Written in the last decade of the 19th century, Robert W. Chambers’ The King in Yellow inhabits a high-water mark in the lineage of weird fiction and is like nothing else in the canon, including the other published works by the author himself. Only a couple of the stories follow the titular theme to its […]
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Music Tonight: Tuesday, Oct. 28
There’s a good pre-Halloween warm-up over at the Miniplex tonight at 8 p.m. Portland’s Dancing Plague will be sharing the stage with Aux Animaux from Sweden, for a program of haunting and spooky darkwave and industrial sounds. After the live acts pack up, local DJ crew Hispanic! at the Disco will be rolling out a […]
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Music Tonight: Sunday, Oct. 26
Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka is hosting the Mosaic Vocal Ensemble at 4 p.m. today, for a program of a cappella music that includes Benjamin Britten’s Hymn to St. Cecilia, a popular piece from the World War II-era with words by W.H. Auden, among other works ($20). Back at the Logger Bar at 8:30 p.m. […]
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Music Tonight: Saturday, Oct. 25
Folk, country and bluegrass singer-songwriter Michael Hagen has been performing solo in our county under the name Oak Top for quite some time now, but all that is coming to an end, as Hagen is set to begin the next phase of his life in Tennessee. Come celebrate his swan song Cali show at the […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, Oct. 24
Double your options tonight, one for Eureka and another for those Arcata-bound. First up at the Wild Hare at 8 p.m. is a variety show, with music by Fek and the Future Friends of Sound, Lady Games and an acid house set by Hudson Glover. There will also be a light show by The Idyllic […]
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Music Tonight: Thursday, Oct. 23
I was out at the Basement last weekend to catch some of Makenu’s excellent set. As I left down the H and Seventh street side of Jacoby Storehouse, I looked up at the lights in the windows in the stories above me and made a mental note to drop a mention of the (relatively) new […]
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The Twilight Zone
“Although it might feel as though you are quite still at the moment, you’re actually moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. You’ve just crossed over into … the Twilight Zone.” Those words, grabbed from one of the variations of introductions into the old TV show from which this […]
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Music Today: Sunday, Oct. 19
It’s the beginning of the new season for the Eureka Chamber Music Series, and if you missed last night’s 7:30 p.m. performance at the Calvary Lutheran Church, you can still catch the 3 p.m. matinee at Arcata Lutheran Church. Canadian American in Paris Gary Hoffman is a world-class cellist who will be performing a program […]
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Music Tonight: Saturday, Oct. 18
I’m told The Hitch show at the Shanty is sold out, so unless you know something I don’t, you’ll likely be looking for something exciting to get down to tonight. Have no fear, Makenu is here. Or rather, there at the Basement, where at 9 p.m. you can enjoy Humboldt’s finest cumbia band for a […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, Oct. 17
Here are two great shows on two different sides of Humboldt Bay for those with disparate tastes looking for some powerful fun. If you want something heavy by means of distortion and high amplitude, head over to the Void in Old Town Eureka at 6 p.m., where you will find Nevada’s electro-noise machine Gülb and […]
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Music Tonight: Thursday, Oct. 16
October genuinely feels timeless, as we transition into the darker part of the year, we are frozen in the amber of the perfect light of early fall. It seems appropriate to celebrate such a cool, smoky era by enjoying something else timeless: electric blues done right. In this county there are few contenders who meet […]
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Jeepers Creepers
The eyes are not here There are no eyes here In this valley of dying stars In this hollow valleyThis broken jaw of our lost kingdoms — From T.S. Eliot’s “The Hollow Men” Jeepers creepers, where’d you get those peepers? Well, if you are unfortunate enough to share values with the people currently executing the […]