaders marched north, they yelled, “Water is what?” “Water is life,” the fellow protesters responded. The protesters marched from the Arcata Plaza to Wells Fargo on Saturday, led by Indigenous youth from […]