Instagram-ready festival wear has become its own species of personal expression. The styles at Reggae on the River are certainly qualify, whether on performers, fans or the vendors, workers and volunteers who make the show possible, including volunteer security personnel, medics, food truck operators, cooks, camera people, sound technicians and journalists. Oven-like August temperatures presented a […]
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Besties on the Red Carpet
We’re still recovering from our North Coast Journal Best of Humboldt party on Saturday. How about you? There was a line around the block from the historic Carson Block Building, where the third floor, once the home of a stately theater, filled up with revelers celebrating the winners (voted on by our readers) in our […]
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Angels of Hope Gets a Makeover
Community Paint Day turned lots of would-be shoppers into artists helping paint a mural at the Angels of Hope Thrift Store on Saturday, July 29 in Arcata. “I just came by to shop at the thrift store, and they gave me a paint brush,” said Jessica Young, of Arcata. “We were at the store to […]
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Respect the Quilt
Quilters, says Susie Freese, are like Rodney Dangerfield. “We get no respect,” she said in a telephone interview a month before the Heart of the Redwoods Quilt Show. “People don’t really understand what we do, and they don’t know how to value it.” Freese and the 175-member Redwood Empire Quilters Guild to which she belongs hope […]
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The Arcata Bubble
A Pied Piper of bubbles led off the red, white and blue Fourth of July Bubbles Parade around the Arcata Plaza in the morning, followed by live music, a family-friendly Kids Zone, aerial silk dancers, a nonprofit fundraiser dunk tank and lots of food and drink options. Vicky Joyce, owner of the store Bubbles, donated […]
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Doughnuts Rising
Sit-down doughnut options are too few and far between. And yet the doughnut should be a legitimate breakfast option alongside bacon and eggs, pancakes and waffles. Drive-thru doughnut shops are necessary because sometimes time is of the essence, people. But can we not give this glorious, unifying food that crosses all social and political boundaries […]
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This Show Sucks
While you’re out at Arts Alive! looking at ceramics and skateboards tonight, you may want to follow the sound of fuzzy, crunchy guitar to Studio 424 (424 Third St., Eureka) for the Ultra Super Last Minute DIY Punk as F#ck Flyer Show. The small gallery hosts a “haphazard trip down memory lane” for local punk […]
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Naughty
Let’s not pretend names don’t matter. This week Ferndale’s favorite foodie son Guy Fieri revealed that his trademark Donkey Sauce — principal export of Flavortown — is just aioli. It’s hard to know whether we should feel duped or just relieved on behalf of donkeys. And did aioli really need rebranding? Naming is a tricky business, […]
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Putting a Bird Back On It
You may recall that on Dec. 3, 2015, some damn fool(s) wrenched one of the 5 1/2-foot-long aluminum birds off Jack Sewell’s “Following Current Events,” kinetic sculpture at the C Street Market Square. The bird, which sat high up in the 23-foot-tall piece, never was returned. However, after a year of working to secure funding from […]
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Bivalve Bacchanal
You could get just about any creative approach to raw or barbecued oysters on Saturday at the 27th annual Oyster Festival in Arcata – except oyster-flavored ice cream. Staff from Humboldt Creamery, who were passing out free ice cream in the Family Fun Zone, said they might work on that for next year. The Arcata […]
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Meltdown
Artisanal toast hasn’t yet made its way past the Redwood Curtain but expect it soon. Just wait. Until then, you can work on grilled cheese. The Artisan Cheese Factory, née Loleta Cheese Factory (252 Loleta Drive, Loleta), upped the ante on its bevy of samples when it opened the Queso Kings grilled cheese bar in […]
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Music Tonight – Tuesday, June 6
Local bass shredder Dan “Wookie” Davis will be tearing it up with his roots metal band War Möth this evening at The Siren’s Song Tavern at 7 p.m. They’re hard at work on their debut album, and even though this is a free show, feel free to drop a few quid into the tip jar […]