There’s nearly 20 in our “room,” and no one is sitting next to me. Broadcasting live from his bedroom wearing a “Speak your Truth” t-shirt, Dylan Collins introduced the next poet, who joined in a picture below him. Todd Loughran smiled as he appeared on everyone’s screen. Down in the chatbox, hearts and clapping emojis …
Mycological Maniacs and Endomycorrhizal Enthusiasts: Humboldt County’s Mushroom People
Nick Hensler’s 2-bedroom apartment in Arcata is the centre of operations for a master-planned mushroom kingdom. In one of the rooms, a perfectly square and tall shelf made from pallets features 4 levels, each carrying 12 bags of incubating mycelium. The bags align up evenly and orderly like a line of soldiers in a batallion. …
Communicator
Note-cards scrawled with sentiments of students-past accumulate in the garage of Professor Maxwell Schnurer house. The collection of over 20,000 cards created over the course of 12 years contains hundreds of student comments on the topic of sexualized violence. They are now starting to deteriorate. Schnurer is working, in coordination with the HSU library and …
Diversity on the Plaza
Arcata’s typical Saturday morning farmer’s market looked more cultured than usual on Oct. 27 during Diversity Day, an event hosted by We Are Your Community and The Campus and Community Dialogue on Race. Janaee Sykes, the lead student associate for the African American Center for Academic Excellence was tabling in Arcata plaza to reach out …
Forest awakens with music
Petty Education was formed only two weeks ago, and now they’re the closing performance for a community forest show smack dab in the middle of the forest. After the audience found their seats within the brush, the dead quiet forest became filled with sounds of the band’s guitars, drum and vocals. The audience for the …
