Guitarist Cole Berliner used to live in San Francisco and now hails from Los Angeles, just as he used to be in a band called Kamikaze Palm Tree, which became the duo Sharpie Smile and has downsized to just himself and his guitar for the purpose of his current tour. That guitar and its sounds […]
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Music Tonight: Tuesday, June 2
The Neighborhood Kids are bringing the Voice of the Revolution Tour to the ArcataPlayhouse tonight at 7 p.m. Well-lauded in their native San Diego — the group wonBest New Artist and Best Hip Hop Artist in last year’s San Diego Music Awards — theKids are on the road to spread their music and message of […]
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Music Tonight: Tuesday, May 26
Charlotte, North Carolina-based singer/songwriter Bryan Bielanski is a high energy,fun and happy guy who writes high energy, fun and happy songs which he tours theworld playing. He clearly loves what he does and does everything he can to make hisaudience love it, too. Which is refreshing to me at this stage of the current world,because […]
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Photos: Eureka’s May Day Rally
On Friday, May 1, an estimated 250 people gathered at 5 p.m. at the Humboldt County Courthouse for a May Day protest jointly organized by the Humboldt-Del Norte Labor Council and Centro del Pueblo. Following the event, many marched along the sidewalks to the music of Bandemonium toward the Eureka Theater for a showing of […]
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Music Today: Sunday, May 3
Speaking of double-headers, here are two classy matinees for fans of instrumental music from the “classic” end of the instrumental repertoire. Garrick Woods is a CPH instructor and fantastic cellist whose chops I recently enjoyed at the Eureka Symphony early this month. He’s going to act as musical director and conductor along with fellow instructor […]
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Music Tonight: Saturday, May 2
Two bitchin’ rock shows tonight, on either side of the bay for those of you forced to take sides. First up at the Shanty at 8 p.m. you will find the mighty Black Plate at what is likely to be their last show until the harvest moon of fall comes tickling down from the sky. […]
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In “Cermeño’s Shipwreck” (Feb. 5), the article misidentified the Miwok people who encountered the ship’s crew near Drake’s Bay. The Journal regrets the error.
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In the Kindest Eyes category of the 2026 NCJ Pet Photo Contest (Feb. 19), Ash the cat and the name of Ash the cat’s photo submitter, Andy Caffrey, were misidentified. The Journal regrets the errors
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Music Tonight: Tuesday, Feb. 24
We all love a bit of controversy from time to time, eh? It adds a little frisson to the week, so long as it’s harmless and done in small doses. This one seems to fit all descriptions above. While researching the Nani Vazana show at the Arcata Playhouse tonight at 7:30 p.m., I came across […]
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Music Tonight: Saturday, Feb. 21
There are two rock shows happening on either side of the bay tonight, so I’ll spit it outquickly. Jacki & the Jollies are playing a free, all-ages gig with Dragged by Horses atthe Historic Eagle House at 7:30 p.m. An hour and a half later at The Wild Hare, you will find local shoegaze acts […]
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Music Tonight: Friday/Saturday, Jan. 30-31
I’m going to make a rare move here and lump the weekend nights together under thebanner of the Arcata Rising Fundraiser shows at Humbrews from Friday throughSunday. We all know about the dreadful fire on the second day of 2026 that claimed the beloved half block from 10th and H streets to the alleyway, and […]
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Music Tonight: Saturday, Jan. 24
Speaking of Humbrews and tributes to and OG members of large post-hippie musical movements, at 9 p.m., the 14-member Frank Zappa songbook ensemble StinkfootOrchestra takes the stage, once again joined by Napoleon Murphy Brock, who sangand played horns on some of Zappa’s ’70s output. I am not the biggest fan of Frank butI had a […]