‘Unapologetically’
Two months after the city council eschewed an anti-hate resolution, Pride comes to Ferndale By Thadeus Greenson
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‘Unapologetically’
It was at a meeting in mid-April when things came to a head in Ferndale. For months, some residents had been pushing the Ferndale City Council to pass an anti-hate resolution, a statement of community values declaring that everyone is welcome in the Cream City, regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity, race, religion or ethnicity,…
Summer Arts and Music Festival this Weekend
The Mateel Community Center is bringing the party back this weekend with its 46th annual Summer Arts and Music Festival, happening Saturday, June 24, and Sunday, June 25, at its new location County Line Ranch. The two-day celebration along the South Fork of the beautiful Eel River features huge musical acts like Ozomatli, Mike Love…
HAPI “Exploring Roots” Festival Opens Friday
Humboldt, clear your calendars for an exceptional new festival happening this weekend. Humboldt Asians & Pacific Islanders in Solidarity (HAPI) presents the Exploring Our Roots Arts Festival, Friday, June 23 from 6 to 9 p.m. and Saturday, June 24, from 10 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. at Arcata Playhouse ($10-$15 per event or $45 for festival).…
Music Tonight: Thursday, June 22
Another night, another metal show at RampArt skatepark. No Living Witness is a technical death metal band from Tumwater, Washington, on tour with fellow distortion peddlers Blighted Eye. Tonight, they share the stage with locals Racket and Echoes of Rumination. Doors are at 7 p.m. and $10 will get you through those doors.
Helmut Gottfried Remiorz: 1948-2022
Helmut Gottfried Remiorz died on his own terms fighting ALS June 13, 2022, 7:57 p.m., surrounded by his close circle of friends and family. Born December 30, 1948 in Miltonburg, Germany. After joining the peace corps in Peru for two years, Helmut decided to come to California in 1974 in search of a successful life.…
Redwood Acres Fair is Here!
Rejoice! The corndog days of summer are here. Nothing says summer like the smell of deep- fried fair food and the sound of happy shrieks from rides high up in the sky. Redwood Acres Fair “Summer Starts Here” is on now, June 21 through June 25 at Redwood Acres Fairgrounds (entry fee $15, $10 kids/seniors,…
Movies Tonight: Wednesday, June 21
Assuming the weather cooperates and you can enjoy some sunshine on either end of the workday, that’s my real pick for the longest day of the year. However, evening is another matter and I’m going with another movie night, specifically Sci-Fi Night at the Arcata Theatre Lounge. Merging some of my favorite artists into one…
Four Things California Can Do as Home Insurers Retreat
After State Farm declared in late May that it wouldn’t sell any new home insurance policies in California, people shopping around for new insurance had one fewer option. When days later it was revealed that Allstate had quietly made the same decision last year, Californians are now left wondering: How bad is this? And how…
Music Tonight: Tuesday, June 20
The violence and upheaval of human history, particularly that of its empires and colonies, has created — among other things — a paradox of suffering and beauty the moral scales of which no mortal can hope to balance. What art comes from the brutality of conquest is part of the longform passion play of human…
Tango Concert at the Playhouse
Follow the sound of piano keys and Spanish squeezebox to the Arcata Playhouse on Tuesday, June 20, at 7 p.m., when Tango with Winnie and Hugo takes the stage ($15). Globe-trotting pianist Winnie Cheung and Grammy-nominated bandoneon player Hugo Satorre present the milonga style of Argentinian tango music. Get your tickets, get your seats and…
Music Today: Sunday. June 18
Fernstock, Fernstock, Fernstock! Fernstock 2023 is coming to the Humboldt County Fairgrounds today. Starting at noon, there will be two stages with 15 bands competing for $5,000 and a chance to play at the Humboldt County Fair. In addition to the music, there will be oodles of food and local vendors, tasty local beverages, family…
Fifteen Bands Set to Rock HC Fairgrounds
Fifteen bands enter, one band emerges as champion of Fernstock 2023 – A Battle of the Bands. OK, that was dramatic. But so is a hoard of local rockers, funksters, folksters, metalheads and punks duking it out on three stages at the Humboldt County Fairgrounds on Sunday, June 18, from noon to 7 p.m. ($20-$50,…
Music Tonight: Saturday, June 17
The Freeks are a phuzzy as phuck Los Angeles psych band featuring members of Fu Manchu, Claw Hammer and Backbiter. They are known for playing it loud, hard and weird. Eureka is lucky enough to host that glorious noise tonight, specifically the Shanty, where the fellas will be joined by Sky Screamer and Mystery Meat.…
Ferndale’s Pride Fight
It’s Pride month and we’re looking at the upcoming parade and events in Ferndale. The protest march and gathering has grown along with vocal homophobic voices in and outside the community, some of which were especially loud as the Ferndale City Council weighed an anti-hate and inclusion resolution. We’ve also got a related satirical piece…
Jessica McGuinty: 1976-2023
It is with an extremely heavy heart that we must announce the passing of Jessicurl original product creator and founder Jessica McGuinty. She was 47. On the evening of June 10, with her loving husband, her father, her amazing doctor and dedicated hospice team by her side, Jessica succumbed to her disease peacefully at her…
Juneteenth Celebration this Saturday
On Saturday, June 17, from 1 to 10 p.m., celebrate Juneteenth — the anniversary of the announcement of the end of slavery in the U.S. in 1865 — at Halvorson Park (free). Black Humboldt is bringing together Black and brown food vendors and businesses to peruse, musicians and performers to enjoy, and a kids’ zone…
Celebrate Pride in SoHum on Saturday
The Pride party gets rolling in Redway at Southern Humboldt Pride on Saturday, June 17, from 1 to 8 p.m. at KMUD Studio (free). Everyone is welcome to this all-ages event stacked with live music, poetry, art, panels, vendors, dancers and drag. The Lost Frenchman and El Cora will be cooking and there’ll be frosty…
‘A Poor Type of Sovereignty’
Editor: Good job on “To Celebrate Our Sovereignty” about Ray Matz and the Yurok Tribe, which was published June 8. However, there is one statement in the article which I believe is not true. Here’s that statement: “The ruling paved the way for so much of what has followed, from other rulings upholding the tribe’s fishing rights…
First tastes of Humboldt
Were the endless reigns Of chainsaws lumbering, While bobbing along Crystal clear waters In the Trinity River, Away from home. I was warned of The pending rains And endless clouds, But could only smell Essence of conifers In the healing waters. The tastes of freedom Dwarfed my senses Need for pleasure, Where beauty determined What…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Aries-born Vincent van Gogh’s painting Potato Eaters shows five people in a dark room barely illuminated by lamplight. Seated around a small table, they use their hands to eat food they have grown themselves. Vincent wanted to convey the idea that they “dug the earth with the very hands they put…
‘Not Invited to the Table’
Cal Poly Humboldt will soon begin implementing recommendations from a Title IX audit in an effort to improve campus investigations into sexual assault and discrimination cases. A group of 10 students, faculty and staff are tasked with informing how recommendations should be fulfilled in their respective areas of campus. But on this team, students and…
Songs for Summer
As a music-obsessed teen in the late-1990s, I often found myself at odds with prevailing sensibilities, an alienating experience that has actually helped me over the years. How? Well, to paraphrase my cousin Jet, the secret of eternal relevance is a withering distrust of most current popular culture. So while some of my peers were…
A Second Amateur Win at Oyster Fest
It was like old times on the plaza during the June 10 Arcata Bay Oyster Festival: friends hugging and balancing topped up beers, lines for the food vendors lining the sidewalks and bands playing the main stage for an audience of dancers and picnickers in the grass. The official head count isn’t in yet but,…
The Ghost Forest’s Haunting Histories
Likely to become a classic, Greg King’s first solo book The Ghost Forest is aptly titled — a must-read that deftly chronicles how 96 percent of California’s old growth redwood forests fell to the saw. The award-winning journalist begins his complex, multi-generational narrative with his own entry into environmental activism. In 1986, while researching logging…
Zoo Animal Council Meeting Minutes
On April 22, the Ferndale City Council voted against a proposed kindness resolution, the scaled back version of an earlier anti-hate resolution. Giraffe: The next item is the proposed Anti-Shit-Throwing Resolution. This is unrelated to the incident by the ice cream cart and not intended to assign blame. Its authors, some of whom reside within…
Gusty Conditions Slow Halibut and Rockfish Bite
Gale-force north winds in June are historically common along the North Coast. And this year is certainly no exception. Following four fishable days last week, the north winds have returned in force and look to stick around through the weekend. The good news is when the boats can slip out during these short windows, they…
Flamin’ Hot‘s Stale Corporate Propaganda
FLAMIN’ HOT touts itself as a heartwarming tale of grit and pride, and a corrective to the injustices Latinos face in the U.S. (and Hollywood in particular), but it’s a discouraging paean to a mythical American dream. The strength of its cast, its cultural celebrations, and its hollow promise of an examination of race in…
Forest Bathing in the Redwoods
One of the reasons I treasure spending time in the redwoods is that “in the forest I do not feel small,” as I wrote last year in the title of a poem. Rather, I am encouraged to take up space, expand my reach. As I hike on the trail, I explore trees’ territory and also…
Nigilax̂ Gratitude
Editor: The recent story about the Unangax̂ nigilax̂ that was built here on Wiyot ancestral lands and launched on the Sonoma County shores of the Kashaya Pomo people leaves me filled with gratitude (“Launching Nigilax̂,” June 8), first, for writer Ruby Cayenne for covering the significance so well, and for the North Coast Journal for…
Coincidence?
Editor: In last week’s edition, on page 32: “When someone starts a sentence with, ‘I’m a lifelong liberal but …'” (caption accompanying the movie review). On page 5: “As a lifelong liberal … But … ” (mailbox). It just … happened that way, right? Keep it up, gang! Barry Evans, Eureka Related Stories
