You know how Arcata got really crowded about a month ago when all the students came back? Well, now HSU is extending an invitation to students' entire families. Be warned.
Add to this Arcatacentric night the allure that Ethiopian-born, Yale-educated, Bay Area jazz singer Meklit Hadero provides and you got some tough choices to make, Humboldt. Even more confounding variables in your Lowdown below.
The Quad at HSU
/ noon
Free "Arts in the Quad" show featuring Southern California old school bluegrass/gospel/jug-band/swamp blues band
Arcata Theatre Lounge
/ 7 p.m.-1:30 a.m.
/ $15
/ 21+
Featuring The Absynth Quintet, the Dirt Floor Band, Lyndsey Battle, Cory Goldman and Brian Hennesy, Caitlin Jemma and Our Weight in Gold and Chris Parreira and Friends.
613-3030 /
sidenoterecords@gmail.com /
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Arcata Playhouse
/ 8 p.m.
/ $15
/ $13 students & members
Ethiopian-born Bay Area jazz/folk singer brings her dynamic trio of drums, bass and trumpet back to Humboldt.
822-1575 /
david@arcataplayhouse.org /
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Humboldt Baykeeper
/ 9 a.m.
Humboldt Baykeeper offers free natural history boat tours of the north Humboldt Bay at 9 and 10:30 a.m. Call for details.
268-8897 /
College of the Redwoods
/ 3-4:30 p.m.
/ Free
CR sociology department presents a series of discussions. Participants are encouraged to talk more deeply about changing our society’s culture in regard to sexualized violence.
476-4539 /
dana-maher@redwoods.edu /
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Angelina Inn
/ 5:30-8:30 p.m.
Local singer/songwriter/storyteller gets to know you.
725-5200 /
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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.
The Ritz
/ 9 p.m.
City Lights dance night.