Kali Cozyris

The month of July, the heartiest part of the summer sandwich, belongs to Fortuna. The Friendly City just celebrated a spectacular Fourth of July (on the third) and now heads into its biggest annual event, a week-long convergence of cowboy culture and competition, the Fortuna Rodeo, which gets bucking July 14-21. Rolling in right on […]

Humboldt is home to an enormous pool of talented and active musicians with a large portion of that demographic expressing its passion with pluck. Imagine the look arts and features editor Jennifer Fumiko Cahill and I exchanged after one reader complained there wasn’t enough bluegrass in our paper. You can’t throw a fundraiser without hitting […]

Oh, summer, you sunny season of hot dogs, baseball, swimming at the lake. Sure, Memorial Day kicks it off, but the Fourth of July kicks it in. So, where are things crack-a-lackin’? There are celebrations across the county where you can wave the red, white and blue and wish America a happy birthday. From hometown […]

On your mark, get set, sew! SCRAP Humboldt’s sixth annual Rebel Craft Rumble gets underway on Saturday, March 30 at Arcata Playhouse with more glitter, glue and zany ingenuity than you can shake a recycled popsicle stick at. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. for drinks, schmoozing and silent auction bidding before feathers fly in the […]

Humboldt SINGS, a DreamMaker Project of the Ink People that holds group singing events, has invited its 2019 visiting song leader Benjamin Mertz — jazz pianist, composer and song leader with a specialty in the black spiritual tradition — to host two special events. First, join neighbors, friends and new friends at the Community Sing […]

We know the desire to run away with the circus grows stronger by the day. Your chance to learn some of the skills you’ll need to fit in under the big top comes to town March 22, 23 and 24, when The Humboldt Juggling Festival returns to Humboldt State University’s West Gym with free performances, […]

The light and the dark converge at the Arcata Theatre Lounge this week with a couple of iconic films. You recall the scenes. You quote the movie. You know who’s a righteous dude. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1983), John Hughes’ comedy about a trio of high schoolers who play hooky by spending the day in […]

If you bleed red, white and rosé, you’ll be among kindred spirits this weekend at the Humboldt Wine Festival. The anticipated event, now in its 11th year, pops off Saturday, March 16 at 5:30 p.m. in the Kate Buchanan Room ($45). Presented by Rotary Club of Arcata and North Bay Rotaract, the splashy soiree is […]

Humboldt is known for its greenery: pines, pastures, politics, pot. And ’round St. Patrick’s Day, things get a little greener. While many of the 21-and-up set will look to get lucky at nighttime establishments that serve green beer, Jameson and shenanigans, there are also sober options for celebrating the patron saint of Ireland. No, really. […]

There’s a dance born every minute. At least that’s the case this weekend at the eighth annual 1 Minute Dances, happening Friday and Saturday, March 8 and 9 at 8 p.m. at Redwood Raks World Dance Studio ($5). The event brings artists from California, the larger U.S. and around the world together to share their […]

Jump on in, the water’s … 50 degrees. Pshhht. That ain’t no thing. Especially when there’s a hot tub, heated dressing room, catered lunch and Bloody Mary waiting for you on the other side. What’s this madness? The long-running (off a short pier) Humboldt County tradition, the Discovery Museum’s 18th annual Perilous Plunge, of course, […]

The 02F: Zero to Fierce Festival, Playhouse Arts’ seven-day festival “celebrating creative womxn” in the community, returns with fire March 4-10 at the Arcata Playhouse. The event, centered around International Women’s Day on March 8, promises more of the groundbreaking, inclusive and inspiring conversations, music and art that made it a hit the last two […]