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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Minor Theater Closing on Friday
Coming Attractions, which has operated the Minor Theater in Arcata since 2005, will shut the historic theater down Feb. 5. Josh Neff, who took ownership of the Minor Theater building and adjacent storefronts last year, says he plans to re-open the movie theater, but expects renovations to take at least a month. The theater celebrated […]
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There’s a New Theater Owner in Town
The Minor Theater is in new and, it sounds like, good hands. David Phillips and his wife LouAnna put the theater on the market several years ago, 40 years after purchasing the then-defunct building that was slated at one point to be leveled for downtown parking. The theater celebrated its 100th anniversary in December of […]