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 long ...

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 ...

Beginning is the color of a red poppy It tastes like a fresh papaya coated with a ripe lime It lives in an ending, patiently waiting its turn A beginning is a wave, rolling, like an uncontrollable ...

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 Party ...

No, President Trump does not know how to say, “Thank you.” He knows how to hear you say it. 2) To Dennis Whitcomb (Mailbox, “Gravity of the Moment”): I think Sen. Schiff is doing what he can, but it ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 is that we are ...

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 ...

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 ...

Evening fog rolls in from the Humboldt Bay Marina onto First and F streets in Old Town, Eureka. Streetlamps flicker on, a ...

Veteran Folklife Festival organizer and local musician at-large Patrick Cleary has finally done it. Done what you ask? Why, recorded his first album after a quarter century of notebooking, developing ...