I have been struggling to translate my horror at current political events through a popular culture lens because that’s what, for better or worse, Americans do. The best I’ve landed on is, oddly enough, John Carpenter’s 2001 underrated flop Ghosts of Mars, a film in which mining colonists unleash a well of ancient and violent […]
Paradise Inc.
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The Fruits of Autumn
I spent last night sleeping under a fig tree on the grounds of a farm my friends just purchased. Not one of those farms, by the way, although that doesn’t matter in my opinion, but a bona fide organic food producer. After a great dinner I slept under that tree with my girlfriend and dreamed […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, April 27
There’s a free show at the gazebo in Old Town today at 4 p.m. with soul and dubsters New Traditions sharing the bricks with Arcata’s dayglo-polished pop group Paradise Inc. Later on at 7 p.m. at the Outer Space, you can check out a Bay Area bedroom folk/electro/lo-fi blend as Oakland’s Wizard Apprentice rolls through […]
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Tomorrow and Tomorrow and All Week
My roommate has been reading Macbeth all week, which sparked a discussion about our favorite Shakespeare plays, quotes and characters. While his is currently the titular power-hungry Scotsman and the “tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow” soliloquoy appears to have all the quotes he needs to satisfy, I am not so easy to satisfy anymore. Sometimes […]
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Musical Transmitters
I’ve been bloviating a lot here lately, so I’ll make this short and sweet. I heard a sound last week, a most unique and wonderful sound, and I would like to share it with you, inasmuch as I can transmit that information via the printed word. I went back-country snowboarding on Horse Mountain last Monday […]
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A Little Sentimental
This was a week of contrasts for me, many of them bittersweet. While I appreciated the sunshine on my face all week, I don’t relish wearing T-shirts in February. We need our winter rain and snow, and sunny days in midwinter do not auger well for the new year. I don’t want to have another […]
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Macktown Smackdown
By Collin Yeo Having gotten slightly verbose and heavy in last week’s introduction, I am going to leave this one a tad lighter. This week I’ll be looking for themes to some evenings while making occasional rude personal connections to our local geography and generally stinking things up with what I’d like to think passes […]