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.
