#TBT: A Taste of Main Street

On a night when undisputed HumCo nightlife champion Arcata features a special Thursday Soul Night, Eureka is gunning for the “Most Bustle” title with the return of an enjoyed-by-many annual celebration of local eats.

If you’re unfamiliar with the procedure for the annual Taste of Main Street event, let the Lowdown help you. For your $25 price of admission, you get a small booklet containing tickets redeemable at nearly 30 local establishments, each with menu of minor edibles prepared specifically for this evening. You have three hours to hurry from grub to grub stuffing your face with as much finger-ish food as you can stomach.

From experience, completing your ticket booklet is not easy. In honor of Throwback Thursday, we will direct you to our Taste of Main Street coverage from last year, when LoCO walked around the event with a 3-year-old and failed to eat all the food we could have. We still are dealing with the regret. Good luck, ya'll

--Andrew Goff

EVENTS (SUBMIT YOURS!)

A Taste of Main Street

Old Town Eureka / 5-8 p.m.

You get to walk around Eureka and have lots of businesses give you food. It's really hard to eat all the food. LoCO went last year.

Redwood Coast Music Festival

Eureka / 7 p.m.

Notice that what was once a "Dixieland Jazz Festival" is now a "Music Festival." Description from the RCMF website: "Four fun-filled days of traditional jazz, blues, swing, zydeco and more." Click for schedule of major events, venues and ticket information.

Out Here, a film screening

The Sanctuary / 8 p.m.

Completed after 4 years in production, it looks at the experiences of queer farmers across the country and asks – what does it mean to be a queer farmer, is agriculture a safe space for queer people, and what are the relationships between food production and queerness?

Web site

Soul Night 41

Humboldt Brews / 9 p.m.

Gladiators DJ RED, MATT n' ADAM, JAYMORG & FUNKY T-REX get suited up for an all-vinyl dance battle to the death.

826-2739 / Web site

March Madness

Broadway Billiards / 1 p.m. / Free / 21+

442-7665 / broadwaybilliards.humboldt@yahoo.com /

What We Have Always Known

Garberville Civic Club / 5-7 p.m. / Free

Collaboration between Dr. Bruce Perry, Child Trauma Expert and experts of the Navajo Nation. Following the film, participate in a facilitated discussion with Rebecca Lowry, MSW, Commissioner of First Five Humboldt, and member of the Delaware (Lenape) Tribe.

223-4215 / katherineallen71@yahoo.com /

Fred and Junior (He's Not My Dad)

Mad River Brewery Tasting Room / 6-8:30 p.m.

Fred Neighbors on Guitar and Bruce Johnson on Bass play and sing traditional jazz.

668-4151 / Web site

Claire Bent

Libation / 7 p.m.

Local jazz vocalist.

825-7596 / Web site

Opera Workshop: Dido and Aeneas

Gist Theater at HSU / 7:30-9 p.m. / $10 / $5 seniors, children

Witches and lovers clash when HSU Opera Workshop presents the lively and tragic love story of Dido and Aeneas in a relatively short opera (about an hour) by Baroque era English composer Henry Purcell.

826-3928 / Web site

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.

668-9770 / Web site

Everything Must Go

Arcata Theatre Lounge / 8-10 p.m. / $10 / 18+

"Tony Persico is taking a break from putting on comedy shows for a while, but before he does, he has to unload all this inventory at rock bottom prices!"

502-9656 / Web site

Karaoke w/ Chris Clay

Bear River Casino Resort / 8 p.m.

Please don't do "Bohemian Rhapsody." That never works.

733-9644 / Web site

Death By Design: A Comedy With Murder

North Coast Repertory Theatre / 8 p.m. / $16

"What happens when you mix the brilliant wit of Noel Coward with the intricate plotting of Agatha Christie? Set during a weekend in an English country manor in 1932, Death by Design is a delightful and mysterious “mash-up” of two of the greatest English writers of all time."

442-6278 / ncrt@humboldt1.com / Web site

Lancaster Trio

Fulkerson Recital Hall / 8-9:30 p.m. / $10 / $5 seniors, children, students

International award-winning musicians—cellist Elizabeth Grunin, pianist Jelena Dukic and flutist Nicaulis Alliey— come from Lincoln, Nebraska to perform George Crumb’s theatrical Vox Balaenae (Voice of the Whale).

826-3928 / Web site