SoHum photographer Kim Sallaway is one of those people who carries a camera at all times — just in case. He always wants to be ready should some image present itself, some magic moment that cries out for capture. For the last couple of months he’s been sorting through thousands of images he’s collected over […]
Arts + Scene
Reviews, interviews and upcoming highlights from the week in visual and performing arts around Humboldt County.
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Lindsay Lohan’s bad week
Previews Opening Friday, August 3 is the concluding film of the Bourne trilogy, The Bourne Ultimatum , which began in 2002 with The Bourne Identity . These spy thrillers, based on the novels of Robert Ludlum, are on my all-time top five list for this genre (which, pending my actually seeing Ultimatum , only leaves […]
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Shue, nerd — NCRT’s new production trapped in the ’80s
If you’re interested in a summer night out, perhaps contributing to a worthy cause while seeing some friends and having some laughs, the North Coast Repertory Theatre production of The Nerd will probably satisfy. If your demands and desires are greater, maybe not so much. This comedy is set in Terre Haute, Ind., in the […]
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Homer & Hairspray
Previews Fans of Homer Simpson, and they are legion, need no introduction to his big-screen debut in The Simpsons Movie after 18 seasons on TV. The story is not a surprise: Homer must save the world from a disaster of his own making. With a new pet pig and the familiar cast of voices that […]
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Beyond fingerpainting: A full palette of kiddie art options at the Graves
My son has been exposed to art pretty much from the get-go. When he was one month old, I helped hang a gallery show at the Ink People with him in a sling and then stayed for the opening reception. He went to his first poetry reading at about four months. I drag him around […]
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Hairspray, Larry and Harry
Previews I suppose the major opening on Friday, July 20, is Hairspray , a film musical based on the successful Broadway musical that was, in turn, based on John Waters’ 1988 campy film comedy of the same name. There is no John Waters in sight here, as the film version is directed by sometime choreographer […]
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‘Ratatouille’ charms, ‘Transformers’ disappoints
Previews Opening Wednesday, July 11, is one of the major films of the summer: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix . The fifth in the Boy Wizard series features the usual all-star cast of British actors and new director David Yates who will also helm the sixth Harry Potter ( Half-Blood Prince ). […]
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Full Stoppard: A cuckoo clock goes mad in Ashland
In the OSF production of Tom Stoppard’s On the Razzle, Weinberl (Rex Young, right) appears in the nick of time, as an astonished Zangler (Tony DeBruno, center) reacts and Christopher (Tasso Feldman) looks on. Photo by David Cooper. Playwright Tom Stoppard, who turned 70 on July 3, is having quite a year. After a triumphant […]
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First Street Gallery abides
If you’re like me and you enjoy watching artists develop from the earliest stages of their careers, you’ll be interested in the exhibition at the First Street Gallery this month. The Young Alumni 2007 show features works by 17 recent graduates: paintings, photographs, prints and clay sculptures by artists with lots of energy and talent.Gallery […]
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Write more righter: Hone skillz with the masters on the banks of the Mattole
I’ve been taking a painting class for several years now. I didn’t think I’d like oil painting, but the process is surprisingly similar to writing and I’m drawn to it for that reason. A writer has to put boundaries around a story, to figure out where it begins and ends. The painter has to do […]
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Charlie’s vacation, staffers preview
Charlie is off on a classical music binge in Portland this week so we’ve brought in Jay Herzog (who wrote "Battle for Boomer Jack" for us a few weeks back) as a guest reviewer — but diehard movie buff that Charlie is, he went to the opening of the latest Bruce Willis Die Hard flick […]
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Another festival, another show — Collective joy at Dell’Arte’s Mad River Fest
They ride beneath a diamond blue evening sky, with the silhouetted solitude of gold-green hills surrounding, and passing of course the wide phantom waters of the Blue Lake. They walk from quiet streets through the unassuming fence into the big backyard called the Rooney Amphitheatre. They seem mostly of the current theatre-going age: early to […]