Another weekend and we’re still green with Earth Day and 4/20 upon us — and with them, comes more of Humboldt Green Week. The unstoppable force behind Humboldt Green Week is Juliet Ferri, who works most of the year for Northcoast Horticulture Supply. For three months leading up to Earth Day and 4/20, she […]
Bob Doran
Freelance photographer and writer, Arts and Entertainment editor from 1997 to 2013.
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The Lady Ain’t Coming
An email came in this morning from Grays Harbor Historical Seaport Authority, the folks behind the tall ships that were supposed to be docked at the Adorni Center over the weekend. Trouble at sea means only the Hawaiian Chieftain arrived. As noted in a press release: “Due to continued severe weather off the California coast, […]
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Suddenlink Ups the Ante to $10K
Remember a month or so ago when some nimrods cut off connections all over the county by chopping into Suddenlink’s fiber optic cables? The $5,000 reward the company was offering to help catch the culprits just got doubled. Here’s the note the company sent out explaining: “Suddenlink announced today that it is doubling its reward […]
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Green Fire
So, we’re heading into another Humboldt Green Week. The now-annual celebration heralds the coming of spring and all things green and growing as we approach the stoner holiday 4/20 (April 20), a week from Saturday, and Earth Day, April 22. (It’s a long week.) It’s a collection of loosely related events promoted by a […]
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On The Lake
In January of 1965 the visionary painter Morris Graves wrote a letter to an old friend in Seattle: I am now, at last, buying the forest tract of land — near Eureka — which is where I will build a studio and settle. It is a 380-acre tract of virgin forest surrounding a five-acre lake. […]
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Shadows and Fog
Shadows and Fog: San Francisco Noir is the theme for the Humboldt County Library’s Based on the Book movies series in April. Each Tuesday there’s a screening of a 1940s era crime film shot or set in the fabled Bagdad by the Bay. First up, April 9, the quintessential detective story, The Maltese Falcon, based […]
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Something from Nothing
It started with a musical collaboration between the master of liquid guitar lyricism Steve Kimock, and the dynamic drummer Greg Anton. The year was 1984; the place, Marin County. “Greg and I met playing with Keith and Donna [Godchaux] in Heart of Gold,” recalled Kimock. “Then, tragically and unexpectedly, Keith lost his life in a […]
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Talk Pot
Ready to offer your opinion on plans for regulating outdoor marijuan grow operations? This just in from the Supes: County Schedules Community Meetings to Discuss Potential Outdoor Medical Marijuana Ordinance EUREKA – The County announces that it will hold three community meetings in April to discuss the draft of an outline for an ordinance regarding the outdoor […]
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Vagabond Music
Mandolinist David Tiller spent years playing with the band ThaMusement. Around the turn of the century, that band went on hiatus and David headed for New York City. While busking in the subway he met a New York banjo picker. Would he like to join in a weekly session at a Brooklyn club? Saying yes […]
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Jazz for Don
Eureka gets jazzy this weekend as the Redwood Coast Jazz Festival returns, bringing music and dancing to six venues around town. The festive weekend starts Thursday, March 21, at 5 p.m. with A Taste of Main Street, where you can wander Old Town sampling wares from 24 different food producers, everything from sushi and pizza […]
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Crazy
LoCura is a crazy cool multiculti band based in San Francisco’s Mission District whose Spanish name has a dual meaning. “One way it means ‘madness,’ but ‘lo cura‘ also means ‘the cure,’” explains vocalist Kata Miletich (who is also Spanish). The band got its start when Kata and her guitarist partner Bob Sanders moved to […]
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Green Days
Apparently there never were snakes in Ireland; nevertheless we still honor St. Patrick for driving them away. Along with advertising displays festooned with shamrocks and leprechauns, we have glasses of green beer, corned beef and cabbage — and parties galore. Among them, a “Wild Irish Barn Dance” Saturday night at the Arcata Veteran’s Hall, […]