Humboldt Folklife continues in the fair town of Blue Lake and better people than myself have reported on the details. I’m here to suggest a free after-show at the Logger Bar at 9 p.m., where local carved burl sound dealers Strix Vega and Oaktop will be auctioning the jams for those lucky enough to have […]
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Music Tonight: Monday, May 22
Mondays are traditionally dedicated to the brave souls who serve at the public’s pleasure (and, unfortunately, occasional displeasure, due to a few over-entitled types), and the Logger Bar has a fine Service Industry Night that morphs at 7 p.m. into Rocker’s Reggae Night, curated by DJ Deaf-I. This is a free event and a lovely […]
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Music Tonight: Monday, April 10
Mondays are usually quiet around these parts but that’s not so in Blue Lake, where the Logger Bar throws a regular Rockers Reggae Night from 7 to 9 p.m. It’s free to get in and you should expect OG Jamaican tunes pumping out of the sound system to augment your drinking enjoyment.
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Music Tonight: Saturday, March 25
Here are three gigs all happening at 9 p.m., any of which you can use to celebrate your first weekend of this new spring season. Over at the Logger Bar, Wild Abandon plays its first gig since its fine sold-out album release show at the Arcata Playhouse in the beginning of this year. Expect the […]
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Music Tonight: Tuesday, Feb. 14
If you are one of those lucky ducks with a sweetie and an attendant treacly sense of romance, I suspect you don’t need any advice from me on what you get up to tonight. For the rest of you, here are a couple options, the former being a little more vanilla. Young & Lovely will […]
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Music Tonight: Wednesday, Jan. 18
Loathe as I am to promote yet another karaoke night, I have to drop a mention here, as I feel that the Logger Bar doesn’t get enough attention and I certainly haven’t dropped a line about this joint in enough recent columns. So, here’s my endorsement for the evening: Go check out KJ Dustin’s set-up […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, Nov. 25
It’s a Black Friday tradition among certain lefties to sit out this monstrous bacchanal of capital by not spending any money. And while I understand that urge, I also have a belief that where you spend your cash is what matters. I would have been dropping mine ($5), at the door of Synapsis at 7 […]
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Logger Bar Reopening Cut Short by COVID Numbers
Well, crap. After a brief and much anticipated reopening, the Logger Bar, Blue Lake’s iconic watering hole, has shut its doors once again. Owner Kate Martin, who’d closed the bar for more than a year and put it up for sale, spoke with the Journal last month about the additional outdoor seating she hoped would […]
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The Logger Bar Comes Back to Life
Kate Martin, owner of Blue Lake’s Logger Bar, didn’t hibernate during the pandemic. She’d shut down the bar in accordance with shelter in place in March of 2020 and put the historic bar up for sale three months later. (She admits a bar you can’t open is a tough sell in a pandemic.) She might […]
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Time Zone Twenty Twenty
This is going to be brief because we are still in the lean days of the winter break. But even though I am writing in the last days of 2019, I would like to wish you all a hearty welcome to 2020. All of those twos and zeros seem pretty futuristic, don’t they? Well the […]
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More Than Imitation
Much inspires us to drink. We lift a glass in celebration or raise one in sympathy. We drink to ease social interactions, to find some liquid courage. We debrief at happy hour, bond at the bar and get giddy at brunch. To meet for a drink is how we do. For those of us whose […]
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Logger Legalities
The City of Blue Lake will begin evaluating zoning, use permits and community impacts pertaining to the Logger Bar at tonight’s council meeting. Following a series of noise complaints by neighboring residents resulting from late night shows and reported public nuisance activities such as fighting and loud conversations in the neighboring parking lot after bar […]