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Movie Tonight: Wednesday, June 4

By Collin Yeo on June 4, 2025 at 4:00AM

John Carpenter is one of my favorite directors, a man whose against-the-grain, gory and brilliant scattergun cinema poetry embedded itself into my young mind via the cult VHS days of my childhood. The Thing will always remain my favorite, but They Live is a great offering too, albeit more depressing because its alien threat seems more plausible, and abetted by the worst yuppie Quislings of our species.

Photos: Forest Moon Festival Feels the Force

By Mark Larson on June 3, 2025 at 4:22PM

The Saturday, May 31 schedule for the third annual, three-day Forest Moon Festival opened on the Arcata Plaza with up close and personal photo opps with costumed Star Wars characters and appearances by actor Kyle Newman (director of Fanboys) and Kevin Thompson, original cast member as Ewok actor and stunt performer from 1983’s Star Wars: Return of the Jedi. See the slideshow below for highlights of the festival.

Music Today: Sunday, June 1

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

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.

Music Tonight: Saturday, May 31

By Collin Yeo on May 31, 2025 at 4:00AM

The Eureka Symphony presents the final night of its 2024/2025 season finale, appropriately titled “A Grand Finale.” The program features the Concerto for Piano and Orchestra by late Romantic period Polish composer Grazyna Bacewicz, with Cal Poly Humboldt professor Daniela Mineva on the keys, along with Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony, aka, “the dance one.” The string that ties these two pieces together shared roots in folk reels and dances at the time, a subject I covered with music director and conductor Carol Jacobson in a recent interview (stay tuned to this publication for more on that soon). As always, huzzah for our beloved local symphony, I’m certainly looking forward to this one, as any lover of orchestral music should be too.

It's Crab Season! (baseball, that is)

By Kali Cozyris on May 30, 2025 at 12:00PM

Nothing says summer like the return of Humboldt Crabs Baseball. With games kicking off this weekend at the Arcata Ball Park, the Crabs are the oldest continuously operated, independent, summer collegiate baseball team in the U.S., bringing 80 years of tradition, hometown pride and small-town fun to our corner of the world.

Music Tonight: Friday, May 30

By Collin Yeo on May 30, 2025 at 4:00AM

First, some housekeeping and a mea culpa. I take a lot of notes for this column, but the handwriting from my crippled dominant hand produces a scrawl that looks like it comes from a doctor who’s been abusing his own medicine.

Forest Moon Festival Fun

By Kali Cozyris on May 29, 2025 at 4:00PM

Celebrate Humboldt County’s claim to Star Wars fame at the Forest Moon Festival, honoring the region’s role as the forest moon of Endor in Return of the Jedi. This countywide event takes place May 30-June 1 and features themed activities, film site tours, costumed characters and more. On Friday, May 30 at 6 p.m., head to Rohner Park in Fortuna for food trucks, games, face painting, a Galactic Skate and an outdoor screening of Return of the Jedi around 8 p.m.

Music Tonight: Thursday, May 29

By Collin Yeo on May 29, 2025 at 4:00AM

Some evenings around here certainly seem to rhyme. Tonight is one such example, as there are a couple of free beer garden/tasting room shows starting at 6 p.m., featuring two of our finest local talents.

Music Tonight: Sunday, May 25

By Collin Yeo on May 25, 2025 at 4:00AM

Say goodbye to the old ways of the spring season and scratch another academic cycle off the charts with a psychedelic dance party with heavy tropical tones. Brothers David and Rene Pacheco took the backyard sounds from their East L.A. childhood and created a beautiful monster of cumbia music wedded to punk and grunge called Tropa Magica.