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I went to see some friends jam at the Kaptain’s Quarters play a fun set recently, and in the true half-assed friend energy for which I am known, I forgot the band’s name. Todd’s something or other.

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The Humboldt County Board of Supervisors is set Tuesday to consider the public censure of Supervisor Rex Bohn after an ...

It’s the second of three Fridays the 13th for this year, and with the last one coming up in November, it’s going to be an extended spooky season past Halloween if we are allalive to experience it. If ...

Small, round and bouncy, they never fail to draw attention.  They’re family Paridae, the vocal and acrobatic passerines that across the pond are known as tits. In North America, of course, they’re our ...

If you are hankering for some excellent contemporary jazz fusion, tonight’s the night.Over at the Basement at 7:30 p.m., HDMB will be joined by Sheldon Brown, a BayArea composer and woodwind ...

A Monarch butterfly with solar-powered 60-milligram Bluetooth transmitter and antenna glued to its thorax. This one is being released at Moran Lake County Park near Santa Cruz, one of the three most ...

Editor: The author of “It’s Time to Make Fourth and Fifth Streets Safe for Everyone” (March 5) is comparing apples to oranges. He assumes that, all factors being equal, the percentage of pedestrian ...

Local resident helps Planned Parenthood Care Can’t Wait Campaign find success in Northern California Bill Lutjens, a long-time Fieldbrook resident who mostly keeps to himself in his rural residence, ...

The Bride! THE BRIDE! Conceptually, this seems very much like something I could get on board with: a mid-1930s Chicago-set, Mafia-tinged feminist update on the Frankenstein story, embellished with ...

First pair of prey-go-neesh in a century are nesting on the North Coast Cue the California condor chick watch. The Yurok Tribe announced this week that the two oldest members of the North Coast flock ...