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Winners of the 2024 NCJ Pet Photo Contest
We may or may not be scrolling past your pictures from Maui because it feels like everyone but us is on vacation all the time. We might toss a quick like on that selfie or marsh sunset, but we are flipping past the mystery rash you’re crowdsourcing home remedies for. We’re looking for one thing…
Music Tonight: Sunday, March 3
Many years ago, when I was a teenager, I snagged a ticket to one of Eureka’s various blues music by the bay festivals, where as an aspiring bass player I had hoped to study some of the low end wranglers jamming in the assorted rhythm sections under the blue skies. A lot of acts played…
Orr Marshall: 1937-2023
Orr Marshall, of Bayside, California, died Sept. 4, 2023, at the age of 86. He is survived by his wife, Fukiko; his children Stephen, Nicholas, and Sonya; three grandchildren; and his siblings Ahlene, Delmar, and Suzanne. Orr was born July 19, 1937, in Toledo, Ohio, to Charles and Juanita Marshall and was interested in art…
Music Tonight: Saturday, March 2
Returning Humboldt County pop rock champions The Ian Fays are posting up at the Shanty tonight at 8:30 p.m. for Arts Alive. Popular hybrid rockers Strix Vega has dusted off the amps to join in on the jams, and a group named Rad Bromance, about whom I know near to nothing, has signed on for…
Music Tonight: Friday, March 1
It’s the first night of the eighth annual Zero to Fierce Festival, with events generally centered around the Arcata Playhouse and the Exit Theatre. Tonight’s soiree sees an art gallery pop-up in the front of the Playhouse called the Womxn’s Art Show, and features an all-ages and multimedia format. DJ Dastbunny provides the sonic ambience…
Music Tonight: Thursday, Feb. 29
One of the stranger and more cinematic acts to break into the fringes of the American mainstream, a band that can be called Dadaist without flinching, is back on the road and coming to Humboldt. Sleepytime Gorilla Museum is possibly the only group to ever work the word “tintinnabulation” into a catchy song and have…
Tanya Marissa Rodgers Culbert: 1973-2023
Gone too soon from the lives of family, friends, and others who loved her dearly, Tanya Marissa Rodgers Culbert (nee Pieper) slipped from this mortal earth on December 26, 2023, at the age of 50. After many lengthy stays in and out of Northern California hospitals this past fall, Tanya ultimately succumbed to the ravaging…
Music Tonight: Wednesday, Feb. 28
Denver, Colorado’s Sunsquabi are a power trio of rock-tronica jamsters who mix and meld bass, drums and guitars with keys, laptops and drum pads, creating a groove-friendly bounce house for fun seekers everywhere. The crew is setting up shop tonight at the Arcata Theatre Lounge, one of the best venues around for this sort of…
Music Tonight: Tuesday, Feb. 27
Emily Robb’s latest release If I Am Misery Then Give Me Affection is a rolling tone jeremiad preaching the lost gospel virtues of Old Testament instrumental guitar sounds. Fuzz and vibrato scraps of treble-sliding hacksaw blues are fleshed into a chaotic prophet’s new vision of revelation. Basically, an evening of rapture for all lovers of…
NCJ’s Greenson Wins Free Speech and Open Government Award
The First Amendment Coalition has announced its Free Speech and Open Government Award winners for 2023, honoring the work of the Journal’s own News Editor Thadeus Greenson alongside journalists at The New York Times, Bloomberg and MuckRock. The annual award recognizes “outstanding contributions to the advancement of free expression or the people’s right to know…
Music Tonight: Monday. Feb. 26
Bolero! from San Francisco is a group dedicated to remembering the psychedelic rock sounds and Latin vibes that briefly made that city a beacon of youth culture in the 1960s and 1970s. A memory stone from an age before four decades of Reaganomics and venture capital turned that once-beautiful peninsula into a shittier version of…
Pets, Dam Removal, Jacobs Update and Cozy Cafes
This week we’re checking out the good boys and girls in the NCJ Pet Photo Contest and talking Humboldt pet care. We’ve also got updates on dam removal and the Eureka City Schools property sale. Finally, if you’re looking for a place to enjoy a coffee and a book while it’s still chilly, we’ve got…
Kreis Files Answer to Ethics Charges, Denying Most Allegations
Humboldt County Superior Court Judge Greg Kreis filed an answer yesterday to the ethics complaint lodged against him, offering a full-throated defense and denial of almost all the myriad of allegations brought forward by a state oversight agency. In official response to the notice of proceedings brought forward by the Commission on Judicial Performance earlier…
Mary Celine Guglielmina Charbonneau: 1931-2024
Mary Celine Guglielmina Charbonneau was born on June 9, 1931 at St. Joseph Hospital in Eureka, California, and passed away on Feb. 3, 2024, in Huntington Beach, California. Mary was the daughter of Henry Guglielmina and Agnes Christen Guglielmina. Her grandparents, Anton and Josephine Guglielmina and Edward and Mary Regli Christen, immigrated from Switzerland to…
Music Tonight: Saturday, Feb. 24
The New Pelicans are somewhat of a phoenix-like group, having risen from the ashes of our late local folk country band The Handshakers with four of its members in the lineup, including guitarists and singer/songwriters Mike Bynum and Michael Walker, the latter a master luthier as well. The sound hits all the beloved notes of…
Music Tonight: Friday, Feb. 23
Humbrews is hosting a night of local skanking and grooves when ska-mongers Checkered Past join forces with Caribbean Jazz Odyssey to keep the dancefloor bouncing. It’s $10 to get in, 9 p.m. is the advertised starting time and DJ Burnt Reynolds will preside over the in-between vibes.
Music Tonight: Thursday, Feb. 22
If you’ve got the itch for something lively to brighten your night as the winter begins its landing into spring, you might want to check out the Basement tonight at 8 p.m. There you will find the Elderberry Rust String Band playing the kind of bluegrass and Americana music made to stoke the fires and…
‘A Very Exciting Time’
The largest dam removal project in United States history has hit another milestone, completing the initial drawdown of three reservoirs and allowing the Klamath River to find its historic path through their sediment-laden footprints. During a recent press conference, Mark Bransom, CEO of the Klamath River Renewal Corp., the nonprofit created to oversee the dam…
Honeysuckle Rose
I’ve been watching old movies and listening to even older songs lately — no surprise there —mostly dipping into the early British career of Alfred Hitchcock and the tunes of Fats Waller. Let me tell you, innuendo was a magical thing before the squares and moral morons figured things out and got (only just) wise…
Magical, Cozy Winter Cafés
It’s that time of year again. Sometimes referred to as “false spring” here in Humboldt. Don’t be fooled, friends. Narcissistic spring has not arrived yet. We are still hanging out with that old winter charmer, though they are getting sleepier by the day and will soon rest. For now, we can still find comfort in…
Nancy Tobin’s CRy-Baby Installation at CR
Some artists are world-describers, tirelessly reconfiguring surfaces, objects and spaces to resonate on a particular frequency. That’s how it is with Nancy Tobin, whose installation CRy-Baby is on view through March 1 at College of the Redwoods. Subtitled “A comedic installation exploring the connections between space, past and future selves,” the work delivers. “We’re very…
Thriving with Your Furry Friends in Humboldt County
What does being a successful parent or co-parent to a four-legged (or sometimes three-legged) companion along the North Coast entail? Knowing the unique challenges and specific hazards to avoid, as well as where and how to provide the best preventative and medical intervention. Hopefully, this will help you navigate your questions and develop a strategy…
Swan Dive
FEUD: CAPOTE VS. THE SWANS. Whoever said, “Hating someone is like drinking poison every day and expecting the other person to die,” clearly never saw The Princess Bride. Of course, there is a caustic burn going down, but a good low-stakes grudge can be energizing, feeding competition and giving focus to the day’s million scattered…
‘A Different Reason’
Editor: I read that some Sushi Spot customers are threatening to boycott the business due to its new tipping policy (“Sushi Spot’s Tipping Point,” Feb. 8). I’m on the fence about the policy, but I propose boycotting Sushi Spot for a different reason: its aquaria. Aside from the fact that being an aquarium fish in a sushi restaurant must…
Vote!
Editor: I have observed Frankie Myers, candidate for state Assembly, as an emerging leader for over 20 years. He and his team then challenged Scottish Power, owner of the Klamath dams, in Edinburgh. His team collaborated successfully with many irrigators, old adversaries, toward each group’s self-interest. The dams, in one of the great environmental moments…
Correction
A story in the Feb. 15, 2024, edition of the North Coast Journal headlined “Incumbent Judge Faces Ethics Probe” incorrectly identified the governor who appointed Humboldt County Superior Court Judge Greg Kreis (it was Jerry Brown) and misspelled the name of Commission on Judicial Performance Assistant Director and Investigations Supervisor Sonya Smith. The Journal regrets…
Flying to the Desert
On the plane, Next to me; Her book is Arabic, while The big fellow in front; Tattoos all over, hugs his daughter, Whispering thoughts, To her demurred, shy smile lighting The seats where we sit next To an old man from China going To see his son after some twenty years: Typing Chinese characters into…
