Saturday, May 16
Top Events!
(Look ahead!)
Arcata Farmers’ Market
Arcata Plaza
/ 9 a.m.-2 p.m.
(Music this week by Blue Rhythm Revue!) North Coast Growers’ Association community event features over 40 Humboldt farm booths as well as 10 prepared food booths.
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KMUD Block Party
KMUD - Redwood Community Radio, Inc.
/ noon-11 p.m.
Features music by April Moore and the Ranch Party Band, Darryl Cherney and friends, Peter Childs and Chris McCurdy, Three Legged Dog, Marjo Wilson Band, MIMUR and Ultra Secret Good Guy Organization, food, dancing, fine local adult beverages.
Coventry and Kaluza (Family Fun Series)
Arcata Playhouse
/ 2-4 p.m.
/ $12 General
/ $10 Students & Members
Award-winning physical theater and circus duo from San Francisco. They bring a variety of skills and thrills to their unique circus show which features multiple characters, juggling, extreme acrobatics, extraordinary music, high numbers hula-hooping and ridiculousness.
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Culpepper and Merriweather Circus
Redwood Acres Fairgrounds
/ 5 p.m.
/ $13
Shows at 5 and 7:30 p;m. Sponsored by Redwood Acres Fairgrounds.
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CCVH Mattole Watershed Event with Ishi Dube
Mattole Grange
/ 5:30-9 p.m.
/ Free
Community potluck. Speakers Hollie Hall (Hollie Hall & Associates Watershed Resources Consulting) and Jason Lawrence (Engineering, Planning, and Risk Management). Live musical performance by Ishi Dube.
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Geoffrey Castle
Arkley Center For The Performing Arts
/ 7-9:30 p.m.
/ $25
/ $30 Center Orch & Center Loge
Seattle Electric Violin virtuoso Geoffrey Castle kicks off his west coast tour blending Celtic, rock, and middle eastern music played on electric six string violin.
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Coventry and Kaluza (Family Fun Series)
Arcata Playhouse
/ 7-9 p.m.
/ $12 General
/ $10 Students & Members
Award-winning physical theater and circus duo from San Francisco. They bring a variety of skills and thrills to their unique circus show which features multiple characters, juggling, extreme acrobatics, extraordinary music, high numbers hula-hooping and ridiculousness.
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Family Dance Party
Bayside Grange
/ 7-10 p.m.
/ $10
/ $5 kids
With music by the Delta Nationals! This is a fundraiser for the Guy Kuttner Nature Education Memorial Fund of the Humboldt Area Foundation. Funds will be used to help schools access outdoor educational opportunities.
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2015 Rutabaga Ball
Redwood Raks (bad)
/ 7 p.m.
/ $10
/ $7 if you bring your own cup
Who will win the Crown and reign in Glory over the 2015 Kinetic Grand Championship!? Bar opens at 7 p.m.
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Lady to Lady Comedy
Palm Lounge at The Eureka Inn
/ 9-11 p.m.
/ $5
Savage Henry presents comedians Barbara Gray, Brandie Posey and Tess Barker, hosts of the popular Lady to Lady podcast on the Maximum Fun Network.
Michal Menert
Humboldt Brews
/ 9 p.m.-1:30 a.m.
/ $15
/ 21+
Booty Shakin Music Productions presents a booty shaking good time with Denver’s electro-funk producer.
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All Events!
Bird Walk
Southern Humboldt Community Park
/ 8:30-11:30 a.m.
/ Free
Join Redwood Regional Audubon Society for a bird walk at the Southern Humboldt Community Park in Garberville. Elias Elias will be the guest leader in May.
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Trail Stewards Day
Humboldt Coastal Nature Center
/ 9 a.m.-noon
/ Free
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Low Cost Rabies Clinic
Fortuna Veterinary Hospital
/ 10 a.m.-noon
/ $6
Canine rabies vaccine cost is $6.00. Other vaccines may be available. Contact the clinic for details. For your safety and the safety of other please bring your dog on a leash and your cat in a carrier.
Life Jacket Trade-in
Kayak Zak’s
/ 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
Does your life jacket look like road kill? Did your life jacket fit you when you bought it but somehow it won’t adjust correctly anymore? You can trade it in for a new one.
FOAL Spring Book Sale
Arcata Library
/ 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
The sale includes books for all ages and interests, including fiction, mystery, science and the environment, foreign language, biography, cooking, YA, picture books and more.
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Spring Exhibits at the Clarke Museum
Clarke Historical Museum
/ 11 a.m.-4 p.m.
/ $3
/ $5 families
/ Free members
The Clarke Historical Museum will be exhibiting a display of Humboldt’s clothing history spanning from the 1920s to the 1940s as well as a tribute to the history of baseball in Humboldt County with objects and photographs spanning from modern day all the way back to the 19th century.
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Compost Mountain Boys
Redwood Acres Fairgrounds
/ noon-4 p.m.
Bluegrass.
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Hometown Adventure Series Club
Elk River Access Area, Hikshari’ Trail
/ noon-1 p.m.
/ Free
Meet Eureka Parks and Recreation staff at the foot of Truesdale Street to learn about birds, wildlife and local history on the beautiful Hikshari’ Trail.
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Basic Field Certification
Access Humboldt Community Media Center
/ 1-5 p.m.
/ $40
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USA Dance Event
Eureka Women’s Club
/ 6:30-10 p.m.
/ $10
/ $5 Seniors (65 and older)
/ $5 Students
/ $5 USA Members
Theme is 70’s with a costume contest!
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Women’s Only 8-Ball Tournament
Broadway Billiards
/ 7-10:30 p.m.
/ $5
/ Free Public
/ 21+
Doug Fir & the 2x4s
Redwood Raks World Dance Studio
/ 7 p.m.
/ $10
“A multigenerational rock and roll band comprised of fathers and sons playing classic rock and beyond…”
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Dell’Arte Presents 2015 Thesis Festival
Carlo Theatre (Dell’Arte)
/ 8 p.m.
The MFA class of 2015 presents three original one-act plays, devised thesis projects that weave humor, absurdism, text, movement and music in a celebration of the ensemble creative process.
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Cowgirls: A Musical Comedy
Redbud Theater
/ 8-10 p.m.
/ $10
/ $35 Gala Dinner
/ $15 Sunday Matinees
“Jo is in a pickle: She has twenty-four hours to save Hiram Hall—her father’s once-famous country-western saloon in Rexford, Kansas—from foreclosure.”
Anna Hamilton
Redwood Curtain Brewing Company, Arcata
/ 8-11 p.m.
/ Free
Local blues.
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The Undercovers
Central Station
/ 9 p.m.
Karaoke
Little Red Lion
/ 9 p.m.
/ 21+
How could this be a bad idea?
Canyon Collected
Logger Bar
/ 9 p.m.
/ Free
/ 21+
Canyon Collected is an original Colorado grass band, whiskey bent on blurring genre lines and creating new music rooted in an all American cross country experience.
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Nighthawk
Blue Lake Casino Hotel
/ 9 p.m.
Dance hits.
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The Undercovers
Central Station
/ 9 p.m.-1 a.m.
/ Free
/ 21+
Humboldt county’s cover band.
Pressure/Anya DJs
Pearl Lounge
/ 9:30 p.m.
/ 21+
There will be ass shaking.
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Movie Showtimes
Broadway Cinema
- AGE OF ADALINE: 12:35, 3:20, 6:10, 8:55
- AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON 2D: 12:00, 1:15, 3:10, 5:55, 7:30, 9:05
- AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON 3D: 4:40, 8:00
- CINDERELLA: 12:30, 3:30
- EX MACHINA: 1:35, 4:10, 6:50, 9:25
- FURIOUS 7: 11:45, 2:45, 5:45, 8:50
- HOME 2D: 11:50, 2:15
- HOT PURSUIT: 12:15, 2:35, 4:55, 7:20, 9:40
- MAD MAX: FURY ROAD 2D: 11:40, 12:45, 3:40, 4:30, 5:25, 6:35, 9:30
- MAD MAX: FURY ROAD 3D: 2:30, 8:20
- PAUL BLART: MALL COP 2: 6:15, 8:35
- PITCH PERFECT 2: 12:10, 2:00, 3:00, 4:50, 6:25, 7:40, 9:15
Mill Creek Cinema
- AGE OF ADALINE: 12:50, 3:30, 6:20, 9:15
- AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON 2D: 11:40, 2:45, 6:00, 9:10
- AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON 3D: 5:25
- EX MACHINA: 1:30, 4:10, 6:50, 9:30
- HOME 2D: 12:20, 3:00
- HOT PURSUIT: 12:10, 2:30, 4:55, 7:20, 9:35
- MAD MAX: FURY ROAD 2D: 12:40, 3:35, 6:30, 9:25
- MAD MAX: FURY ROAD 3D: 3:15, 9:00
- PAUL BLART: MALL COP 2: 5:35, 8:00
- PITCH PERFECT 2: 11:50, 12:30, 2:40, 6:10, 8:40
Minor Theatre
- AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON 2D: 1:40, 4:55, 8:10
- MAD MAX: FURY ROAD 2D: 12:30, 3:20, 6:10, 9:00
- SEYMOUR: AN INTRODUCTION: 2:05, 7:00
- WATER DIVINER: 4:20, 9:15