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Trump Wants Data on California’s Gender-Affirming and Abortion Care. Can the State Stop Him?
This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. The latest clash between California and President Donald Trump over abortion and gender-affirming care could soon leave doctors caught between state and federal law. Under a…
A Wing and A Prayer
There is still “a sliver of hope” this year will be the one for the first condor chick in more than a century to hatch on the North Coast. The breeding pair A0 and A1…
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Music Tonight: Friday, April 17
The Miniplex is hosting a local alterna-pop tonight at 8 p.m., when the sonic cavern will be taken over by the ever-ebullient Jacki & the Jollies and the interestingly named act Heaven’s Taint, playing power…
Music Tonight: Thursday, April 16
The Siren’s Song is hosting a smokin’ amp rock show tonight. Blackplate needs no introduction in this column, but merely a reminder that they are one of the loudest and best heavy sound dealers around…
Decolonize Your Palate
Knowing your ingredients goes further than familiarity, says Crystal Wahpepah. The Three Sisters Cake she’s teaching Cal Poly Humboldt students to bake in the stainless-steel kitchen of the Rou Dalagurr Food Sovereignty Lab today makes…
El Sueño
We’ve all been in a funny spot lately, and we all know why, so I won’t drag the pen across that point any further. One thing about living through such disastrous and deeply stupid times…
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AI for the Planet
The inescapable truth is that generative AI is the future, laid out before us like a swirling, slightly-off carpet of AstroTurf in a dream where it kind of turns into water. In fact, after checking…
‘The Drama’s’ Uncomfortable Romance
THE DRAMA. The immersive paranoid magical realism of Dream Scenario (2023) made it tempting to presume to know what to expect from writer/director/editor Kristoffer Borgli: another fantasia set against the vagaries of the modern world,…
Caution: Construction Ahead
With spring arriving and fruit trees starting to open their buds, it is time to think about pollinators. Among the first to visit my orchard are the mason bees (genus Osmia), often considered the best…
Taco Questions, the Big Time and Double Drama
Taco Week returns, as do existential questions about what makes a taco. We’re also learning about the annual Big Time Native gathering at Cal Poly Humboldt and the organizers, dancers, vendors and folks coming together…
Lilac and Star and Bird
I’ve been working on enjoying the rare moments of escape from the horror of the news while still balancing my observations on those horrors so as not to slip into a state of willful ignorance.…
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Leo the Lion
Our beloved cat Leo passed away April 2, 2026 at home surrounded by his human and his furry companions. Leo was adopted into his forever home October 11, 2016 from the Humboldt County Animal Shelter.…
Answers to Questions
Editor: Per the April 2 NCJ issue … 1) To Sherman Schapiro (Mailbox, “A Question”): No, President Trump does not know how to say, “Thank you.” He knows how to hear you say it. 2)…
Voting for Mary Burke
Editor: The thought of Mary Burke as our next Fifth District supervisor is so reassuring to me. As a 26-year McKinleyville resident and neighbor of Mary’s for much of that time, I’m aware of her…
‘Mark Your Calendars’
Editor: Re: “Just Asking” (Mailbox, April 2), in which Dick Bruce wonders if there are any candidates for governor other than that one billionaire, I have an answer: YES! Dr. Butch Ware is the Green…
‘Show Your Pride’
Seas of beaded fringe and long, braided hair twirled through the air in the Cal Poly Humboldt’s Forbes Complex West Gym on Saturday. The performers — from elders to newborns swaddled in their arms —…
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Correction
In the March 26, 2026, Seriously column “Prominent Male Public Figures Who are Not Sexual…
‘Just Asking’
Editor: Maybe I missed it but is anyone else running for governor of California but…
‘A Lot to Offer’
Editor: Spot on, George Clark! (“Unsustainable,” Mailbox, March 12). Our communities need seniors in our…
A Question
Editor: Epic query. There’s a question that’s been bugging me for a long time, so…
‘Gravity of the Moment’
Editor: Trump’s recent remarks claiming he is engaged in talks with Iran are deeply troubling.…
‘Let’s Not Return’
Editor: Reading Thadeus Greenson’s article about Travis Schneider in the North Coast Journal (“Coastal Commission…
An Anti-Star Turn in ‘Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice’
MIKE & NICK & NICK & ALICE. Setting aside his questionable politics for the moment (which may be an understandably impossible task for much of the potential audience), Vince Vaughn remains one of the old-school…
‘Bat Boy’s’ Bloody, Messy Fun
Let there be blood. Not blood represented in scarlet scarves pulled from a jugular like a macabre magic trick, but thick and tacky liquid lifeforce spilled across the stage splattering the audience with its faint…
‘Sherwood’ Makes Merry in Ferndale
Had I known Ferndale Repertory Theatre’s Sherwood: The Adventures of Robin Hood is a complete “huzzah” and “tally-ho” audience-inclusive affair, I’d have rethought my regular theater attire in favor of Renaissance fair garb. Though the…
’Twas Brillig
“‘It seems very pretty,’ she said when she had finished it, ‘but it’s rather hard to understand!’” — Alice’s reaction on reading, in mirror writing, “Jabberwocky” in Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass ’Twas brillig,…
Movie Tonight: Wednesday, April 8
I was just the other day talking with my better half about some of the unexpected hit films from that wedge period of time at the turn of the millennium when movies had the since-extinct…
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Best Book Store: Booklegger Sitting at the corner of Second and E streets in Eureka…
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Best New Restaurant: Susukino Ramen Bar Humboldt was a little late to the fresh ramen…
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Best Outdoor Wedding Venue, Best Indoor Wedding Venue: The Barn by Fernbridge When it comes…
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