It’s a big show night tonight, which will hopefully make up for two quiet nights in the beginning of next week. Here’s what’s on the marquee for the evening. At 5 p.m., the Eureka Vets Hall is the venue for a benefit show for missing native man Ray Tsatoke, featuring Oakland grindcore band Bob Plant, […]
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Bigfoot Brewfest Fundraiser on Tap this Saturday
Bigfoot’s trading forest trails for beer taps at the Bigfoot Brewfest, happening Saturday, June 7, from 3 to 8 p.m. at Humboldt Bay Social Club ($50, $40 advance). Enjoy local craft beer from 10 breweries, tasty bites from three food trucks and live music from The Oyster Baes and DJ LBoogie. A benefit for Big […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, June 6
If you’d like to catch the Crab Grass Band in action between innings — and watch some baseball, too, I suppose — come out to the Arcata Ball Park tonight at 7 p.m. for the first game in a hometown series against the Fresno A’s. Yes, I call it the Ball Park and not Crabs […]
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Music Tonight: Thursday, June 5
The Arcata Theatre Lounge is hosting Thursdaze, the dancehall and reggae dance fest curated by DJs Sarge One, Rundat, Tanasa Ras and featuring the Fox Den Dancers. The fun starts at 9 p.m., and it’s only $10 to get in the door.
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Photos: Forest Moon Festival Feels the Force
The Saturday, May 31 schedule for the third annual, three-day Forest Moon Festival opened on the Arcata Plaza with up close and personal photo opps with costumed Star Wars characters and appearances by actor Kyle Newman (director of Fanboys) and Kevin Thompson, original cast member as Ewok actor and stunt performer from 1983’s Star Wars: […]
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Music Today: Sunday, June 1
The Redwood Interfaith Gospel Choir is presenting its spring concert just before the blooms go from vernal verdance to summer straw, nestled right between the Flower and the Strawberry moons. Which is just right, as far as I am concerned. This 2 p.m. matinee will be making the Arcata Playhouse thrum like a wooden diaphragm […]
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Music Tonight: Saturday, May 31
The Eureka Symphony presents the final night of its 2024/2025 season finale, appropriately titled “A Grand Finale.” The program features the Concerto for Piano and Orchestra by late Romantic period Polish composer Grazyna Bacewicz, with Cal Poly Humboldt professor Daniela Mineva on the keys, along with Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony, aka, “the dance one.” The string […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, May 30
First, some housekeeping and a mea culpa. I take a lot of notes for this column, but the handwriting from my crippled dominant hand produces a scrawl that looks like it comes from a doctor who’s been abusing his own medicine. It’s honestly a wonder I don’t mess things up more often. No excuses, just […]
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Music Tonight: Thursday, May 29
Some evenings around here certainly seem to rhyme. Tonight is one such example, as there are a couple of free beer garden/tasting room shows starting at 6 p.m., featuring two of our finest local talents. At Six Rivers Brewery, you will find Dale Cash & Friends. I grew up down the street from Mr. Cash […]
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Music Tonight: Sunday, May 25
Say goodbye to the old ways of the spring season and scratch another academic cycle off the charts with a psychedelic dance party with heavy tropical tones. Brothers David and Rene Pacheco took the backyard sounds from their East L.A. childhood and created a beautiful monster of cumbia music wedded to punk and grunge called […]
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Rutabaga Ball Tonight at the Eureka Theater
“No Kings!” may be the mantra of 2025, but here in Humboldt, we love our Queens. Join the revelry at the 2025 Rutabaga Ball, dazzling the stage at the Eureka Theater on Saturday, May 24, starting at 7 p.m. ($20). Witness the coronation of the queen who’ll reign supreme over the legendary human-powered sculpture race, […]
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Music Tonight: Saturday, May 24
It’s the official beginning to the Kinetic weekend, which of course means that there’s a Rutabaga Ball happening somewhere around these parts. This year’s somewhere is the Eureka Theater, where for $20 at 7 p.m. you can join the happy hordes of racers and partiers. If you’re in the mood for another style of weirdness, […]