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The Nutcracker Ballet
Sat., Dec. 20, 2 & 7 p.m. and Sun., Dec. 21, 2 p.m.
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Abalone, Titans and Taters
This week, we’re looking at the 10-year closure of the North Coast’s recreational abalone fishery and how we got here. We’ll also introduce you to one of the army of volunteers that make visiting the…
Music Tonight: Saturday, Dec. 20
It’s solstice eve, and due to the coming of another more celebrated eve on Wednesday,I’m loading the underboughs of this evening with shows to balance the silent nightsahead. The big shebang is happening over at…
Holiday Dance Performances
Holiday magic takes center stage this weekend with two jolly dance productions for all ages. The Sundance Ballet Co. presents its 13th annual Nutcracker ballet at the Van DuzerTheatre on Saturday, Dec. 20, at 2…
Music Tonight: Friday, Dec. 19
Here are some local treats to stuff your stockings with. First up, Moss Oak Commons,where it’s Freq Night again, with music from the crossroads of experimental electronicsounds, tap loops, treated guitar amp worship, holy synths…
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Martha Peabody Traphagen
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Deadline Extended to Support Eel River Dam Removal
PG&E has submitted an application to surrender its license for the Potter Valley Project (PVP),…
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Editor: I often think about the fact that I’m the extremely unlikely product of an…
Gov. Newsom and Pres. Trump Tell the Same Inadequate Tale About Native America
Native American Heritage Month turns a spotlight on how we treat issues of importance to…
Sanctuary for Trans Individuals
Editor: Recently, several Eureka residents approached the city council requesting Eureka consider becoming a Trans…
‘Our Cultural Heritage’
Editor: Justin Crellin’s eloquent article (“How rescinding the Public Lands Rule Harms Humboldt County,” Nov.…
Alone at the Movies
Netflix, Jay Kelly and Train Dreams In the long-ago of my youth, I would often defend my pessimism as realism; I didn’t actually know much about the world. Ever a contrarian, though, as I have…
Rejected Names for Pantone’s Color of the Year Cloud Dancer
As we do every year, we at Pantone spent the last months sorting through a storm of swatches — literally every color perceivable by the human eye — to name the color of the year,…
Arcata Playhouse Rolls the Dice
With The Dungeon, the Dragon and the Wizard of Doom: A D&D Holiday Show Adventure Arcata Playhouse is bringing the British tradition of a Christmas pantomime to Humboldt once again. Pantomimes are often thought of…
Music Tonight: Wednesday, Dec. 10
Back over to the Miniplex tonight at 8 p.m., where Modern Nature will be weavingpastoral found sound fables with living splashes from the free jazz color wheel. Theband is on the Bella Union Label, founded…
Music Tonight: Tuesday, Dec. 9
He may have hung up his Cumbia hat for the year, but professional gigger and Makenuhired side iron Daniel Nickerson is still active on the scene, tonight with a set of solomusic over at the…
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