Thursday, Sept. 26
Wild and Scenic Film Festival Tonight (TRAILER)
Marvel and celebrate the great outdoors in the spacious indoors of the Arcata Theatre Lounge for the 11th annual Wild and Scenic Film Festival, an evening of short films and documentaries that will convince you to cease all youe personal clearcutting, mountaintop removal and artistic oil spill projects. The evening also acts as a benefit for the local environmental champions at EPIC. Sample the tone of the evening in the trailer above and/or scour your other Thursday options in your Lowdown below.
-AG
Top Events!
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Wild and Scenic Film Festival
Arcata Theatre Lounge
/ 6 p.m.
/ $10
/ $8 students
Film screening/call to action that promises to inspire and inform you with scenes that illustrate the Earth’s beauty, the challenges that are facing our planet, and the work communities are doing to protect the environment.
/ Web site
Out of Spite Burlesque and Sideshow Revue
Arcata Playhouse
/ 9 p.m.
/ $8
Benefit performance raising funds for a Halloween event on the Arcata Plaza featuring Va Va Voom, Megz Madrone, Sarah Lee, Don Husman and more.
/ Web site
Scuber Mountain
Humboldt Brews
/ 9:30 p.m.
/ $7
/ 21+
Humboldt County’s foremost and most tragic piano-pop group. Farmhouse Odyssey opens.
/ Web site
All Events!
Henderson Center Farmers’ Market
Henderson Center
/ 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
Locally grown food. Live music. Runs from June to October.
McKinleyville Farmers’ Market
McKinleyville Shopping Center
/ 3:30-6:30 p.m.
Locally grown food. Runs from June to October.
/ Web site
A Place at the Table
Calvary Lutheran Church
/ 4:30-8 p.m.
/ Free
Free community screening of the critically acclaimed documentary examining the crisis of food insecurity, hunger, obesity and food access in America and the policies that have perpetuated the problem.
/ Web site
Sustainable Futures Speaker Series
Gist Hall, HSU
/ 5:30-7 p.m.
/ Free
Dr. Philip Garone presents “California Wetlands – Two Centuries of Loss and Recovery: Lessons From the Central Valley.” Garone is an associate professor of history at California State University Stanislaus.
/ Web site
Sound Judgment
Mad River Brewery Tasting Room
/ 6-8:30 p.m.
/ Free
Rick DeVol, Jeff Smoller and Doug Kamprath play instrumental rockin’ jazz-ish music.
/ Web site
Lisa Baney
Persimmons Garden Gallery
/ 7 p.m.
Local jazz vocalist.
/ Web site
Buddy Reed
Old Town Coffee And Chocolates (Old Town)
/ 7 p.m.
Lowdown blues.
/ Web site
Kenny Ray and the Mighty Rovers
Shamus T Bones
/ 7:30 p.m.
Old time country while you eat meat.
/ Web site
Becky’s New Car
Redwood Curtain Theatre
/ 8 p.m.
Becky Foster, is caught in middle age, middle management and in a middling marriage—with no prospects for change on the horizon. Then one night a socially inept and grief-stricken millionaire stumbles into the car dealership where Becky works.
Karaoke w/ KJ Leonard
Blue Lake Casino Hotel
/ 8 p.m.
When selecting your song, please keep in mind your audience would like to dance.
/ Web site
Mike Bynum
Redwood Curtain Brewing Company, Arcata
/ 8 p.m.
Acoustic folk artist.
/ Web site
Karaoke w/ Chris Clay
Bear River Casino Resort
/ 8 p.m.
Please don’t do “Bohemian Rhapsody.” That never works.
/ Web site
Mike Bynum
Redwood Curtain Brewing Company, Arcata
/ 8 p.m.-midnight
/ Free
Local singer/songwriter.
/ Web site
Lyndsey Battle Trio
Logger Bar
/ 9 p.m.
Uke-slingin’ singer/songwriter and band. Chief opens.
/ Web site
Savage Henry Radio Program Live Recording
Six Rivers Brewery
/ 9 p.m.
/ $3
/ 21+
First ever live recording of the “Award Winning Podcast” (recently ranked in the Joshua Duke Quarterly as one of the “Top 1,000 Podcasts To Watch”).
/ Web site
Accurate Productions
Cher-Ae Heights Casino
/ 9 p.m.
/ 21+
S.I.N. and Service Night DJ night.
/ Web site
Pressure/Anya DJs
Nocturnum
/ 9 p.m.
/ 21+
Dirty Thursdays bump ‘n’ grind boogie down.
Rude Lion Sound
Sidelines
/ 9:30 p.m.
/ 21+
Hip hop krunkage for your butt.
Kindred Spirits
Clam Beach Inn
/ 10 p.m.
Synrgy, Stevie Culture
The Jam
/ 10 p.m.
/ $5
/ 21+
Local reggae with Elephant Dub Brigade. DJ Abba Roots opens.
/ Web site
Movie Showtimes
Broadway Cinema
- BLUE JASMINE: 1:50, 4:20, 6:50, 9:20
- DESPICABLE ME 2 2D: 12:25, 2:55
- ELYSIUM: 12:05, 2:45, 5:25, 8:15
- INSIDIOUS CHAPTER 2: 1:15, 4:05, 6:45, 8:10, 9:25
- LEE DANIELS THE BUTLER: 12:00, 3:05, 6:05, 9:05
- PLANES 2D: 1:10, 3:30, 5:50
- PRISONERS: 1:25, 2:40, 4:55, 5:30, 8:25, 9:00
- RIDDICK: 11:55, 2:50, 5:45, 8:40
- THE FAMILY: 12:55, 3:40, 6:25, 9:10
- THE WORLD S END: 12:00, 6:10, 8:50
- THIS IS THE END: 1:45, 4:25, 7:00, 9:35
- WE RE THE MILLERS: 1:00, 3:55, 6:35, 9:15
Mill Creek Cinema
- ELYSIUM: 3:20, 9:25
- INSIDIOUS CHAPTER 2: 3:10, 5:45, 8:30, 9:15
- LEE DANIELS THE BUTLER: 3:00, 5:55, 9:00
- PRISONERS: 4:55, 6:00, 8:25
- RIDDICK: 2:55, 5:50, 8:45
- THE FAMILY: 3:30, 6:10, 8:55
- THIS IS THE END: 4:00, 6:40
- WE RE THE MILLERS: 4:10, 6:50, 9:30
Minor Theatre
- PRISONERS: 5:20, 8:45
- SPECTACULAR NOW: 3:50, 6:10, 8:30
- THE FAMILY: 3:40, 6:20, 9:00