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Summer of Fun
General & Multi Activities Arcata Camp Combo Option. Mon., June 19, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. & 1-5 p.m. City of Arcata, Arcata. City of Arcata Recreation Division offers Camp Combos. Add variety combining two half-day camps: a morning camp (9 a.m. to 1 p.m.) and an afternoon camp (1 to 5 p.m.). M-F, June 19-Aug. 18.…
Music Tonight: Friday, May 19
With the Huckleberry Flint show at the Old Steeple sold out (according to the venue’s website, anyway), I’m going to recommend two shows in Arcata, both at 9 p.m. Once again, Humbrews is hosting the Stink Foot Orchestra, a group dedicated to playing the rock works of the late Frank Zappa, fronted by Napoleon Murphy…
Music Tonight: Thursday, May 18
Oryan Peterson-Jones continues his regular Thursday evening gig at the Humboldt Bay Social Club tonight at 6 p.m. For the uninitiated, this is a free presentation of world folk, Americana and various other stringed-styles played expertly by the man in question, who is himself a globetrotting collector of sounds.
Local Condor Exams Include Tests for Deadly Avian Flu
On May 12, all eight of the North Coast’s California condors were inside the release enclosure where they began their new lives — and took off on their first flights into the wild — after being enticed back in by offerings of carrion in preparation for this week’s twice-yearly exams. Along with the chance to…
Movies Tonight: Wednesday, May 17
Movie night! Here are two options, spanning across a wide area, where you will find movies in large venues at 6 p.m. For the free family-friendly option, the Scotia Lodge presents Toy Story, Pixar’s beloved tale from 1995 about … even if you haven’t absorbed the meaning through cultural osmosis, it’s all in the title.…
Comedy Tonight: Tuesday, May 16
If you have ever been curious about the viability of prop comedy in the local scene, tonight is a good night to head over to Savage Henry Comedy Club, where you will discover Mad Props, a show dedicated to giving random items to various comedians and letting them improvise it out. The host and jokers…
Investigation Underway in Death of Surfer Near Trinidad
An investigation is ongoing in the death of a 25-year-old Eureka woman who was pulled from the waters off Moonstone Beach around 4 p.m. Sunday after she apparently was overcome by waves when she became detached from her board while surfing with another person. She was identified as Martina Marie Scarfia in a Humboldt County…
Cal Poly Humboldt Celebrates the Class of 2023 (with Slideshow)
Under slowly clearing skies (morning fog, no rain), the Cal Poly Humboldt Class of 2023 commencement for the College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences got underway at 9 a.m. May 13 in Redwood Bowl. Following the usual welcome messages by Provost Jenn Capps and President Tom Jackson, Jr., an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters…
Music Tonight: Monday, May 15
RampArt Skatepark is having an evening of death metal tonight, starting at 8 p.m. The line-up reads like a laundry list of things found in a severe car accident, with Laceration from the North Bay Area, Oakland’s Wretched Stench and local folks Bloodspire. An even $10 gives you access to this all-ages show.
Music Tonight: Sunday, May 14
Tokyo’s prog/punk mutant Green Milk from Planet Orange returns to the Miniplex tonight at 9 p.m. to entertain all you mothers and mother funkers out there. The group got a pretty good reception last time it rolled through town, if memory serves, so if you want to get in on it, consider nabbing an early…
NCJ Preview: Summer Camps, Miss Indian World and Cliff Jumpers
The Summer of Fun rundown of camps and activities for kids has arrived. We’ll highlight some standout options from baseball to crafting. We’ve also got an update on drink spiking reports in Arcata, an interview with Miss Indian World, Eureka’s own Tori McConnell, and a story on the wild and risky world of cliff jumping.…
Music Tonight: Saturday, May 13
Well, it’s graduation day at Cal Poly Humboldt and while a lot of people are unhappy with the school’s administrators these days (what else is new?), we can still support the students. Here are three DJ-curated events to choose from to celebrate the milestone. First up at 6 p.m., the Blue Lake Roller Rink is…
Murray the Magician at Bear River Rec Center
Throw a little Dep in your hair and head to Bear River Recreation Center for Murray the Magician – Family Show this Saturday, May 13 at 8 p.m. ($30-$50). It’s comedy, it’s illusion, it’s audience interaction! Murray SawChuck, aka Murray the Magician, is known worldwide for his amazing feats of magic — from disappearing acts…
Local Student Wins Congressional Art Contest
St. Bernard’s Academy junior Trinity Bowie has been named this year’s California Second District winner in the national Artistic Discovery Contest sponsored by members of Congress. According to a release from her school, North Coast Rep. Jared Huffman called Bowie last week to share the news. The 17 year old’s painting, “Balance in Two Worlds,”…
Arcata Man Arrested on Child Rape Allegations
The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office has arrested an Arcata man on suspicion of raping two children. According to a press release, investigators arrested Lucas William Russell, 21, at his home on the 1100 block of West End Road this morning while serving a search warrant. The investigation began in late February, when the sheriff’s office’s…
McKinleyville Man Arrested in Child Pornography Case
The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office has arrested a 31-year-old McKinleyville man on suspicion of possessing child pornography. According to a press release, Brandon Markus Allen Sampanes was taken into custody at 7 a.m. today as investigators with the sheriff’s office’s Major Crimes Division served a search warrant at his home on the 1100 block of…
Poly Promenade
Living year-round in a college town is weird and it seems living in a Cal Poly town is only going to be weirder. Assuming I will ever be able to afford to permanently settle here, my years will always be divided by the academic calendar, already askew from nature, beginning as it does, in autumn.…
I’ll Have My Spinach with Cheese and Chocolate, Please
“Chocolate is a vegetable,” read a sticky note placed on the refrigerator door in the kitchen of the office where I worked some years ago. I smiled when I read it — that chocolate could be consumed with other vegetables, a culinary path I was not interested in exploring at the time. Then something happened.…
Arts! Arcata
Come to downtown Arcata and shop all our wonderful storefronts and enjoy live music in the center of the Plaza. Arcata Main Street will be selling beer for anyone 21 and up to enjoy, and Fogline Coffee will also be there. PEACHES AND PEARLS 853 H St. Mother’s Day Bash. ARCATA ARTISANS 883 H St.…
Miss Indian World Tori McConnell’s Song of Gratitude
On April 29, 23-year-old Tori McConnell of the Yurok Tribe and Karuk heritage, won the beaded crown of Miss Indian World 2023 at the Gathering of Nations Pow Wow in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Born and raised in Eureka, McConnell studied neurobiology at University of California at Davis before switching to a Native American studies major…
Camping in Hell
Jean Paul Sartre was known for a great many things, chief among them is likely the creation of a quote as misunderstood as Friedrich Nietzsche’s line about God being dead. Like that out of context, nihilistic chunklet, “Hell is other people” has probably been written on backpacks and high school walls by disaffected youth for…
The Call of the Void
Crouching on the guardrail of a bridge 60 feet above the Trinity River, 19-year-old cliff jumper Nico Ponnekanti looked like a sprinter in the blocks. Except instead of going forward, he was going down, down dozens of feet, whirling in every direction over the blue of the river, and down he kept going, right up…
Pacific Halibut Bite Slows
After a hot start to the season, Pacific halibut action out of Eureka has since slowed. Last Monday’s opener was blown out but boats were able to make it back out Wednesday. And what they found were plenty of hungry halibut looking as though they haven’t seen bait in a long time. Quick limits were…
Margaret and Goliath
It should be abundantly clear I don’t participate much in the cultural conversation, at least not in any meaningful, modern way. The Editor has gone so far as to say I’m too much a recluse to qualify as an internet troll. Yet, rumblings and fragments of messages still filter through the roof of my bunker…
Chinese Again in Humboldt, Part One
In 1906, 20 years had passed since the majority of Humboldt’s Chinese residents were driven out of the county. The accidental death in 1885 of a Eureka city council member, caught in the crossfire in a shootout between two Chinese men at Eureka’s Fourth and E streets, was seized on by anti-Chinese activists as an…
‘Many Eyes Watching’
Editor: Another excellent investigative report by Thadeus Greenson on deputy Soeth (“The Soeth Files,” May 4). The California Public Records Act and freedom of the press are some of the most effective tools we have to hold governmental agencies accountable. The repeated offenses are painting a pretty clear picture. Deputy Soeth may still be on…
‘Gobsmacked’
Editor: Of all the horrors contained in the cover story “The Soeth Files,” the one that gobsmacked was District Attorney Maggie Fleming’s dismissal of Soeth’s assault on his 6 year old. Her response to the attack: “isolated incidents of parents slapping or spanking their children over their clothes … are generally not considered physical abuse” reveals…
‘Men and Women of Honor’
Editor: Thanks for your deep dive into professional accountability within the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office (HCSO) and the office of the district attorney. Admittedly, I am one of those who feel that the system encourages collaboration between law enforcement, prosecutors and the courts, which can be a dangerous thing for the common person. However in…
Table Bluff Cemetery
Seeing today’s sparse scattering of a few homes and farm buildings, Table Bluff’s two cemeteries — one Catholic, one “Other” — might seem like overkill. But the Table Bluff community was once a going concern, a lively stage and wagon stop atop the ridge for which it’s named. Raluaka, its Wiyot name, is a gnarly…
For Daniel
(and all who have been victimized by gun violence and dehumanization) In the only photo I’ve seen, the only one on file, he wears a Star Wars shirt and closed-mouth smile The rest, having not met him, is for me to imagine but seeing him next to his mother, I see compassion I see a…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): All of us are always telling ourselves stories—in essence, making movies in our minds. We are the producer, the director, the special effects team, the voice-over narrator, and all the actors in these inner dramas. Are their themes repetitious and negative or creative and life-affirming? The coming weeks will be a…
