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Ocean Night Film Screening with The September Session and A Sheltered Sea–The Journey of The Marine Life Protection Act
| Sep |
| 2 |
| 6:30 pm |
Doors 6:30
All ages
$3 donation
Free for OC, Surfrider and Baykeeper members & children 10 and under.
First Thursday of every month: Ocean Night! From majestic documentaries to epic surf flicks, explore the great blue sea with Ocean Conservancy, Humboldt Surfrider and Humboldt Baykeeper including raffle prizes and more!
In late September 1999, six-time world surfing champion Kelly Slater brought his buddy Jack Johnson along for a getaway to the islands off Sumatra to document the greatest crew of surfers ever assembled for a surfing retreat. But when the world’s greatest surfers rammed straight into the best waves any of them had ever seen, history was made. Today, this adventure is the benchmark all others are measured by, and it will forever be known as “The September Session,” the culmination of every surfer’s dream. Music by filmaker Jack Johnson, G Love & Special Sauce, Ozomatli, DJ Greyboy featuring Karl Denson, Dan the Automator, and the September Sessions Band. This documentary came to fruition after world surfing champion Kelly Slater asked director Jack Johnson to film him and his crew surfing the waves off the coast of the Sumatra islands. Filming took place in late September, 1999, turning into one of the most exciting surfing expeditions ever, as some of the worlds top surfers tackled the vicious waves around the islands. Music is provided by G Love & Special Sauce, Dan The Automator, and many more.
Produced by The Baum Foundation and directed by William Bayne of Coyote Films, A Sheltered Sea illuminates the pioneering conservation action taking place along the coast of California as the Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA) is implemented to form this country’s first statewide network of marine protected areas. Created in response to long-term overfishing and new pressures from pollution and climate change, the MLPA brings together diverse stakeholders—fishermen, conservationists, scientists, government, divers, and ocean-loving citizens—in a process to set aside marine refuges akin to our country’s national parks. Livelihoods, the future of marine species, and coastal access hang in the balance, awaiting the outcome. The film explains why everyone holds a genuine stake in this process and tells how people can participate in this historic effort to conserve California’s ocean as a public trust.
On World Oceans Day thousands of plastic bottles, hundreds of kids, and many student-made life-sized marine animals will assemble into a simulation of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch on the Arcata Elementary School campus. The Arcata Community Recycling Center (ACRC) and Arcata Elementary School District (AES) are in the final stages of planning for this art installation on the school playground intended to build awareness of the growing environmental concern of marine debris. Funded by the California Coastal Commission’s Whale Tail License Plate Fund Grant Program, AES students have been learning about the environmental impact of marine debris as pollutants on our beaches and in our waterways, and the effects of plastics concentrated in the North Pacific Gyre. As part of this project, students collected plastic bottles and containers for a two-month period and strung them together in long strands. These strands of plastics were arranged in a swirling pattern symbolizing the movement of oceanic currents that are collecting and aggregating plastic debris in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. - Bob Doran North Coast Journal Blog
Bonus Productions Presents Israel Vibration and Northtown Dub Quartet
| Sep |
| 3 |
| 9:30 pm |
Friday, September 3
21 and over
$30
$25 advanced at The Works in Arcata and Eureka
Israel Vibration is a reggae harmony trio, originating from Kingston, Jamaica. Lascelle “Wiss” Bulgin, Albert “Apple Gabriel” Craig, and Cecil “Skeleton” Spence all overcame childhood polio and went on to be one of the most successful roots groups to form in Jamaica in the late 1970s. The trio initially met as children at a rehabilitation center. After going their separate ways, and each converting to the Rastafari movement, they reunited in Kingston and formed a vocal group. Funding for their first album came in the form of a grant from the Twelve Tribes of Israel branch of Rastafari after Hugh Booth, a member of the Twelve Tribes, had overheard the three men singing in a wooded area outside Kingston. Apple and Wiss were living in the area, which they had converted into a home.
After releasing a single called Why Worry in 1977 Israel Vibration recorded three albums; The Same Song, Unconquered People, and Why You So Craven before temporarily disbanding in 1981 after recording sessions for the latter were left incomplete. The three men moved to the United States to seek professional health care and escape the growing Dancehall movement in Jamaica. In 1988, Gary “Dr. Dread” Himmelfarb, founder of RAS Records, urged the trio to reunite and record an album. Skelly, Apple, and Wiss were flown to Washington, D.C. to record a new album at Lion and Fox Recording Studios in College Park Maryland. “Strength of my Life”, the group’s fourth album and first of 18 CD releases on the RAS label, was met with great praise and is considered one of the few post-golden era touchstones of the roots reggae genre. In 1997, as Dr. Dread tells it, Apple Gabriel left the group to pursue a solo career. Skelly and Wiss continue to record albums and tour the world as Israel Vibration, backed by longtime associates Roots Radics.
National Lampoon’s Animal House
| Sep |
| 4 |
| 7:30 pm |
Saturday, September 4 at 8:00 PM
$5.00
Rated R
Box Office opens 30 minutes prior to screening
We got to do something…You know what we are gonna do ? Toga party !
National Lampoon’s Animal House (1978) is an American comedy film directed by John Landis. Set in 1962 on the campus of Faber College in Faber, PA., the first glimpse we get of campus is the statue of its founder Emil Faber, on the base of which is inscribed the motto, “Knowledge Is Good.” Incoming freshmen Larry “Pinto” Kroger (Tom Hulce) and Kent “Flounder” Dorfman (Stephen Furst) find themselves rejected by the pretentious Omega fraternity, and instead pledge to Delta House. The Deltas are a motley fraternity of rejects and maladjusted undergraduates (some approaching their late twenties) whose main goal, seemingly accomplished in part by their mere presence on campus, is disrupting the staid, peaceful, rigidly orthodox, and totally hypocritical social order of the school, as represented by the Omegas and the college’s dean, Vernon Wormer (John Vernon). Dean Wormer decides that this is the year he’s going to get the Deltas expelled and their chapter decertified; he places the fraternity on “double secret probation” and, with help from Omega president Greg Marmalard (James Daughton) and hard-nosed member Doug Neidermeyer (Mark Metcalf), starts looking for any pretext on which to bring the members of the Delta fraternity up on charges.
Of the young lead actors only John Belushi was an established star; several of the actors, including Tom Hulce, Karen Allen, and Kevin Bacon, were early in their careers. The film launched the gross-out genre. In 2001, the United States Library of Congress deemed Animal House “culturally significant” and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry. This film was number one on Bravo’s 100 Funniest Movies. It was number 36 on AFI’s 100 Years… 100 Laughs list of the 100 best American comedies. In 2008, Empire magazine selected Animal House as one of The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time.
Legend
| Sep |
| 5 |
| 5:30 pm |
Sunday, August 5
6:00 pm
Film is $5.00
Rated PG
Box Office opens 30 minutes prior to screening
This is such stuff as dreams are made of. This is Legend.
Legend (1985) is a fantasy film directed by Ridley Scott and starring Tom Cruise, Mia Sara, and Tim Curry. This lavishly staged and costumed fantasy is about young Jack (Cruise) and his lady love Princess Lili (Sara), and how Jack battles Darkness (Curry) to save both the Princess and the world. When the peasant Jack takes Princess Lili to see the unicorns, the strongest animals around, he does not know that Darkness, with his cloven hooves, yellow eyes, and red skin plans on using Lili as bait to weaken the unicorns which he does — and plunge the world into an ice age. Soon after that disaster, Darkness captures Lili and, Jack has to rally his elves and elvettes to rescue her and subdue Darkness at the same time.
Though not a very notable success when first released, it received an Academy Award nomination (for best makeup) and has since gained a cult following.
Improv Anonymous
| Sep |
| 8 |
| 6:30 pm |
Wednesday, September 8
Doors at 6:30 PM
Show at 7:00 PM
$5
All ages
Improv Anonymous
Improv Anonymous has been performing together for a grand total of two years now. The team is mainly comprised of Humboldt state students and community members. Most of the team has studied under Second City Chicago, Improv Olymics, Ultimate Improv, and Comedy Sports. Improv Anonymous has performed for Humboldt State’s Orientation Program and participated in fundraising events for the community as well. They are overjoyed at this opportunity to be performing at the Arcata Theatre Lounge and look forward to working with them further. If you are interested in becoming a part of Improv Anonymous, or simply taking classes and improving your improvisational skills, check our web site www.Improv-anonymous.com.
Giant Screen Football featuring Minnesota at New Orleans
| Sep |
| 9 |
| 5:00 pm |
Thursday, September 9
Doors at 5:00 PM
All ages
FREE with minimum $5 food or beverage purchase
Minnesota at New Orleans
Queer Night presented by Humboldt Pride with But I’m A Cheerleader
| Sep |
| 9 |
| 9:00 pm |
Thursday, September 9
Doors at 9:00 PM
Movies at 9:30 PM
$5
Rated R
All ages
Humboldt Pride presents Queer Night with But I’m A Cheerleader!
A Comedy Of Sexual Disorientation
But I’m a Cheerleader (1999) is a satirical romantic comedy film directed by Jamie Babbit and stars Natasha Lyonne as Megan Bloomfield, an apparently happy heterosexual high school cheerleader, except her habit of honestly expressing herself and lack of romantic enthusiasm for her boyfriend convince her very repressed parents, Peter (Bud Cort) and Nancy (Mink Stole), that Megan is becoming a lesbian. So Megan is shipped off to True Directions, a camp for gay and gay-leaning teens, where Mary Brown (Cathy Moriarty) attempts to deprogram kids with homosexual tendencies. The first step in the process is to get each teen to admit to their homosexuality, which Megan is loath to do, since she doesn’t believe she’s a lesbian, or at least she didn’t think so before she met her new friend Graham (Clea DuVall), who seems quite sure that she likes girls. Meanwhile, Mary’s son Rock (Eddie Cibrian) may be exempt from the camp’s activities, but he turns more than a few heads among True Directions’ male inmates. Noted female impersonator RuPaul appears as a camp guide, and Julie Delpy has a cameo as a “lipstick lesbian.”
But I’m a Cheerleader was Babbit’s first feature film. It was inspired by an article about conversion therapy and her childhood familiarity with rehabilitation programs. She used the story of a young woman finding her sexual identity to explore the social construction of gender roles and heteronormativity. The costume and set design of the film highlighted these themes using artificial textures in intense blues and pinks. The film won the Audience Award and the Graine de Cinéphage Award at the 2000 Créteil International Women’s Film Festival, an annual French festival which showcases the work of female directors. Also that year it was nominated by the Political Film Society of America for the PFS award in the categories of Human Rights and Exposé, but lost out to The Green Mile and Boys Don’t Cry respectively.
Greenhouse Boardshop Presents The World Premier of Scratching The Surface - A benefit for Surfrider Humboldt and Arcata Skate Park Phase II
| Sep |
| 10 |
| 7:00 pm |
Friday, September 10th
Doors at 7:00 PM
A benefit for Surfrider Humboldt and Arcata Skate Park Phase II
Greenhouse Boardshop Presents The World Premier of “Scratching the Surface” a high definition trip into the life of one of the worlds most exciting surfers.
Directed by Matt Beauchesne at Irons Brothers Productions, “Scratching the Surface” documents the adventures of Julian, along with friends and fellow professionals Dane Reynolds, Taj Burrow, Dusty Payne, Mick Fanning and others as they spend a year hitting some of the world’s most beautiful surf spots. Destinations include South Africa, Australia, Indonesia, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, California, Hawaii, France, Spain and Brazil. A large part of the film was also shot in the Mentawai Islands of Indonesia on a boat trip with Dane, Dusty and Taj. “Scratching The Surface” also teamed Julian and Matt with Brain Farm Cinema, whose goal was to evolve the way surf films are made by utilizing helicopters and The Phantom Camera, shooting entirely in HD, and incorporating an energetic and unique soundtrack. To get an early peek of this groundbreaking film, the “Scratching The Surface” trailer and webisodes can be viewed at www.julianwilson.com.
“Our goal with this film was to be creative, have fun, and enjoy capturing what it is like to be Julian Wilson,” says Matt Beauchesne. “Julian has a bright and vibrant personality that we wanted to carry over into the film’s overall feel. He is living every kid’s dream and we wanted to shoot this film through his eyes.”
World Famous Productions presents Lazer sword, R/D, Machinedrum & Cacoa
| Sep |
| 11 |
| 9:00 pm |
Saturday, September 11
Doors at 9 PM
$20
$15 advanced at The Works in Arcata & Eureka and inticketing.com
21 and over
World Famous Productions presents Lazer sword, R/D, Machinedrum & Cacoa!
Lazer Sword
Lazer Sword is a San Francisco-based live electronic act and production duo at the forefront of an emerging sound – a future music – fusing anything from rap, electro, dubstep, and grime together to form a new kind of club experience. On stage, Lazer Sword is a hands-on affair, evolving further with every performance. Atypical of most DJ/producer sets, Lazer Sword performs the material to the audience as a highly improvised live production showcase. Tried and true dance music with a flare for the boom-bap. Due to their wide palette of influences and styles (the two share a love for all things hip hop, disco, phsychedelic rock, electro, early synthesizer music, ghettotech, etc.), Lazer Sword can be found performing amongst many diverse line-ups. Often custom-preparing their set for each specific occasion, they’ve built themselves a name as a uniquely versatile act when it comes to booking. They have shared the stage with such acts as Flying Lotus, Megasoid, Eliot Lipp, MSTRKRFT, Trackademics, The Cool Kids, Chromatics, The Glitch Mob, Ghislain Poirier, Kid 606, Bassnectar, Hudson Mohawke, Rustie, The Gaslamp Killer and Cobra Krames.
R/D
R/D started making his own music on borrowed gear, hammering out glitched up IDM and electro on an MPC 2000. Luckily, the first tracks he ever wrote were later released on Andrea Parker’s UK label ‘Touchin’ Bass‘. As the era of Aphex Twin influenced IDM came to an end, R/D virtually hung up his hat, turning to film sound as a creative outlet. But, his musical nature was re-invigorated in 2007 when he moved in with pals edIT and Ooah, just as the Glitch Mob sound was forming. Feeding off the fresh energy of his incredibly talented roommates, he went back to the drawing board, developing his take on glitch-hop inspired tunes aimed at the dancefloor. His new sound fetched him gigs at Coachella with the Do Lab in 2007 and 2009, and put him on the West Coast festival circuit where he shared bills with Flying Lotus, Pretty Lights, Bassnectar, The Glitch Mob, Les Claypool, Cocoe Rosie, Caspa, Mala, Beats Antique, Mimosa, MartyParty and a laundry list of incredible talent.
Machinedrum
Travis Stewart, better known by his stage name Machinedrum, sometimes capitalized Machine Drum, is an electronic musician and one of the artists who helped launch Merck Records. He is also the owner of New York-based Normrex Records. He has also sold rights to some of his music to Adult Swim for tracks played during some of their program interludes. His debut album was released under one of his aliases, Syndrone, and was soon licensed by European IDM label called Djak-Up-Bitch.
O Brother, Where Art Thou? directed by The Coen Brothers
| Sep |
| 12 |
| 5:30 pm |
Sunday, September 12
6:00 pm
Film is $5.00
Rated PG-13
Box Office opens 30 minutes prior to screening
Sometimes, you have to lose your way to get back home
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) is an adventure film directed by Joel and Ethan Coen and starring George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson, John Goodman, Holly Hunter, and Charles Durning and is inspired in part by Homer’s The Odyssey. Set in 1937 rural Mississippi during the Great Depression, suave and fancy-talking Everett Ulysses McGill (Clooney), dim-witted Delmar (Nelson), and easily-excitable Pete (Turturro) are serving time together on a prison chain gang. Everett knows where $1.2 million is hidden that’s theirs for the taking, and the three manage to escape; however, a stranger soon warns them that they’ll find treasure, but not the sort they’re looking for. As Everett and his partners hit the road, they happen upon a gluttonous bible salesman, Big Dan Teague (Goodman); meet up with Baby Face Nelson (Michael Badalucco) as he robs a bank; encounter three Sirens doing their washing; run into Everett’s estranged wife Penny (Hunter), who has told everyone her husband was killed in a train wreck; find themselves in the middle of a heated campaign between political boss Pappy O’Daniel (Durning), and reformist candidate Homer Stokes (Wayne Duvall); and even find time to make a hit record as The Soggy Bottom Boys. Noted songwriter T-Bone Burnett helped compile the songs (combining vintage country blues tunes with originals in the same style), while Carter Burwell composed the background score. Incidentally, the title O Brother, Where Art Thou? is a reference to the classic Preston Sturges comedy Sullivan’s Travels, in which a director plans to make a serious “message picture” with that name.
Giant Monday Night Football
| Sep |
| 13 |
| 3:30 pm |
| Sep |
| 20 |
| 4:30 pm |
| Sep |
| 27 |
| 4:30 pm |
Doors at 3:30 pm
First Game Baltimore at NY Jets at 4 PM
Second Game San Diego at Kansas City at 7:15 PM
All ages
FREE with minimum $5 food or beverage purchase
Join us for Monday Night Football this season on our giant screen every Monday. See you favorite team up close and really, really big. We will also feature happy hour prices on your favorite beers all night.
Monday Night Football has continued to provide as much entertainment as sports throughout its run. In addition to the extra cameras, the show has also pioneered technological broadcast innovations, such as the use of enhanced slow motion replays and computerized graphics. Celebrity guests, such as former Vice President Spiro Agnew, singers Plácido Domingo and John Lennon, President Bill Clinton, and even Kermit the Frog, were often featured during the game to “liven up” the broadcast. The November 26, 1973 contest featured a rare instance of two celebrities entering the booth, with Lennon being interviewed by Cosell and California governor Ronald Reagan speaking with Gifford, with Reagan explaining the rules of American football (off-camera) to Lennon as the game went along. However, the late 1990s and early 2000s saw an even more increased reliance on the entertainment factor. Some halftime shows, featuring popular music stars, were broadcast in full rather than being ignored in favor of analysis of the game by the commentators, as in previous seasons.
Bonus Productions Presents Richie Spice
| Sep |
| 15 |
| 8:00 pm |
Richie Spice
Wednesday, September 15
Doors at 10 PM
$30
$25 advanced at The Works in Arcata and Eureka
21 and over
In the long tradition of slow-burn Jamaican crossovers like Bob Marley and Desmond Dekker, progressive dancehall artist Richie Spice entered the eye of the American public after years of success in his homeland. Born in 1971 in a Kingston suburb, his brothers are a who’s-who of Jamaican music, including DJ Snatcher Dogg, Spanner Banner, and noted producer Pliers. His first low-key singles appeared in the early ’90s. Over the next decade Spice’s sound became increasingly progressive, adding bits of funk, hip-hop and heady politics to the typical dancehall equation, which he reinforced with catchy, soulful singjay vocals. His debut LP, Out of the Blue, was released to moderate acclaim in the mid-’90s, and was followed up in 2000 by Universal, which was noted for the enduring single, “Earth A Run Red.” It wasn’t until he found a spot on the roster of Fifth Element Records, which issued 2004’s Spice in Your Life, that he found a wide international audience and a rising fame in the U.S. and Europe.
Gratitillium, Hosannas, Strix Vega and White Manna
| Sep |
| 16 |
| 9:00 pm |
Thursday, September 16
Doors at 9 PM
Music at 9:30 PM
$6
21 and over
Gratitilium
Frustrated with the folk he’d sang since picking up the guitar at age 15, Portland songwriter Nick Caceres turned to an unusual form of inspiration: the worshipping of animal spirits. “It sounds weird, but I got really postmodern when I went up to Seattle one time,” Caceres says. First it was owls: owl statues, pictures of owls, owls on television. Then it was turtles. Before long, Caceres realized he was noticing images of different animals every month. “When I came to cats, it was like going to that random bus stop and sitting down and looking around and realizing that the entire inside of the bus stop was painted with cats,” Caceres says. And then a random friend would walk by named Kat. Though his first instinct was to call bullshit on himself, the songwriter eventually accepted the coincidences. They were too strong to ignore. Caceres put a band together to help him move past his personal folk music, which he says drove him to an unhealthy place, and began writing songs about the experiences. “Gratitillium” is a word Caceres made up that represents “gratitude for animals,” but it also evokes the concept of creative collaboration.
Hosannas
Portland, Oregon’s Hosannas (formerly Church) have managed to amass a sizable following along the West Coast over the last 3 years with their intense tour ethic and consistent presence in the Portland house show scene. Brothers Brandon and Richard Laws grew up listening to Kraftwerk and The Beach Boys. These disparate influences are at the core of the duo’s haunting vocal harmonies, rich verbal imagery and unpredictable guitar. Add to this combination Christof Hendrickson’s Rhodes, Moog and Omnikorg and Lane Barrington’s tasteful, dynamic percussion for an invigorating, original sound. The band’s influences are as diverse as their instrumentation; comfortable mixing Bollywood samples with tin-foil piano, hushed a capella harmonies with tribal crescendos, and plenty of thick, warm, over-driven guitar.
Strix Vega
“Next time you plan to end up lying on your back on a summer’s evening, a little tiddly, watching the stars twinkle and roll through your hazy vision, plan to have Strix Vega’s new album with you. After about a minute of second track “Tides” has passed, the album title makes perfect sense. The guitar playing is woozy and loose, with just the right amount of bluesy embellishment…virtually every song on this atmospheric collection has a similarly affecting vibe, as well as the length and development of a genuine live performance. Highlight “Luck Runs Dry” features a wistful chorus straight out of Ian Brown’s solo catalogue and a simple blues riff borrowed from either Zeppelin or Floyd…Strix Vega are a fine “drunken” blues-rock band who know their strengths and have succeeded in charming the US West Coast with their raw and wistful take on a tired genre. Remember to pack their album for festival season - you never know when you’ll need it.” –Chris McCague of Tasty Fanzine, UK
White Manna
White Manna hails from the sticks of upper Fickle Hill in Arcata. “Stoner psych rock loud enough to make your heart skip beats, with midi-organ accompaniment, heavily distorted Telecaster to make your ears throb and eyes water, blurring reality into a mess of indistinguishable waves and a constant barrage of bass and crashing cymbals or a blazing guitar solo ebbing in and out of a pacing drum beat like one long crescendo.” - Hanky Panky
The Matrix
| Sep |
| 17 |
| 7:30 pm |
Friday, September 17
8:00 pm
Film is $5.00
Rated R
Box Office opens 30 minutes prior to screening
Free your mind
The Matrix (1999) is an American science fiction-action film written and directed by Larry and Andy Wachowski, starring Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano, and Hugo Weaving and is the first installment in the Matrix series of films, comic books, video games, and animation. The film depicts a future in which reality as perceived by humans is actually a simulated reality created by sentient machines to pacify and subdue the human population, while their bodies’ heat and electrical activity are used as an energy source. Upon learning this, computer programmer “Neo” is drawn into a rebellion against the machines, involving other people who have been freed from the “dream world” and into reality. The film contains many references to the cyberpunk and hacker subcultures; philosophical and religious ideas such as the Advaita’s Maya (illusion), Brain in a vat thought experiment; and homages to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Hong Kong action cinema, Spaghetti Westerns, dystopian fiction, and Japanese animation.
The Matrix received Oscars for film editing, sound effects editing, visual effects, and sound. In 1999, it won Saturn Awards for Best Science Fiction Film and Best Direction. The Matrix also received BAFTA awards for Best Sound and Best Achievement in Special Visual Effects, in addition to nominations in the cinematography, production design and editing categories. “an innocent delight I hadn’t felt in a long time, Neo is my favourite-ever science fiction hero, absolutely.” - Cyberpunk fiction author William Gibson
YouTube Tons of Fries Night
| Sep |
| 18 |
| 6:00 pm |
Saturday, September 18
Doors at 6 pm
Free with minimum $5 food and beverage purchase
Parental Guidance Suggested
Come join the ATL for a night of laughter, disgust, awe and maybe a little horror. It’s YouTube night where all your favorite videos can masquerade as epic films up on the big screen. Specials on Beer, Chili Cheese Fries, Garlic Cheese Fries and good ol’ regular French Fries.
Back To The Future
| Sep |
| 19 |
| 5:30 pm |
Sunday, September 19
6:00 pm
Film is $5.00
Rated PG
Box Office opens 30 minutes prior to screening
Meet Marty McFly. He’s broken the time barrier. Busted his parents’ first date. And, maybe, botched his chances of ever being born.
Back to the Future (1985) is an American science fiction adventure comedy film directed by Robert Zemeckis and produced by Steven Spielberg. Contemporary high schooler Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) doesn’t have the most pleasant of lives. Browbeaten by his principal at school, Marty must also endure the acrimonious relationship between his nerdy father (Crispin Glover) and his lovely mother (Lea Thompson), who in turn suffer the bullying of middle-aged jerk Biff (Thomas F. Wilson), Marty’s dad’s supervisor. The one balm in Marty’s life is his friendship with eccentric scientist Doc (Christopher Lloyd), who at present is working on a time machine. Accidentally zapped back into the 1950s, Marty inadvertently interferes with the budding romance of his now-teenaged parents. Our hero must now reunite his parents-to-be, lest he cease to exist in the 1980s. It won’t be easy, especially with the loutish Biff, now also a teenager, complicating matters. Beyond its dazzling special effects, the best element of Back to the Future is the performance of Michael J. Fox, who finds himself in the quagmire of surviving the white-bread 1950s with a hip 1980s mindset.
When released, Back to the Future became the most successful film of the year, grossing more than $380 million worldwide and receiving critical acclaim. It won the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation and the Saturn Award for Best Science Fiction Film, as well as Academy Awards, and Golden Globe nominations among others. Ronald Reagan even quoted the film in the 1986 State of the Union Address. In 2007, the Library of Congress selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry, and in June 2008 the American Film Institute’s special AFI’s 10 Top 10 acknowledged the film as the 10th best film in the science fiction genre. The film marked the beginning of a franchise, with Back to the Future Part II and Back to the Future Part III released back-to-back in 1989 and 1990, as well as an animated series and theme park ride.
Science Fiction Pint and Pizza Night featuring Psychedelic Italian Sci-Fi
| Sep |
| 22 |
| 6:00 pm |
6 PM to 10 PM
All ages
FREE with minimum $5 food or beverage purchase
Beer and Pizza specials all night long
Back by popular demand! The best in B science fictions movies, drive-in classics, psychotronic weirdness and more. We’ll also do raffle prizes throughout the evening so expect some very cool, very strange science fiction prizes including figurines, posters, books, cards, VHS movies and more for that inner science fiction enthusiast in us all. Sponsored by La Dolce Video, The Arcata Eye, Daisy Drygoods, Vintage Avenger, Tin Can Mailman, The Clothing Dock and more.
Cosmos: War of the Planets (1977) is an Italian film (Battaglie negli spazi stellari) directed by Alfonso Brescia and starring John Richardson. An insubordinate space captain investigates an apparently deserted but unstable planet after being drawn there by a mysterious gravitational force. He and his expedition discover the remnants of the once dominant civilization living on a subsistence level in caves. Long ago their advanced society had become so complacent that they built a super-computer to run and maintain the machines that supported their indolent, self-indulgent lifestyle. After the machines were destroyed by a meteor shower, the inhabitants found themselves without the knowledge to rebuild them, completely subservient to the computer whose megalomania was now unchallenged. The cruel cyber-despot reveals that it arranged for ship’s landing because it needs the skills of the Earthlings to make critical repairs in its damaged circuitry. When the computer announces future plans for the conquest of the Universe, the captain and his crew know it is time to act.
With scenes that invoke 2001: A Space Odyssey, Dark Star the spaced-out spaceship and a sex scene derived from Barbarella involving a machine that looks exactly like the Death Star, this psychedelic monster-piece with bright colored costumes resembling Star Trek and trippy visuals will make you wonder if you’ve lost your visual connection with reality. Or maybe it will just make you laugh a lot…
Battle of the Worlds (1961) is an Italian (Pianeta degli uomini spenti) science-fiction film directed by Antonio Margheriti and stars Claude Raines, Bill Carter and Maya Brent. A stray “spaceship” planet in a collision course for Earth, controlled and piloted by a gigantic computer programmed for the conquest of Earth, slows down and takes up orbit. The aliens responsible for this plan, and of the voyage which has required decades in space travel, are by now extinct, and the planet is lifeless, make exception for the computer and thousands of radio controlled flying saucers under it’s control. The computer, unaware of the extinction of its creators, continues relentlessly with the plan of conquest in order to complete its mission. An offbeat scientist, Professor Benson (Rains), works around the clock with his team of scientists to try to save the earth from attack from the invading planet and its fleet of flying attack saucers. With a soundtrack evoking Ennio Morricone, free jazz and synthesizer eeriness this pre-psychedelic oddity should tweak your senses in a good way.
World Famous Productions presents Signal Path, Blockhead and Nocando
| Sep |
| 23 |
| 9:00 pm |
Thursday, September 23
Doors at 9 PM
$18
$15 advanced at The Works in Arcata & Eureka and
inticketing.com
21 and over
Please note: This show is an early show!
World Famous Productions presents Signal Path, Blockhead & Nocando!
Signal Path
Signal Path’s bends musical genres and deep melodic ideas around a core of unrelenting rhythm and massive low-end. They create a depth and intricacy of sound that become more commanding every time it’s heard, and by blending live instrumentation into their production they create a live experience that is as beautiful as it is intense. Born in the unlikely mountain enclave of Missoula, MT, Signal Path has released six full-length albums to date. After a two-year hiatus they released their second FREE album during the summer of 2009. The viral success of 2009’s CLASH amongst fans was almost beyond belief, and the overwhelming support elevated the band to a level of national prominence they’d never experienced. With packed out concert halls nationwide and an album streamed and downloaded a hundred thousand times, Signal Path suddenly found themselves back at the forefront of a scene they had once helped pioneer. After the success of CLASH and two of the most successful national tours in their history, Signal Path permanently relocated to Colorado to complete their next full-length studio album IMAGINARY LINES. IMAGINARY LINES drops SEPTEMBER 1st and will be available as a free download through their website www.signalpathmusic.com. Easily Signal Path’s most polished and introspective work to date- the band is at an all time creative high. With fascinating production, lush soundscapes and an undeniable rhythmic balance, Signal Path will give fans a full album of brand new music in its purest form. The gorgeous melodies that have defined the project since it’s beginning permeate the music with crushing low end lurking behind every turn.
Blockhead
Blockhead grew up in downtown New York City. The son of an artist, early on he found his passion was for music. A fan of a whole range of sounds, especially hip-hop, Blockhead steadily built a tremendous collection of tapes and later CDs from innumerable artists. After a brief stint as a rapper, he realized his calling was behind the boards and not on the mic, and from there he began to produce beats. Since making that decision, he’s been kept pretty busy. Blockhead produced 9 tracks on Aesop Rock’s critically acclaimed album Labor Days. Additionally he produced half the tracks on Aesop’s follow up EP, Daylight. Blockhead has also been working with other indie giants such as Slug of Atmosphere, Murs, Mike Ladd and SA Smash. He also found time to complete a break beat album entitled Blockhead’s Broke Beats, with 10 hard hitting instrumental tracks. And just to prove that he ain’t all about art-rap, Blockhead produced 2 tracks on the newly crowned Skribble Jam Battle Champ, MacLethal’s full-length album. Oh, and the guy does comedy, too. He’s a member of the Party Fun Action Committee who’s hip-hop/comedy debut album was recently released on the legendary Def Jux. And what was the other thing? Oh yeah, exquisite, emotional instrumental hip hop on the one and only Ninja Tune…
Nocando
The L.A. underground has many voices, some covered in grit and dirt, some slapping the halt, some hitting high and brassy — but none ring truer than that of Nocando. A seasoned member of the hip-hop community who isn’t content to count his battle scars by the dozens, Nocando brings fresh rhymes week after week at the world-renowned club night Low End Theory where he is the resident host, as well as to a variety of steazy joints all around the West Coast. With a witty style and open voice, Nocando’s raps are unpredictable, funny and lean towards social commentary, although this MC is just as likely to tell you about a wild night on the streets of L.A. as to make a point about the fallacies of the music industry. Brash and confident while also being laid back, Nocando’s lyrical delivery is an apt representative of the California attitude. Winner of the MC Battle at the 2007 Scribble Jam, the largest hip-hop festival in the nation, Nocando’s mouth often seems to have a life of its own, throwing an excited energy onto any crowd he meets and providing an important connection between the music and the dance floor. With almost a decade of active duty in the L.A. beat scene and plenty of battle trophies under his belt, Nocando has earned the respect of peers, veterans and newcomers alike. Unpredictable and vivacious, Nocando will light any night and every crowd with his clever words and dynamic delivery style. With the continued convergence of the hip hop and electronic music communities in Los Angeles and around the world, Nocando is poised to shout his drops from the peak of the movement all the way to the vibrating dance floor of the underground.
Fight Club
| Sep |
| 24 |
| 7:30 pm |
Friday, September 24
8:00 pm
Film is $5.00
Rated R
Box Office opens 30 minutes prior to screening
Mischief. Mayhem. Soap
Fight Club (1999) is an American film adapted from the 1996 novel of the same name by Chuck Palahniuk. The film was directed by David Fincher and stars Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, and Helena Bonham Carter. Norton plays the unnamed protagonist, an “everyman” who is discontented with his white-collar job in American society. One day on a business flight, he discovers Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt), a charming iconoclast who sells soap. Tyler doesn’t put much stock in the materialistic world, and he believes that one can learn a great deal through pain, misfortune, and chaos. Tyler cheerfully challenges his new friend to a fight. Our Narrator finds that bare-knuckle brawling makes him feel more alive than he has in years, and soon the two become friends and roommates, meeting informally to fight once a week. As more men join in, the “fight club” becomes an underground sensation, even though it’s a closely guarded secret among the participants. But as our Narrator and Tyler bond through violence, a strange situation becomes more complicated when Tyler becomes involved with Marla (Helena Bonham Carter), whom our Narrator became infatuated with when they were both crashing the support-group circuit.
World Famous Productions presents Beats Antique and TBA
| Sep |
| 25 |
| 9:00 pm |
Saturday, September 25
Doors at 9 PM
Tickets start at $15 at The Works in Arcata & Eureka and In Ticketing
21 and over
World Famous Productions presents Beats Antique and more tba!
Growing like wildfire under the canopy of live electonica and world roots music comes Beats Antique, a masterful merge of modern technology, live instrumentation and seductive performance. Beats Antique combines the sounds of the Middle East and orchestral gypsy music with the styles of hip-hop, brass band, downtempo, glitch and dubstep in a new collage of music that is mixed and broken down with clever breakbeats for an adept international flair. Beats Antique is producing an un-charted style of music by adding live horns, accordion, glockenspiel, viola, string quartets, kalimba, clarinet and various unusual instruments to their big beat arrangements. Born of Oakland, CA, the musical trio consists of producers, David Satori, Sidecar Tommy and world-renowned belly dance performer/producer Zoe Jakes, who helped inspire the thematic Middle East tempo of the band.
On the tails of their latest release, Contraption Vol.1, Beats Antique has been consistently selling out major venues up and down the west coast, and have also toured extensively as support for national acts such as Les Claypool from PRIMUS and Bassnectar. In line with their recent success, Beats Antique has signed on C3 Presents as management, and Madison House as booking. After only 3 years performing as a cohesive force, the group is about to self release their fourth album, Contraption, Vol. 2 which furthers their journey through new electro-acoustic soundscapes. Their second release, “Collide” on CIA (Miles Copeland’s new label, previous manager/producer of The Police, REM, etc.) has consistently held the number one spot in Amazon.com’s Middle Eastern category, and has also reached the Top 10 list of most downloaded artists under World Dance, and the Top 20 most downloaded electronica albums.
Batman directed by Tim Burton
| Sep |
| 26 |
| 5:30 pm |
Sunday, September 26
6:00 pm
Film is $5.00
Rated PG-13
Box Office opens 30 minutes prior to screening
In the shadows of Gotham, Death wears a smile, and hope flies through the night sky in black…. But only one will claim the Night
Batman (1989) is a superhero film based on the DC Comics character of the same name, directed by Tim Burton. Behind the black cowl, Gotham City superhero Batman is really millionaire philanthropist Bruce Wayne (Michael Keaton), who turned to crimefighting after his parents were brutally murdered before his eyes. The only person to share Wayne’s secret is faithful butler Alfred (Michael Gough). The principal villain in Batman is The Joker (Jack Nicholson) who’d been mob torpedo Jack Napier before he was horribly disfigured in a vat of acid. The Joker’s plan to destroy Batman and gain control of Gotham City is manifold. First he distributes a line of booby-trapped cosmetics, then he goes on a destruction spree in the Gotham Art Museum while the music of Prince blasts away in the background, and finally he orchestrates an all-out campaign to win the hearts and minds of the Gothamites, hoping to turn them against the Cowled One. Meanwhile, reporter Vicki Vale (Kim Basinger) becomes the love of Batman’s life-which of course plays right into the Joker’s hands. Scored by Tim Burton’s favorite composer Danny Elfman, Batman.
The film received several Saturn Award nominations and was nominated for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe. It also inspired the Emmy Award-winning Batman: The Animated Series, paving the way for the DC Animated Universe, and has left a legacy over the modern perception of the superhero film genre.
Passion Presents RAILROAD EARTH and TOUBAB KREWE
| Sep |
| 28 |
| 7:00 pm |
Tuesday, September 28
Doors at 7:00 PM
Show at 8:00 PM
$25 available at inticketing.com and at The Works in Arcata and Eureka
21 and over
Passion Presents: RAILROAD EARTH and TOUBAB KREWE
Railroad Earth
Railroad Earth’s music is driven by the remarkable songs of front-man, Todd Sheaffer, and is delivered with seamless arrangements and superb musicianship courtesy of all six band members. They can jam with the best of them, but they’re not a jam band. They’re bluegrass influenced, but they use drums and amplifiers (somewhat taboo in the bluegrass world). RRE bristles about being lumped into any one “scene.” Not out of animosity for any other artists: it’s just that they don’t find the labels very useful. According to fiddle player Tim Carbone, “We use unique acoustic instrumentation, but we’re definitely not a bluegrass band – so that doesn’t fit. And I think the term ‘jam band’ probably refers more to the fans than to the band. I think these fans just like live music.” When the band does elect to “comment” on a song via an extended improvisation, they really cook – and have received the approval of no less than Grateful Dead bass player Phil Lesh, who knows a thing or two about jamming. Railroad Earth started out in 2001, a bunch of talented friends interested in strumming some rootsy music together. It began rather informally, but then picked up the pace when their five song demo earned them a spot at the prestigious Telluride Bluegrass Festival that June.
Toubab Krewe
Since forming in 2005, the magnetic instrumental quintet Toubab Krewe has won a diverse and devoted following at performances everywhere from Bonnaroo to the legendary Festival of the Desert in Essakane, Mali, the most remote festival in the world. The band developed their unique sound over the course of numerous extended trips to Mali, Guinea, and Ivory Coast, where they immersed themselves in the local culture and studied and performed with luminaries. But the group has its roots in Asheville, NC, where many of its members were childhood friends and long-term musical collaborators. It was at home in the Appalachians, where the band recorded their sophomore album, Live at the Orange Peel. They explore the worlds of surf and zydeco, fusing it all together into what the Village Voice describes as “a futuristic, psychedelic, neo-griot frenzy” and Honest Tune hails as “one of the most innovative voices in music today.”
World Famous Productions presents EOTO, MiMOSA & MartyParty
| Sep |
| 29 |
| 9:00 pm |
Wednesday, September 29
Doors at 9 PM
$20 at The Works in Arcata & Eureka and inticketing.com
21 and over
World Famous Productions presents EOTO, MiM0SA & MartyParty!
EOTO
What happens when two former members of a widely successful touring band step out from behind the instruments that made them famous and embark on an entirely new musical journey? The result is the left coast breakbeat/glitch-hop/house duo, EOTO (pronounced E-oh-toe). Consisting of one third of the progressive jam sextet, The String Cheese Incident, the joint venture between Jason Hann and Michael Travis is a fresh, 100% improvised collaboration of live instrumentation and digital mixing.
MiMOSA
Mimosa takes the listener on a space age psychedelic journey of bittersweet ecstasy. Only a two year veteren of the west coast sound movement, Mimosa is quickly making a name for himself as one of the top west coast exports. This young producer’s energy while performing is magnetic; the word has spread fast and Mimosa has recently shared the stage with the likes Benga, Skream, Rusko, Datsik, Glitch Mob, ill.gates, Bassnectar and Flying Lotus, playing shows across the US and festivals like Coachella, Symbiosis Gathering, Burning Man and Decibel Festival. Fans know Mimosa as someone who brings a ‘good-time’ energy that is as fierce as it is friendly, taking them on journeys through urban chaos and ethereal euphoria.
Marty Folb aka MartyParty was Born and raised in South Africa and found his way to San Francisco 15 years ago as a software programmer. After discovering the music of the west coast and wanting to “Africanize” it, Marty picked up Ableton Live and began to learn the art of music production. He soon after released his first digital album “Walkerville to the West Coast”, named for the town he grew up in and a tribute to his path to the US. Marty got tired of how all electronic music followed the same formula so he set off on a mission to re-invent electronic music and cross-pollinate it with all the other music he loves. Marty started a movement back towards the power of the melody and instrumental composition. Song writing has always been Marty’s passion instead of the typical beat style dj production. The music is a hybrid of electronic music, dubstep and hip hop that together forms a totally new flavor of urban beat with the pretty hypnotic elements of electronic music and hard-hitting bass. The MartyParty live performance is an intense journey that pulls together gorgeous instrumental, bass heavy songs, and overlays these with acapella and samples played live. The result is a true “crunky” and “hyphy” experience like no other. Marty has been playing his live sets to crowds all over the US to rave reviews.
Random Acts of Comedy
| Sep |
| 30 |
| 7:30 pm |
Doors at 7:30 pm
Show at 8 pm
$5
All ages - parental guidance suggested
Random Acts of Comedy:These talented players bring laughter every 3rd Thursday of each month. Outrageous improv comedy at high speed.You never know what will happen in a show, because we never know. Root for your favorite players. Some suggestive material is possible.T-shirts available for sale. Prize at the end of each show for best laugh. Doors open at 7:30, and show starts at 8. Best way to spend $5.
