The Miniplex

06/21/2025

🎬🍿🎤🥳 Did you know we do private rentals of The Miniplex ⁉️🤯 Choose your own movie and invite all your friends / family / staff❗️Or skip the wait and have a private karaoke night for you & your friends for a birthday, staff party, casual wedding reception, bachelor(ette) party, etc‼️ 🎉 Extremely reasonable rates 👍 for various types of parties: email [email protected] for details on bringing your vision to life❗️We have some July dates available still including 🔥SATURDAYS 7/5, 7/12, and 7/26🔥 but contact us ASAP to book them ⏳

06/16/2025

🎹🐐🎉 THIS WEEK‼️ See below for details, more info at 🔗 in comments❗️

⭐️TUE:🍹🌮Taco Tuesday 6 - 11 pm - 2 FULL-SIZE Humboldt grassfed beef or cacao spice black bean, TWO (2) for just $5⁉️🤯

⭐️WED: 🎤✍🏼Rhythm & Rhymes: a night of live spoken word, hiphop and R&B, feat. touring poet Raggedy Andey, alt-hiphop group Gladys, R&B from CHI + hiphop artists RAMHTP, Thatfool AL and Kemistree, and more. Plus a poetry open mic at 6 - get there early to sign up! 21+🍸

⭐️THU: 🎤✊🏾Juneteenth Karaoke takeover with Black Humboldt at 8:30❗️Old School vs New School theme ~ come out & support this local nonprofit, all are welcome! Sliding scale, 21+🍸

⭐️FRI: 🥃🪩Dive Bar Night w/ HisPanic! At the Disco❗️Surf, psych, garage, thrash, buttrock, & cheap beer + shot specials! 9 pm, 21+🍺

⭐️SAT: 🎹📀Gold-selling artist ⭐️ESMÉ PATTERSON live❗️As seen on 📺Conan, 📺Letterman, & 📻NPR Tiny Desk Concert - don’t miss this one‼️ 21+🍹

⭐️SUN: 🎤🐐GOAT Karaoke at 8:30❗️No cover, 21+🍸

05/21/2025

🎹🐐🎉 THIS WEEK at The Goat‼️ See below details + more info at 🔗 in comments❗️

⭐️TUE:🍹🌮Taco Tuesday 6 - 11 pm - 2 FULL-SIZE Humboldt grassfed beef or cacao spice black bean, TWO (2) for just $5⁉️🤯

⭐️WED: 🍸🤩 Happy Hour All Night - $2 off infused cocktail specials, $5 - $8 hot food every WEDS!🥳

⭐️THU: 🎤🐐GOAT Karaoke at 8:30❗️No cover, 21+🍸

⭐️FRI: 🥁🎸”Phenomenally fun” Austin band BEING DEAD w/ NUG‼️ 8:30 pm, 21+🍹

⭐️SAT: 🎤👯‍♀️ TWINS Karaoke‼️ Dress to match (or dress as) your friend(s), with the return of guest host KJ Julia❗️Note: there’s no karaoke on Sunday, so this is your weekend chance to sing!🎶 8:30, 21+🥂

⭐️SUN: 🌺🥁 East L.A.’s TROPA MAGICA returns for the ultimate psychedelic cumbia party, w/ locals PICHEA‼️ 8:30, 21+🍺

📍The Miniplex is a locally owned live music venue inside Richards’ Goat Tavern, in Arcata, California.

05/20/2025

🥁🔥🎸This FRIDAY (5/23) in The Miniplex‼️ “Brilliant...One of 2024's best albums" -PopMatters✍🏼 Austin's ⭐️ Being Dead, the mysterious duo of Falcon Bitch and Shmoofy, make technicolor incantations, each song its own self-contained little universe. Their latest acclaimed album 💿 "EELS" is full of heartbreak, excitement, enchantment, and dancing – moving through it all at a high-octane pace.❤️‍🔥

With opening support from ⭐️NUG, the genre-bending new Portland band of Dorian Warneck, a former Charlestonian and the original bassist in SECRET GUEST. 🥃Bar opens 6pm. Music after 8:30pm. 21+🍺

🎟️ Tickets in comments!

05/17/2025

🪦🪩🔥 TONIGHT (Saturday, 5/17) at 9 pm, 💀DJ Kreepeeo is back with the Phonk Crypt! A Tales From the Crypt themed night of 💥drift phonk music (a dark strain of club-friendly music steeped in the sound of 💥Memphis horror rap, which spread through lo-fi mix tapes and was eventually popularized by acts like 🔥Triple Six Mafia and 🔥SpaceGhostPurrp). Plus special guest 💫DJ Stardust Plutonium! 🕰️9 pm. 21+🍸

05/15/2025

🌲🏆The nominations round is halfway over already 😱 for “Best of Humboldt” at the Journal! You can vote once a day at the link below, and we’d be ✨forever grateful✨ if you consider The Goat 🍺🐐 for some of the categories we’re eligible in!💖 https://boh.northcoastjournal.com/food

⭐️FOOD:

🌒Late-Night Food
🧀Macaroni & Cheese
🌮Tacos
🥔Tots

⭐️DRINK:

🥃Bar
👯‍♂️Bar to Meet People
💪🏽Bartenders
🍅Bloody Mary
🍹Cocktails
🕰️Happy Hour (all night Wednesdays!)
🍹Margarita (Dusk Till Dawn, Pan’s Lab)
🍸Martini (Dubai Bartini, regular martini)
🥂Mimosa (Marsh Fog)
☕️Tea Shop/Place to Buy Tea

⭐️ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT:

🎤Best Karaoke
🎸Live Music Venue

⭐️WEDDING:

🎉Bachelor Party Location
🎊Bachelorette Party Location

⭐️BONUS:

🤪Local Business Social Media Account
❤️‍🔥Place to Meet Singles

05/11/2025

04/21/2025

Thursday 5/1 at 7:30, before karaoke‼️🔥MSSV is a post-genre power trio of ⭐️MIKE BAGGETTA on guitars and vocals, ⭐️MIKE WATT (of Minutemen, fIREHOSE, The Stooges) on bass and vocals and ⭐️STEPHEN HODGES on drums (Tom Waits, David Lynch, Mavis Staples).

“Narcotic late-jazz minimalism, a fever vision anchored by bobbing bass.” - Dusted Magazine✍🏼

"mssv is a true underground supergroup. A ferocious blend of the dissonant, the howling, and the mysterious.” - Premier Guitar, Best Albums of 2023✍🏼

“A prime slab of improv-forged art punk - harkens back to the DIY days of yore while blasting their way into the future.” - Nashville Scene✍🏼

With local act 🔥SEAN’S SHADOWS. 🕰️Bar Opens at 6pm. Miniplex Doors 7:30pm. 🌞EARLY SHOW! ⏳🎟️Limited Entry, tix in comments! 21+🍺

03/20/2025

🎻🎸🪕This FRIDAY 3/21 at 7:30, a FREE bluegrass show❤️‍🔥‼️ In the magical world of Old Growth Redwoods🌲 and The Legendary Bigfoot 👣, 🔥 A Banjo Makes 3 was born. An upright bass, guitar, and banjo joined forces in the Humboldt music scene.

After a few open jams, ⭐️Doc Woglom was recruited on the mandolin, bringing a chop and lonesome vocals to make a true traditional bluegrass band. Guitarist ⭐️Charlie Sleep has an extensive background in jazz and music theory. After being introduced to ⭐️Tony Rice, bluegrass nestled into his heart. After attending a master class with the influential David Grier, flatpicking was in his hands. ⭐️Kevin Ralston of Cedar Rapids, Iowa makes for a true bluegrass band with his 3-finger Scruggs style picking. A proud member of the California Bluegrass Association, we have ⭐️Larisa Sleep on bass. Since 2019, A Banjo Makes 3 has been working to keep traditional bluegrass alive in Humboldt County.

🕰️Bar opens at 6 pm, music after 7:30. No
Cover, 21+🍺

02/02/2025

🪩🖤 Tonight (SATURDAY, 2/1), don’t miss this Black Excellence Party to kick off Liberation Month with ❗️DJ Sovern-T, standup comedy & more‼️ 🎟️Sliding scale donations, 21+🍸

📍The Miniplex is a live music venue inside Richards’ Goat Tavern, in Arcata, Humboldt County, CA.