Thursday, April 27
THURSDAY LOWDOWN: The New Up in Arcata!
Scroll your Lowdown listings below for details on an above average Thursday, including the opening of Third at Redwood Curtain Theatre and another staging of the positively reviewed Real Women Have Curves up in HSU’s Gist Theater.
Need to dance, dance, dance? Humboldt Brews will be the site an Enchanted Forest Pre-party featuring various assembled DJs. Over at The Jam Bay Area-based electronic rockers The New Up aim to funk you up — sample their synths in the clip below. —AG
Top Events!
(Look ahead!)
Real Women Have Curves
Gist Theater at HSU
/ 7:30 p.m.
/ $10
/ $8 Students/Seniors
Set in a tiny sewing factory in East L.A., the play is a humorous and poignant story of five full-figured Mexican-American women who talk about their lives, loves and deepest desires while attempting to meet impossible production deadlines.
/ Web site
Third
Redwood Curtain Theatre
/ 8 p.m.
Believing that a jock’s sophisticated essay on King Lear could not possibly have been written by such a student, Professor Jameson reports his plagiarism to the college’s Committee of Academic Standards. But is her accusation justified?
/ Web site
Fickle Hill Band
Redwood Curtain Brewing Company, Arcata
/ 8-11 p.m.
/ Free All ages
Original -sixperson jamming rock band with sweet harmonies, Hammond organ, melodic guitars.
/ Web site
Enchanted Forest Preparty
Humboldt Brews
/ 9:30 p.m.-1:30 a.m.
/ $20
/ $15 adv.
/ 21+
Booty Shakin’ Music Productions presents DJs Kraddy, Defunk and Dj Leo.
/ Web site
The New Up, Peach Purple
The Jam
/ 10 p.m.
/ 21+
Electro rock.
/ Web site
All Events!
Fred and Junior
Mad River Brewery Tasting Room
/ midnight-8:30 p.m.
/ Free
Swing jazz.
/ Web site
Sewing Lab: Patching
SCRAP Humboldt
/ 5:30-8 a.m.
/ $10
/ 18+
Patching is fun and a very beautiful way to lengthen the life of fabric, and it can be a fashion statement!
/ Web site
Explore North Coast Social ‘Thingy’
Trinidad, California
/ 4-7 p.m.
/ Free
/ 18+
The purpose of the Social is for kayakers to meet other sea kayakers and sea kayaking clubs from Northern California and beyond — to connect, learn and broaden the kayaking experience.
/ Web site
Sustainable Futures Speaker Series
Humboldt State University Founders Hall
/ 5:30-7 p.m.
/ Free
As part of the Sustainable Futures Speaker Series, Dr. Darren Speece will present “Defending Giants: The Redwood Wars and the Transformation of American Environmental Politics.”
/ Web site
Rotary Youth Exchange Program Information Night
Eureka High School Lecture Hall
/ 6-7:30 p.m.
/ Free
Eureka Rotary clubs join together to present an informational program for students and parents interested in the Rotary Youth Exchange Program.
/ Web site
Open Mic with Mike Anderson
Old Town Coffee And Chocolates (Old Town)
/ 6:30-8:30 p.m.
/ Free
Usually some singer/guitarists, a couple spoken word guys and then that one wildcard oddity that makes you go “hmm.”
/ Web site
Seabury Gould and Evan Morden
Gallagher’s Irish Pub and Restaurant
/ 6:30 p.m.
Irish/Celtic music.
/ Web site
Brian Post & Friends
Palm Lounge at The Eureka Inn
/ 7-10 p.m.
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
Karaoke w/ Lightning Boom Productions
Bear River Casino Resort
/ 8 p.m.
/ 21+
Why not?
/ Web site
Opera Alley Cats
Six Rivers Brewery
/ 9 p.m.-midnight
/ Free
Some of Humboldt County’s finest jazz musicians.
/ Web site
Open Mic Night
Central Station
/ 9 p.m.
/ Free
/ 21+
Be the next Mack Idol.
Rude Lion Sound
Sidelines
/ 9:30 p.m.
/ 21+
Hip hop krunkage for your butt.
Movie Showtimes
Broadway Cinema
- BEAUTY AND THE BEAST 2D: 11:45, 2:45, 5:45, 8:45
- BORN IN CHINA: 11:45, 1:50, 4:00, 6:10, 8:20
- BOSS BABY 2D: 12:40, 3:10, 5:35, 8:10
- FATE OF THE FURIOUS: 12:00, 1:35, 3:00, 4:50, 6:05, 7:55, 9:10
- FREE FIRE: 12:15, 2:30, 5:10, 7:25, 9:40
- GIFTED: 1:55, 4:20, 6:50, 9:20
- GOING IN STYLE: 1:00, 5:40
- GROW HOUSE: 3:25, 9:30
- PHOENIX FORGOTTEN: 12:05, 2:40, 4:55, 7:10, 9:25
- PROMISE: 11:50, 2:50, 5:50, 8:55
- THE CIRCLE: 8:00
- THE ZOOKEEPER’S WIFE: 12:45, 3:40, 6:35
- UNFORGETTABLE: 1:45, 4:15, 6:45, 9:15
Mill Creek Cinema
- BEAUTY AND THE BEAST 2D: 2:45, 5:45, 8:45
- FATE OF THE FURIOUS: 2:55, 4:45, 6:00, 7:50, 9:05
- GIFTED: 3:10, 5:40
- PHOENIX FORGOTTEN: 4:05, 6:20, 8:35
- PROMISE: 3:15, 6:15, 9:15
- THE CIRCLE: 8:00
- THE ZOOKEEPER’S WIFE: 3:05, 5:55, 8:50
- UNFORGETTABLE: 4:25, 6:55, 9:25
Minor Theatre
- SHOT! THE PSYCHO-SPIRITUAL MANTRA OF MICK ROCK: 7:30
- T2 TRAINSPOTTING 2: 5:45, 8:00
- THE LEGO BATMAN MOVIE: 2:30, 5:00
- THE SENSE OF AN ENDING: 2:00, 5:30
- YOUR NAME.: 3:00, 8:30