For those who were turned away from the standing-room-only performances of A Midsummer’s Night Dream in 2011, you are in luck. Director Heather Sorter has restaged her original ballet — a dance version of Shakespeare’s romantic comedy of errors — for the large venue of Eureka High Auditorium. This soiree into the Bard’s land of enchantments […]
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Bob Dylan’s Birthday Bash
Blue Lake lived up to its rep with a beautiful sunset as Josephine Johnson snapped some pix at the annual Bob Dylan Birthday Bash at Mad River Brewery.
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So Long, Furlong: Director Leaves North Coast Dance
Danny Furlong will be leaving North Coast Dance after 11 years as artistic director, the dance company announced today. During his years at the dance company, Furlong worked to make dance classes more accessible to the community, teaching dance with College of the Redwoods and helping get scholarships for dance students. In addition to staging […]
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Giant Bugs! Bicycles! It’s Race Time
It’s not often you see grown men pedaling giant insects through the middle of Old Town, but this is one of them. The Kinetic Grand Championship (the Sculpture Race, to most people) has been rolling along, in one form or another, for over 40 years now (probably due to a lack of friction, yes, physics!). […]
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Arkley Center Announces Closure
The Arkley Center for the Performing Arts, the downtown Eureka fixture of dance and symphony, announced it will close for an indefinite period of time. Theater manager Carly Robbins confirmed that the news was handed down from Security National — Rob Arkley’s real estate and investment company — last week, but said any further information […]
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Women and Song
Humboldt’s got some strong women, some fierce women, some powerful women, some outrageous women, but even so, our badass women don’t always get the recognition that they’re due. Trinidad musician Maria Bartlett noticed that lack of recognition in our music scene, and so she did something about it. Bartlett launched a monthly women-only performance series […]
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Let It Commence
Graduation: that final, traditional hurdle between a priceless education and decades of paying off student loans. It’s the magical time of year when justifiably proud parents struggle to understand exactly what the deal is with Arcata, while their matriculated children try to understand exactly what the deal is with their parents. On Saturday, May 18, […]
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Sail Away
photo by Bob Doran Jason Hodel Driving into work the other morning I was in no mood for the news on all the public radio stations, too much war and trouble. I pushed the button for some “radio without the rules” and found commercials. The pirate station was off the air, too early for pirates […]
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Blues Fest Fades on Stormy Monday
“They call it stormy Monday, but Tuesday’s just as bad.” So said blues great T-Bone Walker. For local blues fans, Monday’s news was definitely bad. It’s off. No Blues by the Bay this coming Labor Day weekend. When we put out the Summer of Fun Summer Festival Guide last week, we reported that the local […]
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Paul Taylor’s Dancers Deliver, then Disappoint
Despite Paul Taylor’s importance as a choreographer and the superhuman talent of his dancers, for some time he hadn’t been my favorite among 20th century modern dance masters. During Musical Offering, the ambitious opening dance at the Van Duzer on Tuesday evening, I became a born-again fan. This contemporary tribal dance revolves around a clan’s […]
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Every Mom’s Kinetic Dream
All children have asked themselves, “How do I show my mom how much I love her while simultaneously gaining a better knowledge of physics?” To the great relief of children and mothers everywhere, The Kinetic Universe and the Rutabaga Royal Family have supplied an answer. On Mother’s Day, Sunday, May 12, the Eureka Waterfront Amphitheater […]