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The next time a complaint is raised against a member of the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors, the process will play out differently behind the scenes and in the public arena under a series of…
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Music Tonight: Thursday, Aug. 27
The Rumba Madre may have started in Nashville, but the group is anything but another commercial country beerfart. The fellas play a hodge podge of punk, cumbia, reggaeton and dirty South trap bangers with a…
Corkscrew Trees and a Crooked Trail
Perfect weather on Aug. 1 and a desire to be among the first to walk the newly opened Crooked Trail brought my wife and me to the adjacent and newly open-to-the-public ‘O Rew Redwoods Gateway…
Read After Burning
Burnstitch Collective has been attached to many of the murmurs I hear about simple and great ideas around here, and I am going long this week to write about them because it’s both overdue and…
Trinidad Art Night
This town-wide walk includes a variety of art exhibits, live music, artist receptions, face painting, skate ramps, pop-up sales and oyster, cider or wine tastings. Call (707) 834-2479 or visit trinidadartnight.com. Forbes & Associates presents…
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An Etruscan Venus and the Patriarchy
“Patriarchy has tried to erase imagery of the feminine since time immemorial. Destroy the image and you can control the narrative.” — Syreeta McFadden, The Guardian U.S., April 13, 2015 Almost life-sized, the “Venus of…
“Tony” Makes Me Hungry
TONY. “The movie is about growing out of your childhood nickname and becoming who you’re supposed to be,” director Matt Johnson told CNN about his recent feature, Tony. Anthony Bourdain needs little introduction, but if a…
Reports from the Grand Jury
Every year a group of 19 volunteers comes together to form the Humboldt County Civil Grand Jury in a civilian oversight tradition that dates back to the Magna Carta. Wielding the power of the subpoena…
Outlaw Rodeo at the Fair Marred by Two Horse Deaths
Without horse racing for its second year in a row, the 130th annual Humboldt County Fair replaced the thunder of hooves on the track with Saturday’s Outlaw Rodeo College Invitational. While it attracted a strong…
Cooking While Traveling, Summer Edition
My favorite place to be in the summer is Humboldt County, both for the amazing produce our farmers bring to the markets and farm stands, and the fog that keeps us comfortable. This year, however,…
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Brooks and I
I didn’t know him well.Though we both volunteered at KHSU.He, folk music. Me, poetry.And some might think this would be enough to bond. But it wasn’t. And it didn’t.Until I learned we both loved Italy.Especially Rome. …
Coming Together for Obon
A large crowd showed up under lightly smokey skies from wildfires on Sunday afternoon at Arcata’s Creamery District to celebrate Obon. The Japanese Buddhist festival honoring the spirits of one’s ancestors is a recent tradition…
My Very Own Sit Spot
I’m lying on a bench underneath an arbor, looking up at the wisteria on the trellis. Sun peeks through the cracks of the bench. I sit up and look at the tree to my left,…
You Might Go Home Again
GAIL DAUGHTRY AND THE CELEBRITY SEX PASS. Wet Hot American Summer (2001) is as much a tenet of my marriage as any of the shared values upon which it is founded. For a quarter century,…
Where you sat.
How the skies finally moved…We can only hope right now.Shifting through these longing daysWhere grace is faint.Found in the work of sand and water.Where wind once came,And still visits,A story remains.Tell me now,Fingers tracing this…
Richard Scoville
Richard William Scoville passed away suddenly and unexpectedly on July 22, 2026, at the age of 63. Rich, as he was known to family and friends, was a generous, empathetic soul, a joyful, larger-than-life presence…
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Humboldt County Fair Treatment of Animals
Editor: My visceral reactions to the story about two horses with broken legs after participating…
Civilian Oversight Needed
Editor: Humboldt needs a sheriff’s civilian review board. California law provides for the right for…
Worthy Read
Editor: Our representative in the U.S. Congress, Jared Huffman, has just released a vitally important…
Changing Course
It has long been observed, “Life teaches us how it should have been lived” and…
‘Duh’
Editor: Rumble Over the Redwoods.Idiotic.Climate change.Duh. Dan Levinson, McKinleyville
Oysters, Wildlife and the Reindustrialization of Humboldt Bay
On Aug. 14, the Humboldt County Fair hosts Shell-ebration, celebrating all things related to oysters…
Gary Ray Langdon
Gary was born on November 26, 1941 in an Albany, Calif. hospital to Lloyd and Elizabeth Langdon. He died June 28, 2026. He was preceded in death by his five year old daughter, Kimberly Louise…
HCAOG Appoints Rob Holmlund as Executive Director
The Humboldt County Association of Governments (HCAOG) is pleased to announce the appointment of Rob Holmlund as its next Executive Director, effective Aug. 17, 2026. With more than 20 years of planning experience in both…
Music Tonight: Sunday, Aug. 16
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard is an annoying band name to say or write out, but the group has done something which I find impressive by wrestling the massive festival fanbase away from the…
Music Tonight: Saturday, Aug. 15
Human slave Jason Vance lives a harrowing life on the road in the service of his two musical cybernetic overlords, GTRBOT666 and DRMBOT0110. All three make up the fantastic act Captured! by Robots, and performance…
Music Tonight: Friday, Aug. 14
Happy Accident is a mondo-trash-o experimental theatrical extravaganza created by visual artist and brilliant puppeteer Liz HOWLS and visual designer and musician Servant Baby. Expect the unexpected at this puppet show for the transmundane. Along…
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