Tuva is a small Russian republic which sits astride southern Siberia and northern Mongolia and has gained some notoriety for the multi-tonal throat singing practices of its semi-nomadic population.

February 9, 2026 Eric Towle Duff was born on October 20, 1957, to Janet Smith Duff and Edward Roy Duff. After a year-long illness, Eric died at home on February 9, 2026, surrounded by his husband, Rob ...

Recognizing the worst in government transparency For the last six years, a class of journalism students at the University of Nevada, Reno, has kicked off each semester by filing their first Freedom of ...

Joaquina Imelda Quintanilla’s granddaughter peers just over the ledge of the red Mi Rinconcito Pupuseria Salvadoreño truck. It’s an echo of how Quintanilla grew up in El Salvador, tagging along after ...

Spring hits the streets this week and the build-up in the air has been absolutely blooming with sensual ions and ozone for anyone with the right peepers. The forces of the Earth churn on through the ...

Humboldt Light Opera Co.’s God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater It’s a rotten state in America. Obscene wealth, unyielding poverty, war, alternative altruism, repressed freedom — this being post-World War II ...

Exigent circumstances prevented me from watching the majority of this year’s Academy Awards ceremony, an event to which I had (to my own surprise) been looking forward. In the decade since I actually ...

Cal State weighs options for after-hours mental health care Jazmin Guajardo has seen students with the kind of anxiety that “consumes them” not only throughout their day, but outside the normal ...

Others may have some of the same batch of the locally foraged mushrooms Humboldt County health officials are advising people ...

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more. St. Patrick’s Day is back again, arare cross-cultural experience that Americans have chosen to celebrate in our trulystupid custom of polluting all ...

February 9, 2026 Herbert Joel Pierce passed away peacefully in his home on February 9, 2026, after a long illness. Born on August 27, 1943, to Richard Errol Pierce and Grace Ilene Pierce in Pasadena, ...

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