(March 28, 2024)
I'm going to be brief here because I'm recovering from some kind of minor crud. Looking through my recent history for possible disease vectors, from out-of-town visitors to a few...
(March 21, 2024)
The Ides of March came last Friday, some 2060-plus years since mighty Caesar got smoked, and we lost our little king. I am talking about my partner and I putting...
(March 14, 2024)
Spring is coming back, which means we've pushed through two human-made hurdles in which I have little interest: the Oscars and Daylight Savings time. To the latter I say pick...
(March 7, 2024)
Belarius, the exiled lord and soldier who stole and raised the sons of the British pagan King Cymbeline in the play of the same name, is certain of a kind...
(February 29, 2024)
The early 17th century Christian mystic Jacob Boehme, whom Hegel called "the first German Philosopher," wrote about the paradox of the human mind trying to hear the voice of God,...
(February 22, 2024)
I've been watching old movies and listening to even older songs lately — no surprise there —mostly dipping into the early British career of Alfred Hitchcock and the tunes of...
(February 15, 2024)
In her 1908 novel Anne of Green Gables, L.M. Montgomery tells us of a particularly earnest and yearning moment in her eponymous heroine's youth: "It wouldn't matter if I got...
(February 8, 2024)
I'm making myself laugh imagining the story of a man who manages to completely ruin his life in next week's pummeling four-day gauntlet of Super Bowl Sunday, Mardi Gras, Ash...
(February 1, 2024)
A funny thing happened the other day. I was sitting in my truck, birdwatching at the slough and thinking about really nothing much other than the overflowing banks, and an...
(January 25, 2024)
I've been enjoying the frantic back and forth between the flood days and warm sun days, so I haven't really paid much attention to January slipping by. Which is unfortunate...
(January 18, 2024)
Regular readers of this space know that I tend to eulogize a lot, and lately I've taken an interest in promoting the life's work of people who left the land...
(January 11, 2024)
As I have mentioned since the arrival of winter, this season has a lot of dead nights on the calendar of live entertainment. However, even a leafless tree or dead...
(January 4, 2024)
I hope you all landed on the other side of the year safely, with minimal damage to yourself as well as any municipal structures, especially fire hydrants. I stayed in...
(December 28, 2023)
As a fan of editorial cartoons from years long gone, I can assure you that few themes survive the incomprehensible gulf of time's effect on human culture and meaning other...
(December 21, 2023)
I didn't mention it at the time because I had other things in mind, but one of the greatest Irish songwriters of all time, Shane MacGowan, dying in the same...
(December 14, 2023)
I don't attribute much of human behavior to the far-out celestial bodies in our solar system. Credit that to a rebellious streak I'm employing against my now-deceased parents who met...
(December 7, 2023)
It's no secret that our nightlife, bountiful as it may be for an area as remote as Humboldt County, ebbs and flows. Especially this time of year, when the holidays...
(November 30, 2023)
It occurred to me during this year's Best of Humboldt voteing that I hadn't been putting enough thought into the trending directions of our local music scene. Blame it on...
(November 23, 2023)
Well, it's that time of year, when I must once again appeal to the reason of my fellow Americans and suggest we not only can but must do better regarding...
(November 16, 2023)
Much ink has been spilled on the colonial mythology of the upcoming holiday and the horrors in Palestine. When confronted with the unrolling and competing narratives of a real-time conflict,...
(March 29, 2024)
The Miniplex has yet another local band showcase tonight and the line-up is smoking. Swingo Domingo is a duo with everything in the name, so expect swing and pop, boppin’...
(March 28, 2024)
Summer Like The Season is the solo project of Detroit multi-instrumentalist and electronic composer Summer Krinsky. Tonight at 7 p.m. at the Outer Space, she is headlining a show...
(March 27, 2024)
Derek Monypeny from Joshua Tree plays music that fills the horizon, in a manner of speaking. His tightly articulated and mildly treated guitar billows out shimmers of sounds like...