A Place to Stop and Rest
Wiyot youth housing project breaks ground aiming to provide a safety net By Thadeus Greenson
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A Place to Stop and Rest
When the Wiyot Tribe decided to leverage its resources to tackle Humboldt County’s housing crisis, it didn’t just start buying land to develop. Instead, tribal officials spent two years listening. “We spent two years studying housing,” says Dishgamu Community Land Trust Director Michelle Vassel. “We went to big events, farmers markets and just asked people…
Music Tonight: Saturday, June 12
Options abound tonight, but I’m going to steer you toward a tried-and-true summer jam that, from venue to performers, is a guaranteed good time for a warm night just off the Mad River. At 9 p.m., the Logger Bar will be hosting country-tinged strummers, pickers, singers and songwriters Turtle Goodwater and Jerome Stinsprig. These fellas…
Music Tonight: Friday, July 11
So many options tonight, I have whittled it down to two in Arcata that each kick off around 7 p.m. Over at the Veterans Hall, you will find a free one — with donations welcome — offered by devil-rustling fiddle stompers Bow-Legged Buzzards along with Baby W33k3nd. Meanwhile, Moss Oak Commons has a payment optional/$5-$10…
Music Tonight: Thursday, June 10
How about a Metal Thursday? If that sounds interesting, Savage Henry Comedy Club has you covered, although this one is going to be a little more punk than metal, to be honest. Bay Area band Skin and Bonez joins locals Kolonizer, Brain Dead Rejects and Spayr for a night of punk and heavy alt rock.…
Photos: Celebration and Protest on July 4
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Beth Baker Chamberlin
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Comedy Tonight: Monday, July 7
The Secret Society of Silly Things is an improv comedy troupe that has been described favorably as a cargo cult formed from the airwave droppings of Whose Line is it Anyway? If that sounds interesting enough for a 10-spot investment at the door of Savage Henry Comedy Club, come on by. It’s all lucky sevens…
Youth Housing, Ramen and a Newsroom Farewell
This week we’re looking at what the Wiyot Tribe is doing to help youth and seniors in need of housing as the Dishgamu Community Land Trust breaks ground on a new project. We’ve also got the details on Kokoro Ramen, recently opened in Old Town. And we’re saying a fond farewell to Thadeus Greenson, Journal…
Music Tonight: Saturday, July 5
The Creative Sanctuary continues its Jazz is Peace series with an homage to one of my heroes and the father of some of the greatest music this country ever produced, from the Delta womb of all good American sounds, my spiritual home, New Orleans. I’m talking about Satchmo himself, Mr. Louis Armstrong, who would be…
Music Tonight: July 4, 2025
Lots of ways to celebrate tonight, but I’m going to suggest something far-out, as in geographically. Dig this: In Shelter Cove, about as south west as you can go in Humco without a boat, is a fun joint called Mario’s Marino Bar, where at 8 p.m. DJ Alan Espinosa will be serving up sonic teasers…
Kokoro Ramen Opens with Comfort
A feathery betta fish painted by muralist Kyle Sanders drifts above the red door to Kokoro Ramen in Eureka’s Old Town (409 Opera Alley). Owner Joe Tan, who can look down at it from nearby Rooftop, where he’s behind the sushi counter most days, has been looking for a place to open a traditional Japanese…
First Saturday Night Arts Alive
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Editorial Changes and a Fond Farewell
Change is never easy, but sometimes it’s exactly what a newsroom needs to grow, evolve and step into its next chapter. That time is now for the North Coast Journal. We’re both proud and a little heartbroken to announce that our esteemed news editor Thadeus Greenson is leaving his post to join the nonprofit First…
In Gratitude
This is the 600th edition of the North Coast Journal that I’ve had some hand in publishing as the newspaper’s news editor. It will also be the last. For more than a decade, just about every Tuesday of my life has been consumed with finishing up the week’s paper. It’s been a regular ritual, the…
Let them Eat Nothing
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Dear Nana
I am not feeling Like I was when You were alive 30 years ago, And we talked About times On your farm In Anthon, Iowa. Now, I feel like you Must have then, Filled with gratitude For all the memories Pricelessly floating Between heartbeats, Settling down As all is said And done. Kirk Gothier
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Blind
“Now some of us are weak, and some endure And some people live their lives, with a violence that’s pure and clean But I saw a man cry once, down on his knees, in the corner of a darkened cell And his pain meant nothing to me. But I was younger then, and young men…
