Join us for our community’s celebration of local art and artists for music, food and fun. You can find more information about the artists and venues and see additional images online at www.mckinleyvilleartsnight.com.”East-West No. 2,” from Lien Truong’s “Chronicles of a Protagonist” series, is on display at the California Redwood Coast – Humboldt County Airport. […]
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The Bible of Psychiatry
The bombshell came a few weeks before the recent publication of DSM-5, the fifth version of the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Thomas Insel, director of the National Institutes of Mental Health (the world’s largest psychiatric research organization) wrote that the symptom-based DSM suffers from “a lack of validity” and […]
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Planning Ahead
On the upside, the Van Duzer Theatre provides a respectable venue for the bigger-name acts that HSU’s Center Arts succeeds in bringing to town. On the downside, something about the room inflicts a certain sedate, even prim, self-restraint upon audiences. The default vibe is that of sitting still and clapping politely. Perhaps it’s the lack […]
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The Cost of Getting Clean
It is around 8:30 in the morning in Eureka. Inside a white Victorian, soft morning light shines through a stained glass window onto the landing of the staircase. Stillness radiates from the walls the way it does when a house is full of people sleeping. In the wood-paneled living room, a motivational tape plays on […]
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KEET at the Crossroads
On the outskirts of southern Eureka sits a faded, light-blue building, which — except for the looming broadcast tower and small parking lot — looks like a slightly larger version of the homes that surround it. From here on Humboldt Hill, KEET-TV beams some of our favorite shows to Humboldt County and beyond: Downton Abbey, […]
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Humboldt, The Book
The Making of Humboldt When Emily Brady arrived in Garberville in the summer of 2010, she was thinking that the sorta-famous, sorta-secretive pot town could make for an interesting chapter in a book about California’s (seemingly) impending marijuana legalization. But almost immediately she realized that the insular, outlaw culture of Southern Humboldt warranted more than […]
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Fest Fee Shellfish
Editor: Thank you for the insightful article on Arcata Main Street and the Oyster Festival (“Oysters, Beer and Cash,” June 6). I have to confess that I decided to boycott the festival three years ago when the organizers jacked up the beer prices and also decided to charge a ridiculous $3 for a paper bracelet that verified […]
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A Decade of Creative Cooperation
It’s time to go to the store. You put your list together: butter, milk, coffee, bread — and a small raku-fired sculpture of a frog having tea? OK, so art is not on the typical shopping list for most people. Perhaps that’s why the folks from Arcata Artisans were told “this is never going to […]
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Second Friday Arts! Arcata
Arts! Arcata is Arcata Main Street’s monthly celebration of visual and performing arts, held at more than 30 participating locations in Arcata. Visit www.artsarcata.com for even more information about the event or call (707) 822-4500.ABRUZZI 780 Seventh St. Live music. Serving late from 7 to 10 p.m. ARCATA ARTISANS COOPERATIVE 883 H St. Wine will […]
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Cocktail Garden Crazy Talk
This is the final installment in our Year of Cocktail Gardening. To wrap things up, I give you the craziest, most unrealistic plants you will probably never actually grow in a cocktail garden. It is only because I can’t grow them that I think about growing them so much. Read on, dream away, and let […]
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The Pinnacles Condor Experience
While many of us are enraptured with our local bald eagle fledglings (http://www.ustream.tv/channel/humboldt-bay-eagle-cam), California condors are making a slow but steady comeback from the brink of extinction a few hundred miles away. Visitors to the nation’s newest national park, Pinnacles, have the rare opportunity to see condors in action. The park is one of two […]
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Four Ways to Spend Your Saturday
Yes, yes, yes… We’ll get to Oyster Fest. But let’s begin with the most promising press release of the week — as in, it promises you an amazing time. Do you like to dance? We’ll start with a few questions. Do you like to dance? Do you like dancing among kind, accepting people? Do you […]