Cal Poly Humboldt Professor of Art + Film Sarah Lasley has been honored as a member of the 2026 Guggenheim Fellowship Class. The 101st class includes 223 distinguished individuals who are making their mark across 55 disciplines. Chosen through a rigorous application and peer review process from nearly 5,000 applicants, these fellows exemplify extraordinary prior […]
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Film Crews Coming to Humboldt with COVID-19 Protocols
At the end of June, the Humboldt-Del Norte Film Commission announced Humboldt was back open for the movie business. And while screens at movie theaters have once again gone dark in California, a pair of small production crews are set to film for a week each on the North Coast this month, with more scheduled […]
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ATL Screens The Love Witch
Arcata Theatre Lounge’s new Monday night Hollywood Clapback film series offers up The Love Witch (2016) on Monday, March 19 at 7:30 p.m. ($5). This critically acclaimed sendup to 60s pulp novels and Technicolor camp about a woman determined to get what she wants was shot in very familiar spots around Eureka and Arcata.
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Follow the Beat
On any given night, you can follow the sound of music and find yourself a good time in Arcata’s bars, restaurants, clubs and on sidewalks. Here are five rock-solid places to let the sound of local and visiting acts move you. The John Van Duzer Theatre on the Humboldt State University campus is the closest […]
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TL;DR: Five Things We Want to See at the Minor Theater
Busy week? We get it. Here are some highlights from this week’s cover story to get you caught up. Earlier this month, the 101-year-old Minor Theater quietly closed, its operator, Ashland-based Coming Attractions, unable to renew a contract with the building’s owner. But quickly thereafter, owner Josh Neff, who bought the Minor and most of […]
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Bigfoot Gets Real
First there’s just cheery bird-chirp amid the sunshine. Then deep breathing, and the video camera takes us into the dark forest. Heavy, deliberate footsteps, crunching sticks, more breathing, menacing music, towering redwood silhouettes that interrupt sprays of light, a few ferns glowing bright … and the beast, walking quickly, then loping, splashing through a creek, […]
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On the Klamath dams front
Former Oregon state senator Jason Atkinson has co-produced a new documentary about the conflict between users of the Klamath River and how they finally hashed out the historic Klamath Basin Comprehensive Agreement to take out four dams and restore salmon and other habitat. The agreement awaits Congress’ approval. The film, by Atkinson and filmmaker Jeff Martin, […]
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Overseas Visitors
Reviews GODZILLA. I don’t dislike monster movies, nor do I seek them out. So I met the news of (yet another) Godzilla with casual disinterest. But then I saw the teaser trailer. It’s a marvel of editing: striking, evocative images, David Strathairn’s booming monologue, all set to a ghostly chorale. And at the end, just […]
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Not Fade Away
Reviews FADING GIGOLO. As an actor, John Turturro is possessed with a kind of vibratory, coiled-spring nervousness that makes his most memorable performances indelible and uniquely his. The Coen brothers have a particular talent for drawing out his unease, and some of the characters he has played for them are, as a result, immortal. I’m […]
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Amazing
Review AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2. Disney bought the movie rights to Marvel in 2009 for $4 billion, and it’s been laughing from atop its pile of profits ever since. Let Mickey gloat; he deserves it. The reboots have yet to disappoint, putting all previous attempts to shame with better writing, directing, casting and marketing. The studio […]
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Afterlife
Reviews HEAVEN IS FOR REAL. So it’s right out there in the clumsily worded title. Although the premise of the movie — that a 4-year-old visited heaven, sat on the lap of the Christ and met the sister he never knew he had because she died in utero — includes a crisis of faith, ultimately […]
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Touchdown
Reviews DRAFT DAY. I don’t particularly care for or about the National Football League. And over the years, I’ve come to view professional athletic organizations and their sanctioning bodies with an ever more jaundiced eye. Recently, in the middle of some cavernous, anonymous, Midwestern chain restaurant, lamenting my lot, I realized that the many giant […]