Kali Cozyris

Is there a holiday kids love more than Halloween? (Nice try, Arbor Day.) They dress up, run amok and shriek with excitement — and all that before the sugar kicks in. So, where can you take your young Frankensteins and Rosemary’s babies for candy and spooky fun? On Saturday, Oct. 28, McKinleyville Safeway Shopping Plaza […]

When it comes to Halloween thrills, do you prefer dancing in costume or flailing about in fear? Flailers, nothing gets your limbs thrashing like a trip through the dark passages of the Haunted Kinetic Lab of Horrors. The creepers at The Kinetic Sculpture Lab are freaking people out Oct. 26-28 and again on Oct. 31 […]

How do you like them apples? Spicy, fermented, in a pie, on a stick with caramel? Head to Fortuna this weekend and chances are you’ll find the fall fruit available any way you like it at Fortuna’s Apple Harvest Festival, Oct 7-8 (free admission). While searching for that perfect, crisp orb of deliciousness, you can […]

This weekend, take a break from the Twitter taunts and the ratcheting fear of nuclear war and harken back to a simpler time when all we had to worry about was the plague. Music, morsels and merriment await you in the fields of Blue Lake at the Medieval Festival of Courage Oct. 7-8, from 10 […]

Your weekend could be a little wilder. For example, you could party hop between a couple of events benefiting wildlife habitat conservation, you conscientious party animal. First up, Sanctuary Forest, a land and water trust that works to conserve and promote the well-being of the Mattole River watershed, celebrates 30 years of conservation at its […]

The Sequoia Park Zoo is turning 110! That’s a bit long in the fang, we think, and certainly something to celebrate. Swing by the zoo on Sunday, Sept. 24 from noon to 6 p.m. for a free day of games, interactive exhibits, animal encounters, great food and loads of family fun at the Zoo’s 110th […]

Is it just us or are things a little funny around here? There’s a whole lotta stand-up comedy in town these days, including three side-busting shows this week that should help you forget those upcoming midterms. If only for a little while. On Friday, Sept. 22, at the newly renovated E & O Lanes in […]

Another fine get-to-know-your-town-and-local-food-producers happening in the northern part of Humboldt is the Greater Trinidad Chamber of Commerce’s Tastin’ Trinidad on Thursday, Sept. 21, from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at Saunders Park ($20/$5 for kids under 13). There, you can taste samples from Lighthouse Grill, Moonstone Crossing Winery, Ocean Grove Lounge, Bergeron Winery, the Lost […]

Arcata hosts a few festivals each year to which pretty much the whole community turns out. Revelers stream through the plaza’s four corners to spend the day weaving through the crowds, perusing craft and food booths, twirling to music in the closed-off streets, eating, drinking and lounging on the grass. The most colorful of the […]