A College Republican group at the University of Washington has threatened to sue a local bar after the bar in question asked the group not to host its “Beers 4 Brett” party there. Local station KIRO7 reports that, after seeing the group’s Facebook event designed to celebrate the Senate confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh…
I have a fridge full of beer at home, and yet I’ll still find myself out on a Friday night at my favorite bar in town. Why? Bars offer much more than just what’s in your glass: The best are refuges where we find a friendly face, a listening ear, and sometimes a sympathetic pat on the back. I’m not going to go all …
You never know what can happen when two people meet in a bar. Friendship. Love. Marriage. And perhaps, the gift of a kidney.
A Kansas City bartender reported that Michael Dargy Jr. recently came into the Buzzard Beach bar and ordered a drink of his own creation. Dargy called it the “Trayvon Martini,” involving watermelon juice and a single shot because “it only takes one shot to put him down.” According to The Root, the staff of the bar…
Meet 99-year-old Clarise Kramer Cadarette Grzenkowicz of Alpena, Michigan. A bartender at Maplewood Tavern, she’s been slinging drinks there since she was 20 years old, making her the Guinness World Record holder in terms of years employed bartending. The bar sounds lovely, full of banjos and guitars and regular…
We missed this tactic when we compiled our list of the best ways to get out of a less-than-ideal date, but fortunately The Independent has the lowdown on “the secret code word that tells bar staff you want to escape a bad date.” That code word is actually two words: “angel shot.” According to not only The Independent …
Late Friday night/early Saturday morning, an off-duty FBI agent was letting off some steam at Mile High Spirits Distillery in downtown Denver. After his enthusiastic dancing resulted in a back-flip, his gun fell out of the back of his waistband. When he picked it up, the gun went off, firing into the crowd, and…
Part of the year, disgusting human/white supremacist Richard Spencer lives in Whitefish, Montana. It’s a blight on the otherwise charming town of about 7,000 residents which is also known for its ski resort. Spencer must have been back in town last week, because a local bar owner posted a photo of a receipt showing…
Manhattan judge Justice David Cohen has ruled that bar owners can go ahead and feel free to kick Trump supporters the hell out of their watering holes. The reason: no, liking Trump is not a religion, which some MAGA-hat-wearing guy’s lawyer tried to argue.
I’m not Irish, so maybe that’s why I had no idea Ireland’s vaunted pubs were legally prohibited from opening on Good Friday. The Roman Catholic Church’s influence holds sway there and has kept this law on the books since 1927—until today.
As far as making a point goes, this social experiment went pretty damn far. Dan Margulis, who works in advertising and lives in a northern suburb of Detroit, wanted to call attention to the discrimination that Irish immigrants to the U.S. once faced, drawing parallels to the current immigration debate. His tactic was…
I’ve long suspected that I am an old person inside, but news of Concourse—Philadelphia’s coming-soon nightclub/“dive bar”/ball pit—confirmed it. My first thoughts were of germs and potential safety hazards, whereas I guess a younger person would just think this was the bee’s knees.
