Feelin’ green because you’re not celebrating your favorite holiday at the bar this year? Have a hankering for homemade shepherd’s pie and a fat shamrock cupcake from Ramone’s? Maybe you’re missing those lively nights at Gallagher’s when Seabury Gould and Evan Morden kept your toes tappin’ as you downed fish and chips with pints and […]
St. Patrick’s Day
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Drink Me, I’m Irish
Put down that Redi-wip and Bailey’s. The good folks at Gallagher’s showed us how to make a proper Irish coffee for St. Patrick’s Day. Or Monday. Remember: real, fresh whipped cream, unsweetened. And don’t skimp on the whiskey — a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down, but it won’t cover the taste of […]
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Tonight’s Setlist: A wee bit of madness
(Scene above not of the Logger Bar) Personally, I have mixed feelings about St. Patrick’s Day. I’m of Irish descent and love a good party, but I also like snakes. We’ll set the cultural/historical discussion aside for now, however, because you’ve got yourself what is sure to be an excellent time happening at the Logger Bar. […]
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Tonight’s Setlist: St. Paddy’s, a Happy Birthday, a benefit and beyond
Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day — oh yeah, that — early with a Wild Irish Barn Dance at the Arcata Veterans’ Hall starting at 7:30 p.m. Sue Moon will call to the enthusiastic tunes of Blake Ritter and Sam McNeill. All dances will be taught with no partner or experience necessary. Admission $7 general, $6 Humboldt […]
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Bittersweet
Sure, everybody’s Irish on St. Patrick’s Day, but that doesn’t mean everyone loves the food. Corned beef and cabbage is fine comfort food, briny and piping hot with soft potatoes, and my family didn’t wait for March to cook it. But the heart-slowing food of ancestors who got up in the dark and worked until […]