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Music Tonight: Monday, Sept. 24

by Collin Yeo on September 24, 2018 at 4:00AM

Seattle's iji has a sound that can best be described as bubbly chamber pop. The hushed vocals crash against cheery multi-instrumentation in a bright little world of feeling and joy.

Music Tonight: Sunday, Sept. 23

by Collin Yeo on September 23, 2018 at 4:00AM

The Sanctuary offers a brunch-time, swing-jazz-era café experience for free when The J Street Regulars plays a set of vintage jazz and dance tunes for the coffee-drinking and pastry-eating set at 10 a.m. Dance a bit or just sit and sip — there is really no pressure here, just a fun time for all.

The Murder Mountain Docuseries is Upon Us

by Jennifer Fumiko Cahill on September 22, 2018 at 1:52PM

Former Journal reporter Linda Stansberry, who agreed to be interviewed for the docuseries but declined a request to investigate on its producers' behalf, says that producer Josh Zeman assured her the project was not aiming for "tabloid-style exploitation." But the preview has her eyebrow up.

Music Tonight: Saturday, Sept. 22

by Collin Yeo on September 22, 2018 at 4:00AM

Julian Lage is a world-class jazz guitarist from Santa Rosa who, as a single-digit aged wunderkind, was the subject of a documentary called Jules at Eight. The subsequent decades have been kind to Julian.

Good Relations' Sexytime Quiz Night for Fire Relief

on September 21, 2018 at 8:00AM

Think you know a thing or two about a certain something-something or a little something-something about a certain thing or two? Take your knowledge to The Historic Eagle House and impress everyone at Good Relations' Sexytime Quiz Night for Fire Relief on Saturday, Sept. 22 from 7 to 9 p.m.

Music Tonight: Friday, Sept. 21

by Collin Yeo on September 21, 2018 at 4:00AM

Indie music has been a genre for so long that the term has functionally lost all use as a descriptor. It now includes acts who are certainly not independent in any meaningful sense of the term and therefore has joined the ranks of blues, jazz, rock and rap in the pantheon of genres that have been watered down into homeopathic neutrality.

Movie Magic

by Kali Cozyris on September 20, 2018 at 8:00AM

What is happening at the Arcata Theater Lounge this week? Are they reading my mind?

Vintage Carnival and Picnic in the Park

on September 20, 2018 at 7:30AM

An old-fashioned Vintage Carnival and Picnic in the Park is coming to the Southern Humboldt Community Park on Saturday, Sept. 22 from 3 to 10 p.m. ($15, free for kids 12 and under).

Music Tonight: Thursday, Sept. 20

by Collin Yeo on September 20, 2018 at 4:00AM

Aussie Sub Pop Records band Deaf Wish plays an end of summer — in the Northern Hemisphere — show tonight at 7 p.m. at the Outer Space. I usually get annoyed at the lazy comparisons music writers make to Sonic Youth and P.J. Harvey when faced with a female-fronted arty rock band, but in this case it's hard to dispute that Deaf Wish frontwoman Sarah Hardiman sounds like P.J. with a Sister-era Kim Gordon cadence.

Diamond Girl

by Kali Cozyris on September 19, 2018 at 4:00PM

A little fall fire is swirling our way and not just in the form of leaves. Seattle-based Flamenco dancer Savannah Fuentes brings her rhythmic heel, heel, planta, planta magic back to Humboldt in Diamantes de Color (colored diamonds), An Evening of Flamenco on Friday, Sept. 21 at 8 p.m. at the Bayside Community Hall ($34 VIP reserved, $20, $15 students, $7 child).

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