The Shanty needs to get mentioned more often in this column, and I am happy to oblige tonight. Three rock bands are jamming a free one at 9 p.m. for all comers over 21. We’re talking Sun War Ship, Clean Girl and the Dirty Dishes and The Breakfast Collection. And just to show I’m serious […]
Clean Girl and the Dirty Dishes
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Music Tonight: Saturday, Feb. 14
How about an all-ages Queer Prom Party at Siren’s Song Tavern tonight to celebrateCupid’s stupid little annual mess? Join Heaven’s Taint and Clean Girl and the DirtyDishes — with an added theremin player — for an evening of rockin’ costumed fun?No pussyfootin’ around about the costumes, too. There will be a photo booth and acostume […]
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Love in the Age of War
American English is a lot like the American national project, it steals its resources from other cultures, dumbs down the nuance and meanings into a flavorless boil, and then demands a premium from the rest of the world for being forced to use an inferior product. William Faulkner wrote about his time as a failed […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, Jan. 16
The Rural Rock & Roll fun continues at Savage Henry Comedy Club tonight at 8 p.m.with sets by Humboldt rockers Buffy Swayze and Clean Girl and the Dirty Dishes.The show will be all watched over by the loving grace of MC JPG. Get in the door with$10.
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Wipeout
Despite observing my habit of (relative) temperance during New Year’s Eve at home, I managed to catch that nasty flu going around, the forces of which I am still reeling from. This has been my most stricken-with-disease experience in years and the reason I was absent from last week’s issue and still writing sparingly. This […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, Oct. 24
Double your options tonight, one for Eureka and another for those Arcata-bound. First up at the Wild Hare at 8 p.m. is a variety show, with music by Fek and the Future Friends of Sound, Lady Games and an acid house set by Hudson Glover. There will also be a light show by The Idyllic […]
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The Twilight Zone
“Although it might feel as though you are quite still at the moment, you’re actually moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. You’ve just crossed over into … the Twilight Zone.” Those words, grabbed from one of the variations of introductions into the old TV show from which this […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, March 21
Spring is a good time for something old returning and something new blooming. And so I offer you two gigs in that order. Music has returned to Cafe Mokka, and tonight’s intimate show will be courtesy of Irish music trio Ceo, featuring locals Blake Ritter, Alina Lawson and Chris Hinderyckx. No fee and the tunes […]
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How Does It Feel?
The continuum of American politics since the honeymoon wore away in the Obama years has come with a basic axiom that things will stay the same while they somehow continue to get worse. As the faux chrome of change peeled off 44’s machine and rusted over with the same decayed patina of the horrors of […]
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Music Tonight: Wednesday, Nov. 13
Speaking of Vegan Slaughterhouse, the band is playing again tonight, this time on the undercard of what looks like it’s going to be a real banger over at the Siren’s Song Tavern at 7:30 p.m. Swiss and Dutch duo The Sex Organs comes down from the Alps and up from the continental low country to […]
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Send in the Clowns
Due to the nature of deadlines and the passage of linear time, I have far less insight into the winner of the presidential election than you, dear reader, as I am writing this on Election Day. And I don’t want to make any predictions about it, either. I view coin-flipping as a byproduct of nervousness […]
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Music Tonight: Monday, Sept. 2
Everyone is Dirty is an Oakland collective of musicians who throw a new banana in the juggling act of dance and depression that defines the group’s chosen genre of post-punk. Those hooks and melodic lines are often created by violin, which seems novel enough to me for a gander, but the pot has really been […]