Sharing their Stories
‘You Can’t Get Ahead’: Local residents lend their voices to statewide listening tour on poverty by Kimberly Wear
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Sharing their Stories
On a recent Friday night, about two dozen people sat around small tables in a room at Eureka’s Jefferson Center, talking about the realities of living on the financial brink. Each had their own story to tell, but common threads in the obstacles they face trying to not just make ends meet, but forge a…
Barbara June Crumly Kelly: 1934-2023
On Friday, June 23, 2023, Barbara June Crumly Kelly; wife, mother, friend and lifelong activist, passed quietly at her home in McKinleyville with loved ones near. Barbara was a life-long learner and defender of nature, and she departed the earth she worked so hard to protect for many of the 88 years she spent on…
Comedy Tonight: Thursday, Nov. 2
Savage Henry Comedy Club presents Double Trouble, hosted by local comedy star Evan Vest. The premise is simple: Every comedian in the audience tosses their name into a hat, two names are drawn at a time by the host, and those folks have to share a stage and improvise for a spell, for better or…
Photos: Under the Canopy
Walking “Under the Canopy” and the Redwood Skywalk in Sequoia Park on Saturday led me to a group of Maker’s Apron Creative Reuse artists creating a sidewalk art installation lasting for a very short time and made from compostable plant materials in. Their goal — educate people about the “4 R’s” of waste reduction: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Rot…
1 Killed, 1 Seriously Injured in 101 Crash
A 29-year-old man was killed Tuesday and his 23-year-old passenger was seriously injured in a rollover crash on U.S. Highway 101 just south of the Richardson’s Grove State Park entrance, according to the California Highway Patrol. A news release states driver Irving Alvarez was traveling southbound on the highway about 12:20 a.m. when for an…
Movies Tonight: Wednesday, Nov. 1
Considering the paucity of gigs today, and the fact that I have pushed a lot of movie nights lately–Jurassic Park at the Arcata Theatre Lounge at 6 p.m., $5-$9 if you’re still into the big screen–I’m going to suggest a night off for reflection, prayer, or whatever you like to help bring us towards the…
Cal Poly Police Investigating Alleged Assault of Palestine Supporter
Cal Poly Humboldt police are investigating allegations that a woman was assaulted twice Saturday near the Arcata Plaza after expressing her support of Palestine. University spokesperson Aileen Yoo said she could confirm the incident that occurred in the parking lot of the campus bookstore off the plaza was under investigation by UPD but declined to…
Music Tonight: Tuesday, Oct. 31
Here it is, the spookiest of (American) holidays on perhaps the most underwhelming day of the week. That’s OK, you can still have some fun. There are a lot of haunted events going around, so rather than do a round up, I’d rather promote a show that I hinted at last week. Outlaw country-tonk band…
Music Tonight: Monday, Oct. 30
This is the last Metal Monday of the month at Savage Henry Comedy Club, and it’s looking to be a heavy one. Texas math and grindcore band The Sound That Ends Creation fills the touring band slot, and local support comes in the form of Grug!, Satanicus Sarcophilus, and Racket, which balances nicely across the…
Music Tonight: Saturday, Oct. 28
Hey, hey, another milestone holiday, which (generally) means another installment of the ever-loving vinyl dance celebration called Soul Party. Join DJs Red, Funky T Rex, King Maxwell, and Philly Fresh for a night of spooky, groovy, soul shakers from the wax vaults of yesteryear. This one is starting at 9 p.m., a little earlier from…
Music Tonight: Sunday, Oct. 29
The Hot Buttered Rum Duo features Erik Yates and Nat Keefe, two members of the venerable San Francisco bluegrass band with the same name minus the duo part. Tonight they’ll be pickin’ and grinnin’ at the Trinidad Town Hall, where the warm wooden acoustics of the room are just about perfect for some guitar, dobro…
Stories of Poverty, Sculpture and Halloween Fun
A listening tour focusing on poverty came to Humboldt; we’ll share what folks struggling locally told them and how it bumps up against prevalent ideas about poverty. We’re also looking at the connections in Robert Benson’s sculpture show at Cal Poly Humboldt’s Goudi’ni Gallery. And we’ve got some Halloween humor to kick off the holiday.…
Actor and Teacher Donald Forrest Dies at 73
Donald Forrest, stalwart of Humboldt County theater, died on Tuesday, Oct. 24, at the age of 73, due to complications related to COVID. According to family members and partner Alison Murray, Forrest, who was vaccinated, tested positive roughly a week ago and was being treated with the drug Paxlovid. A week prior to testing positive,…
Music Tonight: Friday, Oct. 27
Body Academics is a queer multimedia collective from Portland that will be taking over the Miniplex tonight for a double-feature showing of the group’s original sci fi musical Evil Babylon. The film, which I have read involves an evangelical race car driver whose interplanetary travels help unbind him from a background of religious repression, stars…
EPD Conducting Death Investigation After Finding Human Remains in Fire
The Eureka Police Department has launched a death investigation after human remains were found a smoldering fire near a homeless encampment in the greenbelt north of the Bayshore Mall on Monday morning. According toa press release, Humboldt Bay Fire responded to a report of smoke in the area and notified EPD when the remains were…
‘I Just Signed It’
Editor: In 2022, I was approached at the Arcata Co-Op, 6-year-old son in tow, and asked to sign a petition to “help small farmers” and “keep corporate cannabis out of Humboldt” (“Growers Seek to Remove Cannabis Initiative from Ballot,” Oct. 19). Distracted, I agreed, thinking it was about supporting local small farmers, and that the…
Rocket Science
If you’ve ever watched the launch of a rocket, perhaps a Space Shuttle or one of SpaceX’s Falcon 9s, you’ll have heard the phrase “Max Q.” About a minute after launch — one minute 22 seconds, in the case of Falcon 9 — the announcer will say something like, “The spacecraft is now experiencing its…
Ghost
I watch a movie on Showtime – “Ghost” The characters unreel quietly and slowly. I’ve lost two husbands to the big “C”s – Cancer and Car Crash. I live alone now. I shop for groceries, quietly cook dinner. Take a shower, towel off, look into the mirror. I can’t find my face under the white…
Supes Talk Fire Insurance, Cannabis Tax Collection and Auctioning Off a Pistol
The Humboldt County Board of Supervisors moved forward Oct. 24 with a plan to collect a combined $16.3 million in past-due cannabis excise tax bills and permit fees. County Planning Director John Ford explained the county is owed about $14.2 million in overdue taxes and another $2.1 million in permit fees. He recommended a different…
Dressing Up
Time for a costume suggestion. We all know about David Bowie’s various personas, the most famous of which was Ziggy Stardust. There was also Aladdin Sane, the Thin White Duke and Jared the Goblin King. But for a brief moment during his fascist Orwellian masterpiece from 1974, Diamond Dogs, the world got a taste of…
What the Candy You Steal from Children on Halloween Says About You
There are three kinds of adult Halloween candy theft. There is snatching, the outright reaching into a bag/plastic Jack O’Lantern/pillowcase or sorting pile — sometimes this is done in a brazen smash and grab, sometimes surreptitiously with an offer of, “I’ll hold your cauldron.” Next there is the con, telling a child their candy will…
Full Circle Journey
“I will never lose the sense that I’m not separate,” says Robert Benson. In an Oct. 10 talk about his exhibition at Cal Poly Humboldt’s Goudi’ni Gallery, he described his intimate relationship with the environment and all its elements, explaining how his relationship to the land, his sense of un-separateness informs his art. Benson’s exhibition…
Tales from the CryptTok
Timestamp: Sept. 20, 2023 Location: Trinidad, CA Hey Grave Babies, it’s me, Shyla, your favorite tomb raider! I know it’s been a few weeks since I posted but I’ve been busy with a big surprise for you all! Remember how I told you St. Louis has some of the best archeo-foraging sites of all time?…
The Evil that White Men Do
KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON. In a recent profile for the Los Angeles Times, Marissa R. Moss refers to “the radical empathy” of Jason Isbell, the frequently mis-described artist whose albums have spent more time on the turntable in this house than any other’s in the last decade. Not coincidentally, Isbell has a small but…
False Narratives Fuel California’s Failure to Address Poverty
New Census data recently confirmed what many advocates saw coming: We squandered one of the greatest achievements in antipoverty policy this nation has ever known. In one year, we went from a record low poverty rate of 7.8 percent — and child poverty being cut nearly in half to 5.2 percent — to the largest ever…
‘I Sure Like Collin Yeo’
Editor: I am so grateful for such a splendid publication as the North Coast Journal. The writers are amazing, the in-depth investigations and continuous coverage of topics so important to our area are priceless and it is all ours! It is truly local. Almost nothing is anymore. The almost daily rag, Times-Standard is owned by a hedge fund,…
