Sometimes the thought of a multi-day music festival involving some sort of camping seems like a far-off idea for people with much more expensive and comfortable sleeping bags. And how family friendly is Coachella, really? Let’s try the low-key option happening right in Ferndale instead. The Old Hart Theater building, where Ferndale Repertory Theatre hangs […]
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Tonight’s Setlist: Strings sublime
That genre of music popularized by the great Django Reinhart has been the subject of some debate over how it’s commonly referenced. Is “gypsy jazz” a racial pejorative? My brief research yielded neither a clear answer nor cause to stop use of the phrase, so I’ll go with it for now. Self-described “Americana meets gypsy […]
Tonight’s Setlist: Beautiful and stoned
Get yer rock on Tonight, the Alibi hosts Seattle stoner rockers Ancient Warlocks. Do you like seductive, powerful riffs? Do you enjoy feeling music reverberate through your body? Do you ever experience a twinge of nostalgia for those hot desert nights making out in the back of your ’67 Mustang while the Kyuss cassette spun […]
Tonight’s Setlist: Drop everything!
SILA – The World Needs More Love from Sila on Vimeo. Usually we like to offer you a buffet of musical options, letting you choose according to your tastes, needs and desires. This week continues that tradition — but if we were to choose One Show You Must Go To, it would be Sila at […]
Search and Enjoy
All year long, we try frantically and in vain to keep our kids from eating things they find in the bushes, then we release them like packs of dogs to hunt colored eggs and goodies. We’re weird, but we’re fun. On Saturday, April 19, kids all over the county will be rooting around for treats […]
Tonight’s Setlist: Roots & Reality Reggae, R&B
Reggae star Prezident Brown brings his version of the new roots and reality consciousness reggae to Humboldt Brews. While scrolling through his online press kit for a photo, the band’s rider popped up. In case you’re wondering what the man and his band require, their needs are relatively basic: a case of water (Note: Can’t […]
Clean Up to Hoe Down
If you don’t play it right, Earth Day will be about guilt — your carbon footprint can seem a little Sasquatch in the light of everyone else’s energy-efficient bulbs. Don’t let it get that far. Unplug some appliances and go get your hands dirty. Hit up one of the bevy of environmental do-gooder groups in […]
Tonight’s Setlist
The Redwood Jazz Alliance welcomes the Michael Moore Quartet on Tuesday, April 15 at 8 p.m. at the Morris Graves Museum of Art. Known for his virtuosity, his expressiveness and his beautiful tone on clarinet, the multi-reedist is also a prolific composer with more than two dozen albums to his name. Tickets are $15 general/$10 […]
Rom-com 101
With options like Netflix, Amazon Prime and Hulu (the buffering capital of the internet), it can be hard to convince yourself to leave the house for a movie. They’re so incredibly convenient and they don’t require pants, but they do come with monthly service fees, not to mention the hassle of finding a decent unsecured […]
Tonight’s Setlist: The Magnificence that is Saturday, April 12.
Skate, chili and a Minor Threat cover band No one will accuse the folks at RampArt of being slackers. Establishing an indoor skate-art park with a focus on providing something cool for kids sounds like the kind of idea some well-intentioned post-college kids brainstorm about one afternoon, only to bail out when the reality of fundraising […]
Don’t Drop the Ball
Jugglers make it look so easy, like their hand-eye coordination isn’t bafflingly super human. That skill, that perfect rhythm of movement and pizazz, is supposedly something you can learn to do with “practice” and “effort.” Before you spend hours alone in your backyard dropping things, you’re gonna want to learn the basics. The Humboldt Juggling […]
