Looks in the Lobby: Photos from Oscar Night in Eureka
How did you do on your Oscar pool? At the Eureka Theater and Humboldt-Del Norte Film Commission’s red carpet night, smart predictions (and luck with the raffle) won folks chocolate Oscars. But the real competition was in the lobby, where volunteers served drinks, Michael Dayvid served tunes and attendees served looks. NCJ photographer Zach Lathouris…
Skin Deep: Photos from Inked Hearts
The 11th annual Inked Hearts Tattoo Expo wrapped up four days of tattooing last Thursday-Sunday in the Sapphire Palace and Kinetik Lounge at Blue Lake Casino and Hotel. Organizers Ted and Amy Marks, owners of the local Nor Cal Tattoo shop, brought in more than 30 local and visiting artists for on-the-spot “ink” opportunities for…
As the Registration Deadline Looms, Officials Warn of Voting Rights Misconceptions
With the deadline to register in the March 3 primary election fast approaching, Vernon Price wants to make sure citizens — especially those in under-served populations like the homeless — know their voting rights. “It’s important for [homeless people] to go out and vote,” Price, an advocate for the local homeless community who himself was…
Swing Time Travel: Photos and Video from the Taiko Swingposium
Last weekend, the San Jose Taiko Swingposium Immersive Theater Experience’s On the Road show transformed the Bayside Community Hall into a World War II-era dance hall in a Japanese-American incarceration camp. While under armed guard and having lost their homes, possessions and rights as Americans, those in the camps played music and held dances like these…
North Coast Night Lights: Portrait of ‘Himslef,’ the Mysterious Stranger
You know that not everything you believe can be true, and not everything that’s true can be believed. And whether or not something written is true may well depend on your point of view. Where this story falls, as I relate it to you, is somewhere on the continuum. Were you to file it under…
NCJ Preview with Access Humboldt
Fentanyl, opioids, addiction, overdose, Access Humboldt, David Frank, baking, cake
SECOND UPDATE: Deputies Plucking Packages From Humboldt Bay After Plane Crash
SECOND UPDATE: The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office reports that deputies are plucking what appear to be Amazon packages that were inside the plane that crashed into Humboldt Bay this morning out of the water. The pilot was rescued in “good condition” and the Federal Aviation Administration is investigating the cause of the crash. UPDATE: Humboldt…
A Question of Longitude
For 2,000 years, since the time of Greek geographer Claudius Ptolemy, we have defined our position on Earth by two numbers. Latitude tells you how far you are from the equator, measured in degrees, 0 to 90, north and south. Longitude is your angular distance from an imaginary “meridian” line drawn from pole to pole,…
Our Tapestries
Rarely looking up Fingers intentionally Touch all that matter Kirk Gothier
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): You now have the power to make connections that have not previously been possible. You can tap into an enhanced capacity to forge new alliances and strengthen your support system. I urge you to be on the lookout for a dynamic group effort you could join or a higher purpose you…
Third Wave
In 2013, what’s become known as the third wave of the national opioid epidemic began to wash over the United States. But fueled by the opioid fentanyl, for years it didn’t hit Humboldt County, leaving residents and officials to read about its devastating impacts elsewhere as it came to dominate national overdose rates. Then in…
Fatal Apartment Fire in Arcata
One person was found dead after in an apartment fire that broke out in Arcata before dawn on Feb. 2, according to Police Chief Brian Ahearn. “Arcata Fire located one body inside of a ground floor unit,” Ahearn said. “The person was deceased.” The cause of the fire, which broke out just before 5:30 a.m.…
Mr. Moonlight
February is an often overlooked month, a wet and cold placeholder in the depth of the northern hemisphere’s winter that isn’t even considered worthy of 30 days. Throughout history various cultures have named the month after frost, river ice, firewood cutting, mud or even cabbages (cole crops were staples of the winter in most of…
Bake a Cake Already
Instagram and reality TV can crush your confidence. I’m talking about your baking confidence here. While endlessly looped video of buttercream smoothing over the sides of spinning six-layer cakes can be deeply soothing, they can also skew your expectations for your own baking. The same goes for binge-watching the Great British Baking Show — possibly…
Babes inthe Wood
Reviews GRETEL AND HANSEL. There is much to be mined in Western fairy tales but few are as adaptable to horror as Hansel and Gretel as set down by the Brothers Grimm in 1812, with the shunned children falling prey to a cannibalistic witch. In the end, Hansel’s cleverness only goes so far and it’s…
Bern One Down
Just days before the Iowa caucus, Sen. Bernie Sanders doubled down on his promise to legalize cannabis if elected president. “On my first day in office, through executive order, we will legalize marijuana in every state in this country,” he told a packed rally of supporters. The cannabis world promptly lost its mind and many…
Responding to the Climate Crisis
Editor: Thanks for reporting on local governments’ climate action planning (“County Climate Action Plan Plods Forward,” Jan. 30). The graph of our county’s emission sources also gives a sense of what we individual citizens can do. With transportation impacts so great, we already know we can carpool, drive 55, ride a bus or bike. We…
Vote!
Editor: I am more concerned than ever that people realize they can change the electoral system nationally. There is a strategic approach for Electoral College opponents. It is to support the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. In essence, it asks states to bind their electors to the winner of the national popular vote, not to…
