Speaking of local songwriters, the Humboldt Songwriters Showcase is going down at the Eagle House ballroom tonight at 7 p.m. Come join the likes of Patrick Cleary, Xeff Scolari, Chad Johnson, Anna Hamilton, J.D. Garza and Zach Gentry for an evening of original tunes from each artist’s songbook. No cover at the door, either.If you […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, Nov. 6
There’s a songwriter jamberoo at the Arcata Playhouse tonight at 7 p.m. featuring Ruby Ruth George and Mike Frazier. Expect country and folk-adjacent tunes full of esprit de corps for the local scene, both audience and musicians alike ($25, $15 for students and seniors).
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Music Tonight: Thursday, Nov. 5
Daniel Nickerson from Makenu and the Cowtown Sound is playing a free solo set at the Redwood Curtain Brewery in Myrtletown at 6 p.m. Expect oldies, goldies, covers for lovers and original tunes for the rest of us, too.
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Into the Void
It’s Election Day where I’m writing from, so I’ll make this brief and go back into hiding. All I keep thinking of is that while nature might abhor a vacuum, the feeling is mutual. This is the salient point that keeps cresting the waves when I see the president and his toadies dismantling much of […]
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Music Tonight: Saturday, Oct. 31
Folks, the big spooky is finally here and I’m not talking about the midterms on Tuesday. There are plenty of doings transpiring under the waning gibbous moon tonight, so I have focused on a few musical treats before pulling my disappearing trick for the week: Find a goodie and enjoy. The Miniplex is hosting an […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, Oct. 30
The Shanty is putting on a free All-Hallows Eve-eve show tonight at 8 p.m., with local combat thrash band Psyop Victim providing local support for Los Lonely Stars, a Los Saicos cover band from Los Angeles. Meanwhile a half hour later at Humbrews, Poor Man’s Whiskey will be taking over with Dark Side of the […]
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Music Tonight: Thursday, Oct. 29
Here’s something for the whole family: The Theatre Arts Program at Cal Poly Humboldt’s Curious Company presents A Silly Spooky Halloween at the Arcata branch of the Humboldt Library at 5:50 p.m. This is a free event for all folks. For those of you of drinking age, the Logger Bar is hosting another honkytonk Thursday, […]
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Crash Course
Happy Halloween, Humboldt. Last year we introduced you to the sweetly spooky work of comic artist Liz Valasco on our cover (“The Seeker,” Oct. 30, 2025). After seeing what she and the Journal’s Setlist columnist Collin Yeo cooked up together, how could we resist a second grab from the candy bucket? “Crash Course” also appears […]
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The Candyman Can
As is often the case during this time of year, I was watching a horror film recently — nothing special, a French rip-off of Francis Ford Coppola’s 1992 Dracula movie — when I found myself so bored by the stupidity of the whole thing that I slipped into a sort of dream state. I think […]
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Movie Tonight: Wednesday, Oct. 28
NAZA is a 2026 documentary about the ongoing genocide in Palestine inflicted by the Israeli government and military and abetted by our own government and private arms industry. Produced by the Guardian newspaper in Britain, it has caused such a stir in the international scene — it was not allowed to be screened in Israel […]
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Music Tonight: Tuesday, Oct. 27
Lately, I have been filling this space with a repeated suggestion for the reader to check out Strange Meeting at the Basement after 7 p.m. Other writers might get worried that their readers have grown tired of these now-familiar entreaties to see and hear this avant jazz act work its magic, but as Tommy Lee […]
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Music Tonight: Monday, Oct. 26
The music associated with Steely Dead should be pretty easy for many people to figure out, but in case there’s any confusion, this Denver-based jam band fills its sets with songs by two very different but similarly adored bands from the ’70s: Steely Dan and the Grateful Dead. And although both now-defunct bands are known […]