It’s the first night of the eighth annual Zero to Fierce Festival, with events generally centered around the Arcata Playhouse and the Exit Theatre. Tonight’s soiree sees an art gallery pop-up in the front of the Playhouse called the Womxn’s Art Show, and features an all-ages and multimedia format. DJ Dastbunny provides the sonic ambience […]
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Weakness is a Thing Called Man
The early 17th century Christian mystic Jacob Boehme, whom Hegel called “the first German Philosopher,” wrote about the paradox of the human mind trying to hear the voice of God, noting that silence from the self is the key. “Your own hearing, willing, and seeing hinder you, so that you do not see or hear […]
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Music Tonight: Thursday, Sept. 7
Fans of goth, post-punk, darkwave and the more experimental side of sonic heaviness have some good news coming their way this evening at 7 p.m. The Siren’s Song Tavern is putting on a show with exactly that kind of crew, headlined by Atlanta’s Dead Register with Oakland to Arcata transplants Silence in the Snow, as […]
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Music Tonight: Monday, July 10
Savage Henry Comedy Club is throwing a changeup pitch on its regular Metal Monday to present a Goth music twist. Come join Milwaukee, Wisconsin’s Convert, Portland’s Father’s Milk, Oakland’s Silence in the Snow and local heroes Psyop Victim and DJ Dastbunny for a night of darkwave and distortion at 7 p.m. ($10).
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Buck Wild
I’m writing this under the influence of the waxing Buck Moon and maybe it’s the weather, or the masses of asses clogging up the roads and beaches, but I am definitely feeling a sense of power and excitement with tinges of manic frustration. As I may have alluded to before, the effect of the full […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, Jan. 20
An all-ages Goth Night at Synapsis, put on by DJ DastBunny, is on the ledger for tonight’s entertainment. DJ Zero One of Radio Clash fame is also onboard for this event, which is an outfit and costume-encouraged affair in an environment that is perfectly suited for the dark theatricality of goth culture. The dance starts […]
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Neither Saint Nor Cynic
In an attempt to better understand the ancient world (which, for the purpose of this article, I will define as any period before my brain came online in the late 1980s), I have been reading about the philosophy of the Cynics of Greece. So far as I can tell, their prime character, Diogenes of Sinope, […]
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Lend A Hand If You Can
It’s been an active week for a news junkie like myself. Johnathan Franzen took a backheel approach to climate change in the pages of the New Yorker and, in doing so, cemented for all time the terminal uselessness of the establishment liberal position on nearly any topic. A brave banjo-wielding man busted the crap out […]