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Music Tonight: Friday, March 27
The Creative Sanctuary jazz folk are putting on another tribute to the greats at the Arcata Playhouse tonight at 7 p.m. This time it’s Duke Ellington and his tight collaborator Billy Strayhorn, author of the…
Books in Space
Project Hail Mary PROJECT HAIL MARY. Loving books just as much as movies and credibly accused of being a formalist, I am generally skeptical of adaptations for the screen. I suppose I find works of…
Music Tonight: Thursday, March 26
The Cowtown Sound is throwing a Honky Tonk Thursday at the Logger Bar tonight. There will be a two-step dance lesson for all comers at 8:30 p.m., with the music starting around a half hour…
Nobody is Coming to Help After a Disaster — Nobody but Us
What each of us can do to make our community more resilient It’s been a difficult start to the year in our corner of far Northern California, with record tidal flooding that inundated more than…
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Prominent Male Figures Who are Not Sexual Predators
A tentatively confirmed list in progress Remember the days when you’d wake up to a horrifying story about a famous man you liked or respected being credibly accused of or admitting to coffee-curdling awfulness? But…
Caltrans Meeting on the Future of Fernbridge
On Thursday, Caltrans District 1 is hosting a community meeting on the future of Fernbridge. The public scoping session will take place at Ferndale City Hall, 834 Main St., from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m., as…
Seeking More Help for Students in Crisis
Cal State weighs options for after-hours mental health care This story was originally published by EdSource. Sign up for their daily newsletter. Jazmin Guajardo has seen students with the kind of anxiety that “consumes them” not only…
Ghost in the Abalone Shell
Hi. My name is Able. I was once a magnificent red abalone. Now I’m just a junk bowl on the desk of the dipshit who normally writes this column. I contain some presumably reusable toothpicks,…
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Nancy Marie
September 27, 1947 – March 1, 2026 Our beloved Nancy Marie died at Mad River Hospital in the early morning of March 1, 2026. Her son Gabe was with her. Numerous friends and caregivers had…
Eric Towle Duff
October 20, 1957-February 9, 2026 Eric Towle Duff was born on October 20, 1957, to Janet Smith Duff and Edward Roy Duff. After a year-long illness, Eric died at home on February 9, 2026, surrounded…
Pamm C Johnson
Pamm was born in Eureka, CA and spent most of her life in Eureka. Pamm attended local schools and graduated from Eureka High School. After graduation, Pamm worked at various jobs including Humboldt Del Norte…
Some Good and Some Gold at the Oscars
Exigent circumstances prevented me from watching the majority of this year’s Academy Awards ceremony, an event to which I had (to my own surprise) been looking forward. In the decade since I actually sat through…
No Vonnegut, No Glory
Humboldt Light Opera Co.’s God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater It’s a rotten state in America. Obscene wealth, unyielding poverty, war, alternative altruism, repressed freedom — this being post-World War II in a 1979 musical based…
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‘Let’s Not Return’
Editor: Reading Thadeus Greenson’s article about Travis Schneider in the North Coast Journal (“Coastal Commission…
‘Boundless’
Editor: Just read the “survey” article (“Asking for an Administration,” March 5). Jennifer Fumiko Cahill’s…
‘Unsustainable’
Editor: A full-page ad naming 300 retired public officials, academics, former representatives, businesses and financial…
Correction
In the Best Hair Day category of the 2026 NCJ Pet Photo Contest (Feb. 19),…
‘Component of the Problem’
Editor: The author of “It’s Time to Make Fourth and Fifth Streets Safe for Everyone”…
‘Successful Collaboration’
Editor: The League of Women Voters of Humboldt County commends the successful collaboration between the…
Fast Cars and Night Gardening
Spring hits the streets this week and the build-up in the air has been absolutely blooming with sensual ions and ozone for anyone with the right peepers. The forces of the Earth churn on through…
The Foilies 2026
Recognizing the worst in government transparency For the last six years, a class of journalism students at the University of Nevada, Reno, has kicked off each semester by filing their first Freedom of Information Act…
UPDATE: One in ICU from Western Destroying Angel Mushroom Poisoning
Others may have some of the same batch of the locally foraged mushrooms UPDATE: The mushroom that poisoned an area resident has been identified by state health officials as Western destroying angel, according to the…
Music Tonight: Tuesday, March 17
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more. St. Patrick’s Day is back again, arare cross-cultural experience that Americans have chosen to celebrate in our trulystupid custom of polluting all meaning into an inebriated…
Herbert Joel Pierce
August 27, 1943 – February 9, 2026 Herbert Joel Pierce passed away peacefully in his home on February 9, 2026, after a long illness. Born on August 27, 1943, to Richard Errol Pierce and Grace…
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