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Taken in by outsiders: My early life with the gutter punks

By Amber Whitson on May 7, 2025
First-person   Opinion
'At 16, I found community among the local gutter punks, who quickly adopted me as one of their own.'

A strange young woman appears on the Arcata street scene

By Ace Backwords on September 1, 2020
First-person   Opinion
The street scene is like watching a movie. Except you only get the middle act of the movie. You don’t get the first act or the third act. You don’t know their life story—what led up to them being the people that they are. And you almost never find out how their lives turned out.



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