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They’re baaack … After taking last year off, the creative minds behind the Kinetic Lab of Horrors are ready to serve up some serious scares, shrieks and shivers at the Kinetic Sculpture Lab, Eighth and N streets in Arcata, starting Wednesday, Oct. 28 and running nightly through Oct. 31 from 7 p.m. to midnight ($12). The brains behind the brains have built a spooktacular house of horrors crawling with special […]

“By the pricking of my thumbs/ Something wicked this way comes.” Ladies and gentlemen, prepare yourself for the gravest show on earth when a haunted circus rolls into town. Big Top thrills and carnival chills take center ring at the historic Eureka Inn for Cirque de Soulless, the Rotary Club of Southwest Eureka’s fiendishly fun fundraiser, Saturday, […]

Celebrate the abundance of good living in the quaint town of Blue Lake this weekend at the annual Blue Lake Harvest Days. There you’ll find a cornucopia of music, dancing, food, drinks, crafts, decorations and more. On Saturday, Oct. 24, grown-ups can knock back a few at the All Day Hoppy Hour at Mad River […]

What is life like for veterans returning from war? What happens “over there” and what happens “in here” for those who serve, and for their families? Frequently, returning veterans experience alienation and invisibility as they integrate back into a society that has not experienced what they have. Through a three-part series of workshops over the […]

One of science fiction’s best B movies comes to the Eureka Theater on Friday, Oct. 16 at 7:30 p.m. when the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) drops from the projector and onto the screen ($5). Hang onto on your seat. This one’ll scare the plants off of you. Kevin McCarthy plays a doctor who returns to his hometown to find worried […]

The Clarke Museum is hosting two fun events this Saturday, Oct. 10. From noon until 3 p.m., enjoy Archaeology and Cultural Awareness Day, a free day at the museum as part of Archaeology Month. Join the Clarke Museum, California State Parks, Redwood National Park, and the Humboldt State University Anthropology Club for demonstrations on local Native American basket weaving, flint knapping and more. People of all ages can participate in make-and-take art […]

What good is sitting alone in your room? There are kitties to spay! Life is a cabaret, old chum. Come to the cabaret. The Alley Cat Cabaret & Purrlesque at the Arcata Theatre Lounge Oct. 10 at 8 p.m. ($25-100) is a fundraiser for Companion Animal Foundation (a local nonprofit that provides spay/neuter assistance and […]

You might as well move into the Arcata Theatre Lounge this week because shinema’s getting reel. Iron out a few fivers and kick off the Halloween season. First up is The Shining, playing Oct. 9 at 8 p.m. ($5). Recovering alcoholic writer Jack Torrance hits the winding road with his neurotic wife and psychic son […]

For those of us who wished we had lived in the land of Ladyhawke, made magic with Merlin and shared ale with Arthur ’round the table, there is a Festivus for the rest of us and its name is the Medieval Festival of Courage. Taking place Saturday, Oct. 3 and Sunday, Oct. 4 from 10 […]

Fortuna’s annual Apple Harvest Festival, Oct. 2 to 4 (free admission) is always a barrel of fun for the whole family. The celebration kicks off Friday, 6:30 to 10:30 p.m. at the Fortuna Rodeo Grounds, with cider sipping and music at Taste of the Harvest (21-and-over, $25, $10 sober drivers), benefiting Wild Souls Ranch. Saturday‘s […]

“For what we are about to see next, we must enter quietly into the realm of genius.” Tru dat, Dr. Frankenstein. From the collaborative genius of Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder comes Young Frankenstein, the story of Dr. Frederick Frankenstein, grandson of the infamous Victor (Mary Shelley’s scientist with the God complex), who struggles to […]

These days you can’t throw a bocce ball without hitting, well, a bocce ball. Might as well join ’em. Have a ball this Sunday, Sept. 27 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Sons of Italy Italian Festival at Redwood Fields Bocce Court in Cutten (free admission). This family friendly festa features a bocce […]