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Los Angeles-area tattoo artist Isela Vasquez wrapped up a black and gray portrait for "Slowpoke," another tattoo artist from Southern California.

Skin Deep: Photos from Inked Hearts

by Mark Larson on February 11, 2020 at 4:45PM

The 11th annual Inked Hearts Tattoo Expo wrapped up four days of tattooing last Thursday-Sunday in the Sapphire Palace and Kinetik Lounge at Blue Lake Casino and Hotel. Organizers Ted and Amy Marks, owners of the local Nor Cal Tattoo shop, brought in more than 30 local and visiting artists for on-the-spot "ink" opportunities for tattoo lovers.

Members of San Jose Taiko brought ensemble Japanese drumming to the music/dance/immersive theater/living history event.

Swing Time Travel: Photos and Video from the Taiko Swingposium

by Mark Larson on February 9, 2020 at 11:41AM

Last weekend, the San Jose Taiko Swingposium Immersive Theater Experience's On the Road show transformed the Bayside Community Hall into a World War II-era dance hall in a Japanese-American incarceration camp. While under armed guard and having lost their homes, possessions and rights as Americans, those in the camps played music and held dances like these within their barbed-wire confines to maintain a sense of hope and community.

Andrea Carby, of McKinleyville, and a crowd of runners splashed their way across Little River.

Running Wild: Photos from the Clam Beach Run

by Mark Larson on February 3, 2020 at 11:39AM

The weather gods delivered a calm, dry Saturday morning for around 700 participants in the 55th annual Trinidad to Clam Beach Run Honoring Ford Hess. The race and fun run featured 5 3/4-mile and 8 3/4-mile options starting north of Trinidad — the "fun" for the longer races includes a wet crossing of Little River along the scenic route.

Dejanai Dunn, a soloist from the Healing and Compassion Spiritual Singers and Black Empowerment Dance Troupe.

Celebrating Martin Luther King Jr.: Photos

by Mark Larson on January 22, 2020 at 6:14PM

A large crowd of all ages gathered in the Adorni Center for a "Celebration of Service in our Community" at the Eureka NAACP's Celebration of the Life and Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The event was co-sponsored by the City of Eureka.

Princess Langwidere (Marguerite Boissonnault), Billina the Chicken (H. Veenadari Lakshika Jayakody), the Tin Man (Hannah Shaka) and Scarecrow (Andrew Lupkes) in Return to Oz.

Photos: Dell'Arte's 'Return to Oz'

by Mark Larson on December 7, 2019 at 3:00PM

The 39th annual Dell'Arte 2019 Holiday Show: Return to Oz is now at one of the many traveling and free venues coming up before its return to Blue Lake in two weeks. The storyline of Dorothy as an angst-ridden, friendless, guitar-playing teenager (you likely know one or used to be one) begins with her unhappiness at being back in Kansas, missing her Oz friends.

A Harry Potter Party at Redwood Raks World Dance Studio

on November 28, 2019 at 3:00PM

Are you Sirius? Make sure to show off your house pride (calm down, Gryffindor) on Thursday, Dec. 5 from 4 to 6 p.m. as Redwood Raks World Dance Studio hosts an all-house, all-schools kids' party with music, themed activities, treats and a splendor of Hogsmeade.

Electric Vehicle Parade and Expo and Tree Lighting at Blue Lake Casino

on November 28, 2019 at 1:00PM

Didn't hear that coming? It's probably an electric vehicle heading over to the Electric Vehicle Parade and Expo and Tree Lighting at Blue Lake Casino on Saturday Nov. 30 from 1 to 8 p.m.

The Snowball Drop at the Old Town Gazebo

Christmas Yet to Come

by Kali Cozyris on November 28, 2019 at 11:00AM

Forget the eager retail beavers of early October, the holiday season is now officially here. You've got Thanksgiving leftovers to fuel you as you strongarm shopping crowds or bake up batches of snowflake-shaped cookies to take to the office.

Annie the Musical at the Arkley Center

on November 26, 2019 at 3:45PM

Leaping lizards! What could be more fun than taking the kids to see Main Stage Musical's production of Annie the Musical?

Elizabeth Hickox's distinctive basket in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's current exhibition of Native art.

Local Native Basketry at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

by Jennifer Fumiko Cahill on November 21, 2019 at 12:17PM

If you were scrolling Instagram this morning (as one of our readers was), you might have seen a familiar basket form on the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s account. The shot from the museum’s ongoing show Art of Native America: The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection features a gorgeous piece by Elizabeth Hickox, a Wiyot and Karuk woman from Humboldt.

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