Some Home Cookin’ is on the menu tonight up at the Mad River Brewery Tap Room at 6 p.m. Joyce, Fred, Tim and Gary will get you moving while you dance the evening away in the waning Blue Lake sunshine (weather permitting). It’s a free show, so have a blast. The Eureka Brass Band closes […]
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Music Tonight – Friday, May 12
The Detours (formerly The Honky Tonk Detours) return to the Mad River Brewery Tap Room this evening at 6 p.m. for a free show. Two hours later, and equally free, you’ll find Good Company at Cafe Mokka playing their take on Celtic tunes for an all ages show. Still scouting out delicious beer here on […]
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Locally Delicious Guidebook Drops
The mantra of “eat local,” isn’t just hipster folly — it’s a critically important act of resistance against the corporate takeover of our diets, our bodies and our health. A dollar spent on local, sustainably grown food supports family-owned farms, reduces petrol dependency, can reduce the chemical contamination of your food and reinvests your money […]
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Music Tonight – Thursday, May 11
Marin County’s The Beer Scouts are fans of rock n’ roll and, not-surprisingly, fans of good beer as well. It will also be of no surprise that they’re returning to Humboldt after their last shows here a few months ago. Apparently, our beer is so good up here — which we all know — these […]
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Tropicalismo
It’s never easy nail down a music genre. As with many things ineffable, the more you describe them, the more elusive they seem. Much like quantum physics, the more microscopic your view, the more you see, ad infinitum. This paradoxical quandary hit me while trying to pin what it was about Sugar Candy Mountain that […]
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Music Tonight – Wednesday, May 10
As mentioned above, local Pink Floyd and Tom Petty fanatic Piet Dalmolen returns to the Mad River Brewery Tap Room for some of his solo guitar wizardry at 6 p.m. The show is free but feel free to leave a tip. If you saw Go By Ocean on Friday night and liked it, thank Piet […]
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Music Tonight – Saturday, May 6
Slather on the sunblock as today is the second annual Humboldt Steel Pan Festival. This festival in Blue Lake’s Perigot park will go from noon until about 5 p.m. and features some amazingly talented local artists raising money for steel pan programs in local elementary schools. You’ll be watching the groovin’ hands of The Humboldt […]
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Spam-tastic
Wondering what to make for dinner? Kind of over clean eating? Draw some inspiration from the chefs who competed in last Sunday’s Spamley Cup at Redwood Fields in Cutten. On April 30, the annual canned pork product cook-off drew crowds eager to try the pink stuff in every imaginable form. The event raised $500 for […]
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Music Tonight – Friday, May 5
It’s Cinco de Mayo, which we all know is the celebration of the Mexican army at the Battle of Puebla. We here in majority white mainstream America celebrate this day by not knowing a thing about the Battle of Puebla and treating this holiday as the Mexican St. Patrick’s Day. We have a good number […]
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Music Tonight – Thursday, May 4
You can ease into your weekend this evening with some “folky fiddle tunes” from local band Fingal at 6 p.m. up at the Mad River Brewery. This is a free show and I’m hearing that the big tent is coming down soon, so make sure to bring some sunblock for you and the kiddos. David […]
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Pandemic
There’s a lot that makes Humboldt stand out among the other 57 rather bleh counties in our great state. (OK, Mendocino is pretty cool. And Trinity has the Trinity River, so that’s awesome.) I don’t want to make this a long list of what Humboldt has going for it, but rather to point out one […]
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Big Girls, Big Brothers
THE CIRCLE. Where have all the techno-thrillers gone? I began to wonder this after my disappointing afternoon with The Circle. I claim to be no expert in the subgenre, but the ’80s and ’90s were rife with paranoid thought experiments about the cyberworld we were creating. Did we peak at The Matrix? Perhaps 9/11 brought […]