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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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 […]
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Salt: Emily Silver and Holly Sepulveda
Since it opened on F Street last year, the nonprofit gallery Canvas + Clay has been staging exhibitions that approach arts programming in novel ways. Canvas + Clay is affiliated with the Eureka Studio, a fine arts center for people with developmental disabilities and the gallery’s two-person exhibitions pair studio-affiliated artists with established locals. Salt, […]
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Old Haunts
We’ve all been there. You’re a middle-aged “retired” (read, talentless) dancer, furtively packing to leave your husband for the umpteenth time, trying to convince your brother this one will stick while he blathers on about his fleet-footed fiancée. Oh, you haven’t? In that case, you may not identify with the setting of Ferndale Repertory Theater’s […]
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Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Here are your fortune cookie-style horoscopes for the next five months. FEBRUARY: You’ll be invited to make a pivotal transition in the history of your relationship with your most important life goals. It should be both fun and daunting! MARCH: Don’t waste time and energy trying to coax others to haul […]
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Arts Alive!
Presented by Eureka Main Street. Opening receptions for artists, exhibits and performances are held the first Saturday of each month. For more information, call 442-9054 or go to www.eurekamainstreet.org 707 BAR (formerly Steve and Dave’s) First and C streets. Barry Evans photography. Music by Dr. Squid. A TASTE OF BIM 613 Third St. Maggie Draper, […]