Another big day for fans of loud, amplified electric guitars and battered-attitude drums. The ever-fantastic metal guerrilla cell Psyop Victim sits atop a bill with Hotel Riot, Bipolar Bear — featuring members of the Hitch, the Cookers and Scurvy Dogs — and Dave O’s fantastic bass- driven punk bullhorn TheBoredAgain. More interesting still, it’s all […]
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Music Tonight: Saturday, April 11
Veteran Folklife Festival organizer and local musician at-large Patrick Cleary has finally done it. Done what you ask? Why, recorded his first album after a quarter century of notebooking, developing and backlogging both material and multi-instrumental skills. The result, soft-released in January and appropriately titled Finally is a lovely little rustic and bluesy homespun heater, […]
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Music Tonight: Tuesday, July 16
As I mentioned earlier, music gigs tend to cluster in the Humboldt midsummer, a situation I have adapted to in the past and will again, God willing I am still helming this column in the unforeseen. I have since childhood been around some version of the Humboldt Folklife Festival and am perfectly happy to endorse […]
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Music Tonight: Sunday, Dec. 17
The community has come together to help the struggling Dell’Arte school in Blue Lake and you can get involved today. Starting at 4:30 p.m. at the Carlo Theatre, there will be a fundraising event including hors d’oeuvres, a silent auction, a sitdown meal and a performance by the Dell’Arte Players. Food will be provided by […]
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Hollow Palm Opens at Dell’Arte
If you missed the Butoh performance last weekend at Dell’Arte, you’ve got another chance to see that style of theater this weekend as Hollow Palm opens Friday, March 18 at 8 p.m. at the Carlo Theatre with a Saturday, March 19 performance at 8 p.m. as well ($15). “Hollow Palm is a kaleidoscope of new […]
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When Worlds Collide — The Last Weekend of Mad River Festival Theatre
#//<EMBEDDED>//# and Life Beneath the Stars at the Arcata Playhouse, Eli and the Bear at the Carlo Theatre in Blue Lake all challenge our perceptions of reality and our role in the world. #//<EMBEDDED>//# For anyone concerned with humankind’s increasing overlap with, and dependence on, internet-connected machines, this is must-see theatre. The central character, a […]