Let’s hear it once more for Metal Mondays at Savage Henry Comedy Club. Tonight’s performers are a sludge band from Salem, Oregon, called Hell, as well as local bangers Death Doula and Echo Death. Music starts around 7 p.m., $5-$10 sliding scale cover, all-ages and an I.D. needed for adult beverages. To quote David Byrne, […]
Death Doula
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Black Hole Sun
Here’s an interesting notion: This Thursday’s summer solstice will be accompanied by a waxing full moon that will reach its peak two days later. This probably has a variety of implications; for my (mostly) nightlife beat, it means your weekend will start out with more skylight than we have had all year. To put it […]
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Music Tonight: Sunday, June 16
The Shanty knows about putting on great shows largely because the good people there don’t have to, it is secondary to the function of the place as one of the best bars in California (I’m dead serious). So when there is a show happening, it’s done for all the right reasons, without the desperation of […]
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River Man
Aldous Huxley had a regular column in Esquire Magazine in the mid-1950s where he once observed, “The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong; the next most distressing thing is to be proved right.” He was revisiting the legacy of his novel A Brave New World during the […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, March 22
There are two mini-fest gigs tonight, so choose wisely. At 7 p.m. at the Bodyworks Alpha Annex in Eureka there is a battle of the bands in the style of local metal, featuring Image Pit, Something Wicked, Malicious Algorithm, Psyop Victim, Grug! and Death Doula, along with raffles, live boxing matches (!) and refreshments. Tickets […]
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He Was a Friend of Mine
The Ides of March came last Friday, some 2060-plus years since mighty Caesar got smoked, and we lost our little king. I am talking about my partner and I putting down our sweet, little, old dog man, when the forces of time and congestive heart failure brought on a fast catastrophe. I had put some […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, Feb 9
Portland, Oregon’s Fox Medicine is a metal band with bright imagery, referring to their genre as “bubblegum doom.” Which is fairly on the mark, as far as I can recall from the last time I caught their act when they rolled through town. Tonight these glossy blitz-makers will be posted up at the Siren’s Song […]
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All The Old Familiar Places
I’d like to share with you, dear reader, an experience I had recently. For the purposes of this story, I’m going to say that it’s true but you can treat it like the dreamy introduction to Dante’s Inferno or the beginning of a Twilight Zone episode, if that works better for you. I found myself, […]
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Music Tonight: Monday, Aug. 28
Forget about the sold out Center Arts gig, if you didn’t get tickets for Sylvan Esso earlier then you are S.O.L. Which is a piece of luck, as tonight’s edition of Metal Mondays at Savage Henry Comedy Club is fantastic. Humboldt-grown but Los Angeles- based Biomass is a group that balances the harmonic splendor of […]
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End-of-Summer Joy and Goat Cheese
When I turn the wall calendar to the September page, I go into denial about the approaching end of summer. At the farmers market, I continue purchasing summer produce until the last day it’s available. Preserving produce also helps keep summer alive in the kitchen. For example, in the recipe I am sharing here, the […]
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Clair de Lune
Well, this was quite a weekend, let me tell you. Apparently there was something called a Pisces Moon on Saturday, which is supposed to turn people like myself who have a birthday between Feb. 19 and March 20 into wicked and fantastic werewolves. Or so I am told; honestly I’m so checked out on the […]