Remeber those promotional YouTube videos the county spent a pile of money on a while back ? This isn’t those.
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Busking, Target in Eureka
Brian Smith, from Boise, traveled down from Portland last week to Eureka. He’s heading south.
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Busking, Valley West
Traveler Alessa Bakkum busks for some room money in the Valley West shopping center. She’s also featured in our cover this week on Arcata’s proposed panhandling ordinance … although busking per se is not the target of the ordinance.
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Marina Center Live Blog
OK, we’ll be getting this party started as soon as the Marina Center item on today’s Coastal Commission agenda goes live. All the action is in the flashy box below, assuming it works. Go ahead and type words in there. Here’s the link to the Coastal Commission live webcast. Here’s Ryan Burns’ story in this […]
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NPR Part 2: ‘The Green Rush’
Here’s part two of NPR’s story on the Humboldt grow scene. (Part one here.) Some highlights: California narcotics agent Jack Nelson gives a racial breakdown of grow styles (“White-boy grows” — small and high quality; Hispanics grows — cornfield-sized on private land; Asian grows — steep land in National Forests). Humboldt County Sheriff Department Sgt. […]
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Our Cable Debut!
We haven’t yet seen Pot City USA , the new documentary on Arcata that A&E debuted last night, but boy oh boy is this YouTube excerpt ever thrilling! This thing looks AWESOME! And hey, what’s this we see 24 seconds in? Seriously, though — ” Disorientation Week ”? That was two years ago! We suspect […]
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That Wild Drummer
This week’s Hum starts out with a bit about the improv trio Holshouser, Bennink and Moore , (aka Third Man Trio) coming to town next Tuesday, Oct. 20 , for a Redwood Jazz Alliance show in HSU’s Fulkerson Recital Hall. The interview with the band’s reeds player, Michael Moore , ( a Humboldt native ) […]
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Homeland Security Strikes Again
This just in from the folks at the Mateel re: the concert by Chirgilchin, The Master Throat Singers Of Tuva : The Mateel Community Center’s Membership Appreciation Night which was originally scheduled for this Friday, October 16th has been cancelled. Unfortunately the visas for the Tuvan throat singers were denied and their tour has subsequently […]
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Poem Store at Pastels
I first met Jacqueline Suskin this summer at the Farmers’ Market in Portland where she was selling custom poems near rhe entrance. She’s since relocated to Arcata and was set up on Saturday during the combined Pastels on the Plaza and Arcata Farmers’ Market.
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KEET’s Redwood Park doc on KHUM
KEET-TV’s Claire Reynolds paid a visit to KHUM this morning with a couple of the “redwood warriors” featured in KEET’s new documentary, Redwood National Park: Preserving Ancient Forests. Here’s a portion of the interview: