STAFF PICK / events, theater, music, dance, art, Comedy, sports, spoken word, lecture, etc.
Thursday, 9 p.m. Arcata Playhouse, 1251 Ninth St. Presenting a vaudevillian showcase of the county’s finest dancers, musicians, circus performers. Night ends with a dance party led by Arcata’s Small Axe Ensemble. Benefit for Six Rivers Planned Parenthood’s Spare Change. $7. E-mail humboldtvarietyville@yahoo.com. 408-515-2801.
STAFF PICK / music
Thursday, 9 p.m. Arcata Theatre Lounge, 1036 G St. Cosmic auditory scientist blows your mind. R/D and Noah D open. $15. arcatatheater.com. 822-1220.
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Wednesday, 6-8 p.m. Access Humboldt Community Media Center, Eureka High School, Eureka. Two-hour workshop offers insight on how to create different moods with light, including using backgrounds, understanding color temperature, and using different gear to create different effects. With cinematographer Landy Hardy. $20. www.accesshumboldt.net. 476-1798.
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Friday, Saturday, 8 p.m. Ferndale Repertory Theatre, 447 Main Street. John Osborne’s sharply funny, fiercely honest exploration of political disillusionment and basic human yearning. Directed by John Heckel. $15/$13 students and seniors. ferndale-rep.org. 800-838-3006.
STAFF PICK / movies / 7 p.m. Arcata Theater Lounge, 1036 G St. Screening wet films Ancient Sea Turtles Stranded in the Modern World and Lost In The Ether. Sponsored by Ocean Conservancy, Humboldt Surfrider and Humboldt Baykeeper. $3. 822-1220.
STAFF PICK / music / 9:30 p.m. Humboldt Brews, 856 10th St., Arcata. Psymbionic is the Dubstep/Glitch/Psy project of John Burcham, also known as Arcturian Expedition, now hailing from Austin, TX. $10. 826-2739.
books / 8 a.m.-5 p.m. College of the Redwoods, 7351 Tompkins Hill Road, Eureka. In the Learing Resource Center. Surplus books and instructional media items that are no longer required for instructional purposes on display and available for purchase. 476-4260.
holiday events, outdoors, lecture, etc., free / 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Humboldt Area Foundation, 373 Indianola Road, Bayside. HAF hosts tour, tea and/or nature trail walk. Call or email for more info. E-mail chrisw@hafoundation.org. 442-2993.
meetings / 4-6 p.m. Calico’s, Garberville. Discuss concerns and local issues. Open and free to all women. Biological grandmother-hood not required. 223-2800.
books / 4-6 p.m. Humboldt Historical Society, H and 8th sts., Eureka. Signing and reception for Dennis and Gloria Turner, authors of Place Names of Humboldt County, and Marvin Shepherd, author of The Sea Captain’s Odyssey: A Biography of H. H. Buhne. www.humboldthistory.org. 445-4342.
holiday events / 5-7 p.m. Mckinleyville Shopping Center. Includes Santa Claus coming to town on a fire truck, free activities for the kids, shops open late and more. 834-6460.
holiday music / 5:30 p.m. McKinleyville Safeway Shopping Plaza, Central Avenue. Holiday favorites for your enjoyment. 445-8304.
lecture / 5:30-7 p.m. BSS Room 166, Arcata. Sustainable Futures Speaker Series presents Peter Alstone and Colin Sheppard sharing preliminary results from the RESCO study. www.schatzlab.org/education/speaker_series.html. 826-4345.
events / 5:30 p.m. Elk’s Lodge, 445 Herrick Ave., Eureka. Dinner ticket includes one-year Ducks Unlimited membership. 442-6617.
movies / 6-7:30 p.m. Morris Graves Museum of Art, 636 F St., Eureka. Film about a tongue-in-cheek, cross-country campaign to end Black History Month. 442-0278.
music / 6 p.m. Chapala Cafe, 201 2nd St., Eureka. Let the Living Rooms provide the sound track for your dining pleasure. 443-9514.
music, free / 7 p.m. Blondies Food And Drink, 420 E. California Ave., Arcata. None. blondiesfoodanddrink.com. 822-3453.
music / 7 p.m. Bayside Grange, 2297 Jacoby Creek Road. Ecstatic poetry of the Sufi mystic Rumi. Award-winning actor Dan Furst portrays Rumi in translations by Coleman Barks and others, with live musical accompaniment. $8/$20 . seaburygould.com. 826-3928.
theater / 7 p.m. College of the Redwoods, 7351 Tompkins Hill Road, Eureka. FM103. Auditions for spring production. 499-3919.
holiday theater / 7:30 p.m. Hoopa Elementary. Dell’Arte presents a hilarious adaptation of the Brothers Grimm classic European folktale. 668-5663.
holiday theater / 8 p.m. Arcata Playhouse, 1251 Ninth St. Rialto Theater Company production follows a theater group going through the motions of staging Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol where things go humorously wrong. $15/$7 seniors and kids. rialtotheatercompany.com. 822-1575.
music / 8 p.m. Blue Lake Casino, 777 Casino Way. 668-9770.
music, dance, free / 8 p.m.-1 a.m. Bear River Casino, 11 Bear Paws Way, Loleta. E-mail marvzmusic@yahoo.com. 800-761-2327.
theater / 8 p.m. Mateel Community Center, 59 Rusk Lane, Redway. Free after school teenage theatre program Recycled Youth youth-written show includes music, original songs, dance, slam poetry, clown, mask, comedy and drama.
music / 8:30 p.m. The Depot, HSU. With Between the Needles and Nightfall, Marco Benevento continues to define himself as one of the most prolific new voices of his era, blurring genres from song to song, and more often from measure to measure, with his own take on simple pop pleasures. 826-3928.
music / 9 p.m. Clam Beach Inn, 4611 Central Ave., McKinleyville. Live in The Digger! 839-0545.
music / 9 p.m. Nocturnum, 206 W. 6th St., Eureka. You know you want to. 498-7388.
music / 9 p.m. Humboldt Brews, Arcata. Featuring music by the Bret Hartbreakers and The Bucky Walters. Hosted by Students for Global Health. Proceeds benefit New Village Hearts which works with Haitian refugees in Dominican Republic. $5/$10 sliding scale. 826-2739.
music / 10 p.m.-1:30 a.m. Toby and Jacks, 764 9th St., Arcata. Funky fresh beats n’ pieces mixed and matched by DJ Knutz and friends. www.myspace.com/getdownforthecause. 825-8796.
STAFF PICK / events, theater, music, dance, art, Comedy, sports, spoken word, lecture, etc. / 9 p.m. Arcata Playhouse, 1251 Ninth St. Presenting a vaudevillian showcase of the county’s finest dancers, musicians, circus performers. Night ends with a dance party led by Arcata’s Small Axe Ensemble. Benefit for Six Rivers Planned Parenthood’s Spare Change. $7. E-mail humboldtvarietyville@yahoo.com. 408-515-2801.
