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Thirty years ago, on Friday, Oct. 23, 1987, I helped the late Wayne Miller organize more than 100 local photographers in a countywide photo shoot of the “People, Places and Events of Humboldt County.” We invited photographers of all skill levels to join and asked for “extraordinary photographs of ordinary events.” (This was the advice…
Huffman Votes to Push Impeachment
North Coast Congressman Jared Huffman joined 57 of his colleagues today in a failed vote to allow consideration of articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump. The measure pushed forward by Rep. Al Green faced an overwhelming defeat when a motion to sideline it was approved 364-58, with four Democrats voting “present.” In a statement,…
Red All Over
Red was having a moment at the Inn at 2nd & C on Saturday night, when the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence hosted their fundraiser for the Redwood Giants. The local Lifecycle team is headed for a long ride — from San Francisco to Los Angeles — to raise awareness of HIV/AIDS. Those who came to…
EPD Investigating Homicide Behind E Street Church
A 56-year-old man is dead after what detectives believe was a homicide that occurred last night between 11:35 p.m. and 12:45 a.m., and the Eureka Police Department is looking for help with its investigation. Charles “Chuckie” Levaugh, identified by EPD as a transient, was apparently killed in the alley adjacent to the First Church of the…
Music Tonight: Tuesday, Dec. 5
Portland’s own lounge cum jazz-cum-Latin, big band-cum-welterweight orchestra Pink Martini shares the stage at the Arkley Center with longtime vocalist China Forbes for an evening of classy pop splendor ($66).
Name Released in Manila Homicide
The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office has released the name of a 27-year-old man who was apparently shot inside his vehicle in the early hours of Saturday morning. Mathew Thomas Dix’s truck was idling in his driveway on the 1700 block of Victor Blvd. in Manila when deputies responded to call for medical aid at 3:16 a.m.…
Music Tonight: Monday, Dec. 4
If you are like myself and our fellow plebs who did not score tickets to the sold out Bill Murray and cellist Jan Vogler and friends event at the Arkley Center at 7 p.m., you can lick any wounds you may have incurred as a have-not by boning up on your own skills and trying…
Character Projects at Dell’Arte
See what Dell’Arte’s second-year MFA students have been working on the last couple of months when nine of the school’s actors/creators present their Character Projects, Dec. 7-10 at 8 p.m. at Dell’Arte’s Carlo Theatre (pay-what-you-can). Watch them transform into vibrant characters moving about in dramatic, imaginative worlds.
Music Tonight: Sunday, Dec. 3
Today you could spend your entire afternoon into the evening in the northeastern corner of Arcata and still be treated to three great and unique musical events. The HSU Wind Ensemble and the Scotia Band take the stage at Fulkerson Hall at 2 p.m. for a concert of airborne tunes and piped ditties ($8/$5 children/free…
County Swaps Attorneys, Challenges $2.5 Million Wrongful Death Verdict
The County of Humboldt is asking for a new trial in the civil case that in August resulted in a jury verdict finding the county and its correctional officers liable in the 2014 jail death of Daren Borges and awarding $2.5 million in damages to his family. In addition to filing motions last week asking…
Eureka City Council to Cast Crucial Waterfront Votes
The Eureka City Council is slated to meet Tuesday evening with a very long list of resolutions, ordinances and reports to discuss, many of which will immediately impact Eureka’s waterfront. On the consent calendar, the council is expected to approve without discussion an item that would bridge the last remaining gap in Waterfront Drive, between…
Music Tonight: Saturday, Dec. 2
The Humboldt State University Calypso Band will be performing with the university’s Percussion Ensemble at the Van Duzer tonight at 8 p.m. ($10). Expect an evening of modern modal pieces peppered with Latin rhythms and a new arrangement of a Tito Puente tune. Local fantastic roots-rock trio Kingfoot brings its bluesy and deadly danceable set…
Gifts for the Nice and Naughty Part 1: Native Dolls
Let’s remember in this season of giving, gifts are a way of showing people we love and appreciate them. Of course, presents can also be passive-aggressive weapons, tools of shade that help us work through/embrace our petty grudges and judgments. Both kinds of giving are even better when you’re helping a good cause. Over the…
Huff the Twitter Troll
North Coast Congressman Jared Huffman, who has steadily upped the fuego in his social media game since last year’s election, seemed to have some fun this morning after news broke that former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn has reached a plea agreement and pledged to aid Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s ongoing Russia probe. “Let me…
Music Tonight: Friday, Dec. 1
The Eureka Symphony and Eureka Symphony Orchestra present their Winter Dreams Concert at the Arkley Center. Led by conductor and local treasure Carol Jacobson, this concert will feature a holiday-themed repertoire including parts of Handel’s advent-ubiquitous Messiah and a sing-along of Christmas carols. This sort of thing is pretty magical this time of year, especially…
Dress to Impress
The question of the weekend is: What are you wearing? There are two fundraisers this week where the color of your attire plays a role. Whether you don a dapper black and white ensemble or put it all on red, there are two fabulous events to show off your threads and show your support. Join…
Eureka Symphony Winter Dream Holiday Concert
The Eureka Symphony Winter Dreams holiday concert brightens the Arkley Center for the Performing Arts on Friday, Dec. 1 and Saturday, Dec. 2 at 8 p.m. ($19-$49) with various seasonal pieces, excerpts from Handel’s Messiah, tenor David Powell and soprano Fiona Gadd-Ryder, the Eureka Symphony Chorus and a Christmas carol sing-along.
Music Tonight: Thursday, Nov. 30
This is a great night for punk rock and all the musical satellite genres which orbit punk rock’s eternal flame like weirdly mutated moths in an endless mosh pit circle. At 8 p.m. at Siren’s Song, Oakland hardcore group Cronander headlines the night, with local openers Dead Drift, Arcata’s queer punk group SLOP and Clam…
Flockin’ Around the Christmas Tree in Ferndale
Ferndale at Christmas is a thing to behold. The Victorian Village gets even more charming during the holidays, dressing up with decorations while brass bands and carolers stroll its quaint streets and window displays beckon shoppers. And it all gets underway this weekend with Hospitality Night Open House on Friday, Dec. 1 from 5 to…
Humboldt Artisans Crafts & Music Festival
Looking for a special, one-of-a-kind, taste-of-Humboldt, not cookie-cutter — unless it’s a hand-carved cookie cutter — gift? Head to Redwood Acres Fairgrounds this weekend for the Humboldt Artisans Crafts & Music Festival from Friday, Dec. 1 through Sunday, Dec. 3 ($3, free for kids and seniors, free with a new, unwrapped toy). You’ll find all…
Gimme Shelter
Lori Goodman’s new installation centers on two large, contoured forms that protrude from the wall. These vaguely tent-like structures are spaced so that they almost touch at their shared boundary. Their rugged surfaces are fashioned from handmade, hand-dyed paper dressed over flexible armatures, the material Goodman has long favored for her constructions. Scale lends these…
Arts Alive!
Presented by Eureka Main Street. Opening receptions for artists, exhibits and performances are held the first Saturday of each month. For more information, call 442-9054 or go to www.eurekamainstreet.org ADORNI CENTER 1011 Waterfront St. “Radical Artwork,” Dean Gault, woodwork art, and Paul Rickard, watercolors. AMERICAN INDIAN ART AND GIFT SHOP 245 F St. Lincoln Evert-Ranta,…
Generalsplaining
Editor: This is concerning Michael Moore Jr’s. letter to the editor and his comments about a recent performance of Keaton’s silent film, The General (1926), which was delivered with panache by the ArMack Orchestra (Mailbox, Nov. 16). First, hat tip to all parties involved in mounting a performance of this great classic film. As one…
Dysfunctional??
Editor: The Kauai community deserves forewarning of its newest resident, Mr. Lee Ulansey, who oddly refers to his former home, here in Humboldt County, California, as “dysfunctional” (“I Passed Notes,” Nov. 16). In his parting salvo to this local news magazine, Mr. Ulansey fails to mention his lobbying organization and publication the Humboldt Coalition for Property Rights that successfully won…
Healthcare for All
On Nov. 19, the Humboldt Progressive Democrats voted to admonish state Assemblyman Jim Wood for failing to “take steps to move forward” Senate Bill 562, the single-payer, universal healthcare bill for California that is currently stalled in the Assembly Rules Committee by order of Speaker Anthony Rendon. Wood has supported this suspension even while insisting…
Here’s What You Do
Here’s what you do: Take what you have – Make it kindling – Chop the table, Smash the chair. Split the trunk. Expose the heart. Build a fire. Stand within it. Wait for what flies. We follow the gull along ocean drive. Dreams cannot be trusted. Dreams colonize. Every beast is driven by hunger -…
The Big Tent Approach
With time and options dwindling, it now appears the Humboldt Housing and Homeless Coalition will zero in on finding land where people can safely camp or stay in a large tent. The coalition, made up of representatives from a broad spectrum of local organizations and nonprofits, including county employees, shelter operators, advocacy groups and local…
With a Whimper
It was about 2:30 p.m., the day before Thanksgiving, when embattled Humboldt County Public Defender David Marcus began packing up his personal effects, putting them in cardboard boxes and trudging them from his office in the gray shingled building on Eureka’s Fourth Street to his white pickup truck, which still has Florida license plates. Then,…
Waiver Worries
A provision in Humboldt County’s cannabis land use ordinance has local school districts feeling caught between a rock and a stinky pot farm. The ordinance requires that cannabis grows, processing areas and other marijuana businesses be set back at least 600 feet from a school or school bus stop but provides that districts can waive…
After the Feast, Congee
Maybe you’re a more disciplined person than I am. Maybe after the preparations, the cooking, the gorging, the food coma and the dish washing that follow a holiday meal, you can spring up from the bed/couch/floor and begin chopping ingredients for turkey soup. Maybe, like my Sicilian mother-in-law, you’re already melting butter for a Tetrazzini…
Hear Some Music, Make Your Own
For most of us, last week was likely less stuffed with music and more stuffed with other temptations. A few legendary artists came through town but the streets were fairly empty over the holiday. This week is enjoying a trickling in of musical acts as the students and civilians likewise return to our county. So…
Little Bugs, Little Biters
Itsy bitsies It is a very human thing to look for the largest of anything. Here in Humboldt County, we have the world’s tallest trees and largest stonefly. We have giant water bugs and giant silkworm moths, and so it is easy to overlook small things. But I find them fascinating. Yesterday I saw a…
Hail The Snow Queen
Dell’Arte’s 37th annual touring production is a delightful take on a familiar story of good triumphing over evil, with plenty of magic and other shenanigans along the way. Director Michael Fields and the cast of third-year students have taken Hans Christian Andersen’s original Snow Queen story and compressed it down to a little over an…
Name Game
Reviews LADY BIRD is the type of movie (to this my wife will attest) that would, not so many years ago, have sent me hurtling back into a depression that would require weeks-to-months of regular therapy to re-establish anything resembling a “healthy” emotional baseline. Granted, to assign it a type does a disservice to any…
