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Best of Humboldt 2024
The die has been cast and it’s time to crown the victors in this game of BEST. Over the course of a couple months, readers nominated their favorite people, places, businesses and things in Humboldt County, then took to the proverbial polls to cast votes and push their favorites past Go. After a few laps…
Mattie L. Culver: 1938-2024
It is with great sadness that we share with you the passing of Mattie Culver, beloved sister, mother, grandmother, great grandmother, (Grandma Gee Gee), mother-in-law and nurse. Mattie was an amazing woman, who provided love, encouragement and support. She lived her life with integrity, style, grace and determination. Mattie has three children: Daniel, Kathy and…
Frank Shaughnessy: 1960-2024
After an almost four-year battle with kidney cancer, Frank Shaughnessy, 64, died on June 21st, surrounded by his beloved family. Frank was the husband of Christel Rasmussen Shaughnessy whom he married in Ebeltoft, Denmark, 29 years ago. He was the father of Dion and Fiona Shaughnessy, whom he loved without reservation. Frank was predeceased by…
Jacob Ryan Osier: 1978-2024
Jacob Ryan Osier was born May 6, 1978, and passed away at home the evening of June 29. He was 46 years old. Jake was smart, quick-witted and a lot of fun. He will be forever missed by his friends and loving family. He was born in Arcata and lived his entire life in Eureka,…
Music Tonight: Wednesday, Aug. 7
First Wednesday of the month means all things fusion jazz over at the Speakeasy at 7 p.m. The sounds will be provided by the very capable hands and ears of local quartet RLAD, and the price of admission is a refreshment and some moolah for the boys in the band if you are up to…
Pro Parking Lot Campaign Spending Approaches $400K; Disclosure Forms Add to Web of Connections Between Measure and Jacobs Property Swap
Robin P. Arkley II’s Eureka-based Security National-backed ballot measure campaign has spent almost $400,000 this year in its efforts to block Eureka’s plans to convert 14 municipally owned parking lots into multi-family housing developments. According to campaign finance disclosure reports filed with the city of Eureka that detail campaign fundraising and spending through June 30,…
Music Tonight: Tuesday, Aug. 6
It’s an early-week metal night in Eureka, but tonight’s venue isn’t ye olde comedy club, but rather, the Siren’s Song Tavern a few blocks deeper into Old Town. There at 6:30 p.m., you will find a fine mix of touring and local grinders, with Paradise’s Aberrance, Contra Charge from Chicago, and Minneapolis’ Infuriate holding up…
Music Tonight: Monday, Aug. 5
Mohama Saz is a psyche-rock act from Madrid, Spain, that jams in modal keyed RIS that draw out a sonic etch-a-sketch vision of pathways, minarets and half-step Arabic curves reminiscent of a cultural landscape built by Trajan and the Umayyad. Touches of the muezzin meeting the Monkees tick the needle’s dense geography over these melting…
Music Tonight: Saturday, Aug. 3
It’s the final night of the Daze Between Festival over at Humbrews, a three-night musical encomium to the Grateful Dead. Tonight’s band is Jerry’s Kids, and, no, I am not talking about the long running Boston punk institution from the early days of hardcore. Quite a different scene, in fact, with much different Jerrys as…
The White Card’s Dialogue on Race and Art
Like a speck of dirt on a pristine white dinner jacket, a black flatscreen TV hangs starkly against the all-white set, the screen showing the intense tennis battle between the Willams sisters at the 2017 Australian Open. The sound of shoes screeching and the claps of the tennis ball being smacked back and forth on…
NCJ Preview: Best Of Humboldt 2024 & Cal Poly Protester Prosecution Update
On this week’s episode of the NCJ Preview, the band is back together as News Editor Thadeus Greenson talks about the new info that has the DA declining to prosecute Cal Poly pro-Palestine protestors. As well as talking Best Of Humboldt 2024 with Arts & Features Editor Jennifer Fumiko Cahill. These stories and more can…
Music Tonight: Friday, Aug. 2
Speaking of returning friends from Portland, The Shivas are being hosted at the Miniplex tonight at 8:30 p.m., celebrating the release of an album appropriately titled Can’t Stop Coming Around. Expect more of the same glorious, fuzzed out and harmonious true rock and roll that has made this act a hip household name for the…
Deadpool & Wolverine to the Franchise Rescue
DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE. I don’t know that I’m eating crow exactly, but, if I am, I am very much making a meal of it. For those keeping score — mostly vindictive white men of a certain age, if I had to guess — I have been less than effusive in my praise of Marvel movies…
Vista Point Convergence
Beneath the majestic Milky Way, Vista Point scenic overlook along southbound U.S. Highway 101 lies among the Redwoods of Humboldt County, just south of Stafford, California. The primary image in this story was photographed next to the on-ramp, and immediately behind the camera is the overlook itself. This is an example of light painting photography.…
Best of Retail & Services
Best Pet Store: Fin-N-Feather Fin-N-Feather Pet Shop has been a cornerstone of Humboldt’s pet care community for more than four decades. Founded in 1973 by Martin and Virginia Casanova, this family-operated business has grown from its modest beginnings to become a local favorite, taking home the coveted Best Pet Store in this year’s North Coast…
Best of Weddings
Hatchet House and The Axe Box Am I the only one among us who’s a bit concerned to learn that we’ve decided that whether we’re celebrating a loving union or a bitter breakup, its best to have sharp blades nearby? Seeing that readers dubbed Arcata’s Hatchet House — where patrons can sip beer and toss…
Best of Cannabis
Cannabis Budtender Mac at THCC 1662 Myrtle Ave. Suite A, Eureka (707) 442-2420 Find us on leafly.com Cannabis Manufacturer UpNorth 5550 West End Road, Arcata (707) 630-5179 upnorthhumboldt.com Cannabis Nursery Highline Nursery 604 State Route 36, Fortuna (707) 617-2505 highlinenursery.com Dispensary The Humboldt County Collective (THCC) 1662 Myrtle Ave. Suite A, Eureka (707) 442-2420 Find…
Best of Bonus Round!
Best Place for a Picnic : Redwood Park “Hey, Boo Boo, let’s go get us a pic-a-nic basket and head to Redwood Park!” Just like Yogi, readers of the North Coast Journal are smarter than the average bear, and they know where to find the perfect picnic experience. Nestled in the heart of Arcata, and…
‘Regrettably Deficient’
The Humboldt County District Attorney’s Office has decided not to prosecute 27 of the 39 people arrested during the week-long occupation of Siemens Hall on the Cal Poly Humboldt campus in April, while cases involving the other 12 have been referred back to the University Police Department for further investigation. District Attorney Stacey Eads told…
Best of Food and Drink
Best Chicken Sandwich and French Fries: Pineapple Express Like the atmospheric river that shares its name, the Pineapple Express food truck has swept through Humboldt and, like the cannabis strain that shares its name, given us serious munchies. Journal readers chose the truck and now restaurant (the former Humboldt Soup Co. location at 1019 Myrtle…
Best of Arts & Entertainment
Best Artworks Mural: Josiah Lawson Mural at Arcata High School One of the biggest struggles some murals face is balancing artist intentions with how the message will be perceived by the public. But in a place where many beautiful murals pepper the walls of our local buildings and schools, this piece winning Best Of is…
Evergreen Dazed
It used to be an annoying flex in the ’90s of my childhood to claim that one didn’t own a TV. Which is ironic, because that decade was probably the last true golden era of network television. Nowadays, we have lots of various-sized screens, streaming the sort of content that would look like a sickening,…
First Saturday Night Arts Alive
Experience the vibrant atmosphere as galleries, museums, theaters, bars and restaurants extend their hours for your enjoyment. 4TH STREET MERCANTILE 215 Fourth St. Various artists. AMERICAN INDIAN ART AND GIFT SHOP 240 F St. “Our Healing Story: Native Youth Photography,” Two Feathers Youth Ambassadors, photography. ART CENTER FRAME SHOP 616 Second St. Various artists. ART…
The Surreal Life of ‘Sea Lion Cow’
If you are a parent, you know this scenario well: Your child does something cute so you bust out your phone. Mine has countless videos and photos of my son from all ages, generally never revisited. For the Fratkin family, however, one of these random moments has turned, extraordinarily, into a short film selection in…
