This Saturday, CASA of Humboldt will throw open the doors of its newly remodeled and expanded headquarters on Myrtle Avenue and invite everyone in to examine what is essentially a haven of beauty, comfort, stimulation and light. “CASA” stands for “court-appointed special advocate” — a trained volunteer who is the friend, and voice, of a […]
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Dr. Ring’s Single-Payer Puppet Show
It’s a pretty Sunday morning inside a prototypical Humboldt County home — big windows, open floor plan, cluttered interior, deck, view of the woods — and slowly but surely people are filing in, each of them various degrees of late to the 11 a.m. run-through. There’s a few nurses, a social worker and at least […]
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Third Friday McKinleyville Arts Night
The Front Gallery and Gifts 1181 Central Ave. Edson Gutierrez, graffiti art on canvas. Mirador Glass Miller Business Park Bryan Raskin, Tantric People Sculptures demo; Melissa Hurst, Be Love clothing artist. Eternal Source Glass Art Studio in the Community Art Workshop Miller Business Park. Karmaja and The Widow Makers, tribal bellydance performances with special guests. […]
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Birders of America
A phalanx of violet-green swallows advances slowly across the pond; each snow-bellied, arrowhead-shaped bird hovers inches above the surface and pushes, bucking, into the stiff wind. And each follows the pattern: soar, then dip and water-flick — gotcha! Dart up, flashing a glitter-green nape and water droplets, with beakful of insect — which wrongly had […]
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Arts! Arcata
Arcata Artisans 883 H St. (13) Wine served to benefit Breast Health Project; Jim Lowry, photographs; Seth Simpson, pottery works; Terri Tinkham, woven works. Arcata City Hall* 736 F St. (34) Leslie Howabauten, ink and watercolor. Arcata Exchange 813 H St. (17) Wine served to benefit Arcata House; Michael Van Devender, photographs; music by Humboldt […]
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When Weed is Legal
Pardon the use of Bob Dylan’s chorus-cum-cliché, but it’s the truth: The times they are a-changin’. A year ago, if you’d told even the most sanguine of Redwood Park stoners that the state legislature would be considering a bill to legalize marijuana — actually considering it — and that op-eds in newspapers from the Sacramento […]
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First Saturday Night Arts Alive!
First Saturday Night Arts Alive! is proudly presented by USBank, with Eureka Main Street and the Humboldt Arts Council. Opening receptions for artists, exhibits and/or performances are April 4 from 6-9 p.m. Phone 442-9054, for more information or to have an exhibit/performance included. http://aweurekatoday.blogspot.com/ 1. WORLD CUP 1626 F St. Anne Christensen. 1a. […]
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Tale of Two Theaters
They stand tall, proudly displaying their respective city names with art deco marquees. Most theaters like them have fallen by the wayside, demolished to make way for more lucrative businesses, but the Eureka, the Arcata and the Fortuna, all built during the golden age of movie palaces, each with its own complex history of survival […]
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All God’s Creatures
The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) activists who staged a noontime protest Friday in the F Street Plaza in Eureka arrived with friendly optimism plus a pile of fake green ivy, a curvy near-naked woman painted like a snake and a quiet leaflet-and-sign plea (no megaphone antics here) to stamp out the […]
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Humboldt Depression
Clomp clomp clomp clomp. I look around guiltily. It’s one of those warm, half-sunny weekend days about to turn gray and wet, and lots of people are outside in my Eureka neighborhood, walking dogs and playing tennis or just sitting on the porch drinking in air soaked with the scent of plum tree blossoms. My […]
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Lost
The disappearance of a small, single-engine aircraft off the coast of Trinidad the stormy night of Sunday, March 1, has prompted many questions. Foremost among those is what became of the plane, passenger Rick Gustafson (not to be confused with the local man of the same name) and 30-year-old pilot Vladislav Milushev, a Florida man […]
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Shovels Ready?
"Be prepared," goes the Scout Motto, and it’s good advice for government agencies, too. After all, you never know when a new president might decide to inject $787 billion into the economy. President Obama’s massive economic stimulus bill — the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) — has officials at every level of […]