Sometime in the first three months of 2020, nearly every musician in Humboldt County played their last live gig. It’s difficult to pin down the exact date of the general venue closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic but St. Patrick’s Day is a good hinge, a pivot point where venue owners and employees had to […]
Julio Perdido
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Niche and Nuance vs. Nazis
When Janis Ian wrote her seminal song “At Seventeen,” she started with the perfect stanza about tragic, trapped, popular and doomed teenage girls who peaked too soon: “I learned the truth at 17/ That love was meant for beauty queens/ And high school girls with clear-skinned smiles/ Who married young and then retired.” She goes […]
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Trick or Treat Yourself
I don’t like Halloween. I have fallen asleep in a graveyard on two non-consecutive Halloweens. I once coated myself in homemade corn-syrup blood to the point where my own friends didn’t recognize me and I had to explain why my face was stained pink to my coworkers for a week. I have sat through the […]