Friday, Feb. 15, 6-8 p.m. a community celebration of art, music, food and fun on the third Friday of each month. For more information, contact coordinator Taffy Stockton at 707-834-6460 www.mckinleyvilleartsnight.com. 1. ARCATA-EUREKA AIRPORT 3561 Boeing Ave. Long term exhibit sponsored by the Headwaters Fund currently features work by eight female Humboldt County artists: Regina Case, Natalie Craig, Joan Gold, […]
Bob Doran
Freelance photographer and writer, Arts and Entertainment editor from 1997 to 2013.
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Pioneers
Does the electric banjo held by Leftover Salmon’s Andy Thorn look familiar? It was made here in Humboldt by Ian Davidson from Absynth Quintet, a “gypsy jamgrass” group inspired by Leftover’s groundbreaking “poly-ethnic Cajun slamgrass.” Salmon guitarist and founder Vince Herman laughed at the suggestion that his band pioneered a new sound. He pointed to […]
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Guns in a Cave
The gun cache found in a cave on Ryan Floyd’s property in southern Humboldt was impressive and frightening. One hundred and eleven rifles and pistols, many of them automatics, more than filled a table in a room in the Humboldt County Courthouse, with overflow piled on a couch and leaning against three walls. “Quite a […]
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Eureka Wages Going Up?
The “Fair Wage Folks,” a local committee working toward raising the minimum wage in Eureka, submitted petitions yesterday with signatures of approximately 2,700 voters. Depending on how many of those pass muster, the Eureka Fair Wage Act could be on the ballot in June. “We look forward to about 1,400 of Eureka’s workers getting a […]
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In review: Hubbard Street Dance Chicago
Our dance columnist Stephanie Silvia filed this review of Hubbard Street Dance Chicago’s Tuesday, Feb. 5 performance at HSU’s Van Duzer Theatre: The members of Hubbard Street Dance Chicago move like they were born to inhabit choreographer Ohad Naharin’s sensual and emotive movement landscape. Naharin, artistic director of Israel’s lush Batsheva Dance Company, reworked sections from earlier […]
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Squatchtastic
You hear the crack of a twig and catch a quick glimpse as he disappears into the brush. He’s big as an NFL linebacker, somewhat shaggy, walks with a lumbering gait. Could it be … Bigfoot? Nah, the trucker cap and big grin tell you it’s James “Bobo” Fay, dead serious Squatch researcher and […]
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Making Wood Sing
They’re tucked away in workshops large and small, in converted garages and industrial parks all over the county. They’re Humboldt’s luthiers, skilled craftsmen turning slabs of wood into exquisite acoustic and electric guitars, banjos, mandolins and less familiar stringed instruments. Their market is international, ranging from world famous musicians to casual pickers. A few of […]
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Cannabis Comedy
I met Ngaio Bealum waiting in line to buy a slice of pie at the Mateel. He was telling jokes at the Emerald Cup, definitely an appropriate venue for someone known as “the cannabis comic.” When he mentioned that he had a show coming up in Arcata, we vowed to keep in touch and later […]
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Arts! Arcata Febuary
1. ARCATA ARTISANS COOPERATIVE 883 H St. Prints and figurative assemblages by Elaine Benjamin; painting, watercolors, monotypes and ceramics by Linnea Tobias; polymer clay creations by Candace Miller. Wine served to benefit the Humboldt Community Breast Health Project. 2. ARCATA CITY HALL 736 F St. Photos by Angie Valetutto. 3. ARCATA EXCHANGE 813 H […]
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Cannabis Comedy
I met Ngaio Bealum waiting in line to buy a slice of pie at the Mateel. He was telling jokes at the Emerald Cup, definitely an appropriate venue for someone known as “the cannabis comic.” When he mentioned that he had a show coming up in Arcata, we vowed to keep in touch and later […]
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Survival Revival
I tell you what: Some people got everything; some people got nothing; some people got hopes and dreams; some people got ways and means. We’re the survivors, yes, the black survivors. –from “Survival” by Bob Marley. Reggae icon Bob Marley turned political in his 1979 masterwork Survival, an album that includes the title track quoted […]
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Arts Alive! February 2013
First Saturday Night Arts Alive! Opening receptions for artists, exhibits, and/or performances Feb. 2, 6-9 p.m. Call Eureka Main Street at 707-442-9054, for more information or go to www.eurekamainstreet.org. 1. EUREKA INN 518 Seventh St. Music by The Trouble, 9 p.m. 2. HUMBOLDT ARTS COUNCIL at the Morris Graves Museum of Art 636 F St. […]