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Music Tonight: Wednesday, March 5

By Collin Yeo on March 5, 2025 at 4:03AM

Portland, Oregon’s Rose City Band is a big sound/small stage experience, where founder Ripley Johnson turns the notion of the afternoon backyard jam into a massive landscape of sound, conjuring vast vistas filled with the inscrutable symbols of untamed nature. It’s really gorgeous stuff and a perfect band for a perfect venue like the Miniplex, where they will be setting up shop at 8 p.m. with dreamy tourmates Itasca.

Balourdet Quartet plays the Old Steeple on Tuesday, March 3, at 7:30 p.m.

Music Tonight: Tuesday, March 4

By Collin Yeo on March 4, 2025 at 4:02AM

The Old Steeple and the Eureka Chamber Music Series have come together to present the Balourdet Quartet, an award-winning group of musicians who will be both performing a program of music and curating a panel talk about music, art and freedom in society. The evening’s musical centerpiece is avant garde composer Steve Reich’s “Different Trains,” a piece that explicitly evokes World War II and the Holocaust.

Theater Tonight: Monday, March 3

By Collin Yeo on March 3, 2025 at 4:00AM

Πr2 is a multi-media performance of dance — aerial and otherwise — and theater performed solely by women, a trio of international performers, Catalina Nicoletti, Pia Nicoletti and Borja Caraval, all of whom have been crafting their art for most of their lifetimes. It certainly looks like an interesting event, and 8 p.m. isn’t too late for a Monday in my view ($20).

Theater Tonight: Sunday, March 2

By Collin Yeo on March 2, 2025 at 4:00AM

In deference to different voices and live theatre, I will mention two gigs happening today, Terry Baum’s Lesbo Solo: A Gay History Play at the EXIT Theatre at 3 p.m., and Rebecca McGlynn’s Asexuality: The Musical at the Arcata Playhouse at 7 p.m. Both shows are $20, and might provide a nice counterpoint to the megaton celebrity event called the Oscars that much of America will likely be watching.

Music Tonight: Saturday, March 1

By Collin Yeo on March 1, 2025 at 4:00AM

The Siren’s Song remains open and as long as that remains the case, I will be discussing the gigs there, as we need to hang onto our quirky venues for as long as we can. Once gone, they don’t tend to return, nor does the gap left in their wake ever seem to be sewn up.

Music Tonight: Friday, Feb. 28

By Collin Yeo on February 28, 2025 at 4:00AM

The Westhaven Center for the Arts presents a birthday bash for local singer/songwriter Linda Faye Carson. The show will feature two groups she is associated with, LodeStar and 7th Generation Rise, both chock full of talented musicians and on that vibe that spans the expressway from the deep roots of the earth and out into the far reaches of the cosmos.

Movies Tonight: Thursday, Feb. 27

By Collin Yeo on February 27, 2025 at 9:41AM

It’s the last night of the Lost Coast Film Festival, a nearly month-long event that has been showcased among various SoHum and Shelter Cove venues. Tonight’s finale will be at 7 p.m. at the Gyppo Ale Mill.

Music Tonight: Wednesday, Feb. 19

By Collin Yeo on February 19, 2025 at 4:00AM

There’s nothing going on tonight that I haven’t reported on in one form or another before, so I’ll just spin the wheel and see where the cursor stops. Duck, duck, duck, goose … and it looks like the Logger Bar is the place tonight, where you can enjoy Jazz Bros at 4 p.m., and karaoke four hours later.

Comedy Tonight: Tuesday, Feb. 18

By Collin Yeo on February 18, 2025 at 4:00AM

We have a new venue in town, as the Jam in Arcata is no more, having morphed into something called the Wild Hare Tavern. Out with the old, in with the leporids.

Doug Skanes, of Ellensburg, Washington, entered this artwork by tattoo artist Liz Venom, of Edmonton, Alberta, in Sunday's Best of the Day and Best of Show contests and won first place in both categories.

Photos: Inked Hearts Tattoo Expo 2025

By Mark Larson on February 17, 2025 at 2:13PM

The 15th annual Inked Hearts Tattoo Expo: Heart of the Dragon Resurrection 2025 got underway for three days from Feb. 14-16 at Blue Lake Casino and featured 43 tattoo artists and piercers. Large crowds took advantage of the opportunity to look over the art designs and make on-the-spot appointments for “ink” and piercing.

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