Anyone who’s watched traditional zombie movies knows it’s never really the zombies themselves that kill people. Sure, the relentless but slow-moving and brainless corpses are the mechanism of death, but it’s really humans’ selfishness, panic, stupidity and conflict that always causes them to leave positions of relative safety to imperil themselves and their loved ones. […]
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Photos from Saturday’s Zombie Apocalypse
On Saturday ahead of Arts Alive, the annual Zombie Walk from Eureka’s courthouse through the streets of Old Town brought out the undead. The loose scrum of leg-dragging cannibals stopped to terrorize people in cars, wait for street lights to change and take selfies with the living. A few brave machete-wielding souls waded into the […]
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Zombies Shake/Drag a Leg
A gray-faced, dead-eyed army of zombies from Sunny Brae Middle School sprang to after-life for some vintage choreography to Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” on Friday, Oct. 26 at Murphy’s Market in Sunny Brae. Then, while Vincent Price’s cackle still echoed in the aisles, the undead dancers made their groaning way to the Arcata Plaza for an […]
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Cheer the Walking Dead
Last Saturday’s Zombie Walk jump started the Halloween season with its third annual lurch and drag through Eureka’s Old Town by a small army of the undead. Fake blood enthusiasts of all ages, from toddlers with barely enough teeth to gnaw the living to adults with serious makeup skills, groaned and dragged their decaying corpses […]
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Zombie Invasion!
A group of walking dead gathered at the Humboldt County Courthouse Saturday evening and lurched its way to Old Town, where zombies mingled with the living in general peace and art-loving harmony. It was a sight to behold. If you missed it, local photographer Mark McKenna was there to capture some of the sights. No […]