Explore local color at the next online Humboldt County Historical Society Program with Journal Art Beat columnist and art history professor Gabrielle Gopinath. Gopinath’s presentation “Public Art for Eureka: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow” on Saturday, May 1 at 2:30 p.m. examines the history of public art in Eureka from its 1970s beginnings through the 1990s mural […]
Eureka California
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Music Tonight: Monday, May 21
So a band from Athens, Georgia, named itself Eureka California and is playing the Miniplex tonight at 8:30 p.m. (price TBA). A dip into its discography didn’t reveal the duo’s reason for such an oddly specific local name but I enjoyed the 7-inch Wigwam. Arcata California’s Super Senior and Blood Honey provide local support.
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Call Me By Your Band Name
The more creatively named bands featured this week got my wheels spinning down memory lane. Despite a preternatural and seething distrust of all things over and done with, I couldn’t help thinking about some of the uniquely named groups I’ve encountered over the decades. I myself used to front a New Orleans-based punk/psych outfit called […]