Mike Dronkers

Listen to Object Heavy's performance live on KHSU below. The band has a show on Saturday at the Jambalaya in Arcata and this weekend at The Dip in Redding.  

On this episode of My Favorite Lecture, engineering instructor Lonny Grafman shows how engineers benefit from community engagement.

"Most of our personal transformations ... come out of unhappy periods in our lives," says Oliver Wood. 

The Wood Brothers singer talks about the downsides of happiness, the circuitous path back to brotherhood, and working with a 14 year-old Derek Trucks. 

Esch is an electronic music producer and DJ based in Arcata, California. His work features eclectic, molding bass-heavy hip-hop beats with experimental and ethereal synths. He was joined in the KHSU studio by DJ Marjo Lak.

Esch is appearing at "Cupids Arrow", a Deities & Divas Ball on Valentines Day, which will raise funds for Humboldt Wildlife Care Center and Bird Ally X. 

 [UPDATE: Show posted below] 

KHSU listeners first heard young Russ Cole in the pre-dawn haze of Nov. 11 1976 as a studio guest. Few have a longer relationship with KHSU than Russ Cole, now known on-air as Gus Mozart. 

He celebrated his 40th anniversary of his own KHSU airshift on Monday's Music Box featuring vintage recordings (listen below) and songs from his first years on KHSU.  

"I thought I'd work for the U.N. or something," says Postmodern Jukebox's Robyn Adele Anderson. She can sing in Russian and Spanish, and studied Political Science and Arabic in college. Anderson tells KHSU's Halimah The Dreamah that music "was kind of an accident." 

Acclaimed documentarian, director and producer Sara Dosa will host screenings of An Inconvenient Sequel and The Last Season in Arcata this weekend. 

What do the Eureka High Players do when renovations prevent them from building stage sets? They do an old-time radio drama, to be aired on KZZH-LP. "We decided it'd be fun to focus on storytelling rather than sets, costumes, and lights," director Nan Voss tells Wendy Butler. Voss used this as an opportunity "to get the atmosphere of a story across without all of the usual stuff we have to tell a story." 

The advocacy group Humboldt Alliance for Arts Education is relaunching Friday, as a response to ongoing factors on the statewide political horizon that affect arts education in schools. 

On the Spot, Arcata's best/only improvisational comedy troupe readies itself for another season at the Arcata Theater Lounge. 

Through a series of games, On The Spot creates fresh, small-batch jokes live on stage based on audience cues.

The first show of On The Spot's season 2 is Friday, September 29th at the Arcata Theater Lounge (tickets).

The shows are kid-friendly in terms of both content and bedtimes: doors open at 6:30, show starts at 7:00.