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Friday Lowdown: Prince, Royal Jelly Jive, Hunks, Standup (Live)

Man, this is the most packed Humboldt Friday LoCO can remember in awhile. Let’s just rattle a few of these gatherings off quick-like (with accompanying YouTube videos below to engage more of your senses): 

And that’s barely scratching the proverbial surface! Dell’Arte students are wrapping up their academic year with their Thesis Festival out in Blue Lake (runs through Sunday). Somewhat similarly, aspiring burlesque stars will strip down during Va Va Voom’s Bootcamp Graduation taking place at The Palm Lounge at the Eureka Inn. Oh, and Wild Souls Ranch holds it biggest annual fundraiser, the Silver Spurs Gala, down at the Fortuna River Lodge

Gah! You can’t make it to all these things! Give up! —Andrew Goff

EVENTS (SUBMIT YOURS!)

2016 Redwood Coast Career Fair

Sequoia Conference Center / 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

Attendees will have the opportunity to talk to vocational counselors, receive resume critiques, chat with local employers and apply for current job openings. Last year’s Career Fair brought in 425 attendees and 60 employers. This year it’s expected to be even larger.

441-5627 / Web site

Silver Spurs Gala 2016

Fortuna River Lodge / 5:30-10 p.m.

A fundraiser benefitting Wild Souls Ranch which provides equine therapy to Humboldt County's "at-risk" youth.

725-7572 /

Purple Rain (1984)

Arcata Theatre Lounge / 8 p.m. / $5

A victim of his own anger, the Kid (Prince) is a Minneapolis musician on the rise with his band, the Revolution, escaping a tumultuous home life through music.

613-3030 / Web site

Thesis Festival

Carlo Theatre (Dell'Arte) / 8 p.m.

Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theatre presents the 2016 Thesis Festival featuring five new one-act plays created by this year’s graduating MFA class. The international ensemble of theatre makers will perform their work May 12 – 15 and May 19 – 22 at 8 p.m. at the Carlo Theatre.

Hunks: The Show

Bear River Casino Resort / 9 p.m. / $20 / $50 table for two

All-male revue. "HUNKS The Show is a live high-energy production that showcases creative choreography and extravagant costumes guaranteed to captivate women of all ages!"

733-9644 / Web site

The Three's Company Tour

Arcata Playhouse / 9 p.m. / $10

Longtime friend Clare O'Kane returns to Humboldt for Savage Henry's first show at the Arcata Playhouse. SF Comedians Drew Platt and Jane Harrison join her on the tour. Local comedians Dr. Foxmeat and Jessica Grant open the show.

822-1575 / Web site

Va Va Voom Burlesque Bootcamp Graduation

Palm Lounge at The Eureka Inn / 9 p.m. / 21+

"Watch as the lovely participants shimmy and shake in celebration of their six weeks of hard work! Some of these lovelies will be invited to join our troupe!"

Web site

Royal Jelly Jive

Humboldt Brews / 9:30 p.m. / $15 / 21+

"An intoxicating mixed drink of rock, funk, and soul jive, Royal Jelly Jive dives deep in head first to the old school throwback sounds of the 1940s, with a groovy new twist."

826-2739 / Web site

Farm Shares: Bayside Park Farm

Bayside Park Farm & Garden / 9 a.m.-5 p.m. / $450

Shares are available for weekly pick-up June through November.

822-7091 / rec@cityofarcata.org / Web site

Challenge Course: Develop Trust & Teamwork

Arcata Community Forest / 10 a.m.-1 p.m. / $40

The City of Arcata Recreation Division’s Challenge Course, located in the beautiful Arcata Community Forest, is a fun-filled outdoor adventure focusing on team building, skill development and environmental education.

822-7091 / rec@cityofarcata.org / Web site

Rio Dell Playgroups

See Event Description / 10 a.m.-noon / Free

764-5239 / Web site

Kunle Centre Presents

Community Wellness Center / 5:30-7 p.m. / Free / Free All people 18+ / 18+

Kunle Centre is presenting a film entitled "Afiya House," a peer-run respite house for people experiencing mental health challenges.

599-2381 / kunle.centre@gmail.com / Web site

Blue Lotus Jazz

Larrupin Cafe / 6 p.m. / Free

Jazz on the patio.

677-0230 / davewilsonguitarist@yahoo.com / Web site

Chuck Mayville

Gallagher's Irish Pub and Restaurant / 6-9 p.m. / Free

Come on down to Gallagher's in Old Town to eat, drink and be merry while Chuck plays and sings some classic tunes.

442-1177 / Web site

McKinleyville Arts Night

McKinleyville Business Dist. / 6-8 p.m.

Celebration of arts, food and fun in McKinleyville held the third Friday of each month.

Arabian Nights: Ladies Night Out

Blue Lake Casino Hotel / 6:30-9:30 p.m. / $25 / 21+

Fundraiser for Soroptimist International of Eureka. Featuring a lively fashion show displaying apparel from local women’s retailers.

476-4282 / kchorbi5@yahoo.com / Web site

Le Avventure di Pinocchio

Gist Theater at HSU / 7 p.m.

The Young Actors Guild of Northcoast Preparatory Academy presents

A Company of Voices

Morris Graves Museum of Art / 7-9 p.m. / $10

Ranging from amateur to professional full-time musicians, A Company of Voices is a chamber choir comprised of local singers performing a’capella vocal music spanning several centuries from Renaissance to contemporary jazz.

442-0278 / janine@humboldtarts.org / Web site

Ultra Secret

Persimmons Garden Gallery / 7:30-10 p.m. / Free

Ultra Secret creates a soundscape of heavy syncopated rhythms and luscious melodies that weaves funk, jazz, blues and rock into a quilt of head bopping, danceable tunes.

923-2748 / persimmonsgardengallery@outlook.com / Web site

Eureka Symphony's Season Finale

Arkley Center For The Performing Arts / 8-9:30 p.m. / $19

The concert features “The Hebrides” by Felix Mendelssohn, “Concerto No. 12 for Two Oboes in D Major” by Tomaso Albinoni, and “Symphony No. 9 in E Flat Major” by Dmitri Shostakovich.

845-3655 / Web site

Love Bush

Redwood Curtain Brewing Company, Arcata / 8-11 p.m. / Free

Super heavy afro-funk band.

826-7222 / Web site

8-Ball Tournament

Broadway Billiards / 8 p.m. / $10 / Free Public / 21+

Corner pocket.

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

Reefer Madness: The Musical

North Coast Repertory Theatre / 8-11 p.m. / $18 / $18 general / 18+

"Inspired by the original 1936 propaganda film of the same name, this raucous musical comedy takes a tongue-in-cheek look at the hysteria caused when clean-cut kids fall prey to marihuana, leading them on a hysterical downward spiral filled with evil jazz music, sex and violence."

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

Eureka Pizza Council

SpeakEasy / 8:30 p.m.

Jazz/funk.

444-2244 / Web site

Tempest

Blue Lake Casino Hotel / 9 p.m. / 21+

Celtic rock.

668-9770 / Web site

Sole, DJ Pain 1

The Miniplex at Richards' Goat Tavern / 9 p.m. / 21+

DJ night.

630-5000 / Web site

The Undercovers

Bear River Casino Resort / 9 p.m.-1 a.m. / Free / 21+

It's a cover band!

800-761-2327 / Web site

Fetish Night: Anonymous Encounters

The Siren's Song Tavern / 9 p.m.-2 a.m.

"Brought to you by Nawdy Little."

442-8778 / thesirenssongtavern@gmail.com / Web site

Money

Cher-Ae Heights Casino / 9 p.m.-1 a.m. / Free / 21+

Humboldt County's own Pink Floyd Tribute recreates the Floyd sound as a four-piece.

800-684-2464 / andybobpowell@hotmail.com / Web site

Karaoke

Bar Fly Pub and Grub / 9 p.m. / Free / 21+

Singing in public is easier with beer.

443-3770 / Web site

Sole, DJ Pain 1

The Miniplex at Richards' Goat Tavern / 9 p.m.

James Timothy "Tim" Holland Jr., better known by his stage name Sole, is an American underground hip hop artist from Portland, Maine. He is one of eight co-founders of the record label Anticon.

630-5000 / Web site

MOVIES

Broadway Cinema
Mill Creek Cinema