Humboldt State University’s bilingual student paper El Leñador started out as an insert in The Lumberjack. Some 40 issues later, it’s a full-fledged, award-winning paper with rotating editors and a dedicated staff focusing on Latinx culture and issues. Students, staff, faculty and community members gathered to celebrate the paper’s fifth year in the Kate Buchanan […]
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More RCMF Photos to Jazz up Your Day
Attendees at the 28th annual Redwood Coast Music Festival were greeted on Saturday and Sunday with bright sunshine to accompany the last two days of traditional festival jazz and new events. Saturday featured the second day of Redwood Coast Blues performances and the Saturday Swing Out dance special at the Sequoia Center. Look back at […]
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Many Hats (and Roller Skates)
From government to the environment to music and the military in Humboldt, Natalie Arroyo has her foot in it or on it — figuratively and literally. One place that has special significance to her is the Eureka Waterfront Trail, the newly completed 6.3-mile contiguous trail that runs north from Herrick Avenue to Tydd Street. “Since […]
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Bread and Sugar: Pan Dulce from El Pueblo
When fire shut down El Pueblo Market on Broadway in Eureka, it left a sweet roll-sized hole in our hearts and stomachs. While we wait for the market and its wall of baked goods to reopen — soon, we hear, though there’s no firm date — we’re feeding our pan dulce cravings at its Redwood […]
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Equinox Dinner Canceled Due to Five Eleven Fire
Untie your bibs, folks. The Equinox in Old Town benefit dinner for Humboldt County Office of Education’s Nutrition Programs and Services set for Monday, March 19 is called off, at least for now. The seven-course feast prepared by a team of local chefs — from Five Eleven, Mazzotti’s, Ramone’s, Vista Del Mar, Kyoto and Le […]
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Be a Warrior: A Seventh Grade Girl of Color Reviews A Wrinkle in Time
Last Wednesday night I had an opportunity to “Tesser” into Meg Murry’s magical world when I saw Ava DuVernay’s new film A Wrinkle in Time at the Humboldt-Del Norte Film Commission’s local premiere. The film follows 13-year-old Meg Murry, her little brother Charles Wallace and friend Calvin, accompanied by the three Misses: Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. […]
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Coming Soon: New Pizza in Old Town
If you were wondering if anybody was ever going to light up the darkened windows of The Ritz, that’s a yes. Sort of. The Madrone Brick Fire Pizza and Taphouse is moving into the Opera Alley side of the 321 Third St. address, having split the kitchen and claimed its brick oven. Which also makes the Journal […]
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A Mess of Ribs
If fighting over politics isn’t intense enough for you, may I suggest ribs? Even within the guidelines of competition judging, our personal and regional aesthetics make the whole business like drawing from a deck of wild cards. Still, the pros will generally tell you that for competition ribs, the meat should cling lightly to the […]
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Eureka, Paris, Eureka: An Interview with Flautist Paula Thomas
Eureka native Paula Thomas is based out of Paris but in any given year, the flautist can be found all over Europe performing music from the classical, baroque and contemporary musical repertoire. She is in town for two performances with the Eureka Symphony at 8 p.m. on March 2 and 3 at the Arkley Center […]
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Out in the Woods with Primal Rage’s Bigfoot
If you brave tomorrow night’s North Coast premier of Primal Rage at the Eureka Theater, you might see a familiar face. No, not the shadowy figure from the Patterson-Gimlin film — Edward Olson, a Eureka High School alum and co-producer of the new Bigfoot feature, which is set for release nationwide on some 500 screens […]
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Sub Conscious
Graduations, birthdays, christenings, communions and shotgun weddings — any event worth filling the yard with folding chairs in my hometown back east meant a 6-foot-sub. Laid out on a long table would be a seemingly endless loaf of Italian bread stuffed with layers of salami, ham, pepperoni, provolone and peppers doused in oil and red […]
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All the Marbles
The Humboldt Marble Weekend attracted a large crowd of marble fans of all ages to Redwood Acres in Eureka over the weekend to watch 46 glass artists display their creative work (not just marbles) and also conduct glass-making demonstrations. See the photo slideshow below for highlights. “We started the fun Thursday night, raising $1,540 for […]