University Pub’s Facelift
On my maiden voyage to the University Pub in 2004, we were both fresher-faced. I was a 27-year-old newly minted divorcée with a stressful...
Ampersand: Party in the Back
In early February, I whiled away a sunny afternoon quaffing liquor-infused coffee drinks on the patio of Ampersand, a coffee shop at the edge...
Hello?! McFly’s Pub!
Along a quiet stretch of road among a mixture of commercial structures and a middle-class neighborhood near the Naval air station is where you’ll...
Tin Panther Reincarnation
I don’t know if reincarnation is real for living creatures, but for bars, it’s a phenomenon that happens all the damn time. The Wreck...
Happy Trails, Backstage Club
We may have just witnessed the end of a glorious, notorious era in our humble town’s history. Though the head honchos haven’t announced anything...
South Beach on 7th
A few words come to mind when you evoke the West 7th area: party, wild, young, and several others less flattering ones. One word...
Amber Room: Carpe Noctem
The opening quote contrived for this article is a toast dedicated to alcohol — “To bourbon whiskey, amber liquid, sweet and dear, not as...
Bar9Eleven: Honor or Disgrace?
In the interest of timeliness and the edicts of calendars, I should probably hold off writing a column related to a bar named after...
Nickel City Shines
When relocating to new real estate, we frequently seek sources to remind us of something former and familiar. Sometimes we discover that acquaintance au...
Remembering Billy Miner’s
The closing of Billy Miner’s Saloon last Thursday was the end of an era, one that stretched back 27 years, to the birth of...
