(June 27, 2024)
My great-great-granny Momma Martha, my great-granny Madea and my granny Jonnie saw the remnants of slavery, the peak of Jim Crow, witnessed MLK Jr. speak and experienced so many...
(June 20, 2024)
The Arcata Plaza was packed for the 34th Oyster Festival on Saturday, June 15. Locals and visitors alike stood chatting in long lines for beer and foraged festival foods...
(June 20, 2024)
It's summer solstice — and therefore puzzle — time again! Here are some of the best puzzles to have come my way in the last 12 months for your...
(June 13, 2024)
Like a lot of people, I drive by the empty Arcata Ball Park in the winter months, longing for sunny days at the yard. The Crab Grass Band plays in...
(June 6, 2024)
During most of the sturm und drang of the Cal Poly Humboldt protest, I was across the country, on a pilgrimage of sorts to honor my dad and scatter his...
(June 6, 2024)
"Last night." — Fictional lone genius Tony Stark answering when he became an expert in thermonuclear astrophysics If you believe everything you see on the silver screen, you know all...
(May 30, 2024)
Flydentifier: "What's going on guys? It's your pal Flydentifier with another livestream during which I'll fly around helping perplexed beachgoers identify washed-up things. I'm now hovering in front of our...
(May 23, 2024)
"I knew that [mRNA] can be used for everything and I had a kind of a Cassandra feeling, that I can see the future and nobody believes me." Katalin Karikó,...
(May 16, 2024)
While I don't mind hiking in a drizzle, particularly in the redwoods, where rainfall is broken by the canopy ("Forest Bathing in the Redwoods," Get Out, June 15, 2023),...
(May 9, 2024)
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...
(May 9, 2024)
Last week, I presented arguments supporting the anti-Stratfordian case, that Stratford's "Shakspere" wasn't the sublime writer William Shakespeare. If the man from Stratford didn't write the Shakespearean canon, who did?...
(May 2, 2024)
Let's talk about alcohol, creator of (sometimes toxic) relationships, (occasional over-) sharer of secrets, balm to some (destroyer of many). Welcome to the final installment of Making Change, a six-week...
(May 2, 2024)
"They're both bonkers!" — Stanley Wells, Britain's leading Shakespeare expert, on the opinion of preeminent Shakespearean actors Sirs Derek Jacobi and Mark Rylance, that the Stratford man didn't write the...
(July 1, 2024)
A 34-year-old Eureka resident was killed Saturday evening in a motorcycle crash on Redwood Drive north of Redway, according to a California Highway Patrol news release. The CHP release...
(June 28, 2024)
The U.S. Supreme Court today granted cities more power to arrest, cite and fine people who sleep outside in public places — overturning six years of legal protections for...
(June 25, 2024)
Months of speculation and complaints about when, or even if, Gov. Gavin Newsom would give his annual State of the State address ended this morning with more of a...
