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 […]
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Chariots of Fire
The rains have broken for the moment and we are in the season of low sun, when the horizon can be a blinding thing to behold at the edges of the day, particularly in the hours leading to sunset. That December sun is really something, particularly if you are driving, riding a bike or trying […]
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Cynthia Gorman Quinsey: 1938-2023
Cynthia Gorman Quinsey passed away Oct. 9, 2023, surrounded by love. Born Oct. 22, 1938, Cynthia was a musician, artist, daughter, sister, wife, mother, grand and great-grandmother, and good friend. A true creative, Cynthia viewed the world through an imaginative and beautiful lense. A deeply caring person, Cynthia shared her love and wit liberally with […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, Oct. 6
The Eureka Symphony presents its 2023-2024 season premiere at the Arkley Center for the Performing Arts at a new, earlier time of 7:30 p.m. The main attraction is a performance of Händel’s Water Music Suite No. 2. Also on the program are pieces by Danish composer Niel Gade and Rainbow Body, by the American Christopher […]
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Music Tonight: Sunday, Sept. 24
Speaking of sun and stars, here are two events for your Sunday that cover the domain of each (let’s not get pedantic and point out that our sun is indeed also a star, because you know what makes that holy exploding orb stand waaaaay out from its fellows in the lives of us earthlings). First […]
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Music Tonight: Saturday, June 3
Last night and tonight are the final performances of the Eureka Symphony’s ‘’22-’23 season, and it is going out with a real powerful number. Mozart’s Requiem is widely recognized as one of the most moving pieces of music in world history, commissioned by a grieving Austrian Count as a memorial for his young bride, who […]
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Follies, Diversions and Crowds
It’s interesting how associative memory works. I can think of someone I know or have known, and that thought will pass through like a windy cloud, shapeless and fleeting. However, if I am in a crowd of people (say, for instance, the Arcata Plaza on Kinetic Saturday) and a familiar face pops up, all of […]
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Color Wheel
Well friends, it’s the beginning of flower season again and I could not be more pleased. I’m talking calendulas, daffodils, trilliums, California poppies (not the band, but they are fine, too). I have an abstract relationship with flowers, in that I encounter them as a cheerful addition to my daily life without choosing to become […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, March 3
It’s the opening night of the Eureka Symphony’s “Sounds of Spring” program. Tonight and tomorrow night at 8 p.m. over at the Arkley Center for the Performing Arts, you can catch our county’s finest unfurling a program featuring works by Sibelius, Mendelssohn and the contemporary American composer Michael Kibbe, whose son Peter will be center […]
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November Rain
Sixteenth century English poet Thomas Tusser, writing in his book on rural life in Tudor England, Five Hundreth Pointes of Good Husbandrie, gave us perhaps the first written version of the adage “April showers bring May flowers.” Sitting here late at night at the end of the month, listening to the rain come down on […]
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Catch Eureka Symphony’s An Extraordinary Evening this Weekend
Enjoy a night on the town with dinner at one of the area’s fine dining establishments followed by Eureka Symphony’s An Extraordinary Evening, which features Humboldt pianist Ryan MacEvoy McCullough and his partner soprano Lucy Fitz Gibbon. The concerts are Friday, April 8 and Saturday, April 9 at 8 p.m. at Arkley Center for the […]