(April 19, 2018)
This week includes an important day for your local music scene, sandwiched right between 4/20 and Earth Day. It's Record Store Day, a barely decade-old bridge between the music collecting...
(April 12, 2018)
This is a special week because this one has — cue the Theremin music — a Friday the 13th in it! Ooooh. Ahhhh. Spooky. Why is Friday the 13th especially...
(April 5, 2018)
We have a busy week this week. The Redwood Coast Music Festival will be in full swing from Thursday through Sunday with live American roots music invading Eureka venues with...
(March 29, 2018)
I want to have fun and just play this week, but I have massive contrasts on my mind. Blame the first night of Passover, a venerable celebration of the safety...
(March 22, 2018)
Oh baby, it's that most magical time of the year. I know you can dig it because the ground around here is profoundly wet but can you smell it? Hell,...
(March 15, 2018)
John Steinbeck set his 14th novel Cannery Row in the height of the Great Depression, in a town dominated by one industry: fish canning. We live in such a place...
(March 8, 2018)
I've been bloviating a lot here lately, so I'll make this short and sweet. I heard a sound last week, a most unique and wonderful sound, and I would like...
(March 1, 2018)
Inspired by the use of the first half of the old adage "In like a lion, out like a lamb" employed by the Eureka Symphony for its concert series this...
(February 22, 2018)
As I write this, I am watching the snow melt on my porch in the early afternoon of a bank holiday Monday. What could be more wholesome and Peanuts-esque than...
(February 15, 2018)
This was a week of contrasts for me, many of them bittersweet. While I appreciated the sunshine on my face all week, I don't relish wearing T-shirts in February....
(February 8, 2018)
It's fitting that this year Valentine's Day falls on Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent, when Catholics traditionally give something up to pay penance to a greater spiritual truth....
(April 1, 2018)
Maybe a flight to New York to see hometown girl Sara Bareilles' Broadway run in the musical Waitress wasn't practical. That's no reason to put "When She Was Mine"...
