If you’re familiar with Cory McAbee, it’s probably because of The Billy Nayer Show, a 20-year collaboration between songwriter/autoharpist/filmmaker McAbee and drummer Bobby Lurie. By mutual agreement, Billy is currently on hold; both musicians have moved on to new adventures. For McAbee, it’s a semi-solo project he calls Captain Ahab’s Motorcycle Club. McAbee says the […]
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First Saturday Night Arts Alive!
First Saturday Night Arts Alive! Opening receptions, art exhibits, music and more, 6-9 p.m. For more information contact Eureka Main Street at 707-442-9054 or www.eurekamainstreet.org. 1. EUREKA INN 518 Seventh St. Lauren Cogan Jones, mixed media. 2. AREA 1 AGENCY ON AGING 434 Seventh St. “Being Here Now — Celebrating Older Americans Month,” works by […]
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Michael Bay, Reconsidered
Reviews PAIN & GAIN. It’s all too easy to hate on Michael Bay. I know because I used to do it all the time. When Armageddon was storming the box office I reacted like it was a hate crime. For would-be cineastes his name is low-hanging fruit, shorthand for everything that’s “wrong” with contemporary cinema. […]
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Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
Early in Alison Klayman’s documentary on Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei, he is asked to describe himself as an artist. “I consider myself more of a chess player,” he replies. “My opponent makes a move; I make a move.” As the fascinating and moving documentary unfolds, the viewer realizes that Ai Weiwei is involved […]
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Oats and Roses
If flowers could throw punches or blow kisses, Theresa Oats would be right there to witness it with one of her signature rose paintings. Need a flower with a sweet disposition? Oats has you covered. Want one that comes with a sharp tongue? She’s painted that too. You can see her roses — passionate, pugnacious […]
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Late Date
How could I write a play for my fellow third graders to perform when it would be nearly a decade before I actually saw a play, live onstage? The short answer is television, specifically situation comedies. It is even now the format that any American audience is most likely to know, including audiences for the […]
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Cart Patrol
The Eureka Police Department has made another one of its routine “special operation” sweeps of the city to round up errant shopping carts, says a release from the department today: … numerous subjects were contacted and over 100 shopping carts were recovered. Four subjects were cited and released for misappropriation of property and one subject […]
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Columbus of the Pacific, Part 2
Last week, we saw how the monk-navigator Andrés Urdaneta was summoned back into the service of his native Spain to find an easterly route from the Philippines to New Spain, present-day Mexico. The first land sighted by Urdaneta on his groundbreaking (seabreaking?) voyage of 1565 this side of the Pacific was almost certainly Cape Mendocino, […]
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Jazz for Don
Eureka gets jazzy this weekend as the Redwood Coast Jazz Festival returns, bringing music and dancing to six venues around town. The festive weekend starts Thursday, March 21, at 5 p.m. with A Taste of Main Street, where you can wander Old Town sampling wares from 24 different food producers, everything from sushi and pizza […]
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Picketing for Help
More than a hundred protesting nurses, their families and friends filled up two blocks of sidewalk in front of St. Joseph Hospital last Wednesday evening as rush-hour traffic raced by on Harrison Avenue. Most of them wore red — the color of the California Nurses Association — and hoisted red-and-white signs: “RNs picketing for patient […]