Previews The big opening on Friday, March 27 is the computer-animated Monsters vs. Aliens, which is being released in 3-D. Susan Murphy (voiced by Reese Witherspoon) grows to 49′1″ after being conked by space junk on the way to her wedding. Captured by the military, she is housed with other monsters who become assets when […]
Arts + Scene
Reviews, interviews and upcoming highlights from the week in visual and performing arts around Humboldt County.
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Beyond Craven
Note to a Reader: Fred Hummel’s letter in the March 12 Journal makes the valuable point that the Sabra and Shatila massacres during the 1982 Lebanese War resulted from the Israeli Army’s enlisting of the Christian militia to purge the camps of "terrorists." Waltz with Bashir does allude to this fact, so I don’t want […]
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Hallelujah?
Previews The reinvented Dwayne Johnson, formerly known as "The Rock," stars in Race to Witch Mountain, itself a "reimagining" of the 1975 film Escape to Witch Mountain. Johnson is a Las Vegas cab driver who teams up with an astrophysicist (Carla Gugino from Watchmen) to rescue siblings (Anna Sophia Robb, Jumper and Alexander Ludwig) who […]
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Art on the Town
Old Town Eureka shimmered with energy, as it typically does the first Saturday evening of each month. Hundreds of people swarming the streets, absorbing not only the art but the ambiance, the thrill of being out and about in a creative community. The north wind didn’t chill enthusiasm in the slightest. Arts Alive! is as […]
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A "Victory" Garden in Ferndale
My neighbor is planting A "Victory" garden, Behind…
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The Massacre Remembered
Preview Opening Friday, March 6, is the long anticipated Watchmen, the latest superhero film based on the comic book series written by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. Directed by Zack Snyder (300), the story is set in an alternate history 1985 (Nixon is president) against the backdrop of rising tensions between the U.S. and the […]
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A Suggestion of Narrative
There was an eerie hush as crowds of people filed quietly past Karen Sullivan’s drawings and paintings during Arts Alive! at First Street Gallery. Three good sized spaces offered pen and ink drawings, gouache paintings, 3×5-inch drawings enclosed helter-skelter in a glass case center stage with their digital counterparts across the way and an installation […]
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Happy Family
Happy Family is a novel whose ironic title refers to a Manhattan family that is far from happy. We see this family through the eyes of an immigrant named Hua from Fu Zhou, China. Author Wendy Lee is Chinese-American, and it is as if she took her own disparate experiences (teaching English in China and […]
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The Six Things a River Might Say, If It Were to Speak
I) There is no such thing as a…
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Puppets in Hell
The Independent Eye’s Mythic Kitchen troupe, based in Sebastopol, returned to the North Coast last weekend for two shows at the Arcata Playhouse. With this version of their Rash Acts, they were trying something new, more or less. They’ve used puppets before — co-founder Elizabeth Fuller, who brought her show Dream House to the Playhouse […]