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It was a bright clear sunny morning — "a beautiful day to ride," recalled Seth Griggs. The night before, Griggs, the manager of Adrenalin Motorsports in Eureka, received his first shipment of Lance scooters from China. He had been counting the days until their arrival. He put together a red Vintage 150, did an inspection, […]

An eerie dreamlight slanted in from the west, a spray of pale gold shot through a crack in the late-day cloud ceiling. It struck a small remnant of ancient redwood forest, where one sky-vanishing tree towered taller than the rest, wider, older — 2,000 years old, some say. Straight up, up, until its bulk was […]

For me, the story of Humboldt County the movie began back in June at the Provincetown International Film Festival. Some friends introduced me to Danny Jacobs and Darren Grodsky, and quickly they became part of my new film-fest hang-out crew. Somewhere between gala receptions and beer-doused Quentin Tarantino ogling sessions, I found out that my […]

Last week, we took it upon ourselves to once and for all solve the forever-niggling question: Arcata or Eureka, which is the superior specimen? The two cities have been duking it out since the 1850s when they were mere get-rich-quick settlements looking to profit off the gold rush in the mountains. And historian Jerry Rohde […]

Lance Hardie, a volunteer at public radio station KHSU, was upset. None of the people calling the shots at KHSU had any true love for the station, its mission, its service to the community of listeners. Humboldt State University, owner of KHSU’s broadcast license, was calling the shots from above, and without consulting the people […]