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May is National Bike Month and our bike-friendly area has plenty of activities planned to encourage people to tool around on two instead of four wheels. This week, Siren’s Song Tavern is showing short films at the all-ages Humboldt Bike Shorts Film Night on Thursday, May 12 at 7 p.m. (free). Fortuna’s Sport & Cycle […]

The weather has been a lot nicer lately, giving us a little taste of summer and leaving us itching for a good, old-fashioned, outdoor festival. Fortunately, the good folks at the Blue Ox Historic Village and School hammer one out each May. This Saturday, May 7, the village welcomes the coming of summer with its […]

To bee or not to bee? That is the question. Our fuzzy friends have fallen on tough times lately. Bees are pretty darn important in the grand scheme of things and it appears our need and greed may be killing off the little buggers. Thanks to environmentally conscious social media circles, laypeople are learning how […]

It has its own museum, it spawned an infamous Monty Python sketch/song (and subsequent musical), and has been added to tech vernacular to mean an unwanted abundance of junk email. You know what we’re talking about: SPAM, of course. SPAM, SPAM, lovely SPAM! It’s preserved so well in the annals of history (and in its […]

Before their time, it seems, the purveyors of the soundtracks of our lives are parting ways with us, leaving legions of broken hearts. This past week, we lost another great: The Purple One. His Royal Badness. Prince. Like Bowie, Prince leaves behind a few celluloid impressions, including 1984’s Purple Rain, showing Saturday, April 30 at the Eureka Theater at 7:30 p.m. ($5). As a film for film’s […]

The Humboldt International Film Festival, the world’s oldest student-run film festival, returns to the Minor Theater (reopening for this event) April 20-23 with screenings nightly at 7 p.m. ($5 each night). Humboldt State University students invited independent filmmakers from around the world and whittled 225 submitted shorts from more than 25 countries down to 37 […]

When was the last time you laced up a pair of skates and chased your equilibrium around a rink with disco lights swirling, the beat of your favorite song and a sturdy wall helping you along? If it was back when you parted your hair down the middle, flipped the sides back and tucked a […]

The 21st annual Godwit Days Spring Migration Bird Festival takes place April 13 through April 19, countywide. Fans of the long-beaked, long-legged, flying, black-tailed mollusk eaters will flock to fields, marshes and other habitats to see thousands of the shorebirds and others during this celebration of the myriad bird species in the area. The week-long […]

Get ready for an out-of-this-world evening of music, fine dining and mind and glass-blowing entertainment. It’s time for Spectacular! Spectacular!, KMUD’s annual fundraiser at the Arcata Community Center, Saturday, April 9 from 7 p.m. to 1 a.m. ($100 dinner and show, $40 show only). This year’s theme sets its sights high with an Intergalactic Garden […]

The students at Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theatre have been digging deep for the strongest emotions and gut-wrenching moments. Sound a bit over the top? Intense? That’s melodrama. And it’s on display this weekend in Blue Lake. Dell’Arte‘s first year ensemble leaves it all on the stage during Blood and Thunder: Melodrama Lives from Thursday, March […]

The Arcata Playhouse’s Family Fun Series opens this weekend with the award-winning Australian Windmill Theatre’s Big Bad Wolf on Friday, March 11 at 7 p.m. and March 12 at 2 and 7 p.m. ($12, $10 kids 12 and under). This year, the Playhouse celebrates 10 years of bringing kids to the theater and the theater to the kids, at schools […]

The 18th annual International Latino Film Festival lights up Mill Creek Cinema March 1 through 3 at 6 p.m. ($5 per film, free to students enrolled in specific classes at HSU/CR). This collaboration of Humboldt State University’s Department of World Languages and Cultures and College of the Redwoods’ Arts and Humanities Department lets viewers enjoy […]