The fourth annual — and what looks like the final — Enchanting Fairy Festival attracted another “Frolick of Fairies” in wild and magical costumes to the Arcata Plaza on Sunday. “The Fairy Festival has been a labor of love created by our tiny team with limited capacity,” said organizer Shoshanna about why she is stepping […]
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Photos: Pride in Eureka
The seventh annual Redwood Pride Summer Festival got underway Saturday morning under foggy skies with the rainbow-themed Pride Parade marching through Old Town Eureka. Redwood Pride organizer Laine Cohen led the Progress Pride flag-waving crowd of around 150 as they marched from the Adorni Center to C St. between First and Second Street Most marchers next […]
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Glorified!
The gears ground, the flames shot and teams of Kinetic Grand Championship racers tumbled down the dunes of Dead Man’s Drop and into Humboldt Bay for the water crossing. When the clever contraptions finally passed the finish line on Ferndale’s Main Street after their 50-mile journeys, there were winners and ACE-ers, but all were Glorious. […]
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Lions and Dragons in Old Town
Arts Alive! on Saturday in Eureka had the usual art and music lineup, but Old Town also featured several costumed May the Fourth Star Wars characters and a big crowd at the third annual Eureka Chinatown Street Festival – Year of the Dragon. The festival on three blocks of E Street in front of the Clarke […]
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‘Our Food is Our Medicine’
Marion Frye is cutting sea anemones, or sa’roh, gelatinous looking fists pulled from rocks at low tide. She’s let them rest a couple days in water so they won’t sting her hands. “Yeah, ‘horse’s ass,’” she says with a chuckle, explaining the nickname of the creatures whose flowery tendrils retract when touched. She cuts into […]
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The Sawdust Flies at the Conclave
A far corner of Redwood Acres Fairground in Eureka turned into a logging-sports performance field for 175 talented student-athletes from 10 campuses across the western U.S. from Wednesday to Friday, March 13-15. For the first time in nearly a decade, the Cal Poly Humboldt Logging Sports Team hosted the Collegiate Logging Sports Competition as part […]
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Once More into the Bay for the Perilous Plunge
A sunny and very timely break in Saturday morning’s rainy weather arrived just before wildly costumed Perilous Plunge participants gathered in Old Town for their parade to the foot of F Street in Eureka. From there, they would leap into the chilly water of Humboldt Bay. Their watery splashes in the 23rd annual fundraiser for the […]
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Winners of the 2024 NCJ Pet Photo Contest
We may or may not be scrolling past your pictures from Maui because it feels like everyone but us is on vacation all the time. We might toss a quick like on that selfie or marsh sunset, but we are flipping past the mystery rash you’re crowdsourcing home remedies for. We’re looking for one thing […]
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Photos: Humboldt Marble Weekend
Eureka’s Humboldt Marble Weekend re-emerged post-COVID restrictions as the center of the marble universe last Saturday and Sunday as 28 marble makers and glass artists from around the U.S. showed off their wares to marble-art fans at vendor tables in the Wharfinger Building. Event-organizer Topher Reynolds, a Eureka marble maker at Copious Glass and the […]
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Photos: Inked Hearts 2024
It was great fun to once again attend the Inked hearts Tattoo Expo, its 14th annual event, in the Sapphire Palace at the Blue Lake Casino and Hotel Feb. 2-4, and see amazing tattoo artwork being created by many familiar tattoo artists. Ted and Amy Marks, owners of the local Nor Cal Tattoo shop, brought in […]
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A Dry(er) Trinidad to Clam Beach Run
After days of rain, Mother Nature cooperated, providing beautiful, warm sunshine for the 58th annual Trinidad to Clam Beach Run Saturday, Feb. 3. A total of 584 runners and walkers showed up at the starting line in Trinidad for the 5.75-mile run/walk. Given the ongoing rainfall this winter, race organizers were debating pre-race until Friday afternoon as […]
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Through Mark Larson’s Lens
Everyone’s journey in 2023 through our local events, sports, politics, protests, entertainment and the arts was different than mine, but my goal this past year was to again photograph special moments that were particularly memorable. The mission of photojournalism, as Ted Anthony of the Associated Press recently described it, is “to capture moments that represent […]