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Dandar’s Boardgames and Books have settled into their new long term location at 737 G St., Suite 2, Arcata. They have stocked boardgames, miniature war games, supplies to paint the miniatures (or anything else, really), dice, many different role-playing games, puzzles, models, tarot and oracle decks, manga, and science fiction and fantasy books. There is […] The post Dandar’s is Now Nearly Normal…
Robert Henry and the Repeaters are a country act from Portland, Oregon, that incorporates all the best parts of swing and honky tonk to kick up a good time like a pack of dust devils. Not only are they rolling through town, but they’re playing at the Logger Bar, one of the best venues for […] The post Music Tonight: Thursday, Aug. 20 appeared first on North Coast Journal .
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 and carrying a mandate enshrined in the state Constitution to serve as overseers of local government, the panel spends months […] The post Reports from the Grand Jury appeared first on North Coast…
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 crowd as the largest single-day event, the injury and subsequent deaths of two horses cast a pall over the festivities […] The post Outlaw Rodeo at the Fair Marred by Two Horse Deaths…
I’m writing this around the 90th anniversary of the murder of the Spanish poet Federico Lorca during the Spanish Civil War by the brutal Nationalist forces under the command of eventual dictator Francisco Franco. I say “around” because the actual timeline of his abduction and assassination is still uncertain, as are the whereabouts of his […] The post You Want It Darker appeared first on North…
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, partly to celebrate my retirement, at the end of June we put our bicycles in the car and headed north […] The post Cooking While Traveling, Summer Edition appeared first on North Coast Journal .
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 in Humboldt, having begun locally in 2022. After opening shakuhachi (Japanese flute) music by Rick Kruse, emcee Marylyn Paik-Nicely welcomed […] The post Coming Together…
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, my eyes following the fractal beauty of the branches, watching how they replicate themselves in ever-smaller degrees of scale. I’m […] The post My Very Own Sit Spot appeared first on North Coast Journal .
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, it has been a source of solace, celebration and common ground unlike any other for my wife and I. It […] The post You Might Go Home Again appeared first on North Coast Journal .
It has long been observed, “Life teaches us how it should have been lived” and two seemingly unrelated stories in the NCJ are illustrative. Longtime resident, fisherman and boat builder Ken Bates’ life experiences provide a seminal warning against building the Samoa Heavy Lift Terminal serving future industrial development, (“Oysters, Wildlife and Reindustrialization of Humboldt […] The post…
