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Youth Movement
In the shade of a sturdy carport sandwiched between Orleans’ only gas station and the local community center, eight volunteers clad in yellow T-shirts churn out a steady stream of veggie burgers, chipotle burgers and hamburgers ordinaire. The Wednesday afternoon burger stand run by the Orleans Volunteer Fire Department (OVFD) has become a fixture in…
Boardroom Decisions
Somewhere in Los Angeles, a restaurant owner is poring over reclaimed barn wood samples and polishing the hell out of a concrete floor to achieve a rustic farm vibe to go with his or her artisanal meats. Godspeed. No such staging required at The Boardroom (3750 Harris St., Eureka), though the redwood slab counters don’t…
Got Any Ghost Stories?
It’s October and we just saw a leaf blow across the street, so we are officially ready to scare the pumpkin spice out of ourselves with some spooky stories. If you’ve got a chilling local anecdote to share — like that time your uncle saw a ghost at Jacoby’s Storehouse or when your selfie at…
Humboldt Deputy on Vegas Shooting: ‘Everyone Was Helping’
A local couple, Humboldt County Sheriff’s Deputy Dustin Del Biaggio and Ferndale Police Officer Tierra Shumard, were standing in front of the stage on the last day of the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas when the shooting started. They saw people around them fall to the ground, but were able escaped unharmed and…
Music Tonight: Wednesday, Oct. 4
The Old Steeple in Ferndale welcomes back Tom Rush to its 115-year-old venue. Tom has been in the folk world since the ’60s and has influenced countless musicians over the decades. Of Rush, James Taylor said, “Tom was not only one of my early heroes, but also one of my main influences.” Garth Brooks, Jackson…
Alien Noise in Outer Space
The Outer Space is something of a unique venue for Arcata. The only DIY, all-ages, sober/safe space in town, it sits in a building in the southwest section of the Nilsen Feed lot, on the corner of 11th and M streets. Drugs and alcohol are strictly forbidden, and children run through the floor plan past…
Music Tonight: Tuesday, Oct. 3
One of the Marley clan is coming back to Humboldt and making a wise a stop in SoHum at the Mateel Community Center. At 8 p.m. you’ll find Kabaka Pyramid and the Bebble Rockers opening the show for Damian Jr. Gong Marley, who just released Stony Hill back in July and is on the road…
Music Tonight: Sunday, Oct. 1
Outer Space in Arcata features Ice Balloons, with Kyp Malone of TV on the Radio, tonight at 7 p.m. for a great all ages show. Sun Foot, billed as a “Portland Los Angeles 3 piece contemporary art rock band,” will bend your mind. I have no idea where they are from but maybe that’s part…
No Apparent Link in Cases of Homeless Men Awaking to Flames
The recent incidents set exactly one week apart in Arcata and Eureka appeared remarkably similar at first: Homeless men sleeping on the steps of a building waking up to flames. One was severely injured while the other managed to get out of his sleeping bag before getting burned. Police department officials in the two cities…
Music Tonight: Saturday, Sept. 30
It’s the 13th annual Humboldt Hills Hoedown at the Mateel Community Center in Redway starting at noon. I was recently chatting with a friend about how money’s getting tighter here in Humboldt as our largest industry transitions into the legitimate marketplace. With prices of Humboldt’s world famous crop dropping weekly, the amount of money in…
Spooky Movies at the Humboldt County Library
Some of us have been counting down to Halloween since November. Well, October is upon us, so grab a bag of miniature candy and start the film fest. Not quite up to killer clowns or chainsaws? The Humboldt County Library is lighting up the dark with classic supernatural-themed films that will get you in the…
Few Answers in Death of 21-Year Old Omaha Resident
Neither the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office nor the Garberville office of the California Highway Patrol has been willing to disclose details about the death of Drake Gammell, the 21 year old who was taken off life support Wednesday after being found with “major injuries” Sept. 24. Gammell, who is from Omaha, Nebraska, was reported as…
Green Parties — Benefits for Sanctuary Forest and Friends of the Dunes
Your weekend could be a little wilder. For example, you could party hop between a couple of events benefiting wildlife habitat conservation, you conscientious party animal. First up, Sanctuary Forest, a land and water trust that works to conserve and promote the well-being of the Mattole River watershed, celebrates 30 years of conservation at its…
Perigot Park Carnival
Take the kids to Blue Lake on Saturday, Sept. 30 from noon to 6 p.m. for Blue Lake Roller Rink’s Perigot Park Carnival — a fundraiser for new skates for the rink — with a bouncy house, petting zoo, live music, food, face painting and games ($5, free for kids 3 and under). After, the…
Music Tonight: Friday, Sept. 29
Local keyboard jammer Tomek has been helping to organize the Friday Night Live concert series in Old Town Eureka on the last Friday of each month. There are three more concerts coming up before they take a break during the cold winter months. Tonight you’ll find Lyndsey Battle, from what Tomek tells me, though it’s…
A Taste of Orthodoxy Ethnic Food and Dance Festival
Pace yourself — there’s more scrumptious traditional food and fun this weekend with A Taste of Orthodoxy Ethnic Food and Dance Festival on Saturday, Sept. 30 from noon to 4 p.m. at St. Innocent Orthodox Church (free admission). Enjoy the flavors of Greek and Central European food: gyros, tiramisu, wiener schnitzel and more. Plus live…
Oktoberfest!
Accordion to the calendar and crispness of the air, it’s fall. That means the folks at Fortuna Senior Services are rolling out beer barrels of fun for their annual Oktoberfest celebration Saturday, Sept. 30 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Rohner Park (free admission, $20 dinner, $5 beer). Learn to polka to oompah music…
Music Tonight: Thursday, Sept. 28
Local musical man of mystery Chris Parreira tipped me off to an interesting show this evening in a rare venue — at M. Walker Guitars at 550 South G St., Unit #9 — with Anna Tivel. She’s a touring singer/songwriter and has recently been a winner at the Telluride Troubadour Contest and the Kerrville New…
‘Beware’
Editor: The recent article by Peter Childs (“Overlooked,” Sept. 14) does an excellent job of outlining issues surrounding the cannabis industry in the Emerald Triangle and Northern California. People have moved here with hopes of becoming millionaires, measuring quality of life in dollars and cents. Many of them are what I term “trustfunders,” often having…
Clarification
The story “Enabling or a Lifeline” in the Sept. 21, 2017, edition of the North Coast Journal should have specified that the Drug Policy Alliance, Harm Reduction Coalition and California Department of Public Health seminar scheduled for Nov. 6 is about the general topic of harm reduction. Related Stories
Return on Investment
Twenty-nine states have now legalized marijuana in some form, including seven that have passed laws legalizing recreational adult use, and a host of recent polls show that about 60 percent of Americans favor just legalizing the plant and moving on. All that said, you’d be forgiven for doing a double take when looking at the…
Less In, Less Out
Thursday Local musical man of mystery Chris Parreira tipped me off to an interesting show this evening in a rare venue — at M. Walker Guitars at 550 South G St., Unit #9 — with Anna Tivel. She’s a touring singer/songwriter and has recently been a winner at the Telluride Troubadour Contest and the Kerrville…
Humboldt on Tap
In a far corner of Redwood Curtain Brewing Co., four women face four canvases. In front of them are dollops of paint on paper-plate palettes. Beside them are Redwood Curtain sour beers. This is Happy Trees Sip and Paint, a two-hour painting class enlivened with good beer. It is run by Emily Michaels, who provides…
HumBug: Orange is the New Butterfly
The local butterfly population is showing its fall colors and orange is the order of the day. Woodland skippers (Ochlodes sylvanoides), Mylitta crescent (Phyciodes mylitta) and California tortoise shells (Nymphalis californica) are all on display. The tortoise shells are particularly interesting. I’ve been seeing them for a week or so now, and they are always…
A SoHum Horror Story
OK, first off, so you won’t be thinking about it for the rest of this review: “Nepenthe, Wikipedia tells us, is “a fictional medicine for sorrow — a ‘drug of forgetfulness’ mentioned in ancient Greek literature and Greek mythology.” The best-known usage is in Poe’s “The Raven”: “Quaff, oh quaff this kind Nepenthe and forget…
Jackhammer Magnet
“It’s something about my life,” she began — but just outside the bookstore window, bedlam reigned. I cupped a hand behind an ear. “Selling books was all,” she said; I caught that much, then the jackhammers resumed. Maybe they were re-setting the sewers. “… and to sleep,” she said, during a lull. “The street is…
‘Things Can Fall Apart’
A visiting Humboldt County Superior Court judge ruled Sept. 22 that a case challenging the hiring of controversial Public Defender David Marcus can continue, finding sufficient facts have been alleged to hold a hearing to determine whether he meets minimum state qualifications for the post. The county of Humboldt had asked Judge Marjorie Carter to…
Fall Wasps
Autumn is Here Late in the year, sources of nectar are scarce and those species that depend on it concentrate around the dwindling resource. Wild anise, a few thistles and other small flowers support that insect population and therefore increase a photographer’s opportunities to see species often dispersed over a much larger area, so a…
Dressed to Kill
Reviews KINGSMAN: THE GOLDEN CIRCLE. Matthew Vaughn first came to prominence, at least in my narrow little world, producing Guy Ritchie’s Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) and Snatch (2000). Having gone down the rabbit hole of British crime cinema at the time, and being a sucker for quick, slangy dialogue, clever editing and…
Why?
Editor: The story about the exploding hash lab tragedy in Rio Dell did a great job in conveying the risks and horrors that accompany such an undertaking (“Rio Dell’s Hash Lab Murder Case,” Sept. 21). What was not so great was the inclusion of the illustrated “how-to-do” an extraction that accompanied the article. Despite the “do not try this…
An Image of Despair
Editor: Eric Mueller’s cover photo holds a despair that has surrounded this issue from the beginning (“Drunk in Public,” Sept. 14). Kudos to all those folks trying to alleviate the problem. This picture is a truly depressing sight, unless you are a public drunk and look at that bottle and realize that that bottle is…
Nothing Personal
Editor: I would like to apologize to Locally Delicious and anyone else I might have offended with the article “Grow Local, Grow Natives” of mine that ran in the Sept. 21 Journal. I do not want to point fingers or divide the community any further, I would rather we work together to solve the issues…
‘Greed and Ego’
Editor: To understand why county government has failed to effectively regulate land and water use, ask their supporters who partnered with developer’s special interest group, “Humboldt Coalition for Property rights.” Together, they won political support for deregulation of restrictions, fines and fees that apply to thousands of formerly illegal structures, described as, “a boon for…
