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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…
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…
‘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…
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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…
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…
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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…
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…
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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…
‘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…
After The Storm
King Salmon residents face long-term recovery after severe flooding King Salmon’s streets have mostly returned to their former appearance, before the record-breaking flood in the early days of the new year, with residents gradually reentering…
Ward Michael Falor
Ward Michael Falor – known to nearly everyone as Mike or D.H. Falor – lived a life powered by curiosity, creativity, engines, music, animals and caring compassion. From the time he was a little boy,…
Judith McIlveen Nugent
If you have a mom, there is nowhere you are likely to go where a prayer has not already been. ~Robert Brault With broken hearts and deep gratitude for her life, we share the passing…
Return of Two Bars, Fries and Embezzlement
This week we’re talking about the Siren’s Song Tavern making a home in the old Jim Dunn’s Cosmopolitan. We’re also looking at the sentencing at the end of and embezzling scandal. And finally, where to…
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