-
6 days ago | 
northcoastjournal.com | Collin Yeo
Posted
By Collin Yeo
on Sun, Jun 1, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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.
-
1 week ago | 
northcoastjournal.com | Collin Yeo
Posted By Collin Yeo on Sat, May 31, 2025 at 4:00 AM click to enlarge 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...
-
1 week ago | 
northcoastjournal.com | Collin Yeo
Posted
By Collin Yeo
on Fri, May 30, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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. It’s honestly a wonder I don’t mess things up more often. No excuses, just an explanation.
-
1 week ago | 
northcoastjournal.com | Collin Yeo
Posted
By Collin Yeo
on Thu, May 29, 2025 at 4:00 AM
click to enlarge
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. At
Six Rivers Brewery, you will find Dale Cash & Friends.
-
1 week ago | 
northcoastjournal.com | Collin Yeo
I've got a lot on my mind but very little room to write about it, which is fine; I've been overlong in the intros lately anyway. So I'll just give a peek instead of an essay about what I've been thinking about recently. Two things mainly, both published in this still-young year, the first I am digesting, the second I keep returning to and am, in fact, chewing on with my ears while I write this. Different mediums, you see.
-
1 week ago | 
northcoastjournal.com | Collin Yeo
Posted
By Collin Yeo
on Sun, May 25, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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.
-
2 weeks ago | 
northcoastjournal.com | Collin Yeo
Posted
By Collin Yeo
on Sat, May 24, 2025 at 4:00 AM
It’s the official beginning to the Kinetic weekend, which of course means that there’s a Rutabaga Ball happening somewhere around these parts. This year’s somewhere is the Eureka Theater, where for $20 at 7 p.m. you can join the happy hordes of racers and partiers. If you’re in the mood for another style of weirdness, here are a couple of options.
-
2 weeks ago | 
northcoastjournal.com | Collin Yeo
Posted
By Collin Yeo
on Fri, May 23, 2025 at 4:00 AM
As I mentioned before, I will be loading up the weekend with goodies because the pantry is bare afterward and, for the sake of that project, tonight is the beginning of that process. First up, at the Outer Space at 7 p.m., Brain-Dead Rejects and Kolonizer are playing a horror punk drag show for a sliding scale cover of $5-$20.
-
2 weeks ago | 
northcoastjournal.com | Collin Yeo
Posted
By Collin Yeo
on Thu, May 22, 2025 at 4:00 AM
The Creative Sanctuary is putting on another jazz gig at the Arcata Playhouse, the first in a series basking in the glow of the formidable works of Art Blakely and the Jazz Messengers. Tonight’s program is an homage to Horace Silver, the post-bop pianist and co-bandleader who brought the group to his highest peaks of creative glory.
-
2 weeks ago | 
northcoastjournal.com | Collin Yeo
A little preface is needed before this week's column gets rolling. It's Memorial Day weekend in our stretch of the entertainment beat, coming a week after graduation at Cal Poly Humboldt. Which means that the front end of this piece will be heavy with a variety of live offerings, while the caboose is scant to the point of nonexistence, outside of what you might find in the event calendar in the back of the paper. That's just how it works out sometimes.
