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Steelhead Days
The life of a steelhead fisherman isn’t recommended. Nor is the life of someone dating a steelhead fisherman, for that matter, as a steelhead fishermen’s life is one filled with equal parts obsession and frustration. Ask any steelheader, and he or she will talk of the need for a thousand casts before even getting a…
Milk Run in the Sun
There wasn’t much in the way of fog in Ferndale when runners of all ages pounded the Victorian Village’s pavement during the Foggy Bottom Milk Run on Sunday. In fact, the 4-mile, 10-mile and 2-mile loops began and ended under blue sky on Main Street, which was lined on both sides with clusters of cheering…
Music Tonight – Wednesday, March 15
Admitting that he’s constantly getting excited about the shows he’s got at the Arcata Playhouse, David Ferney tells me that he’s really glad to have Quebec Ensemble Le Vent du Nord — blowin’ down from the North — who have racked up a pair of Juno Awards, two Canadian Folk Music Awards and numerous other…
Puppy Plucked From Humboldt Bay to be Adopted by Rescuer
One of the fishermen who rescued a puppy thrown off of the Samoa Bridge is set to adopt her. The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office is currently looking for the man who dropped the young dog off the bridge’s middle span around 9:30 a.m. on Monday. The suspect is described as a white male, late teens to…
Sheriff Downey: ‘It Has Been An Honor to Serve’
Humboldt County Sheriff Mike Downey thanked the men and women under his command during a departmental review on Monday as he counts down to his last weeks in office and the end of a three-decade-long career in law enforcement. “It has been an honor to serve the people of Humboldt County. It has been an…
Sunday Crash on 101 Leaves 1 Dead, 1 Injured
An Oregon man was killed and his passenger suffered major injuries when the car they were in veered out of control before hitting the guardrail south of Tompkins Hill Road just after noon Sunday in a crash the CHP described as DUI related. According to witnesses, the driver — 45-year-old Johnnie David Evenson of Roseburg,…
HumBug: Falling Blossoms
It’s been a long rainy spell and my plum trees have been waiting in full bloom for a warm day. I kept expecting them to lose their petals but despite sometimes heavy rains and occasional hail, they kept them. I think they’re like orchids. The flowers of most orchids can hold for weeks or even…
United Changes Schedule, Drops a Flight
United Airlines is dropping one of its daily flights between Arcata-Eureka and San Francisco but is switching to a larger plane for the route and will still be able to accommodate the same number of daily passengers. Jonathon Guerin, a senior manager for United Airlines, said the reason for reducing the number of flights is…
Music Tonight – Sunday, March 12
Head down to The Jam on Sunday for a bass heavy show around 9:30 p.m. A trio of bands brings the bass tonight with Shades along with North Londoners Ivy Lab and Onhell. This has a 9:30 p.m. start time and I’m guessing a ticket price in the range of $5-10.
Movers and Shakers
Dance is a living, moving expression of culture, a way for artists to try on different identities, perform rituals, convey emotion and tell the important stories of their lives. It’s cathartic for both the dancer and the audience, and an engaging way to learn about different peoples and traditions. Bale Folclorico Da Bahia, one of…
The Humboldt County Grand Jury Wants You (to Serve)
The Humboldt Chapter of the California Grand Jury Association is currently seeking applicants for the next year of service. The county Grand Jury does lengthy investigations of different issues related to local government. Reports on these investigations, which usually come out in May or June, are archived on the county’s website under dry titles like…
Music Tonight – Saturday, March 11
The artists formerly known as The Honky Tonk Detours are at the Mad River Brewery Tap Room at 6 p.m. and for free. Feel free to call them The Detours — one of the original names of The Who, for what it’s worth — and welcome somewhat new member Marc Jeffares. Doctor of musical arts,…
Meet the Folkers
If you dig rock ‘n’ roll music, had a hammer, or ever wondered where have all the flowers gone, you’re probably a fan of the two fellows set to grace the stage this weekend at the Van Duzer Theatre. Peter Yarrow & Noel Paul Stookey, purveyors of protest songs and two-thirds of the iconic folk-music…
Griego Files Suit Challenging Public Defender Hire
Local attorney Patrik Griego followed through this morning on his threat to file a petition with the Humboldt County Superior Court asking a judge to step in and block the county’s recent hire of David Marcus as its next public defender. The petition for a writ of mandate, filed as a public interest lawsuit, alleges…
Music Tonight – Friday, March 10
Organic and local, Home Cookin’ is on the menu tonight at Mad River Brewery’s Tap Room at 6 p.m. with Joyce, Fred, Tim and Gary. They’ve got a built-in crowd, so join ’em all tonight. In Arcata, Cafe Mokka welcomes back The Last-Minute Men who bring the “international” tunes to your ears at 8 p.m.…
Annika Bäckström
Soprano and Humboldt State University professor Annika Bäckström performs Saturday, Mar. 11 at 7:30 p.m. at the Fortuna Monday Club ($10, $8 students and seniors). The performance, entitled Songs of the Winds of the North, includes Scandinavian songs and accompaniment by pianist Shaunna Eberhard. Doors open at 6:45 p.m.
Foggy Bottom Milk Run
In Humboldt, you can run through the redwoods or in the salty air of Trinidad. This week tour the green pastureland of Ferndale during the Foggy Bottom Milk Run on Sunday, March 12 ($10-$40). The 2-mile run starts on Main Street at noon and the 4-mile and 10-mile start at 2 p.m. Same-day registration is…
Fatal Hit and Run in Downtown Eureka
Shirley Hoyt, 56, was crossing U.S. 101 at Fourth and S streets at 11:14 a.m. when she was struck by a Toyota pickup driven by Blue Lake resident Larry Nielsen, also 56. According to a press release from the California Highway Patrol, all other vehicles were stopped at the crosswalk to let Hoyt cross. Nielsen,…
The Political Climate With Jill Stein at HSU
Jill Stein stepped on stage as a welcoming crowd of more than 300 community members clapped and cheered. She raised a peace sign in the air, which brought people in the Humboldt State University lecture hall to their feet. Stein, the Green Party presidential nominee, came to campus to discuss a wide array of political…
Music Tonight – Thursday, March 9
“One-man-psychedelic-acoustiloop” powerhouse Holus Bolus returns to the Mad River Brewery Tap Room at 6 p.m. to lay down his loopy grooves to support your loopy moves. It’s a free show and kiddos are welcome. Making its California debut tonight at Six Rivers Brewery is Cascade Crescendo, playing in the jam-grass vein. As it’s Thursday night,…
Hello and Goodbye
For the first time in nearly 15 years, the Humboldt County Office of Education will soon be under new leadership. With Garry Eagles set to retire later this month after serving as the superintendent of schools since 2003, the Humboldt County Board of Education has tapped Northern Humboldt Union School District Superintendent Chris Hartley as…
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
Swing by the Eureka Theater on Friday, March 10 at 7:30 p.m. to catch secret agent man Mike Myers as Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery ($5). Put on your frilliest shirt and hip huggers as there’s a best costume contest (yeah, baby) and cocktails in the lobby to help you get your groove on.…
The Power of Faux News
Political intrigue is timeless fodder for dramatists and with an overtly political play like Julius Caesar, it’s tempting to start correlating key characters with members of the current administration. Is Trump Caesar or Brutus? Is Bannon Cassius or Antony? And what of the upstart Octavius? In Shakespeare’s day, he was likely the character attracting the…
Think Outside the Garden Box
Whether we realize it or not, all of us are designers. And all design is ecological design in that it either hurts or helps nature, regardless of the intent. As gardeners, whether forging paths, building beds or pruning trees, we are always designing. Every choice we make affects the whole and when we become conscious…
Shoo, Fly
Willows on the River It was sunny when I went to get my hiking boots but by the time I got dressed and out the door, it was 49 degrees and drizzling. I went anyway. The path down to the river was dark, the only sounds were the gentle pok, pok of water dripping from…
Name Calling
Editor: Through media, we the people learned not to use the N-word, etc., etc., etc. So too, through media, we the people will learn not to use the H-word (“Low Life and High Times,” March 2). There are those who live inside and those who live outside, insiders and outsiders. Easy: no name calling, just…
Less Force
Editor: I read Thadeus Greenson’s article “Under the Color of Authority” which appeared in the Feb. 16 issue of the Journal with more than casual interest. Police brutality is a problem that has troubled me for a long time. The thing that concerns me most is the rule that police are allowed to use deadly…
Are You Fish or Fowl?
Editor: Are you fish or fowl? We elect a guy to be the most powerful man in the world, maybe in history — an obese, outright racist belligerent demagogue, without vetting his finances, politics or past, a guy who denies global warming, does not pay his taxes, has no political experience, never served his country…
The Media Twist
Editor: I want to give a clear example of the Media Twist — a dance sensation that is sweeping the nation. I am going to use Thadeus Greenson’s article, “That Dam Breitbart Story” (March 2), and stick with facts by directly comparing one of Greenson’s statements where he accuses Breitbart News of being inaccurate with…
The Substitute
One of the many things in life that make me feel overwhelming guilt is the fact that I don’t make it out to many shows these days. (I won’t spend the time here blaming our children for robbing me of almost every free moment of life and making my body shut down at 8:30 p.m.…
Call to Action
Editor: In Marcy Burstiner’s Feb. 23 column (“Press Time”) she wrote of current suppression and discrimination by the Trump administration, and also to frame an example about the role and value of journalism in countering authoritarianism: “Our government now looks ready to round up mass numbers of people for deportation based on ethnicity and religion.…
Who Pays the Cost?
Editor: When I was 15 years old, I got a job as a custodian at the high school I was attending. I worked with Hispanics, Italians and Portuguese, all immigrants. All came to this country to be American citizens. They came through the front door and worked hard to meet all the requirements to be…
Poulet Yassa
I was not an unusual child in my dreams of traveling to distant places. Geography was one of my favorite subjects in school and the globe a companion to my imagination. When we studied a foreign country, we learned about its mountains and rivers, important cities, industries and agricultural products, but not its traditional foods.…
Lilies For Rick Park
Eve wept as up the Smith she strolled, But from each tear, a lily rose! The King’s touch turned his child to gold. Eden, perfect, we were told, But earthly lilies stand in rows… Eve wept as up the Smith she strolled. Dichloropropene fouls the cold Sea fog, that toward the school house blows! The…
The Need for Sanctuary
Sanctuary city ordinances will be considered soon by the Arcata (April 5 agenda) and Eureka city councils and efforts are also under way to make Humboldt County a sanctuary county. With the current executive orders limiting immigration and targeting undocumented immigrants with deportation, it is important that we take action to protect those among us…
Quick Withdraw
Attendees at this year’s High Times Cannabis Cup in Las Vegas, Nevada, were dealt a double blow of disappointment last weekend when organizers announced at the last minute there would be no marijuana allowed at the event, then canceled the second day due to high winds. The change came after U.S. Attorney Daniel Bogden sent…
Tapping into Wire
Elizabeth Berrien makes sculpture from tensile wire, crimping, twisting and winding silvery filaments around a central void. Her gossamer sculptures take the forms of living things — mostly animals and birds but also, increasingly, abstract natural forces. Berrien’s wire constructions may repeat the shapes of waves or diatoms. Scale can shift: Whales and stags share…
Battle Scars
Reviews LOGAN. I’ll keep the preamble brief because, if memory serves, I wind up saying essentially the same thing every time a new Marvel movie comes out. As time wears on, and the scale of the Marvel cinematic universe (as well as that of the movies within it) grows ever more (forgive me) cartoonish, I…
Arts! Arcata
Arts! Arcata is Arcata Main Street’s monthly celebration of visual and performing arts, held at locations in Arcata. Visit www.facebook.com/artsarcata for more information or call 822-4500. ANGELICA ATELIER 11th and H St., in the Pythian Castle. “Featured Wedding Showcase,” Jessie Bell, photography. Wine pour benefits Coastal Grove Charter School. ARCATA ARTISANS 883 H St. “Year…
