Music Tonight: Thursday, March 14
Sansfu is a portmanteau word for sans Tofu, which isn’t a menu option, but rather a reference to the members of Absynth Quartet when they are performing without the drummer (his nickname is Tofu, you see). However, the plot thickens tonight at the Basement because the group is working with some additions: new mandolin player…
Music Tonight: Tuesday, March 12
The World-Famous Glenn Miller Orchestra is an institution which will forever be associated with the pinnacle of World War II-era big band jazz, in no small part because its eponymous founder disappeared into the fog of war aboard an allied air force plane headed from England to France sometime in the hours before the beginning…
Music Tonight: Monday, March 11
It’s just another Metal Monday over at Savage Henry Comedy Club at 6 p.m., so don’t go wishing it were Sunday, even if that’s your I-don’t-have-to-run-day. These are fun, too. Tonight’s gig brings two bands from Everett, Washington, KillCam and Resin Cough, for a meet-up with our local heroes GRUG! and Brain Dead Rejects. This…
Music Today: Sunday, March 10
Pianist John Chernoff, violinist Cindy Moyer and sax player Virginia Ryder make up the Vipisa Trio, a group of music department staff who have been performing together long before the CPH rebrand. Today at Fulkerson Hall, the trio will be performing a 2 p.m. matinee of music including the work of local alum and current…
Music Tonight: Saturday, March 9
There are two world-class, world music ensembles available at your pleasure tonight at 8 p.m. but, due to the nature of time and space in our particular reality, you will have to decide which one fits your tastes better. Over at the Arcata Playhouse, as a part of the tail-end of the Zero to Fierce…
Coming Soon: The Humboldt County Egg Hunt
Put your detective skills to the test and join the search for hidden eggs in the 2024 Humboldt County Egg Hunt! A limited number of eggs will be hidden around the county, and contain exciting rewards for the lucky hunters who find them. Follow the clues revealed in the North Coast Journal, both in print…
The Klamath River Salmon Die-off Was Tragic. Was it Predictable?
A recent large die-off of young salmon released into the Klamath River shocked and dismayed state biologists, reinforcing that human efforts to restore nature and undo damage can be unpredictable and difficult to control. The tiny Chinook salmon turned up dead downriver just two days after they were released from the California Department of Fish…
Mexican Breakfast, Elections and Updates
This week we’re getting breakfast with Mexican flavor at the new Aroma’s Cafe and sorting through election outcomes. We’re also checking back in on Travis Schneider’s building permit saga, now set to go before the Coastal Commission, as well as the mystery surrounding the Eureka City Schools’ real estate deal. Hit subscribe for weekly updates…
Music Tonight: Friday, March 8
Once again, Friday means Fuego at the Arcata Theatre Lounge, a dance party celebration of modern Latin club music. Join DJs D’Vinity, Pressure and Statik as they curate an evening of reggaeton-plus for all the assembled crowd, including crews of in-house go-go and pole dancers, at 9 p.m. ($15, $10 advance).
Wandering Meatloaf
Look there! It’s Stiletto Stacy strutting down the street in her high heels knowing she looks sexier than the women wearing sensible shoes. And there goes Steel-toe Steve daydreaming about finding a hippie to kick the shit out of. Isn’t it interesting how a person’s footwear is such an important part of their identity? This…
Midwinter Day
The air is crisp Sunshine streaming through the window With a bite A gentle breeze plays with the curtain. Trees jut up on The horizon, a row of clouds Blanket them Shaded dark as they ready for rain. Two birds, a third Appear in view as they frolic Across the sky A bar of blue…
Without a Paper Trail
Days before retiring from his post at the helm of Eureka City Schools in December, Superintendent Fred Van Vleck secured what could objectively be seen as a legacy-defining transaction — a deal in which the district expects to unload a long-blighted, vacant property on Allard Avenue in exchange for $5.35 million and a small residential…
Coastal Commission to Take up Schneider Appeal
California Coastal Commission staff is recommending the commission take over jurisdiction of the permitting fiasco that enveloped local developer Travis Schneider’s family dream mansion overlooking the Fay Slough Wildlife Area. The commission is slated to decide whether “substantial issues” exist in an appeal of a Coastal Development Permit issued by the Humboldt County Planning Commission…
‘It Has to Change’
When Denise Massey’s daughter was 6 years old, she put the girl, who has Down Syndrome, on a van every morning for speech therapy in El Centro: 100 miles round trip, sometimes braving 120-degree heat, monsoons and severe dust storms known in the desert as haboobs. Thirteen years later she’s still making that daily trek,…
Hybrid Moments
Belarius, the exiled lord and soldier who stole and raised the sons of the British pagan King Cymbeline in the play of the same name, is certain of a kind of noble “strain” of eugenics, where breeding shows through any humble environment (in this case, a rustic cave in the Welsh countryside). “Cowards father cowards,…
Meeting in the Middle at Aromas Café
Cut in sturdy rectangles and topped with waves of whipped cream, Adela Rodriguez’s tres leches cake takes a full day soaking in whole, condensed and evaporated milks. It’s a bit firmer than usual, holding up to and holding in the sweet liquid. Marisol Madriz, with whom she co-owns Aromas Café (1651 Myrtle Ave., Eureka), thinks…
Spectacle and Substance in Dune: Part Two
DUNE: PART TWO. Looking back, it seems almost egregious not to have reviewed Dune (2021) at greater length upon its release. But then I remind myself that we live in genuinely crazy times and the times of two and a half years ago were maybe even crazier. Late 2021 was a brief era of momentary…
‘R.I.P.’
Editor: While thumbing through page after page of paid political ads in the NCJ this morning (Feb. 29, 2024), I spied this little notice wedged in there tightly: “As of Feb. 12 the Journal is no longer accepting letters endorsing specific candidates or measures in the March 5 primary.» Alas, R.I.P. Free Speech. P.S. You screwed up the…
Correction
The Feb. 29, 2024, edition of the North Coast Journal included the wrong crossword puzzle, which a number of readers took time out of their day to make us aware of. We especially appreciate the few who did so kindly. And we commend Rachel Scherer and Nicholas Neal, who let us know the mistake we’d…
