Early last year, six Eureka teens were moved to action when a peer was involved in a violent crime. This was not the first incident – they had been aware for some time of dangerous levels of drug use and violent behavior among their cohort. Enough was enough, they thought. It was time to do […]
Arts + Scene
Reviews, interviews and upcoming highlights from the week in visual and performing arts around Humboldt County.
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North Coast Rep and Prep
Though the most enduring character in the Henry IV plays is Falstaff (wildly popular in Shakespeare’s time and later the subject of a novel, symphony, several operas and Orson Welles’ amazing film, The Chimes At Midnight) they are mainly about Prince Hal, and his journey to become the heroic Henry V. The play of that […]
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OSF Review
North Coast stages were relatively quiet in recent weeks (which is about to change – see below) so it was a good time to catch the early offerings at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland. Four of the eventual 11 plays this season are playing now. Two will continue through the summer (Shakespeare’s As You […]
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Wild, Wild Horses
The cave paintings of Lascaux are some of the oldest known artworks, dating from between 13,000 to 25,000 BC. Among the paintings are depictions of horses with short, thick heads and stocky bodies. The similarity between these horse paintings and the takhi horses, the last wild horse species in the world, is striking. That’s something […]
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Painting in Paris
It was raining the day we first met Axel Marchand. Micki and I had taken shelter under a long canopy with a tin roof, in an area just off the Champs Elysees, after getting rained out of the place we’d originally planned to paint that day. We started new paintings under the shelter, with the […]
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More Than Refrigerator Paintings
The first weekend in March is going to be pretty exciting, and not just because it’s my birthday. Humboldt State will be hosting the Education Encounter, which combines the forces of the Diversity Conference and the Education Summit. The Education Summit was initiated by the late Eric Rofes, whose untimely death last year left the […]
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Celia Homesley’s Crimson Leaves
Celia Homesley’s first book of poetry, Body of Crimson Leaves, is an absolutely lovely collection of quietly beautiful poems. Most of us don’t buy many books of poetry in a year, but I suggest that you start off 2007 by adding this one to your library. You can also meet Celia at Booklegger this Saturday […]
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New Life for an Arcata Landmark?
In cities across the country big and small, new artistic energies have often found focus in abandoned industrial districts, where fine old buildings with lots of space offer opportunities for lofts, studios and performance venues, plus the people-oriented businesses that come to surround them. Now and again the old Creamery in Arcata, in the largely […]
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Here’s Looking at You
Did you ever get the feeling someone was watching you? These days, most likely someone is. What with security cameras, web cams, airport screening devices and the like, you are probably being watched more often than you realize. With privacy such a beloved right in this country, that’s likely to get a few people hot […]
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Jake’s Women – Lively Production, Problematic Play
There’s a particular interest in a writer seeing a play about a writer who is too much the observer and not enough the participant in his own life, especially when one is among those reviewers who began as a participant in theatre – as a playwright, actor, director and even a song composer, and whose […]
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NPA’s Youthful Dream Concludes, NCRT’s Midlife Fantasy Ahead
You can still catch The Dream Play at the Van Duzer – its run concludes with 8 p.m. performances on Wednesday (Jan. 24) and Thursday (Jan. 25). These Young Actors Guild shows from the Northcoast Preparatory and Performing Arts Academy are unique. They bring together young people devoted to an arts-based education with visionary theatrical […]