It's Your Friday Lowdown

Comparatively, we’re calling this a pretty low-key Friday for Humboldt. Hmm. Maybe you missed the opening weekend of the Humboldt Crabs slaughtering all comers. If that is the case, you’re required to get out to a game this weekend to watch them club Seals. Tonight perchance.

Down at the Ferndale Repertory Theatre, they’re opening The Dixie Swim Club, a story of five college friends who reconnect and validate the hell out of each other. Very touching. Show runs for the next three weeks.

Oh! Or. For some reason the vibrant Ocean Night crowd scheduled this month’s film screening for a Friday. Do you crave environmentally savvy chit chat over beer? Do you like raffles? Do you want to see Disney’s eye-popping Oceans documentary on the big screen (trailer below)? These are reasons you would go to that.

EVENTS (SUBMIT YOURS!)

Pony Express Days

McKinleyville / 2 p.m.

McKinleyville's annual community multi-day celebration. Click for breakdown of various day's events.

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Trinidad Arts Night

Trinidad / 6-9 p.m.

Kinda like Garberville Arts Alive, but in Trinidad.

Ocean Night Film Screening: Oceans

Arcata Theatre Lounge / 6:30 p.m. / $3

Winged Migration co-directors Jacques Cluzaud and Jacques Perrin re-team for this documentary produced for Walt Disney Studios’ Disneynature banner and exploring the many mysteries of our planet’s oceans. Also, students from Redwood Coast Montessori show the PSAs they’ve made about climate change.

613-3030 / Web site

Humboldt Crabs vs. Seals Baseball

Arcata Ball Park / 7 p.m. / $8

Root on your hometown baseball team as they whoop up on some hapless bums.

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The Dixie Swim Club Opening

Ferndale Repertory Theatre / 8 p.m. / $16

We meet five women, all friends and former teammates on their college swim team who come together once a year for memories and highjinks. Hilarity and poignancy are the hallmarks of this lovely story that will leave you longing to get in touch with that old roommate of yours.

786-5483 / info@ferndalerep.org / Web site

Beer and Wine Tasting

BevMo! / 4-7 p.m. / $2 / 21+

502-3843 / mulkeyk@bevmo.com / Web site

Bringing it Home Humboldt

Bayside Grange / 6-9 p.m.

During Hemp History Week, a screening of the documentary focused on the return of industrial hemp to U.S soils.

822-9998 / Web site

Open Mic Night

Social Hall- Fortuna Methodist Church / 6-9 p.m. / Free

617-8019 / fortunaumc@sbcglobal.net / Web site

Fortuna's First Friday

Fortuna / 6-9 p.m.

Art, music, fun and great deals from local merchants in the friendly city.

Friday Fun Skating

Eureka Municipal Auditorium / 6-8:30 p.m. / $4.75 Adults / $4 Youth

441-9181 / Web site

Papa Paul

Gallagher's Irish Pub and Restaurant / 6:30 p.m.

Local folk/rock.

442-1177 / Web site

Public Skate

Blue Lake Roller Rink / 6:30-9:30 p.m. / $5 Adults 18+ / $4 Children 9-17 / $3 Children 8 & Under

668-5932 / parks-rec@bluelake.ca.gov / Web site

Chuck Mayville

Scotia Lodge / 6:30-9:30 p.m. / Free

Folk, country and unplugged rock.

783-3059 / Web site

Kingfoot

The Siren's Song Tavern / 8 p.m. / Free

Americana trio.

839-5090 / kingfootband@gmail.com / Web site

Les Misérables

North Coast Repertory Theatre / 8 p.m. / $18

The North Coast Repertory Theatre continues its 30th Season with the North Coast premiere of the musical Les Misérables, based on the novel by Victor Hugo, with music by Claude-Michel Schonberg, lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer and book by Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg.

442-6278 / Web site