The venerable Frogbite will be doing its thing behind frontlady Lisa Sharry tonight at the Logger Bar starting at 9 p.m. And what a thing it is, providing a proper sonic backbone for one of our county’s longtime eccentric stars. It’s probably free at the door, so nothing’s at stake here but a good time, […]
Frogbite
Posted inThe Setlist
The Ghost of Christmas Past
The diminishing returns of nostalgia are nothing new, but their false glitter is one of the central lodestones guiding the artistic compass of my generation. Millennials didn’t invent sentimental cultural artifacts — they were first minted years ago — but we did kind of define the demand built around recycling their continued relevance. It’s one […]
Posted inArts + Scene
Music Tonight: Wednesday, June 20
It’s Pints for Non-Profits night again at the Mad River Brewery at 6 p.m. The tunes are free and supplied by the folk and blues-flavored Frogbite, and the cause of the week is Humboldt Homebrewers, so it sounds like a delightfully beery ouroboros to me.
Posted inMusic
Fathers and Fests
We are creeping toward the salad days of summer, my dears, and this week has some proper preludes for that laziest, grasshopper-ish of seasons. Oyster Fest is here (a truly strange notion to me as no one sensible in my former home of Louisiana eats oysters in the warm months, but we are luckily blessed […]