The Mateel Community Center is hosting a free showing of the cult film Ganjasaurus Rex at 6 p.m. Afterward, the event becomes a ticketed affair, with general admission running at $25 and VIP perks — including table service and seats near the action — going for $60. The action in question consists of two burlesque […]
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Comedy Tonight: Monday, Feb. 12
Comedian Evan Vest is holed up at Savage Henry Comedy Club for one of his curated movie screenings. This evening’s fare happens to be one of the worst films ever made, a movie so baffling and terrible that an entire cult industry has cropped up over the last two decades since its release. I am […]
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World Premiere of ‘A’-t’i Xwee-ghayt-nish: Still, We Live On
The Tolowa Dee-ni’ Nation presents the world premiere screening of the new documentary film, ‘A’-t’i Xwee-ghayt-nish: Still, We Live On, Saturday, Nov. 11, at 2 p.m. at Cal Poly Humboldt’s Native American Forum (free). The film’s synopsis states: “With their language facing extinction, the Tolowa Dee-ni’ Nation in Northern California is working against time to […]
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Movie Tonight: Wednesday, Nov. 8
Gotta hand it to the Arcata Theatre Lounge, which has managed to stump the band this week by doing the unthinkable and putting on a cult horror film from the ’80s that I haven’t seen, nor heard of. Kudos, this is usually a Jeopardy category with which I have the same comfort as a daily […]
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1919 Version of The Valley of the Giants Showing at Eureka Theater
Here’s a treat for movie buffs and fans of local history. The original 1919 version of the film The Valley of the Giants, which was filmed on location in Humboldt County and lost for 90 years, is showing now in Eureka for the first time since 1919 at the Eureka Theater, Friday, Nov. 3, and Saturday, […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, Oct. 27
Body Academics is a queer multimedia collective from Portland that will be taking over the Miniplex tonight for a double-feature showing of the group’s original sci fi musical Evil Babylon. The film, which I have read involves an evangelical race car driver whose interplanetary travels help unbind him from a background of religious repression, stars […]
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Music Tonight: Wednesday, Oct. 25
When you hear of an Ennio Morricone score accompanying a wide-brimmed hat wearing, Scotch whisky-guzzling anti-hero, you probably don’t immediately think of the frozen north and a cosmic horror beyond reckoning. That’s OK because I sure do. John Carpenter’s 1982 masterpiece The Thing is possibly the greatest practical-effects sci-fi horror flick ever made. If you […]
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Movies Tonight: Wednesday, Oct. 18
Movie night! Two features but you have to pick one because the 7:30 p.m. showtimes clash. The Arcata Theatre Lounge is playing Killer Klowns from Outer Space, which is a certified kult klassic. Get there a bit earlier if you want to snag a seat, and 6 p.m. is a good time to settle in […]
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Movies Tonight: Wednesday, Oct. 4
It’s midweek in the beginning of the spooky month, so why not go and catch a big screen presentation of a slightly macabre and murderous musical? I am talking about the 1986 Frank Oz-directed iteration of The Little Shop of Horrors, starring Rick Moranis as the nebbish florist Seymour, who finds himself in thrall with […]
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Ferndale Rep’s Spooky Movie Series Kicks off Saturday with The Invisible Man
We are on the cusp of spooky season with October imminent and many favorite classic and soon-to-be classic horror and Halloween films set to dominate TV networks and streaming services. But how wicked would it be to watch them on the big screen with a group of like-minded fans? We’re in luck. Ferndale Repertory Theatre […]
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Movie Tonight: Wednesday, Sept. 13
Two movie nights in a week? Sure, but I have a very compelling case for this one. La Planete Sauvage or, to English-speaking audiences, The Fantastic Planet is a 1973 dystopic animated science fiction flick that uses its alien subjects to underscore some of the less pleasant aspects of our own species’ behaviors. But ignoring […]
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Summer Movies Series at FRT
Ferndale Repertory Theater presents the third in its Summer Movie Series, with the musical The Wiz, starring Dianna Ross, Michael Jackson, Richard Pryor, Lena Horne and Mabel King, among others, on Saturday, Sept. 2, at 7 p.m. ($10, $5 students/seniors). Grab some concessions and ease on down the aisle to take your seat for this […]