Best Pawn Shop Humboldt Bay Trade And Pawn Chances are you’ve seen the sign for Humboldt Bay Trade and Pawn (aka Humboldt Pawn) soaring over one of Eureka’s main thoroughfares. And, perhaps, you’ve been a bit curious. Maybe it’s time you went inside. Carrying on a service of short-term loans and cash for goods that […]
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Best of Humboldt
Most of the time when we say something is a popularity contest, it’s a bad thing. The exception is our annual Best of Humboldt, when our readers vote on their local faves from barbecue to skate parks. It’s like voting for prom kings and queens, but without the drama. Or is it? There were some […]
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Best of Services 2019
Best Tire Shop Tony Gosselin & Sons’ Tire It was about a year ago that a flat on my partner’s car took me into the local storefront of a national tire chain. The tire was unfixable, as I’d suspected, but the sales clerk told me that we wouldn’t need just one new tire. Instead, because […]
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Best of Food & Drink 2019
Best Catering Company Sammy’s BBQ & Catering Before the smell of smoky Hawaiian-style barbecued chicken wafted from its Eureka restaurant, before folks took the King Salmon exit to eat ribs by the canal, Sammy’s began as a catering business. I’m strongly recommending you hire this family operation for anything you’re inviting me to because, sweet […]
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Best of Cannabis 2019
WINNERS: Budtender Monty Mifflin, The Heart of Humboldt 601 I St., Arcata; 822-9330 theheartofhumboldt.com Second Place: Michelle Seelye at Humboldt Patient Resource Center Third Place: Brooke B at Satori Cannabis Nursery Hendrx 840-5667; hendrx.farm Second Place: The Heart of Humboldt Third Place: Talking Trees Dispensary Humboldt Patient Resource Center Multiple locations in Arcata and Eureka […]
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Best of Bonus 2019
Best Local Politician Steve Madrone He might be new on campus but that didn’t stop freshman Supervisor Steve Madrone from taking on another title this year. The longtime Trinidad resident — who successfully rode a dark horse in the race to take the venerable Fifth District crown in a down-to-the wire win from a two-time incumbent […]
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‘Rid me of This Troublesome Priest’
Earlier this month, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Santa Rosa took an unprecedented step — for the church, anyway — releasing a list naming 39 of its priests who have been accused of sexually abusing minors. The North Coast began publicly grappling with predatory clergy earlier than most communities — the arrest of Rev. Gary […]
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Classic Revival
Reviews STAN & OLLIE. Chefs, even impassioned eaters, will often credit their grandmothers with the inspiration to pursue their passion. I only got to know my paternal grandmother; she wasn’t much of a cook. She was, however, a devout comedy acolyte eager to share the tenets of her beliefs. And so my younger brother and […]
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The Doctor Who Dosed a Preschooler
The Medical Board of California has revoked a Hollywood doctor’s medical license after he prescribed a 4-year-old boy cannabis cookies to treat “episodes of uncontrollable behavior and temper tantrums.” Perhaps unsurprisingly, the board also found that Eidelman is just a really bad doctor. That second part shouldn’t have come as a surprise to anyone who […]
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The Hidden Palace
Franz Bernau was 37 years old when he first set foot in the United States, arriving Sept. 1, 1888, on the steamer Amsterdam, which sailed from Rotterdam in the Netherlands and docked at the Castle Garden immigration center on Manhattan’s Battery Park waterfront. Three years later the painter traveled to faraway Humboldt County. His head […]
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This Wheel’s on Fire
Local fuzzy Americana quartet Hollow Down began the year on the road with a plan to tour the United States in their beloved home and bus, bringing their vibrant live gospel to the masses. Last week that dream was destroyed when the rig in question went up in flames on a lonesome stretch of State […]
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Together for a New Year Feast
Chinese New Year is around the corner, falling on Feb. 5 this year. To celebrate the Year of the Golden Pig, my southern Chinese family’s tradition is to have savory rice ball soup the night before, whereas the northerners like to have dumplings. The soft little balls made from glutinous rice flour symbolize closeness and […]