Friday, July 24

Lowdown: ‘Prune Packers’ is a Funny Name For a Baseball Team

Oh crap! There’s only a few games left in the 2015 Humboldt Crabs season! Tonight at the Arcata Ball Park, your hometown crustaceans begin their annual series with their most hilariously named nemeses, the Healdsburg Prune Packers. Ha! What a horrible name for a baseball team! Check this out, if you can’t come up with some good heckles for tonight’s game, please move to Healdsburg. LoCO will also note that not-dead former DJ Mike Dronkers is throwing out the first pitch at tonight’s game. Uh, he deserves to be heckled as well.

Elsewhere this evening, the annual Fortuna Redwood AutoXpo kicks off in Fortuna with a cruise down Main Street and a Sock Hop at the River Lodge, there’s some fine Scottish music for your ears at The Sanctuary courtesy The Fire, and Club Triangle returns to Jambalaya — they have a tough act to follow after last month’s historic event. 

More joy in your Lowdown listings below. —Andrew Goff

Last month’s Club Triangle was big fun

Top Events!
(Look ahead!)

Fortuna Redwood AutoXpo
Fortuna / 4 p.m.
“Fortuna’s biggest and most well-attended event of the season, a car show fueled by vintage rock ‘n’ roll, pink poodle skirts, white bobby socks, sunglasses and cool cars that are hot!”
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Humboldt Crabs vs. Healdsburg Prune Packers
Arcata Ball Park / 7 p.m. / $9 / $6 students/seniors / $4 kids under 12
“Free Box of Raisins and Roller Derby Night”: One of our favorite opponents, the Healdsburg Prune Packers are in town again and everyone will get a free box of raisins. Also, Humboldt Roller Derby will be in the park signing autographs for the kids.
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The Princess Bride
Eureka Theater / 7:30 p.m. / $5
The Cliffs of Insanity. Rodents of unusual size. The Pit of Despair. Mawwage and twue wuv! If you don’t know what we’re referring to, it’s time to hie thy bodkin hence and setcherself down for a cultural education. Part of Fourth Friday Flix.
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House of 1000 Corpses (2003)
Arcata Theatre Lounge / 7:30 p.m. / $5
“Taking his cue from such 1970s horror classics as The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) and The Hills Have Eyes (1977), animated rocker Rob Zombie goes celluloid with this throwback shocker.”
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One Man, Two Guvnors
Redwood Curtain Theatre / 8 p.m. / $15 / $20 Gala opening / $10 Thursdays
Brighton, England. 1963. Fired from a skiffle band, Francis Henshall finds himself employed by small-time gangster Roscoe Crabbe, in town to collect a fee from his fiancee’s gangster father. But Roscoe is really Rachel, posing as her own dead brother.
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The Fire
The Sanctuary / 8 p.m. / $5 / $20 sliding scale
High energy pure-drop Scottish music band with world class fiddling in combination with bagpipes, guitar, bodhran, and whistle.
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Club Triangle
The Jam / 9 p.m.-2 a.m. / $5 / 21+
Theme: Heroes & Villains. Dress up in your favorite hero or villain costumes!
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El Haru Kuroi
Logger Bar / 9 p.m.
“El-Haru Kuroi, an East Los Angeles trio rooted in Mexican, South American and African melodies and rhythms, has initiated a fierce style and sound.”
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PROMOTED

Jimi Jeff
Blue Lake Casino Hotel / 9 p.m. / 21+
Jimi plays your favorite dance hits and of course, Hendrix!
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All Events!

Intro to Archery
Humboldt State University, Center Activities / 9 a.m.-noon / $35 / $30 HSU Students
This course is designed to introduce beginning archers to the basic fundamentals of the sport.
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Dune Detectives Summer Camp
Humboldt Coastal Nature Center / 9 a.m.-1 p.m. / $100 / $80 Members or Manila Residents
This week long half day camp program for ages 5-7 will connect participants to the diverse coastal habitats of the Samoa Peninsula.
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Skate and BMX Summer Camp
RampArt Skatepark / 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m. / $35
All skill levels are welcome.
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Where’s Waldo Arcata
Northtown Books / 10 a.m. / Free
The entire month of July in Arcata, Waldo will be hiding in local businesses. To participate in the hunt, pick up your passport at Northtown Books or any of the other participating businesses and look for him hiding in any or all of 29 local businesses.
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Backpacking the Trinity Alps
Humboldt State University, Center Activities / 5 p.m.-midnight / $85 / $70 HSU Students
Hike with strangers.
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Blue Lotus Jazz
Larrupin Cafe / 6 p.m. / Free
Jazz on the patio.
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Il Matrimonio Secreto
Redwood Park / 7 p.m. / $12 / $10 adv.
Love, intrigue, secret marriages, and a healthy dose of comedy are all part of this traditional European opera. Come hear the voices soar among the redwoods!
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Always A Bridesmaid
North Coast Repertory Theatre / 8 p.m. / $16
“In this hilarious comedic romp, four friends have sworn to keep the promise they made on the night of their Senior Prom: to be in each other’s weddings … no matter what. More than thirty years later, these Southern friends-for-life are still making “the long walk” for each other.”
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Eureka Pizza Council
SpeakEasy / 8:30 p.m.
Jazz/funk.
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Queer Vibes: Sloppy Jane, Loko Ono
The Miniplex at Richards’ Goat Tavern / 9 p.m.-2 a.m.
❤ Queer Vibes is a space meant for coming together to celebrate our various narratives, bodies, abilities, !!queerness!!, genders & non-genders ❤
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Karaoke
Bar Fly Pub and Grub / 9 p.m. / Free / 21+
Singing in public is easier with beer.
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Jimi Jeff
Blue Lake Casino Hotel / 9 p.m. / 21+
Jimi plays your favorite dance hits and of course, Hendrix!
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Monahan, Martin and Sleep
Cher-Ae Heights Casino / 9 p.m.-1 a.m. / Free
A combination of rock, funk and soul music.
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Jenni and David and The Sweet Soul Band
Six Rivers Brewery / 9 p.m. / Free
High energy funky blues and soul.
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The Hot Rods
Bear River Casino Resort / 9 p.m. / Free / 21+
“From Elvis to The Beatles, Fats Domino to Chuck Berry, and every thing in between, come listen to your favorites from the 50’s & 60’s with this stellar group! (Leather jackets and poodle skirts are suggested, but optional)”
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Shamus Summer Nights
Shamus T Bones / 10 p.m.
“DJ Gabe Pressure and friends mixing the freshest hip hop, r&b, dancehall, reggae, tropical bass, remixes and more alongside the classics.”
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Movie Showtimes

Broadway Cinema
  • ANT-MAN 2D: 11:45, 2:30, 3:50, 5:15, 8:05, 9:20
  • ANT-MAN 3D: 12:45, 6:20
  • GALLOWS: 4:50, 9:40
  • INSIDE OUT 2D: 12:35, 3:20, 5:50, 8:20
  • JURASSIC WORLD 2D: 11:50, 5:55, 8:55
  • JURASSIC WORLD 3D: 2:55
  • MAGIC MIKE XXL: 2:10, 7:00
  • MINIONS 2D: 12:50, 1:55, 3:15, 4:20, 5:35, 6:45, 8:00, 9:05
  • PAPER TOWNS: 12:25, 3:10, 6:05, 8:45
  • PIXELS 2D: 1:10, 6:40
  • PIXELS 3D: 3:40, 9:10
  • SOUTHPAW: 12:40, 3:35, 6:30, 9:25
  • TERMINATOR GENISYS 2D: 12:00, 2:50, 5:45, 8:40
  • TRAINWRECK: 12:30, 3:25, 6:35, 9:30
Mill Creek Cinema
  • ANT-MAN 2D: 12:30, 6:00, 8:45
  • ANT-MAN 3D: 3:15
  • INSIDE OUT 2D: 12:20, 2:50, 5:25, 8:00
  • JURASSIC WORLD 2D: 3:00, 8:50
  • JURASSIC WORLD 3D: 12:05, 5:55
  • MINIONS 2D: 11:50, 2:05, 4:25, 6:45, 9:05
  • PAPER TOWNS: 12:15, 3:05, 5:45, 8:30
  • PIXELS 2D: 1:30, 6:40
  • PIXELS 3D: 4:05, 9:15
  • SOUTHPAW: 12:25, 3:20, 6:20, 9:20
  • TRAINWRECK: 12:35, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30
Minor Theatre
  • AMY: 2:55, 5:55, 8:55
  • MINIONS 2D: 3:05, 5:25, 7:45
  • TRAINWRECK: 3:20, 6:15, 9:10

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