Music Tonight: Thursday, July 20
Fieldbrook Winery continues its summer concert series — Thursday evenings and Sunday afternoons — with a 5:30 p.m. performance by local bluegrass act Fickle Hill. The performance is free for those with table reservations.
NCJ Preview: Fungi, Schneider Home Coming Down, Blue Lake on Parade
We’re talking about Humboldt County’s bounty of fungi and what to do with it, developer Travis Schneider’s home coming down, Annie and Mary Days in Blue Lake and more. Hit subscribe for weekly updates on Humboldt stories.
Graduation Day: A Fortuna Teacher Celebrates with her First Grade Class
Janell Hodges refers to the time between beginning her quest to become a teacher and her eventual triumph as one of life’s seasons. It was a season in which she became a mother, adopting her first son Samuel in 2006, and finding out he had special needs that required extra care and multiple surgeries. She…
Music Tonight: Tuesday, July 18
Seattle band Hell Baby is a who’s-who of band members from the roster of boutique pop punk label Youth Riot! Records, including musicians from Mommy Long Legs, The Carols and Sleepover Club. The group is playing at the Siren’s Song tonight, joined by labelmates Titanic 2 and local retro pop superstars Clean Girl and the…
Music Tonight: Monday, July 17
One ongoing gig that has helped fill the live music dates in the lazy midsummer calendar slump is Savage Henry’s Metal Mondays, an early-ish (7 p.m.) offering that is friendly to working headbangers of all stripes. Tonight’s bill is all Humboldt talent, with metal bands Nail Gun and Midnight Mass hitting the volume knob with…
Music Tonight: Sunday, July 16
Arcata Main Street is continuing its summer arts market and concert series on the Arcata Plaza today from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. This afternoon’s musical entertainment will be provided by Swingo Domingo, an act I have yet to hear, something I hope to rectify if the sun’s out. Afterward, in the same vicinity at…
Kenneth ‘Michael’ Allen Davis: 1997-2023
Kenneth “Michael” Allen Davis died on July 3, 2023, in McKinleyville. His life was taken by a troubled friend in a senseless act of violence. Michael was born July 14, 1997, in Arcata, to Mark and Laurie Davis. He was the youngest of three siblings. Michael grew up in McKinleyville near more than 60 family…
Music Tonight: Saturday, July 15
Regular readers will notice that certain bands get a mention every time they roll through town. This is due to a group having done something to catch my attention in a profound enough fashion that I feel the desire to get as many people on board with the opportunity to see it live as is…
Something for Everyone at Northern Nights Music Festival
The EDM-heavy Northern Nights Music Festival lights up the star-filled skies over Cooks Valley Campground from July 14- 16 with three days of just about everything you could imagine from a music festival. Revelers from all over descend upon the Eel River for this three-day weekend of camping, music, cannabis, art, food, wellness and floating the…
Fortuna Rodeo Action this Weekend
Get ready for nighttime action at the Fortuna Rodeo this week with the best of the best competing against rip snortin’ bulls for big bucks during Bullfighters Only, happening Friday, July 14, from 5:30 to 11 p.m. at Fortuna Rodeo Grounds. Get tickets online at northcoasttickets.com/events/bullfighters-only-7-14-2023. There’s more bucking excitement at the Bulls, Broncs and…
UPDATE: EPD Makes Arrest in ‘Man Lit on Fire’ Case
UPDATE: Eureka police have arrested a suspect in the case of a man “lit on fire” near the 400 block of A Street on July 12. “Through extensive investigation, Eureka Police detectives identified 60-year-old Vaughn Pernell Jones as the suspect,” an EPD press release states, noting that Pernell was arrested on a warrant for attempted…
Fungi for All Seasons
Here on California’s Far North Coast, we’re inundated with moisture, even during drought years. Having our foggy little corner at the bottom of the greater Pacific Northwest keeps us in an abundance of forest riches and changing menus as wild mushrooms stagger their seasons throughout the year. Finding these fungal forest treasures is thrilling —…
Jan Ramsey’s Pilgrimage
“I can’t remember not drawing,” Jan Ramsey says. She was the oldest of three kids and they’d sit in a circle and draw from books. Today, Ramsey sees art “as an extension of my life and my prayer.” Ramsey is well known in Humboldt County for the many ways she’s brought art to the community:…
Blue Lake on Parade
Blue Lake lived up to its small town “center of the universe” status July 9 with its annual Annie & Mary Day parade and party to celebrate the historic Arcata and Mad River Rail Line and the A&M Railroad namesakes Annie Carroll and Mary Buckley, who worked as bookkeepers there back in the day. According…
Eureka and Crescent City Top Ports for Halibut
Anglers fishing out of Eureka and Crescent City enjoyed some of the best Pacific halibut fishing of the season this week. Both ports kicked out limits for boats willing to put in some time. And most days it didn’t take much time. Out of Eureka, charters were loaded up and headed to the dock not…
The Joy of the Ride
JOY RIDE. It has been rather widely reported — but may still be apocryphal — that at some point during the development of this screenplay, the writers (Cherry Chevapravatdumrong and Teresa Hsiao) thought to call it The Joy Fuck Club. Clearly, that title is a bit too outré for our provincial American sensibilities, but I…
‘However …’
Editor: Thank you for publishing the excerpt from Kaitlin Reed’s book Settler Cannabis: From Gold Rush to Green Rush in Indigenous Northern California (Black Snakes, July 6). It’s good that Native people are giving their perspective on “settler-colonial destruction” of their ancestral homelands. However, the piece contains this incorrect statement: “… the tragic 2002 fish kill…
Maybe not an Obvious Choice
Editor: The comic in the July 6 NCJ shows two prospective students staring at the CSU system’s rising tuition while the Earth is gesturing toward a list of the countries with free or low-cost education. At first glance, you might think the pair should obviously pick from the Earth’s list, but a closer look might change…
Correction
An item in the calendar section of the July 6, 2023, edition of the North Coast Journal contained inaccurate information. This year’s is the 54th annual Annie & Mary Day. The Journal regrets the error.
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Many astrologers enjoy meditating on the heavenly body Chiron. With an orbit between Saturn and Uranus, it is an anomalous object that has qualities of both a comet and a minor planet. Its name is derived from a character in ancient Greek myth: the wisest teacher and healer of all the…
PlanCo Approves Permits to Tear Down Schneider ‘Dream Home’
After an emotional apology from the developer, the Humboldt County Planning Commission voted unanimously July 6 to approve the permits and permit modifications necessary for Travis Schneider to tear down his partially constructed family mansion overlooking the Fay Slough Wildlife Area. After amassing a host of permit violations during construction of the more than 20,000-square-foot home on…
New Federal Program Aims to Strengthen MMIP Investigations
The U.S. Department of Justice recently announced plans to address the country’s Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples crisis with new, nationwide initiatives aimed to increase cooperative investigations. According to the department’s press release, the Missing or Murdered Indigenous Persons Regional Outreach Program allows departments from various levels of government, including federal, state and tribal, to collaborate…
Once Upon a Time on the Couch
Faced with a small amount of time to myself, I was doing the unthinkable the other day, sitting in my living room and watching a movie. I almost never watch films alone, as I prefer to read when I’m alone, and I like sharing television and movies with other people. Credit my late mother for…
