It is my pleasure to once again inform you that the Backseat Drivers will be holding it down at the Logger Bar this afternoon and into the early evening, starting at 4 p.m. This is a free gig, so come one and all to enjoy some finger pickin’ and harp blowin’ with a nice bass […]
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Wildwood Flower
There’s an anecdote about how the decline of the Roman Empire was experienced by the majority of people living through it. While movies and novels depict epic battles with cities falling to hordes of frontier warriors, most citizens who were ruled under the Aquila had a much less dramatic — but perhaps more meaningful — […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, May 8
It’s the second installment of Punks for Palestine over at the Outer Space tonight at 8p.m. Come join Pest, The Woke Agenda, Duo Sonic and Kult of Indifference for afundraiser for the people of Gaza who are suffering a genocide that you are not allowed to call a genocide if you want a place of […]
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Music Tonight: Thursday, May 7
The Alley Cats might not be playing in Opera Alley tonight, but they’re still one of thefinest jazz combos floating around the scene. The Basement also happens to be one of the finest venues to catch some late-week jazz. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. and the cover is only $5. What a treat.
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DirtyOld Town
I wasn’t born in Humboldt, but I spent enough of my formative years in McKinleyville to say — without flinching much — that I grew up here. And while I didn’t stick around for my whole life, I have been back in the general area for a while, and that reestablishment of residency has come […]
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Music Tonight: Tuesday, May 5
Scottish and Cape Breton-style fiddle master Hanneke Cassel is back in town to saw away at the good stuff for the lucky folks in the audience at the Arcata Playhouse tonight at 7:30 p.m. This iteration of her band is a trio with cellist and singer Tristan Clarridge along with Keith Murphy on guitar and […]
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Movie Tonight: Monday, May 4
May the Fourth Be With You, happy Star Wars Day, yada, yada, Yoda, who cares, really? Well more than a few people, apparently, so the Arcata Theatre Lounge has you covered if you are among that crew. There’s a showing this evening of Rogue One, arguably the best Star Wars entry from the last decade, […]
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Music Today: Sunday, May 3
Speaking of double-headers, here are two classy matinees for fans of instrumental music from the “classic” end of the instrumental repertoire. Garrick Woods is a CPH instructor and fantastic cellist whose chops I recently enjoyed at the Eureka Symphony early this month. He’s going to act as musical director and conductor along with fellow instructor […]
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Music Tonight: Saturday, May 2
Two bitchin’ rock shows tonight, on either side of the bay for those of you forced to take sides. First up at the Shanty at 8 p.m. you will find the mighty Black Plate at what is likely to be their last show until the harvest moon of fall comes tickling down from the sky. […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, May 1
Bay Area indie-jazz act Heart Matter will be jamming at the Arcata Playhouse tonight at 7 p.m. I’m notoriously a sucker for a vibraphone-heavy sound, and plonker Dillon Vado jams on some locally produced Marimba One gear, so more points in his favor. Singer Amy D provides the other portion of the melodic centerpiece to […]
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Music Tonight: Thursday, April 30
Humbrews has been peeking its head out of the wet loam and into the sunshine with a fine run of shows. This week’s calendar has more heat under the bonnet than the previous ones, suggesting no end to the building head of steam, and tonight has a lot of horsepower. Tony Furtado is an OG […]
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Rosebuds
April ends with this issue, along with a microdosing session of damnation in my house that began with an early Holy Saturday and ended with a rewatch of Citizen Kane last weekend. The connective tissue between these events came courtesy of a revisit to Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy, where, sometime around April 10, 1300 A.D., […]