Humboldt’s queer past gets a glow-up for Pride Month at Drag Me to the Museum, happening Saturday, June 27, from 6:30 to 9 p.m. at the Clarke Historical Museum ($40, $30 museum members and those in drag). The evening features performances by local drag stars, including Komboujia, Glitterous Clitterous and Mr. Gino, as well as […]
Komboujia
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Music Tonight: Saturday, Sept. 27
Because things get quiet in the early part of next week, I’m double-stacking tonight’s fun as a sayonara to September. First up at the Logger Bar, there’s a Drag Lotería at 8 p.m., featuring hosts Val de Flores and Komboujia and with music by Hispanic! at the Disco. The price for participation is $10. Meanwhile, […]
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Post-Millennium Tension
At a certain point in your life, the corrosion of your memories meets the current of dreams and the two become more or less indistinguishable. Older impressions melt away in the psychic wash, only to reappear as patchwork colors on the uninvited night coat of sleep. After all, the mind has its own efficiencies, too, […]
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Stevo by Starlight
Early last week, something terrible happened in the streets of Eureka that took the life of a man. I am not going to share the details of his passing. But don’t mistake this for an obituary, with vague allusions to death because this isn’t about death at all. This is about life, specifically the life […]
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Drag for the Next Generation
Dressed as a fairy princess in a purple gown and pointed ears, the drag performer known as Tucker Noir spoke in a bedtime story voice, telling the kids and grownups in the College of the Redwoods auditorium, “First there was clothing, then there was drag.” As the words got bigger, she kept the Mother Goose […]