Local beach-pop vibe merchants and purveyors of tunes retooled from the age of eight-track stereos in shag carpeted boogie vans, The California Poppies are finally ready to present their concert film The Holy Rainbow at the Minor Theatre, its place of conception two years ago. The Poppies will be joined by director Griffin Loch for […]
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Reviews, interviews and upcoming highlights from the week in visual and performing arts around Humboldt County.
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Music Tonight: Friday, Aug. 29
Here’s a good one for all you headbangers and boppers out there. Tonight’s 7 p.m. show at Moss Oak Commons features Portland’s bubbly doom and pop act Fox Medicine, along with local heroes Image Pit (hiya Dylan, it was nice meeting you the other week), Brain Dead Rejects, and the ever-heavy Psyop Victim. Roll through after 7 p.m. […]
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Music Tonight: Thursday, Aug. 28
Hermit Crab, Death Doula play tonight at The Epitome Gallery. Hermit Crab is a multi-instrumental duo that comes together to create a musical fusion of punk, dance, rock and groove music. Death Doula from Portland is in Eureka on a west coast tour.
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Walk the Dog (Without Drama)
It’s finally time! That new bundle of loyal devotion you adopted in the spring is fully vaccinated, ready to mingle and enjoy all of Humboldt’s dog-friendly areas. You naturally want to be a good citizen and an awesome pup parent, so you are prepared with poop bags, water and training treats. You have been working […]
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Greed and Getaways
RELAY. A hundred years ago, in 2016, David Mackenzie directed Taylor Sheridan’s screenplay Hell or High Water. That story, set against and amongst the devastation wrought by the 2008 collapse of the criminally exploitative American mortgage securities racket, is about individual desperation in the face of remorseless corporate greed. It is also a thrilling heist/pursuit […]
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Poetry in the Parks
Barn swallows skim the meadow breathing the summer scent of dry grass and dandelion, maneuvering tails as precise as parabolas, open mouths to catch flies with slight sideways snatches, sleek indigo wings dodge swaying heads of Harding grass, avoiding thickets of bracken fern, rust-colored torsos soar up and over, climb into the mild blue sky, […]
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Music Tonight: Wednesday, Aug. 27
The Miniplex is hosting a mid-week creepshow with Loveland, Colorado’s Doom Scroll, an acoustic crust punk band with a unique sound built on heavy picking and the loud/quiet dynamics and bratty singing from the heyday of American emo music. If that scratches your itch, come get some relief tonight at 7:30 p.m. Also on the […]
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Music Tonight: Monday, Aug. 25
I’m going to keep pumping up shows at Savage Henry Comedy Club for as long as it takes for the ship to right itself, the public to keep it afloat and beyond. I have an agenda when it comes to keeping our offbeat and one-of-a-kind clubs alive, particularly those who host all-ages shows, because Lord […]
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Music Tonight: Sunday, Aug. 24
It wouldn’t be a proper calendar year in Humco without a visit from Afroman, the busy cult-famous rapper and occasional presidential candidate whose prodigious output eclipses his early claim to fame, 2000’s “Because I Got High.” The man tours relentlessly and kicks out blunt wrapped comedy jams nearly yearly, so he’s a legend in my […]
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Music Tonight: Saturday, Aug. 23
If you are in the mood for some funky country-etched rock and folky jump blues, the Logger Bar is the place to be. After 8 p.m. you will find two fine specimens of Americana sounds from the local scene, Corduroy Gangsters and Idle Spurs. It won’t quite be a honky-tonk, but it’ll be within whistlin’ […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, Aug. 22
It’s Metal Friday over at Savage Henry Comedy Club, and tonight’s show is a special one, as it is kicking off a 24-hour telethon to raise donations for the struggling club. We don’t have very many all-ages spaces for comedy and loud, heavy music, and losing this one would be a grave blow to our […]