Years ago, when I was sluicing off layers of the ooze of deep irony in which I and many other older millennials were minted, I started thinking about the effects of that caul we were born and burdened with. One of the defining qualities of certain seers of my generation is a bitter clarity that […]
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Music Today: Sunday, June 14
The Summer Music Series at the Humboldt Botanical Garden continues its festival Sunday celebrations with an Irie Rockerz show from 1 to 3 p.m. If you’d like to enjoy some tunes by some of SoHum’s favorite reggae regulators, the ticket pricing is as follows: $10 for general admission, $7 for seniors in that grouping, $5 […]
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Music Tonight: Saturday, June 13
I’m not here to either sell or slag off Oyster Fest. There are more than enough voices out there slinging all the cheers and jeers to top off anyone with a set of eyes and ears — willing or otherwise. Let people have fun, I say, whether that fun involves advocating for or talking shit […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, June 12
Back to the Miniplex again tonight because that place is absolutely cooking with good shows this week. Tonight’s headliners are dear to my heart, as they are among the fine flock of critters I got to enjoy as a teenager long ago in my old home of New Orleans. I’m talking about the fabulous synth […]
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Music Tonight: Thursday, June 11
Sir Richard Bishop has been here before, and has thankfully now come again, right on the cusp of the solstice — the summer’s brightest edge — in a year when we could all use something transmundane to drag us out of the muck and toward the light. For those of you who haven’t heard his […]
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The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
There’s a certain magic about waking up in an unfamiliar place at an unusual time. Even when pain and confusion are involved, there’s still a special glow surrounding the experience. One that I suspect serious alcoholics and other addicts simply register as standard turbulence in the regular flight logs they file in pursuit of those […]
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Music Tonight: Wednesday, June 10
I have mentioned the UFC once previously in this space because it caught my attention. I am of course referring to the local Ukulele Fight Club, which is not only having another workshop at Arcata’s D Street Community Center at 6 p.m. this evening, but also sponsoring a concert an hour later. The performing act […]
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Music Tonight: Tuesday, June 9
The experimental jazz ensemble Strange Meeting has been having a regular practice meet up on Tuesdays at the Basement — when the joint is closed — for some time now. This has allowed the trumpeter Nicholas Talvola, sax player Russ Thallheimer, key-man Alex Espe and bassist/drummer rhythm section duo Ian Taylor and Shane Fox to […]
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Music Tonight: Sunday, June 7
The virtuosic sisters Natalie and Brittany (on cello and fiddle, respectively) form the duo HAAS, which is appropriately titled after their shared surname. They also share a love of all things string, weaving through the contemporary landscape of folk-to-classical genres with a supernatural grace. The ladies have been here before with different acts, but this […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, June 5
How about another free rock show at the Shanty tonight? This one is full of local critters, all from the neighborhood of punk and metal, but represent some of the coolest cats on that block. So come through at 9 p.m. and check out the bangin’ and clangin’ of Berk and the Jerx, Ultramafic and […]
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Music Tonight: Thursday, June 4
Philadelphia’s Cigarettes for Breakfast is currently on its first West Coast tour and making a stop at Outer Space tonight at 7 p.m. to share some loud and lovely shoegaze music. The genre, which, at nearly 40 must be older than any of the band’s members, is originally a mostly British phenomenon known for lush […]
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Sideways
This one goes to a hard deadline and print on the first Election Day of 2026 for us Californicators, so bear that in mind while reading whatever comes next. Regarding the gubernatorial race, I am tempted to write “whoever wins, we lose,” but that’s not my exact sentiment. I’ll be cautiously optimistic if Tom Steyer […]