Because I’ve got nothing going on for the first of the month, let’s load up tonight withthree diverse 7 p.m. gigs to cast a wide net to snag as many of you as possible. Firstup, the good people at the Creative Sanctuary are continuing their excellent Homage to the Message series of shows highlighting various […]
Redwood Interfaith Gospel Choir
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A Slow Slide Whistle Before the Bomb
Judge Doom, the villain of 1988’s Who Framed Roger Rabbit, was the despotic lawman of the film’s fictitious Toontown, a zany Hollywood for animated characters that existed alongside its real-world cultural mecca in the film’s 1947 storyline. Himself a cartoon in human disguise, this demonic executioner of toons sold out his own kind to pulverize […]
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Music Today: Sunday, June 1
The Redwood Interfaith Gospel Choir is presenting its spring concert just before the blooms go from vernal verdance to summer straw, nestled right between the Flower and the Strawberry moons. Which is just right, as far as I am concerned. This 2 p.m. matinee will be making the Arcata Playhouse thrum like a wooden diaphragm […]
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Cut to Rip Torn
I’ve got a lot on my mind but very little room to write about it, which is fine; I’ve been overlong in the intros lately anyway. So I’ll just give a peek instead of an essay about what I’ve been thinking about recently. Two things mainly, both published in this still-young year, the first I […]