Arts! Arcata is Arcata Main Street’s monthly celebration of visual and performing arts, held at more than 30 participating locations in and around downtown Arcata. Visit www.artsarcata.com for even more information about the event or call (707) 822-4500. 1. ABRUZZI 780 Seventh St. Live music. 2. ARCATA ARTISANS COOPERATIVE 883 H St. Mixed media by Elaine Benjamin, […]
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McKinleyville Arts Night
1. Eureka-Arcata Airport. View artwork by Humboldt County artists. 2. Silver Lining, 3561 Boeing Ave., #D. Donna Jean Hooker, creative critters generated out of wire, stone and glass; Mark “Tree” Allen, rustic twig furniture; Good and Evil Twins, ambigram artwork; Music by Chris Parreira. 3. Plaza Design, McKinleyville Shopping Center. John Wesa, screenprints and serigraphs; Live music. 4. North […]
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Arts! Arcata
Second Friday Arts! Arcata is Arcata Main Street’s monthly celebration of visual and performing arts, held at more than 30 participating locations in Arcata. Visit www.artsarcata.com for even more information about the event or call 822-4500. 1. 3 Foods Café 835 J St. Live music from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. 2. Abruzzi 780 Seventh St. Live […]
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McKinleyville Arts Night
Third Friday McKinleyville Arts Night Friday, Oct. 21, 6-8 p.m. is presented by members of the McKinleyville business community. Receptions for artists, exhibits and/or performances are from 6-8 p.m. on the third Friday of each month. Phone 268-1800, for more information. 1) McKinleyville High School 1300 Murray Road In the Multipurpose Room. Robin Weburg, Nature’s Scattered […]
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On Stage in October
At Dell’Arte for two weekends beginning Thursday (Sept. 28), the physical comedy ensemble Under the Table presents The Hunchbacks of Notre Dame. Yes, that’s “hunchbacks” plural (three to be precise.) It’s an adaptation of the Victor Hugo classic created in Blue Lake with Dell’Arte’s Ronlin Foreman. It’s performed in the Carlo, Thursdays through Saturdays at […]
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On the Beat October
First Street Gallery features works by two very emphatic and very different artists, Tina Rousselot and Leslie Kenneth Price. Rousselot’s minimalist abstract paintings and works on paper are all about the power of color and shape to evoke and communicate a new appreciation of the objects and landscapes in our lives. Price, a much respected […]
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September Humboldt Happenings
BAT N’ ROUGE – Baseball has been played professionally under modern rules in the United States since the founding of the New York Knickerbockers back in 1845. Since then, infinite boring strikes have been called, countless ho-hum home runs have been batted in. Yawn. But those interested in seeing a revolution in the way the […]
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August Musicals and Makeovers
Opening Friday, Aug. 5, at the Ferndale Repertory Theatre is the Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler musical Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street. With its implications of cannibalism, this groundbreaking tale of a murderous barber and complicit purveyor of meat pies was controversial when it opened on Broadway in 1979. But it won […]
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August Humboldt Happenings
HOPS IN HUMBOLDT Okay, so maybe the whole weed tourism scheme didn’t pan out for Humboldt. What else we got? How ’bout beer? With five five established local beer makers keeping locals hopped up, Humboldt boasts a pretty impressive per capita brewery count. Need more proof? Well then make sure to check out Hops in […]
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Lights On
For North Coast Repertory Theatre, the first thing on the July agenda is keeping the lights on. In an already challenging economy for local theatres, NCRT urgently needs to replace lighting equipment that’s 40 years old. So the first of two fundraisers this month is Keepin’ the Lights On, a musical revue featuring show tunes […]
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Sounds of Summer
Formal evenings of stiff black tuxes, flowing gowns and ragged ticket stubs flee the classical music stage in Humboldt County when summer commences. Now the tempo relaxes into mellow weekend afternoons of traditional brass oom-pahs and eclectic organ noodlings. For a thrilling traditional brass band experience check out the Eureka Symphony’s Brass Ensemble on the […]
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Humboldt Is Not Cold, Jerks
If you had friends from out-of-town stay with you over Memorial Day weekend, you no doubt felt some righteous, defensive indignation rise up into your chest when you, once again, heard some version of the whiny conclusion “it’s sooooo cold” emanate from their ungrateful, non-local lips for the umpteenth time. Pfff. To be fair, we’ll […]