Arts

This summer’s political musical comedy by the San Francisco Mime Troupe is fairly self-referential. 2012: The Musical! finds the members of the left-leaning theater company playing members of Theater BAM!, a left-leaning theater company struggling to get by while putting on none-too-commercial shows like the Shakespearean political comedy, The Revolution Will Not Be Downloaded. While […]

Fortuna knows how to rip the fun band-aid off. For 50 weeks a year, the friendly city keeps it low key as the Humboldtian small town America-standard bearer. Kids go to school. Parents go to work. Boats don’t rock. Not much. But for two consecutive July weeks a year, Fortuna exhausts itself and cranks up […]

Fire is a primal thing. It creates innate reactions in people. All over the world, and throughout history, mankind has gathered around fire. Playing with fire in not uncommon. Some create art using fire. The term “fire arts” covers a wide spectrum of performance, art and effects that have one thing in common: flames. Whether […]

You know, the Fourth of July was already a pretty sweet holiday. Break it down: you get explosions, barbecue, baseball games, singing — albeit, generally horrible songs — and — sometimes — summer sunshine, mama! All in all, exceptional day. Every freakin’ year. But when the folks at the calendar factory were drawing up this […]

If you’ve ever hung out at the Arcata Farmers’ Market after the band is done playing, you’ve probably seen Shea FreeLove, the Human Marvel. He typically sets up on the lawn with his act du jour, perhaps escaping from a straight jacket, walking barefoot on broken glass, or, an old favorite, having someone pound a […]

The fleeting nature of sand castles is such that they’ve become a metaphor for all things ephemeral. As Jimi Hendrix pointed out in song, “Castles made of sand, fall into the sea, eventually.” If the tide doesn’t get them, they fall down anyway when they dry out. Why? Well, it’s basic physics, or perhaps not […]

Do you live in Humboldt County whilst simultaneously boasting a pulse? Yes? In that case, my informing you that this Saturday, June 18 from 10 a.m.-5 p.m., the Arcata Plaza is the site of the 21st Annual Arcata Main Street Oyster Festival would likely just insult you. At this juncture in history, it is the […]

Being from a sparsely populated and isolated region, you can understand why Humboldtians get excited whenever we’re noticed by outsiders. “OMG! Did you hear Humboldt got name-dropped in the (insert name of reputable media)?!” C’mon, you know you get excited. It happens fairly regularly. In the last several years, HumCo has been significantly highlighted for […]