the hum / By Julianna Boggs

Arcata Sectarian

Strix Vega and Common Vice, local alt-rockers you’ve likely seen at one time or another in The Alibi, will be playing a show at the Blue Lake Casino, a venue typically reserved for smoking inside and singles bingo. That show is on Friday, April 24, from 9 p.m. ’til 1 a.m. and has no cover, so you can save your cash for slots.

Not much of a presence for the B-boys and girls until Friday, April 24, when Maniac Productionz present their Hip Hop 4 Change benefit for the Media Arts Resource Zone, or MARZ Project. Held at the Ink People Center in Eureka, the event will feature performances by Thic Family, DVSB inc., The Mastermindz and Maniac Krew (featuring Lil Maniac, the event’s 16-year-old coordinator). Recording her own music for four years now, Lil Maniac has started her own production company, Maniac Productionz (mind the “z”), and is now throwing her second show as a benefit for the organization that got her started. Beginning at 7:30 p.m., that show is all ages and $5 at the door.

If you feel like benefit hopping you may want to lend financial strength to the gourmet food and live music benefit for the Raven Project, Saturday, April 25,from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. at The Looking Glass House (1436 Second St. in Eureka). Featuring nonstop music by the Anna Hamilton Trio, Karen Dumont, DonnaLandry and Spanky McFarlane with Boomsauii, a $40 ticket gets you dinner, entertainment and one complimentary bev.

If this all seems a little intense, you may want to simmer down with one of several shows aimed at the jazzies throughout the week. Saturday, April 25,brings Aunty Em with Susie Laraine, a well-seasoned flute/sax performer, to the Morris Graves Museum of Art. Sunday the 26th brings the last show of the Redwood Jazz Alliance’s spring season with Fly Trio, a cooperative jazzy threesome made up of saxophonist Mark Turner, drummer Jeff Ballard and bassist Larry Grenadier. Held in Fulkerson Hall, tickets are $15 or $10 for students and seniors.

If these performances inspire in you a sense of intellectualism or worldliness, you may want to join other confessed readers and radio listeners up at the university, where you belong, for an evening with David Sedaris on Monday, April 27. Frequent contributor to NPR’s This American Life, as well as best-selling author of Me Talk Pretty One Day and Naked, Sedaris is a sardonic comic genius not to be missed.

A final note for the film nerds: Arcata Theatre Lounge will be providing both lounge and theatre throughout the week. Friday the 24th features a screening of a surf flick, The Ripple Effect, plus music by LikWefi and Lion Sound at 6 p.m. On Saturday you can catch a showing of the doc Manufactured Landscapes at 4 p.m. or 8 p.m., with a midnight showing of the animated sci-fi tale Fantastic Planet at, well, midnight.

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