Just because van Gogh died in penury and obscurity doesn’t mean you have to. For one thing, Fortuna First Friday is looking for more artists to show at a number of local businesses. Email fortunadowntown@sbcglobal.net and find a home for your masterpieces. Already got a show booked? The Humboldt Arts Council is taking grant applications […]
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Tonight’s Setlist: Anti-folk Folk
We’ve two women enticing you out tonight. At the Van Duzer, longtime political commentator Ani DiFranco will entertain you with songs infused with insight, righteousness, humor and compassion. Tickets run $45 general, $22 HSU students. Local astounding success story Jenny Scheinman opens at 8 p.m. Down the hill, neo-folk artist Diane Cluck plays Mazzotti’s (yes, Mazzotti’s!) in support […]
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Tonight’s Setlist: Garage Rock a Go Go, Benefit for the Blind
Two highlights for you tonight — both sound like a gas, so why not start in Blue Lake and work your way back west? The Logger Bar presents the “triumphant” return of Garage Rock Au Go-Go where a collection of Humboldt’s raddest DJs will infuse the night with garage rock, moldies, rockabilly, psychedelic and, they say, […]
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DDD in Humboldt: Creole Edition
Sweet Mama Janisse of Bless My Soul is already kind of a big deal (have you had her Voodoo pudding?), but tonight you can see her work some Creole kitchen magic on Guy Fieri’s Diners, Drive-ins and Dives at 10 p.m. on the Food Network. The episode will feature shrimp and crawfish étouffée and jerk chicken leg […]
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Tonight’s Setlist: ‘Come out and meet those people your Momma warned you about!’
Technically, Mardi Gras aka “Fat Tuesday” offers you a chance to get your feast on before the penitential season of Lent begins on Ash Wednesday. Even if you don’t observe the Catholic customs, you can indulge in several celebrations this week, beginning with Where’s Queer Bill’s Mardi Gras Masquerade Dance Party tonight. The successful monthly […]
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Big Time
Speaking of classics, the Van Duzer Theatre has a pair of big-time, high-cred shows this week. Did you spend the ’90s curled up with your journal in a coffee shop, sweater sleeves well past your fingertips? Wait, are you doing that right now? Good news! Indie elder stateswoman Ani DiFranco brings her guitar-slapping, personal and […]
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Classic
When the Eureka Theater first opened 75 years ago, seeing one movie cost a quarter. And they’ve gotten cheaper! To celebrate its diamond anniversary, the art deco beauty (so she needs a little work — not everybody is Helen Mirren) is running an all-day movie marathon on Saturday, March 1 from noon to midnight for […]
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Tonight’s Setlist: Irish thrills
Irish band Lunasa hits the Arcata Playhouse tonight! This is a serious opportunity to see the festival headliners in an intimate venue. In addition to being fine musicians of the Celtic persuasion, the band members have a sense of humor befitting the theatrical space — when last at the Playhouse in 2012, they took a […]
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Tonight’s Setlist: All The Reasons You Should Go Out
Motherlode First and foremost, Motherlode is releasing a debut live CD, All in Good Time featuring DJ Logic, Bill Summers and legendary trombonist Fred Wesley. Drummer Pete Ciotti — whose other bands include Nucleus and Full Moon Fever, and who owns both the Jambalaya and Big Pete’s Pizzeria — sat down along with his very […]
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Tonight’s Setlist: Shake off your love-hangover
Moving on from Valentine’s, but keeping the romance and luck going with either the Hot Tuna show (beloved blues rockers at Humboldt Brews, tickets are $40, probably sold out, with a 9 p.m. start time) or the Songwriter Circle of Death with TheBoredAgain, Kyle La Chinga, The Weavetown and Gabe Rose Hell (Humboldt real deal […]