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Tuesday Lowdown: It’s a HumBrews Hootenanny (VIDEO)

Billy Strings, string hero

Your Humboldt Tuesday includes hometown baseball heroes, funny folk and stealth alien invasions — details on all those gatherings in your Lowdown listings to the visual south.  

Maybe you still feel like getting your foot tap on after last week's Humboldt Folklife Festival. Well, then of particular note for you: HumBrews will host a hoedown helmed by boyish Michigan bluegrass wizard Billy Strings. Sample Strings’ strings and shouts in the clip below. --AG

EVENTS (SUBMIT YOURS!)

Dogbone

Mad River Brewery Tasting Room / 6 p.m. / Free

Feral jazz. Woof.

668-4151 / julie@madriverbrewing.com / Web site

Eureka Library Film Series: Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Humboldt County Library / 6:30 p.m.

Invasion of the Body Snatchers is hosted by Bob Doran, and based on the novel by Jack Finney. A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.

269-1900 / Web site

Humboldt Crabs vs. Seals Baseball

Arcata Ball Park / 7 p.m. / $9

Your hometown team whoops up on some out-of-town bums.

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Savage Henry Magazine Presents

The Jam / 9-11 p.m. / $5 / 21+

From the Central Valley comes The Cure For Comedy Tour! Five comedians get out of the triple digit heat to savor our overcast July! Locals William Toblerone and Ivy Vasquez open.

822-5266 / Web site

Billy Strings

Humboldt Brews / 9 p.m. / $10 / 21+

"Drenched in sweat, grimacing like a banshee, howling like a bluegrass berserker, and picking with such ferocity that he’s been known to break three strings in one song, Billy Strings could have tumbled out of coal country in the old mountains, tattoos and all, but actually hails from Michigan."

826-2739 / Web site

Marine Science Summer Camp

HSU Marine Laboratory / 9-3 a.m. / $195 / $50 per day / $195 per week

The goal of our marine science summer program is to offer children (ages 6-12) a hands-on opportunity to learn about and explore our diverse marine habitats.

826-3689 / marnat@humboldt.edu / Web site

Intermediate Junior Sailing Camp

Humboldt Bay Aquatic Center / 9 a.m.-4 p.m. / $300

443-4222 / hbac@humboldt.edu / Web site

Old Town Farmers' Market

Old Town Eureka / 9 a.m.-2 p.m.

Celebrate the bounty of fresh and local Humboldt grown produce and GMO-free foods.

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Mobile Outreach in Weitchpec

See Event Description / 10:30 a.m.-2 p.m. / Free

Visitors to the bus can be assisted with CalFresh, MediCal, In-Home Supportive Services, Veterans Services and Child Support.

Cooking with Commodities

Eureka Co-op Community Kitchen / noon-1 a.m. / Free

Learn how to cook with inexpensive, healthy ingredients! We use food items that are available through our pantry networks, right off of our local fruit trees and bushes and/or for cheap at the grocery stores.

445-3166 / Web site

Ping Pong

Logger Bar / noon / 21+

Sometimes The Logger Bar sets up ping pong tables. This is one of those times. Get your Gump on.

668-5000 / Web site

iPhone: Getting Started

Verizon Wireless Store / 3-4 p.m. / Free

Learn the basics so that you will find it easy to stay connected to all that matters.

442-8334 / asquire@webershandwick.com / Web site

Invasive Knotweeds: Early Detection, Rapid Response

Trinidad City Hall / 5 p.m. / Free

Join Redwood Community Action Agency and Trinidad Bay Watershed Council for a presentation regarding current efforts to eradicate this highly aggressive invasive plant from the Trinidad area.

269-2055 / amy@nrsrcaa.org /

Game Night

Crush / 5 p.m.

Don't be bored. Play board games.

Paco Martin

Benbow Inn / 6-9 p.m.

South American music.

923-2777 / jsells@benbowinn.com / Web site

Humboldt Cribbage Club

Moose Lodge / 6:15 p.m. / $8

Muggins! Get your weekly crib on.

444-3161 /

Anna Hamilton

Palm Lounge at The Eureka Inn / 7-11 p.m. / 21+

Songs and stories from HumCo's blues riff-slingin' raconteur.

Open Mic

Clam Beach Inn / 7-9 p.m.

With Mike Bynum.

839-0545 /

Buddy Reed

Libation / 7-9 p.m.

Local bluesman gets low down. Accompanied by Andy Fihn.

825-7596 / Web site

The Opera Alley Cats

SpeakEasy / 7:30-10:30 p.m. / Free / 21+

Burning live jazz under the "stars."

444-2244 / Web site

Karaoke w/ Chris Clay

Cher-Ae Heights Casino / 8 p.m.

Your Lowdown will go on the record as saying that Chris Clay is Humboldt's most pro karaoke jockey. We know this stuff.

800-684-2464 / Web site

Sunny Brae Jazz

Six Rivers Brewery / 8 p.m.

Local jazz and southern fried chicken night.

839-7580 / Web site

Burgundy Blues Dance

HLOC's The Space / 8-10:30 p.m. / $5

Blues social dancing every week as well as classes taught on the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of every month.

630-5013 / burgundybluesdance@gmail.com / Web site

!Bomba Sonido!

Toby and Jacks / 10 p.m. / 21+

DJ Gabe Pressure and Zero Juan take you on a musical trip. Carribean Club, Cumbia, Reggaeton, Dembow, Latin House, Dancehall, Latin bass music, remixes y mas.

MOVIES

Broadway Cinema
Mill Creek Cinema