The ball keeps rolling around the sun and, despite the best efforts of the lunatics running this side of the hemisphere, spring has sprung. Life is absolutely exploding everywhere. Our beloved Eureka Symphony is back in bloom with “Humor, Passion & Power — the Human Spirit.” The penultimate program for the season, the highlight of […]
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Lilac and Star and Bird
I’ve been working on enjoying the rare moments of escape from the horror of the news while still balancing my observations on those horrors so as not to slip into a state of willful ignorance. April 15 — the last day of this column’s cycle — isn’t just Tax Day, it’s the anniversary of the […]
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Twisted Nerve
I had wanted to write about something else, but once again the gears of my attention span are gummed up quite a bit. I’m all for stopping to smell the flowers, but that behavior can appear frankly insane and willfully ignorant when the endless stench of crimes against humanity has been rising for years against […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, Oct. 3
Another kick-off night of happy returns, this time over at the Arkley Center for the Performing Arts, where at 7:30 p.m. you can catch the first performance of the Eureka Symphony’s new season. Tonight’s program Contrast and Transformation features pianist John Chernoff for Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major, along with a piece […]
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Zombies Ate My Neighbors
It’s October, which means I’ll be culling my column headlines from various horror artifacts from pop culture. This week’s title comes from the 1993 Super Nintendo video game that I wasted many glorious childhood hours on during the twilight of the last century. A fun romp through dead-brained suburban wastelands full of invading monster movie […]
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Symphonies and Blue Lake’s Quandaries
This week, Setlist columnist Collin Yeo joins us to talk about Carol Jacobson of the Eureka Symphony and his story about how both have enriched our community’s music scene. Then we’ve got an update on the Blue Lake City Council recall, which could leave remaining members unable to fill its ranks. Hit subscribe for weekly […]
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The Conductor
Sweatshirts and jeans brushed against silk dresses and suits, leather and corked dress shoes creaked across the same carpeting as sneakers and sandals. Attending any night during the five programs and 10 performances of the Eureka Symphony’s 2024-2025 season pulled one into a bright, buzzing world peopled by an audience from every stage of life, […]
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Music Tonight: Saturday, May 31
The Eureka Symphony presents the final night of its 2024/2025 season finale, appropriately titled “A Grand Finale.” The program features the Concerto for Piano and Orchestra by late Romantic period Polish composer Grazyna Bacewicz, with Cal Poly Humboldt professor Daniela Mineva on the keys, along with Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony, aka, “the dance one.” The string […]
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Cut to Rip Torn
I’ve got a lot on my mind but very little room to write about it, which is fine; I’ve been overlong in the intros lately anyway. So I’ll just give a peek instead of an essay about what I’ve been thinking about recently. Two things mainly, both published in this still-young year, the first I […]
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Gloria
I went out past the back pasture in the body of this column, so no opening essay this week. In deference to Easter Sunday, when I am writing this, I humbly submit for your consideration the final words of Dante’s Divine Comedy, when the poet has looked upon God in Paradise, but finds himself unable […]
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Music Today: Sunday, Feb. 2
The Eureka Woman’s Club is hosting a fundraiser for our fabulous Eureka Symphony today at 3 p.m. ($30). The group is made up of local stars, with conductor (and former brilliant and suffering remedial music teacher of the half-cocked punk dipshit writing these words) Carol Jacobson on cello, local piano whizz John Chernoff and Eureka […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, Dec. 6
Bay Area rap superstar and former collaborator and friend of the late, great Mac Dre, Andre Nickatina is back in town for an evening at the Arcata Theatre Lounge. As he is a man who needs little introduction in these parts, I’ll just add that doors are at 7 p.m., and tickets are going for […]