Jan. 30 is civil rights leader Fred Korematsu’s birthday and California honors his legacy with the annual Fred Korematsu Day Of Civil Liberties and the Constitution. This year, join Humboldt Asians & Pacific Islanders in Solidarity (HAPI, formerly Taiko Swing Humboldt) and Humboldt State University’s Asian Desi Pacific Islander Collective, the HSU Library, and the […]
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Virtual Veils: Photos of Saturday’s Remote Dance Performance
My original plan for Saturday evening was to stay home and watch the live-streamed Arcata Playhouse Arts presentation Intersections, Where We Meet. The Playhouse’s theater venue has been closed for months and I was intrigued by the potential of seeing more than 40 performers and eight pieces featuring dancers, classical musicians, storytellers, a clown, poets […]
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The Show Must Go Online: Dell’Arte’s Virtual Season
Despite the Mad River Festival being pushed back to September and a handful of scheduled performances canceled due to shelter-in-place orders, Dell’Arte International is not sitting idle. In a press release, Artistic Director Michael Fields says, “Uncharted times call for innovative creativity and collaboration.” Sounds like a job for Dell’Arte. The theater folk in Blue […]
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Cue Blues: Redwood Coast Music Festival is Canceled
With Humboldt County and the rest of the state of California under a shelter-in-place order, the board of the Redwood Coast Music Festival has announced that the 30th annual multi-day, multi-stage event that takes over Eureka every May is canceled. Ticket holders can get refunds by emailing accounting@redwoodjazz.org but the board, which has already scheduled next year’s […]
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Photos: Mister Cister Wins the Mr. Humboldt Crown
On Saturday, Feb. 29, after a grueling rounds of Q&A, swimsuit, talent and formal wear competition, hosts Johanna Nagan and Andrew Goff crowned a new Mr. Humboldt: Mister Cister. The blue-wigged champion’s costume game was strong, with an inflatable Squidward headpiece for the beach, a sparkly white evening gown and a series of layered outfit […]
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Swing Time Travel: Photos and Video from the Taiko Swingposium
Last weekend, the San Jose Taiko Swingposium Immersive Theater Experience’s On the Road show transformed the Bayside Community Hall into a World War II-era dance hall in a Japanese-American incarceration camp. While under armed guard and having lost their homes, possessions and rights as Americans, those in the camps played music and held dances like these […]
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Trick or Treat: Photos from Arcata’s Halloween
Parking was a premium for Trick or Treat on the Plaza in Arcata in late afternoon as easily more than a thousand children and adults showed up for the Halloween fun. The event, sponsored by Arcata Main Street, started off with the HSU Marching Lumberjacks, giant puppets and a bubble machine circling the plaza, followed […]
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Photos from Sunday at the North Country Fair
Sunday at the 46th annual North Country Fair featured another splash of the popular rhythms and dances of Samba da Alegria’s Samba Parade, along with the usual mix of live music on multiple stages, vendors of all types and — atypically for the season — occasional rain. See highlights of the parade in the slideshow […]
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Photos of the Fairy Frolic
It was another “Frolick of Fairies” at the magical second annual Fairy Festival on the Arcata Plaza on Saturday. The large turnout of mystical fairies and other life forms for the costume contests, live music, belly dancing, a parade with a dragon, and other activities probably exceeded even the most optimistic expectations of everyone except […]
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Zombies Shake/Drag a Leg
A gray-faced, dead-eyed army of zombies from Sunny Brae Middle School sprang to after-life for some vintage choreography to Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” on Friday, Oct. 26 at Murphy’s Market in Sunny Brae. Then, while Vincent Price’s cackle still echoed in the aisles, the undead dancers made their groaning way to the Arcata Plaza for an […]
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The Papaya Lounge is Ripe for Comedy
The funny, bawdy and sometimes naughty comedy and music show The Papaya Lounge met its goal of turning the Arcata Playhouse into a seedy cabaret nightclub on Saturday, Jan. 27. Velvet Q. Jones (Sarah McKinney) hosted the cabaret, billed as a music, comedy and variety show “with a fruity attitude.” The show was supported with excellent live […]