In an unusual turn of events for a Thursday night, there are two crucial shows going on tonight, which can only mean one thing: The long summer idyll is over.The Miniplex is hosting Portland psychedelic country rockers Rose City Band for an early 7 p.m. show to accommodate the venue’s popular karaoke afterward ($20).Meanwhile, at […]
Clean Girl and the Dirty Dishes
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Autumn Falls
Hahaha well, dang. What is there to say, really? Is anyone else getting tired of these high water marks for various once-in-a-lifetime disasters we’ve been enjoying over the last decade? Not that I usually hold back too much, but I have the sense I can really let it fly these days because, well, who knows […]
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Music Tonight: Monday, Aug. 31
It’s not every day around here you get the chance to check out a retro punk and garage band from Paris, and almost never on a Monday. But this is the last Monday of August, and things get a little weird in these parts when the locals brace themselves into a phalanx to handle the […]
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Music Tonight: Sunday, April 26
Speaking of Moss Oak Commons, there’s another great bill for the books happening at the all-ages spot around 7:30 p.m. this evening. Vibey rock warblers Dining Dead are floating down from Seattle to share some bright vocal sunbursts from the atmospheric plane where synths meet guitar pedals, while Clean Girl and the Dirty Dishes does […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, Feb. 27
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 […]
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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 […]