Savage Henry Comedy Club owner Chris Durant presents his annual stand-upheadlining show at 8 p.m. In addition to the aforementioned founder, you can enjoy the jolly breezes and wheezes from folks like Josh Barnes, Madison Lopez, Brandy Lara and more. Five bucks is a pretty good deal for all of this fun. However, if you […]
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Summer’s Sweetest Songs
“He’s a moody old man/ song of summer in his hand/ he’s a moody old man.” So begins Kate Bush’s “Delius (Song of Summer),” a gorgeous, impressionistic paean to the English composer Frederick Delius and his assistant Eric Fenby, who was placed into the position of scribe by the master’s deterioration at the ugly hand […]
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Moving Pictures
It’s that time of year again where the bright and colorful statues ride around the plaza and across the land and into the sea — sort of — to find their terminal point on Main Street in Ferndale on Memorial Day. It’s a unique local event we locals tend to take for granted but is […]
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Back in Town
I have written here before about my antagonistic relationship with nostalgia and the withering contempt it generates in me. As Spider Jerusalem from Warren Ellis’ excellent comic book Transmetropolitan observes, “The future is an inherently good thing.” However, with all of the familiar faces and returning musicians in this week’s column, I find myself flexing […]