Disorientation Week
Your student guide to housing, transit, surfing and weed
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Disorientation Week — Your student guide to housing, transit, surfing and weed
Everyone’s so cool, and one dude’s brought his drum and they’re all just layin’ around in this way cool grove in the forest. Ferns are tickling, the sun’s out — what rain? — like some kind of benevolent blanket of warm glowing pizza dough just soft all over everything, and the grass … the grass.…
Summer Sunshine and Stardust
Previews Hello, film fans. The peripatetic Charlie Myers is once again out wandering the globe, so for the second week in a row you’re stuck with a know-nothing’s guide to this week’s new releases. And from where I sit, this week may well go down in the annals as The Week That Bad Films Happened…
Indian summer (No curry powder was harmed while writing this column.)
I arrived in New York in the late summer of 1960. John Cage, theavant gardecomposer with whom I’d come to study, was already a legendary presence, attracting not just musicians but a dedicated following of painters, poets and what would come to be called “performance artists” (although none of us called ourselves that). Cage’s philosophical…
Down Home
College is almost back in session, the students are back in town and it’s time for another CenterArts season. The local concert juggernaut kicks off a stellar ’07-’08 season on Sunday, Aug. 19, with a show at the Van Duzer featuring what is likely the most successful old-timey band working today, Old Crow Medicine Show…
West End Story — An unlikely union between experimental artists and the City of Eureka
The formula was simple: Empire Squared plus The Placebo plus Synapsis equals a flowering of experimental performing arts in Eureka’s West End. Turns out, the equation was missing only one thing — a permit. In December of last year, the City of Eureka ordered the performing arts collective Synapsis to close its doors to public…
Camel Rock rights (and wrongs) — Navigating the waves and attitudes of the North Coast
In Humboldt County, surfing doesn’t exist. Don’t believe it? Go ahead, ask the next guy parked outside Wildberries with a stack of boards poking out of the back of his Tacoma, salt crusted in his hair, cell phone and tidebook splayed on the dash. Ask, “So where’s the best place to surf around here?” He’ll…
Humboldt speaks
The day of discussion on health care reform was billed as an experiment in “deliberative democracy.” On Saturday, around 4,500 randomly selected Californians participated statewide in a high-tech teleconference with sites in eight cities facilitated by a group called CaliforniaSpeaks. Humboldt State University’s West Gym was the local site. There were around 470 attendees from…
Bye-bye kitty
The guy in front of me at airport security in Arcata wasn’t sure what to do with his cat. “Do I put her through?” he asked, eyeing the x-ray machine nervously. “No,” the TSA representative said. “Wait until the last possible minute, then take her out of the carrier. Walk through the metal detector with…
Manic About Titanic — HLOC show sails into final weekend
When the basic story is so familiar, and the narrative trajectory so extravagantly simple (big unsinkable ship sinks on maiden voyage), it all depends on how it’s done. The Humboldt Light Opera Company does the musical Titanic very, very well. The production excels in every aspect, creating a stylish, polished, harmonized and entertaining whole, with…
To the trenches
There’s a little local election coming up in a couple of months — on Nov. 6 — though you wouldn’t exactly know it by reading the papers. Nominations for most offices up for vote closed on Friday, Aug. 10. The final candidates for most races are known. What’s needed is a fight-card-style preview of the…
