If you’re kicking yourself because you missed Temple Beth El’s Yiddish Music Festival last year, don’t kvetch, it’s back! The Humboldt Jewish Music and Culture Festival, a celebration of Yiddish and Sephardic culture, music and cuisine, is happening Feb. 4-11 via Zoom. The event was renamed this year in order to include increased diversity of […]
Kira Weiss
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Music Tonight: Thursday, July 5
Legends of the Mind is a blues/folk duo comprised of a guitar player and harmonica blower who both sing and play tasteful covers and simple originals from the roots menu of American music. Last week I had the pleasure of seeing the pair at the Clam Beach Tavern during their usual Thursday night residency and […]
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Vinny in the Bardo
Early last week after my deadline had passed, I heard the sad news that Gregg DeVaney had succumbed to the aggressive brain cancer with which he was recently diagnosed. From the outside, it was shocking how quickly it came. I have known Gregg for three decades, since I was a child, and I would like […]
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Music Tonight: Saturday, March 31
Can you split yourself into three independent sub-beings who report back to your master consciousness without overheating its mainframe system? If so, one neat trick you could try tonight is attending three different shows that all begin at 8 p.m. Bonus points awarded if you write the Journal a coherent letter about the experience afterward. […]