Good news, Eurekans! You’ve got a bunch of new stuff to look at. As they tend to do about once a year or so, the City of Eureka and the Redwood Art Association have swapped out the public art pieces that adorn the edges of the C Street Market Square for new eye grabbers. Unlike […]
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Is This Stripped Bike a Crime or an Art Installation?
This year, it seems, the tableau outside the Humboldt County Courthouse has served as a Rorschach test for local residents. Some look at the huddled Occupy protesters and see a righteous social movement — stallwart defenders of justice. Others look at the same scene and see wastrels. Social rot. Some look at hand-drawn signs tied […]
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Gone Fish
Go Fish and Chips Cafe, that long-dead restaurant on Waterfront Drive, has finally bleached into oblivion. That is, it’s been painted all over in white. Which means the feverishly bright mural on its face, of fishes and birds and other creatures, painted by Eureka artist Augustus Clark about five years ago, is gone. Gone, also, […]
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“The Soul of Eureka”
As you know if you read this week’s paper, Eureka’s monthly arts night, Arts Alive! takes place Saturday night and many of you be out and about. Occasional Journal contributor Jim Hight produced this fine little vid extolling the many virtues of Arts Alive with Benjamin Bettenhausen handling camera duties. Our own art critic R.W. Evans […]
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Guest Post: The Trey McIntyre Project
Stephanie Silva, who writes about dance for the Journal, was able to watch the Trey McIntyre Project dancers rehearsing and performing on Wednesday, Nov. 9. She writes: For decades, contemporary dance has favored a high-tech, high-gloss style, with astonishingly athletic dancers performing lightning quick choreography, filled with Olympian jumps and daring lifts. The Trey McIntyre […]
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Pretty Fine Pilobolus
Horizontal became vertical, electricity became visible and chairs morphed into the only solid ground in a slippery world on Tuesday, when Pilobolus dancers leapt, slouched and spun across the Van Duzer Theater stage. The Connecticut-based troupe reached into a repertoire that spanned most of its 40-year existence and pulled out one dazzling winner and mixed […]
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Eureka High Mural Unveiled — Finally
“Our history defines who we are. It shapes us into this moment, the present…” So begins the inscription on a mural by former Eureka High School student Hannah Larkin, set to be unveiled at the school cafeteria Wednesday morning. One thing you can say about Eureka High: It has history. Founded at the end of […]
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Humboldt Folklife Wants You
The Humboldt Folklife Society is seeking your input. Here’s the letter sent out by Maggie Gainer. The link to the survey is at the end. Dear Lovers of Music and Dance, Folk music and dance have become one of the defining characteristics of the Humboldt Bay area. Every week throughout the year, there are a […]
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A Poem from the Poem Store
Jacqueline Suskin’s Poem Store set up shop at Eureka Books for February’s Arts Alive! Her method: You pick the subject and the price, she creates a custom poem.
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Is Everybody HAPPY?
Hey, everybody! Are y’all feeling happy? Of course you are! All right! How do I know you’re so happy? Because no less an authority than Sunset Magazine tells me so! In its February issue, Sunset — your “premier resource for achieving the ultimate Western lifestyle” — names Eureka one of the top 10 happiest places left of the […]
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One year, 500 artists, 1000s of pieces of work
One year ago, Arcata received a significant arts injection via Victor Hernandez’s the Humboldt Arts Project. Since then the project has featured seven Arts!Arcata exhibits and, more impressively, initiated the successful two-day Humboldt Arts Festival drawing thousands of people out to what is evolving into the I Street art corridor. All in all, over 500 […]
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Waves: Big
How big is a 20-foot swell? Taller than the average two-story house, over three times the size of the average man. Big enough to sweep you away forever if you should be so silly as to go near the ocean today. As of 6:53 a.m., the local swell was running 20 feet at 21 seconds […]