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Music Tonight: Friday, March 20
The Logger Bar is hosting a night of the music of Loretta Lynn, featuring the One Night Stand Country Band backing up vocalist Siena Nelson. Also on the bill is The Brothers Demarkov, featuring the…
Music Tonight: Thursday, March 19
Northcoast Preparatory Academy is throwing a fundraiser for its music program at the Arcata Playhouse tonight at 6 p.m. Come through and check out some fantastic local talent — many of whom are educators themselves…
Some Good and Some Gold at the Oscars
Exigent circumstances prevented me from watching the majority of this year’s Academy Awards ceremony, an event to which I had (to my own surprise) been looking forward. In the decade since I actually sat through…
No Vonnegut, No Glory
Humboldt Light Opera Co.’s God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater It’s a rotten state in America. Obscene wealth, unyielding poverty, war, alternative altruism, repressed freedom — this being post-World War II in a 1979 musical based…
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Ghost in the Abalone Shell
Hi. My name is Able. I was once a magnificent red abalone. Now I’m just a junk bowl on the desk of the dipshit who normally writes this column. I contain some presumably reusable toothpicks,…
California Passed a Law to Curb Spikes in Gas Prices. Why Isn’t It Using Those Powers Now?
This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Three years ago, California built a first-in-the-nation system aimed at protecting drivers when oil markets turn calamitous. The Legislature passed it. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed it.…
Music Tonight: Friday, March 13
It’s the second of three Fridays the 13th for this year, and with the last one coming up in November, it’s going to be an extended spooky season past Halloween if we are allalive to…
Music Tonight: Thursday, March 12
If you are hankering for some excellent contemporary jazz fusion, tonight’s the night.Over at the Basement at 7:30 p.m., HDMB will be joined by Sheldon Brown, a BayArea composer and woodwind multi-instrumentalist whose career has…
Monarch Butterflies Part 2: Tracking in Real Time
Last week, I wrote about the bad news: that monarch butterfly populations have been plummeting since the 1980s. The good news is that a revolutionary new tracking device may help those populations recover. Naturalists have…
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Eric Towle Duff
October 20, 1957-February 9, 2026 Eric Towle Duff was born on October 20, 1957, to Janet Smith Duff and Edward Roy Duff. After a year-long illness, Eric died at home on February 9, 2026, surrounded…
Pamm C Johnson
Pamm was born in Eureka, CA and spent most of her life in Eureka. Pamm attended local schools and graduated from Eureka High School. After graduation, Pamm worked at various jobs including Humboldt Del Norte…
Herbert Joel Pierce
August 27, 1943 – February 9, 2026 Herbert Joel Pierce passed away peacefully in his home on February 9, 2026, after a long illness. Born on August 27, 1943, to Richard Errol Pierce and Grace…
‘Meeting the Moment’
Bill Lutjens, a long-time Fieldbrook resident who mostly keeps to himself in his rural residence, says he felt compelled to act when he learned about the nationwide funding cuts to healthcare enacted by the Trump…
Granny Rage on Women’s Day
The crowd at the Humboldt County Courthouse was thin at the noon start of the International Women’s Day Women’s March protest on March 8. The line of a dozen people grew to 35 by 12:30…
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‘Boundless’
Editor: Just read the “survey” article (“Asking for an Administration,” March 5). Jennifer Fumiko Cahill’s…
Correction
In the Best Hair Day category of the 2026 NCJ Pet Photo Contest (Feb. 19),…
‘Unsustainable’
Editor: A full-page ad naming 300 retired public officials, academics, former representatives, businesses and financial…
‘Component of the Problem’
Editor: The author of “It’s Time to Make Fourth and Fifth Streets Safe for Everyone”…
Correction
In “Cermeño’s Shipwreck” (Feb. 5), the article misidentified the Miwok people who encountered the ship’s…
‘Successful Collaboration’
Editor: The League of Women Voters of Humboldt County commends the successful collaboration between the…
Stitched Together
The Bride! THE BRIDE! Conceptually, this seems very much like something I could get on board with: a mid-1930s Chicago-set, Mafia-tinged feminist update on the Frankenstein story, embellished with punk-rock attitude and curb-stomping? Yes, of…
Get to Know Your Tits
Small, round and bouncy, they never fail to draw attention. They’re family Paridae, the vocal and acrobatic passerines that across the pond are known as tits. In North America, of course, they’re our chickadees and…
Blanking Down the House
My country is raining death upon one of the largest and oldest cities in the world, and as one of the apparently few genetically abnormal American mutants who experiences grief and empathy, even for total…
Music Tonight: Monday, March 9
The Outer Space is hosting Seattle indie musician Sarah Weszely’s act Where’s Beth, along with support from Halfwing and Luna Sofia. The music starts around 7:30 p.m., and the entrance fee for this all-ages, sober…
Bohn Faces Censure for Conduct Before Supervisors
The Humboldt County Board of Supervisors is set Tuesday to consider the public censure of Supervisor Rex Bohn after an independent investigation sustained allegations that he engaged in “abusive and hostile behavior” toward staff during…
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