‘Fire Teaches Us Many Lessons’
Karuk Tribe signs historic agreement with California to remove barriers to using ‘good fire’ By Pauly Denetclaw/Indian Country Today
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‘Fire Teaches Us Many Lessons’
Bill Tripp, Karuk, has been a cultural fire practitioner nearly his entire life. He remembers being 4 years old, cracking acorns as he waited for his great-grandmother to wake up so they could talk in the mornings. Eventually he turned his attention toward the woodstove and tried to build a fire. His great-grandmother heard him…
Brian Joseph Federici
Brian Federici was a long-time resident of Arcata, California, having moved there in 1978. He was born on Long Island, New York, and lived at the end of Long Island Sound close to New York City. With both his mother and fathers’ families from New York City areas, he frequented the Big Apple and knew…
Ralph Leonard Lindstrom, Jr.: 1932-2025
With heavy hearts, we announce the peaceful passing of our father, Ralph Lindstrom, on April 17, 2025, a week before his 93rd birthday. He was a guiding light in our lives, a devoted father and a man who will be deeply missed by all who knew him. Born and raised in the Humboldt County’s bayside…
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As I mentioned before, I will be loading up the weekend with goodies because the pantry is bare afterward and, for the sake of that project, tonight is the beginning of that process. First up, at the Outer Space at 7 p.m., Brain-Dead Rejects and Kolonizer are playing a horror punk drag show for a…
Music Tonight: Thursday, May 22
The Creative Sanctuary is putting on another jazz gig at the Arcata Playhouse, the first in a series basking in the glow of the formidable works of Art Blakely and the Jazz Messengers. Tonight’s program is an homage to Horace Silver, the post-bop pianist and co-bandleader who brought the group to his highest peaks of…
Music Tonight: Tuesday, May 20
As promised yesterday, Savage Henry Comedy Club is hosting a second night of heavy music at 7 p.m., starring Cleveland hardcore band Piss Me Off, along with local punk act Kult of Indifference. That’s the lineup as of press time, but I would expect one to two more bands to be added by the night…
Music Tonight: Monday, May 19
It’s not just Metal Monday tonight at Savage Henry Comedy Club tonight, but the first of a two-night binge of heavy music, with doors at 7 p.m. and tickets running from $5-$20, sliding scale. Tonight’s gladiators are Martinez hardcore and powerviolence band Throat Rip, along with local shredders Psyop Victim and Gourmandizer, with a fourth…
Experts: Blue Lake Council Again Violates Transparency Laws with Approval of Separation Agreement
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Music Tonight: Saturday, May 17
If you feel like learning something before grooving out, go to keet.org to register for a seat at the Arcata Playhouse for a free screening of the new documentary We Want the Funk! about the history of that groovy, butt-rattling genre of music. Afterward, you can enjoy a set of some of that good stuff…
Controlled Burning, the Woman’s Club, Accessibility and Abortion
This week we have a story from Indian Country Today about the Karuk Tribe and a historic agreement with the state to make way for “good fire.” We’re also looking back at the history of the Eureka Woman’s Club and its kitchen-based fundraising. This week’s issue also shares thoughts on accessibility at Cal Poly Humboldt…
Music Tonight: Friday, May 16
Ziggy Alberts is an indie folk singer-songwriter from Australia, whose easy-listening, largely acoustic tunes have earned him an international following that he is working on extending into the States. If you are interested in giving his songs of ecological preservation and the simple joys of life an ear or two, roll through the Arcata Theatre…
Tantalizing Torch Songs at Trinidad Town Hall
If jazz is your jam, clear your calendar for Tantalizing Torch Songs with Claire Bent and RLAD, happening Friday, May 16, at 7:30 p.m. at Trinidad Town Hall ($10-$20 sliding scale). Westhaven Center for the Arts presents this evening of soulful jazz featuring versatile vocalist Claire Bent with the polished backing of veterans RLAD: Tim…
Music Tonight: Thursday, May 15
Start your weekend entertainment early with two free live music gigs, each helmed by gentlemen named Jeff, and both happening around 8 p.m. At the Logger Bar you will find music of singer-songwriter and band man about town Jeff Landen, while at the Basement you can double your listening pleasure with acoustic/electric duo the Jeff…
When We Walk Right By
Editor’s note: This is the first of a three-part series exploring ableism and the rhetoric that sustains it. I’m standing in the basement of Cal Poly Humboldt’s Founders Hall looking out the window at the rain while I wait for my ride home from work. Next to me is a student who is using crutches…
‘Concise and Clear’
Editor: Congratulations to Thadeus Greenson, Jennifer Fumiko Cahill and Kimberly Wear on an outstanding opinion piece (“The Real Cost of Eggs,” May 1). In concise and clear detail, they list the disastrous effects of Trump’s first 100 days. It should be required reading for every MAGA cult member. Bill Morris, Eureka Related Stories
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The Flammarion Engraving
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Stevo by Starlight
Early last week, something terrible happened in the streets of Eureka that took the life of a man. I am not going to share the details of his passing. But don’t mistake this for an obituary, with vague allusions to death because this isn’t about death at all. This is about life, specifically the life…
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Urinetown is a silly, overacted, melodramatic, musical political satire that is pure excessive hilarity. The talented cast of North Coast Repertory Theatre’s incarnation of the show understands the assignment and creates an entirely entertaining evening of must-see theater. The surface of this production is stupid, stereotypical theater complete with puns, gags, terrible writing and an onslaught of…
The Tragedy of Andor
ANDOR. Once this issue of the Journal is put to bed, this column included, I will head home and sink into my couch with a bowl of pita chips that are not nearly hard enough to grind the stress out through my already taxed molars while I watch the closing three episodes of the second…
