This summer, Sundays are made for music in the garden. From June 1 through Oct. 26, the Events Lawn at Humboldt Botanical Garden becomes a stage for local and regional talent, offering everything from salsa to soul and jazz to bluegrass during the garden’s popular Summer Music Series. Concerts run Sundays from 1 to 3 […]
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Redwood Pride Festival Weekend
The Redwood Pride Festival returns for its eighth year with a colorful weekend of community, creativity and celebration. The festivities kicked off today with an 11 a.m. parade and march from the Adorni Center, continuing with a family-friendly gathering at the Jefferson Community Center from noon to 4 p.m. On Sunday, June 8, the fun continues […]
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Music Tonight: Saturday, June 7
It’s a big show night tonight, which will hopefully make up for two quiet nights in the beginning of next week. Here’s what’s on the marquee for the evening. At 5 p.m., the Eureka Vets Hall is the venue for a benefit show for missing native man Ray Tsatoke, featuring Oakland grindcore band Bob Plant, […]
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Bigfoot Brewfest Fundraiser on Tap this Saturday
Bigfoot’s trading forest trails for beer taps at the Bigfoot Brewfest, happening Saturday, June 7, from 3 to 8 p.m. at Humboldt Bay Social Club ($50, $40 advance). Enjoy local craft beer from 10 breweries, tasty bites from three food trucks and live music from The Oyster Baes and DJ LBoogie. A benefit for Big […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, June 6
If you’d like to catch the Crab Grass Band in action between innings — and watch some baseball, too, I suppose — come out to the Arcata Ball Park tonight at 7 p.m. for the first game in a hometown series against the Fresno A’s. Yes, I call it the Ball Park and not Crabs […]
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Music Tonight: Thursday, June 5
The Arcata Theatre Lounge is hosting Thursdaze, the dancehall and reggae dance fest curated by DJs Sarge One, Rundat, Tanasa Ras and featuring the Fox Den Dancers. The fun starts at 9 p.m., and it’s only $10 to get in the door.
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NCJ Best of Humboldt 2025
BEST IN SHOW 2025 🏆 Being the BEST ain’t no game — it’s a title you earn. To claim your spot as Humboldt’s Best in Show, you’ve got to get votes — and not just once. The BEST don’t just sit back — they show up, stand out, and let the whole county know they’re […]
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Movie Tonight: Wednesday, June 4
John Carpenter is one of my favorite directors, a man whose against-the-grain, gory and brilliant scattergun cinema poetry embedded itself into my young mind via the cult VHS days of my childhood. The Thing will always remain my favorite, but They Live is a great offering too, albeit more depressing because its alien threat seems […]
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Photos: Forest Moon Festival Feels the Force
The Saturday, May 31 schedule for the third annual, three-day Forest Moon Festival opened on the Arcata Plaza with up close and personal photo opps with costumed Star Wars characters and appearances by actor Kyle Newman (director of Fanboys) and Kevin Thompson, original cast member as Ewok actor and stunt performer from 1983’s Star Wars: […]
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Music Today: Sunday, June 1
The Redwood Interfaith Gospel Choir is presenting its spring concert just before the blooms go from vernal verdance to summer straw, nestled right between the Flower and the Strawberry moons. Which is just right, as far as I am concerned. This 2 p.m. matinee will be making the Arcata Playhouse thrum like a wooden diaphragm […]
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Music Tonight: Saturday, May 31
The Eureka Symphony presents the final night of its 2024/2025 season finale, appropriately titled “A Grand Finale.” The program features the Concerto for Piano and Orchestra by late Romantic period Polish composer Grazyna Bacewicz, with Cal Poly Humboldt professor Daniela Mineva on the keys, along with Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony, aka, “the dance one.” The string […]
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It’s Crab Season! (baseball, that is)
Nothing says summer like the return of Humboldt Crabs Baseball. With games kicking off this weekend at the Arcata Ball Park, the Crabs are the oldest continuously operated, independent, summer collegiate baseball team in the U.S., bringing 80 years of tradition, hometown pride and small-town fun to our corner of the world. First game of […]