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Music Tonight: Wednesday, Feb. 11
Mark Hummel’s Blues Harmonica Blowout pretty much says it all, and tonight’s program will see the Humbrews stage peopled with ace blues musicians Curtis Salgado, Steve Freund, Wes Starr, Rodrigo Mantovani, and Anson Funderburgh providing…
Music Tonight: Tuesday, Feb. 10
The Old Steeple is welcoming the return of Willie Nelson’s youngest son Micah, akaParticle Kid, as he brings his chops back to the stage for an acoustic show, sans theguitar effects and loops that he…
Music Tonight: Saturday, Feb. 7
Humbrews is hosting Oregon band Watkins Glen Soulshine Daydream, an improvjam band that smears fresh sounds across the songs of iconic hippie-era acts TheGrateful Dead, The Allman Brothers Band, Little Feat and The Band. The…
Music Tonight: Friday, Feb. 6
Speaking of the Arcata Playhouse, there’s an anti-imperialism benefit show calledCommon Denominator put on by the folks in the Humboldt Anti-War Committee and Hip Hop Humboldt as a show of solidarity for the people of…
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Tattoo You at Blue Lake Casino
Love might fade, but good ink doesn’t. Inked Hearts: Love Is in the Ink, the North Coast’s premier tattoo expo returns to Blue Lake Casino Friday, Feb. 6, from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m., Saturday,…
Body Recovered Outside Bay ID’d as Fortuna Man
The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office identified the body found offshore of Humboldt Bay on Wednesday as Fortuna resident Matthew Finley. He was 67. The brief release offered few details but said the U.S. Coast Guard…
Building Alliances
Editor: My heart is heavy with grief as I read a list of 35 names of people who died while in ICE detention during 2025. These individuals leave behind families and friends who will never…
Winter Revelation
Redwood bark oozes the morning downpour through spongy fibers, scattered drops free fall from high in the forest canopy, sagging cowls of moss drip from thick maple trunks the forest is leaden and still, but…
Cermeño’s Shipwreck
The European settlement of what we now know as the city of Trinidad began when two Spanish Navy captains, Bruno de Hecata (commanding Santiago) and Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra (commanding Sonora), landed…
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Thomas Henry Peters
August 23, 1945 – January 9, 2026 Thomas Henry Peters passed away at Timber Ridge Assisted Living in Eureka, California, on Friday evening, January 9th, 2026. Tom penned his own obituary, as follows. Well, I’m…
Survival Instincts
Send Help SEND HELP. In a rare moment of self-preservation, I chose not to see and review Melania, fun though it might have been to dunk on it as every critic not employed by or…
A Full Friendship
The Half Life of Marie Curie at Redwood Curtain The Half Life of Marie Curie by Lauren Gunderson is a glimpse into the lives of two historical women of science, Marie Curie and Hertha Ayrton.…
First Saturday Night Arts Alive
Feb. 7, 6 to 9 p.m. Enjoy a lively evening in Downtown and Old Town Eureka as galleries, museums, theaters, bars and restaurants stay open late. 4TH STREET MERCANTILE 215 Fourth St. Various artists. ART…
Back-to-Back Protests and a Nurses’ Vigil in Eureka
Among the crowds of protesters at the Humboldt County Courthouse on Jan. 30 were dozens of high school students chanting, “No one is illegal on stolen land.” Some had made their way from a walkout…
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Flooding in King Salmon
Editor: There is a solution to the problem of flooding in King Salmon during high…
Measles is Making A Comeback
Editor: Sadly, the United States is on track to lose its measles elimination status this…
‘Defund ICE’
Editor: We must defund, not increase, funding for the cruel and illegal ICE. Their intrusion…
The Public Deserves Answers
Editor: The killing of another innocent Minnesotan by ICE agents in Minneapolis is not just…
‘We’re All Different’
Editor: My heart goes out to Sarah Blackstone-Fredericks (“How to Meditate When the World is…
Ya Gotta Admit …
Editor: Rex Bohn has been remarkably consistent over the years — in proving beyond a…
Arcata’s Heroes Parade Spotlights Fire Responders
Hundreds of community members crowded the edges of the Arcata Plaza on Sunday, cheering as a line of firetrucks, ambulances, police cars and other first responder vehicles made loops around the square. The parade was…
Arcata Rises Up for Fire Victims
For three days, music flowed from two stages at Humboldt Brews onto the sidewalk, into the street and beyond the corner of H and 10th streets. There, the rubble and charred remains of seven businesses…
Second North Coast Condor Dies
The North Coast has lost another condor. B8 was discovered dead last month, according to the Yurok Tribe, which is leading the Northern California Condor Restoration Program effort to return the bird they know as…
Radall Galen Sheesley Sr.
August 12,1960 – December 29, 2025 Randall Galen Sheesley Sr., 65, passed away at his home in Arcata, Ca on December 29th, 2025. A celebration of life will be held on 2/22/26, 1pm at the…
Music Tonight: Friday/Saturday, Jan. 30-31
I’m going to make a rare move here and lump the weekend nights together under thebanner of the Arcata Rising Fundraiser shows at Humbrews from Friday throughSunday. We all know about the dreadful fire on…
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