Hot Pot Spot
Among the teeming suggestions for food-related resolutions for 2025, consider committing to more communal eating. Sharing a meal from a common bowl or platter, and tipping our faces into the steam together, is a balm to our beleaguered bodies and minds. We’re going to need it. Enter Ginger (1835 Fourth St., Eureka), which has meandered…
Movie Tonight: Wednesday, Jan. 1
Welcome to the future. I don’t know what to say other than hopefully it will be less terrible, shitty and infuriating than the recent past and present. I completely understand if you find yourself immobilized by last night, or last year for that matter. But assuming you aren’t frozen in terror or hungover malaise, the…
Music Tonight: Tuesday, Dec. 31
It’s the long goodbye, coming in early in the week this year, and I’m going to make a few suggestions, not in chronological order, but rather paired by location and style. For instance, if you are interested in some DJ’ed dance parties, you can check out the big EDM blow at the Arcata Theatre Lounge…
St. Joseph Hospital Seeks Dismissal of Abortion Lawsuit, Cites Religious Freedom
Providence St. Joseph Hospital has filed a motion asking a Humboldt County Superior Court judge to dismiss the bulk of the lawsuit brought against by the California Attorney General’s Office alleging it illegally denied abortion services to a local woman, while asking that the rest of the suit be stayed pending a state investigation. The…
Music Tonight: Monday, Dec. 30
It’s New Year’s Eve-eve, and the folks at Septentrio are kicking off a two-night goodbye to 2024 with a couple of big-ol’ dance parties starting at 7 p.m. DJs Red and King Maxwell will be providing the musical mortar to fill the gaps between sets by funk masters Object Heavy and Deadheads The Magnificent Sanctuary…
Ferndale Boy Killed in Fall From Truck
A 3-year-old boy was killed Sunday morning after falling from the flatbed of a truck near Centerville Road, according to the California Highway Patrol. Another 5-year-old child who was also riding unrestrained was not injured. According to a CHP press release, a 56-year-old man was driving with the children, all Ferndale residents, around 8:45 a.m.…
Leishman, Former Journal General Manager, Dies
Chuck Leishman, the former general manager and publisher of the North Coast Journal, died Thursday. He was 72. Leishman spent more than 40 years in the newspaper business, almost all of it working for alternative weeklies, doing everything from writing and selling ads to serving as owner-publisher. It was a job offer from the Journal…
Movies Today: Sunday, Dec. 29
Let’s break from the musical build-up to the year-killer and enjoy a day at the movies. The Eureka Theater is showing a 2 p.m. matinee of An American Tail, the beloved 1986 film animated by Don Bluth and co. about the coming to America story of young Fievel Mousekewitz, whose family is escaping a Cossack…
Music Tonight: Saturday, Dec. 28
Here are two very different shows happening at roughly the same time, 9 p.m.-ish, and for more or less the same price. The Basement is featuring guitarist Greg Douglass, possibly most famous for his time with the Steve Miller Band, during which he co-wrote the hit Jungle Love. He’ll be sitting in with Grateful Dead-ites…
Music Tonight: Friday, Dec. 27
Lots of gigs going down tonight, but I’d like to give a shout out to two, something old, and something new. In the first camp is Holus Bolus, a one-man guitar looping sound-meister who I’ve been writing about and advocating for since my first days on this beat. He’s playing a free gig at the…
Deliberations
CONCLAVE. Having heretofore missed (or avoided) the latest from Edward Berger, a German director I had never heard of until his remake of All Quiet on the Western Front (2022) garnered massive critical and awards recognition, one might be inclined to pass over it all together. But then, in the spirit of the season, local…
Top 10 Dick Moves of 2024
The size-obsessed are still squawking about who’s growing the biggest colorful conifer (spoiler: Mendocino County now has the tallest lighted living Christmas tree, see page 28) but here at the Journal, we focus on quality. Humboldt’s forest of dick moves continues to flourish, making it all the more challenging to choose the pettiest, most self-serving,…
Group Brings Class Action Suit Against Huffman
A group of Humboldt County residents have joined a class-action federal lawsuit filed against North Coast Congressmember Jared Huffman and Fourth District Rep. Mike Thompson alleging the two men voted to use the residents’ tax dollars to fund a genocide of Palestinian people in the ongoing Hamas-Israel war, violating international and U.S. laws. The suit,…
The End
For reasons of space and decorum, I’m going to (mostly) hold my tongue about 2024, other than to say, man, what an evil nightmare. Here’s hoping the next one eases up a lot. And if it doesn’t, I’m coming swinging for the kid in the top hat and the “2025” sash. See ya next year.…
The Top 10 Stories of 2024
What a year. In our sliver of the North Coast, 2024 brought triumph and tragedy, drama and departures, and a host of stories that will reverberate in our communities, hearts and memories for years to come. In no particular order, here’s our list of the most important and impactful stories of the year, and this…
What’s Good: Warming up and Heading Home
Rooftop’s Ramen Warm-up All summer, which includes October here, tables at Rooftop (148 E St., Eureka) were packed with those starved for vitamin D and hungry for sushi. But during the damp cold of winter, the indoor tables and counter (at last, comfy bar chairs) offer a view out of the chill and hot, hot…
Redwood Sky Walk at Night
An extraordinary journey awaits you at Humboldt County’s Redwood Skywalk. Nestled amidst Humboldt’s many breathtaking natural wonders, lies a human-made marvel that promises a remarkable journey into one of Nature’s most awe-inspiring creations: the Californian coast redwood forest. The Redwood Sky Walk at Sequoia Park Zoo presents an almost quarter-mile tour of the forest, soaring…
‘It’s Pretty Fascist’
Editor: I am not sure whether Bill Hassler was writing tongue-in-cheek, or whether he just hadn’t thought his argument through (Mailbox, Dec. 19). I believe, though he doesn’t explicitly state it, he was referring to the recent election results when he said, “Most people are just too dumb to know what’s in their best interest, let alone…
‘Get a Life’
Editor: I had composed this letter for last week’s NCJ but decided it was pointless to send it as everyone would be settled down by now. I was wrong (Mailbox, Dec. 19). Guys, guys. It’s over! Your guy lost. Get a life. I know we’re all going to hell in a handbasket and that we…
7.0 at the Vance Hotel
You felt it more than heard it that first bone-deep jolt before alarms began to sound and Mother Nature’s band really began to play. But the grand old dame the Hotel Vance was quick to catch the tune. Her giant sashes set to tapping her long brass chandeliers began to sway. And just when I…
