Previews Rhona Mitra (The Practice; Boston Legal)leads a team of scientists to a quarantined Scotland in Doomsday in an attempt to find a cure for a lethal virus known as the Reaper, which is once again threatening the human race. The team failed to account for survivors of the original virus, who may turn out […]
Arts + Scene
Reviews, interviews and upcoming highlights from the week in visual and performing arts around Humboldt County.
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Noble Savages
Previews We are not yet graced locally with The Other Boleyn Girl, so what we get instead on Friday, March 7, is 10,000 B.C. This may make some hearts go pitter-pat, but mine must be too worn out. The plot, involving a mammoth hunter (relatively unknown Steven Straight) who has to go on a quest […]
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Pollution as Art
Walking into the Foyer Gallery on the HSU campus yesterday, I was overwhelmed with a feeling of oppression. The installation piece there consists of a net of plastic garbage, glued, stapled and tied together and suspended from the ceiling. The idea is to give the viewer a feel for what it might be like in […]
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Photographic Alchemy
Call it alchemy. It isn’t, really, but there is a certain degree of sorcery involved in the creation of a fine photo using the old-school method. You know, the kind of print made back in the day, when photographers used film and did their post-shoot work in a darkroom, not at a computer screen. More […]
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‘El Shining’: ¡Muy bueno!
Previews Laura Linney didn’t win an Oscar for The Savages, which opens at long last locally on Friday, Feb. 29, losing out to French actress Marion Cotillard, but Philip Seymour Hoffman won a Best Actor Spirit Award for the film, and the film took Best Screenplay for Tamara Jenkins (Slums of Beverly Hills) at the […]
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Jump Me Outta Here!
Previews Finally arriving locally on Friday, Feb. 22, is the Mexican ghost story The Orphanage , a first feature from Juan Antonio Bayona wherein Laura (Belén Rueda) purchases her childhood home to open an orphanage only to discover that her son’s imaginary friend is anything but benign. In Spanish with English subtitles. Rated R for […]
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‘The Golden State’ Heads South: Dell’Arte returns to L.A.
"It was a performance in Los Angeles in 1981 that kind of put Dell’Arte on the map," Michael Fields, the Dell’Arte Company’s producing artistic director, recalled last week. "We were doing Intrigue at Ah-Pah at the Odyssey Theatre." After the first weekend, when Fields was sleeping on a borrowed floor, someone handed him a copy […]