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Music Tonight: Tuesday, March 17
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more. St. Patrick’s Day is back again, arare cross-cultural experience that Americans have chosen to celebrate in our trulystupid custom of polluting all meaning into an inebriated…
Music Tonight: Monday, March 16
Humbrews is back at it again with a Grateful Dead-adjacent act. Tonight’s stars are The Garcia Project, a national touring act that painstakingly recreates exact setlists from the live history of the Jerry Garcia Band,…
Music Tonight: Sunday, March 15
Savage Henry Comedy Club has a dark post-disco, post-punk DJ spun dance showpresented by Dastbunny tonight at 7 p.m. For $10 you can duck and groove to tunescurated by Tiffadelic, Yama Uba, DJ Datura Prime…
Music Tonight: Saturday, March 14
I went to see some friends jam at the Kaptain’s Quarters play a fun set recently, and in the true half-assed friend energy for which I am known, I forgot the band’s name. Todd’s something…
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‘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…
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…
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…
Music Tonight: Saturday, March 7
Three options tonight, so I’ll get with the facts. Two 7 p.m. gigs in Arcata. Over at the Arcata Playhouse, Harmonic Howl presents Women of Country, a group featuring singers Ruby Ruth George, Elle Penner…
Music Tonight: Friday, March 6
The Eureka Symphony is back with an early welcome to spring, playing tonight and tomorrow night at 7:30 p.m. at the Arkley Center for the Performing Arts. Tonight’s program is called Legends and Spirits —…
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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…
EPD: Eureka Motel Closed After Carbon Monoxide Detected Following Deaths
Officials have closed down a Eureka motel where two people were found dead in the same room days apart in late February after elevated levels of carbon monoxide were detected inside the location. According to…
Music Tonight: Thursday, March 5
The Back Seat Drivers are bringing the blues to the Logger Bar during a free gig this afternoon at 4 p.m. Expect some of the anchored picking sounds of the pre-war, Piedmont-style guitar blues, along…
First Saturday Night Arts Alive
March 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. SECOND & F INTERSECTIONSean Lang Circus Artist, performance. 4TH…
Monarch Butterflies
Part 1: Migration Magic It’s not easy being a monarch butterfly these days. Your caterpillar’s essential milkweed food is no longer abundant; illegal logging and beetle infestations threaten your main winter roosts in Mexico, and…
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‘Component of the Problem’
Editor: The author of “It’s Time to Make Fourth and Fifth Streets Safe for Everyone”…
‘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…
It’s Time to Make Fourth and Fifth Streets Safe for Everyone
Humboldt County is dangerous for people walking, and U.S. Highway 101 in Eureka is the…
Correction
In “Cermeño’s Shipwreck” (Feb. 5), the article misidentified the Miwok people who encountered the ship’s…
Dark Suburban Corners
DTF St. Louis DTF ST. LOUIS. Some months ago, in a fallow period likely brought on by the end of a Taylor Sheridan binge, I had resigned myself to listlessly stream-scrolling, nearly paralyzed by the…
Asking for an Administration
Thank you for taking the time to complete this brief survey. The questions that follow are purely hypothetical and part of a study you absolutely don’t need to worry about for a think tank focusing…
Black Joy and Culture at the Black Heritage Ball
In a black headwrap, tambourine in hand, Paula Jones addressed the audience of 145 gathered around tables in the Wharfinger Building Saturday night for the Black Heritage Ball. Heritage, she said, “means the inheritance of…
Twisted Nerve
I had wanted to write about something else, but once again the gears of my attention span are gummed up quite a bit. I’m all for stopping to smell the flowers, but that behavior can…
‘A Huge Moment’
First pair of prey-go-neesh in a century are nesting on the North Coast Cue the California condor chick watch. The Yurok Tribe announced this week that the two oldest members of the North Coast flock…
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