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Reviews, interviews and upcoming highlights from the week in visual and performing arts around Humboldt County.
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Events this Weekend: A gala, a block party, a beer fest and Woofstock!
There’s lots going on this weekend. Check out the highlights here, and visit northcoastjournal.com for more of what’s going on. Thanks for reading and have a great weekend. Step right up to the big top circus tent at 1275 Eighth St. in Arcata’s Creamery District for the Twenty Years of Wonder Gala on Friday, July […]
Posted inPoetry
Ode to Color
in your Little Red Corvettewith the floral interior,like Crimson and Clover,you manage to catch the Green Light en route to a White Weddingat the house of worshipwith Gold on the Ceiling where sits outside a Pink Cadillacdragging Silver Bells,prepared to take the young rockerswith the Brown Eyes past Fields of Grayto the Yellow Submarine hotelfloating […]
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Happy Murder
As the wind begins the crows emergeready to play tag, chortle, caw . . . make that special sound only they can make, take flight over rocky shoals into ocean misttheir numbers increase as day descends upon the dense pines that line the graveyard of our tiny coastal town Great swaths of green leafy boughs breathe and billowas corvid come […]
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Homecoming Surprises
THE INVITE was titillatingly teased (for what felt like years) as a sex comedy of manners, a will-they-or-won’t-they about two couples of a certain age circling each other in an apartment brought uncomfortably close by erotic tension. And while it certainly is that, one of the many pleasant surprises it holds — and a testament […]
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Pervasive Invasive
So much suffering pervades the world, bad newsinvades our mindstream. Searching for how to helpwe still need ways to gain some equanimity. My way: pack a water bottle, pen and paperin an old cloth bag to sit on later,set off for a slow-paced forest walk. Wild cucumber blooms along the pathtwinberry branches drape across the […]
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Schnabel’s Inferno
IN THE HAND OF DANTE. It can be reflexive — instinctive, even — when confronted with a grand-to-grandiose work, especially one that spans genres as quickly as it does centuries, to dismiss it as muddled, misguided or unaware of its own intentions. But this reaction dismisses the work’s substance, the meaning that compels the artist […]
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Beyond Reason
Hydrogen enlightenedAll we can possibly see, When nothing created everything. As I plod along now decipheringAll the clueless information One thing is clear: Somehow we are all a part ofSomething wonderful forever… I can live with that! — Kirk Gothier
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Micro Hustlers
In news that’s not really news, Jackass is quite old and the cinema branch of DC has issued a sputtering salvo in the pointless, unwinnable, poorly timed war with Marvel. In the case of the former, Jackass: Best and Last would appear to be a pragmatic coda, a sort of clip-show send-off from a group […]
Posted inFront Row
Prodigal Fun
Even if you don’t have fond flashback memories of the late Joan Schirle in the role of Mary Jane and the music from the 2011 production of Mary Jane the Musical, I highly recommend seeing Mary Jane the Musical 2: The Grandson at the outdoor Dell’Arte Amphitheater stage in Blue Lake. (Dress warmly, bring a […]
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Waxwings
The dawn after you diedThe cedar waxwings cameFirst one, then a dozen, then a throngThe cotoneaster, twenty-thousand berries strongSupported them easily The tree got taller as the birds got fullerThen the empty-nester stood too tallTo see its flock dig up their leavingsFrom the ground below Six feet under another treeTwenty-thousand secondsSince life felled youLies a […]
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“Obsession” is a Hard Watch, Hard Recommend
OBSESSION. Stephen King once wrote that many of his best stories started with a “What if?” What if vampires invaded a small New England village? What if a bullied high school girl turned out to have supernatural powers? What if the person you love suddenly loves you back, and that turns out to be the […]