Speaking of Humbrews and tributes to and OG members of large post-hippie musical movements, at 9 p.m., the 14-member Frank Zappa songbook ensemble StinkfootOrchestra takes the stage, once again joined by Napoleon Murphy Brock, who sangand played horns on some of Zappa’s ’70s output. I am not the biggest fan of Frank butI had a […]
Stinkfoot Orchestra
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Apocalypse Now
The day before a masked ICE agent shot a woman in the face in Minneapolis, the Eureka City Council voted to allow the Eureka Police Department to look into using drones as part of its arsenal. A week later, that same council voted to condemn the illegal occupation of Venezuela by the Trump-controlled military. These […]
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The Slough Man’s Song
This time of year, I like to savor the sun as much as possible, even if it’s perpetually hanging too low in the sky and blinding me as I zip around the landscape in its brief presence. I have a spot I go to, a favorite slough, where I watch the birds in the slow, […]
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Dr. Woo
I’m writing this at the beginning of the week, the day after the eclipse of the Super Flower Blood Moon. I’m probably more immune to the effects of magical thinking and “woo” than most of my fellow Redwood Curtain citizens, but I’m still a little touched by the outré aspects of the natural world. And […]