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Play It Forward
When Ernesto Cappuccio arrived in Arcata with his family just over four years ago, a lot about his life changed. There were all the usual things that such a move entails for a fifth grader, which in this case included starting over at a new school in a small town where everyone seemed to have…
HSU Alum Prepares to Prank Steve Bannon in Charleston, South Carolina
Jessica Hardesty Norris, who graduated from Humboldt State University with a degree in Wildlife in 1997, went from despair to action within the space of week. Now she’s using data gathering skills gleaned from her time at HSU to play a massive prank on former White House chief strategist and Breitbart founder Steve Bannon and…
Squireses’ Properties? Going, Going, Gone?
The city of Eureka originally selected Santa Monica-based attorney Mark Adams to help bring more than two dozen properties owned by Floyd and Betty Squires up to code. Now he’s hoping to see them auctioned off — and he intends to buy them himself. If that were to happen on the scheduled Nov. 27 sale…
Music Tonight: Wednesday, Nov. 8
The Old Steeple continues what has quickly become a stellar tradition of booking talented singer/songwriters to play its beautiful refurbished Methodist church hall. Portland’s John Craigie is one such talented performer. Like earlier heavies like John Prine or Guy Clark, Craigie deftly offsets his deeply evocative and touching lyrics with a simple delivery and quippy…
Don’t Drive Hangry
You wouldn’t think a slick, black truck edged with flames and emblazoned with a majestic rooster in profile would be hard to find. And yet, there I was, circling the Broadway Cinema parking lot, cursing the person who’d recommended the Tacos El Gallo truck (a film reviewer who shall remain nameless and who, it turns…
Music Tonight: Tuesday, Nov. 7
The popular Santa Cruz-by-way-of-Vermont bluegrass trio The Devil Makes Three plays the West Gym at HSU at 7:30 p.m. DMT are well-loved and respected in these parts but I am honestly excited about the entire show, as Texas native, one-man band, country-blues and punk-fried metal-playing badass and road-dog lifer Scott H. Biram inaugurates the evening.…
Men with Rifles, Tactical Gear Rob 35, Make off with Six Vehicles in Three Robberies
2nd UPDATE: The California and National Parks Service has confirmed the tourists were not robbed on National Park land, but rather at the marijuana farm. Click here for the full story. UPDATE: Lt. Fridley reports that two of the vehicles, the black Ford Explorer and the white Ford Explorer, have both been found. The black…
Music Tonight: Monday, Nov. 6
Phoenix, Arizona’s own power-violence monstrosity Burnout plays the Outer Space at 6 p.m. with local handsome duo of noisy weirdos Rush Hour IV starting the show ($5). Bring earplugs or start buying real estate in the muted nightmare that is my aural world. If you forget them though, this show is definitely worth the hearing…
Music Tonight: Sunday, Nov. 5
Uh-oh. What’s that low rattle coming from G Street between 10th and 11th? Did a little Godzilla crawl out of the bay to seek the bright lights of our cozy college town? Did those awful yak guys return from a pilgrimage to India with elephants to better harass the dog walking population? Nope! It’s another…
Micki Dyson Flatmo’s Resistance Couture
Micki Dyson-Flatmo was never a political artist. But now her backyard studio in Eureka is crowded with dressmaker’s dummies swathed in tulle, metal and plastic — wearable expressions of life in the Trump era. Her show Dating Chaos: What to Wear opens at the Morris Graves Museum of Art this weekend, combining costuming and abstract…
Music Tonight: Saturday, Nov. 4
A couple of years and a lifetime of little social interactions ago, I met a nice man named Bear Dyken and helped him load his truck up with old solar panels donated by local solar genius and all-around nice guy David Katz. Bear told me about his long running activist folk group, Clan Dyken, and…
Music Tonight: Friday, Nov. 3
EPIC puts on its annual fundraiser at 9 p.m. at the Mateel Center in Redway to celebrate four decades of fighting the good fight against the planet-polluting plutocrats who seem to increasingly make up the top tier of the political class in this country. The folk music-heavy event features performances by Joanne Rand, Casey Neill…
Humboldt Burlesque Festival
Baby, it’s cold outside. Warm up at the Eureka Theater with sizzling hot performers from all over at the Humboldt Burlesque Festival on Friday, Nov. 3 and Saturday, Nov. 4 at 8 p.m. ($15-$250). Full reveal: Queen of Burlesque 2016, Miss Poison Ivory from New York, and reigning Miss Humboldt Burlesque, San Francisco’s Lady Satan,…
Dance Magic, Dance: Momix and Flip FabriQue
Humboldt State University’s Center Arts program brings diverse, world-renowned performers to the area to entertain and dazzle. This season’s offerings have been impressive so far with Michael Franti and Spearhead, Emmylou Harris and Andrew Bird gracing area stages. With more on tap for the rest of the season (Bill Murray, David Rawlings, Pink Martini, anyone?)…
Fig Twig Holiday Market
If you think Thanksgiving is coming fast, hold onto your stockings. Christmas and Hanukkah will be here just as quick. Browse two buildings packed with vintage and handmade goods at the Fig Twig Holiday Market happening Friday, Nov. 3 from 4 to 9 p.m. and Saturday, Nov. 4 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at…
Humboldt Grange Hall’s Harvest Dinner and Bazaar
Halloween, we hardly knew ye. Could it be Thanksgiving is a mere three weeks away? Make the holiday transition a little smoother at Humboldt Grange Hall’s Harvest Dinner and Bazaar on Saturday, Nov. 4 from 4 to 7:30 p.m. ($10, $6 children). Enjoy an old-fashioned bazaar, cake wheel and harvest meal of turkey or ham…
Music Tonight: Thursday, Nov. 2
The Outer Space hosts an international indie and garage rock show at 7 p.m. with locals The Monster Women, Australia’s The Fix Ups and Los Angeles’ The Blank Tapes ($8). Because of the refreshingly early 10 p.m. curfew at the Outer Space, you can double your pleasure most nights and catch another show in Arcata,…
Stop Passing Notes!
Dean Glaser hit the nail on the head. It was back in April and the Fortuna city councilman was responding to a Journal California Public Records Act request seeking all emails and text messages sent and received by him and his cohorts during a pair of council meetings. “I never had my phone used at…
Sending a Message
Reviews SUBURBICON has become the focus of much recent attention for doing Paramount’s worst wide-release box office business, ever. The surprising element in this is not the movie’s poor performance; rather, it’s the confounding fact that Paramount put it in a position to fail as dramatically as it has. Who could have possibly thought that…
HumBug: Bitey Little Buggers
[image-4] As the fall days contract and weather cools, the insect world, too, shrinks. I see a few largish dragonflies, mostly shadow darners (Aeshna umbrosa) and they’re showing wear. I suspect they are what I call a “relict population.” Unlike aging humans, they can contribute nothing further to the survival of their species so they…
The Gift of Rice
Luscious oyster and artichoke soup, shrimp remoulade, perfectly spiced jambalaya and Creole rice custard pudding. That was celebrity chef Kevin Belton’s menu at the PBS North Coast’s benefit dinner in October at the Carson Mansion’s Ingomar Club in Eureka. Not to worry if you missed the decadent affair. Belton has graciously shared the recipe for…
Keeping the Gray at Bay
As November descends and the days turn grayer and shorter, our sweet Humboldt County begins to resemble the Asphodel Meadows of Homer’s underworld or the garden of virtuous pagans in the first circle of Dante’s Inferno. Limbo, in other words — everything around here can start to resemble a wet, green-gray limbo. Which leads us…
Sex, Lies & Where You Should Vape
Dear journalists and cannabis content generators, In previous columns, we’ve discussed how it’s irresponsible/dumb to do “stunt journalism,” like drinking entire bottles of weed lube, and reductive/boring to infuse every possible facet of modern life and cuisine with the phrase “cannabis infused,” but here we are again, critiquing some stupid, inaccurate, click-baity headlines. First, Gov.…
Clarifications
A review headlined “Microcosm of LIfe on Avenue Q” in the Oct. 26, 2017, edition of the North Coast Journal stated that Nichole Riffenburgh recently played Mary Poppins and Marticia Adams. To clarify, these productions were in Ventura, California, not Humboldt County. The Journal regrets any confusion. A column in the Oct. 26, 2017, edition…
The Luck of the Irish?
South Boston is blue-collar Irish through and through. A combination of shop work, factory work, informal childcare and bingo is how most of the community gets through life. Every so often, one escapes to a fancier neighborhood — through hard work, a lucky break or a mix of the two — to become what’s mockingly…
‘Paucity of Empathy’
Editor: All the anger that resides in the dark places of my soul dissolves into the tears of sadness that upwell from the evocations of misery and hope that spill out from the focals of electricity placed in fervent expression on the pages placed at my perusal [NCJ, Oct. 26, pages 6 (“Away from the…
An ‘Obvious’ Crisis
Editor: Regarding “Away from the Rain” (Oct. 25), there’s a fairy tale about an old woman who, while baking, is asked by a beggar for a cake. The one she’s baking is too big to give away so she starts a smaller one. But every time, the cake grows too big for her to part…
Gravity and Light
Editor: A common question relating to the LIGO story by Barry Evans (Field Notes, Oct. 26) is “how can light beams detect gravity waves when light and matter are equally stretched and shrunk by passing gravity waves?” The answer lies in the constancy of the speed of light, so that a stretched light wave has…
More Hager, Please
Editor: Thank you for printing Bob Hager’s tips for those living without a home (“A Homeless Survival Guide,” Oct. 26). I would find it valuable to hear more regularly from Mr. Hager, and not just about homelessness. We hear often from politicians, activists, professional social workers and those who have chosen journalism as a career.…
The General Concerns
Seeing The General at Arcata High School last month totally changed how I view the Civil War. The silent film about a battle between the Confederate and Union armies premiered in 1926 and stars Buster Keaton. Last month, students from Arcata and McKinleyville high schools, in the ArMack Orchestra, performed a live score to the…
Correction
An article headlined “Away from the Rain” in the Oct. 26, 2017, edition of the North Coast Journal inaccurately paraphrased Peg Anderson, who has worked with the Southern Humboldt Emergency Shelter Group on efforts to start up an emergency weather shelter for homeless people this winter. Anderson said potential shelter volunteers should be prepared to…
Three Native Artists Carry the Weight
What They Bring, What They Carry brings together artworks by Brian Tripp, Brittany Britton and Robert Benson — artists of Karuk, Hupa and Tsnungwe descent, respectively, who grew up in and around reservations in the Hoopa and Two Rivers regions. Tripp and Benson, who have exhibited regionally and nationally for decades, use process to articulate…
Arts Alive!
Presented by Eureka Main Street. Opening receptions for artists, exhibits and performances are held the first Saturday of each month. For more information, call 442-9054 or go to www.eurekamainstreet.org. A TASTE OF BIM 613 Third St. Susan Strope, artwork. ADORNI CENTER 1011 Waterfront St. Errol Hiner, mixed media; Barbara Saul, pastels; Paul Rickard, watercolors. AMERICAN…
Healing Arts: A Fundraiser for Puerto Rico
As most people know, it takes more than a few rolls of paper towels to restore electricity, food, water and health to an entire region decimated by a natural disaster. The catastrophic destruction and devastation in Puerto Rico caused by Hurricane Maria is one of the largest humanitarian crises in history. More than a month…
