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...
Funkytown? Hardly
On the surface, who cares whether a bar is part of a chain or not? As far as Last Call's concerned, an able-bodied person...
Traveling to The Moon Tower
The other night, I went to this old bar on the West Side that’s been recently revived as The Moon Tower. Prior to the...
Booze & Bites at B&B Butchers
Friends are invariably asking me for bar and restaurant recommendations by throwing out random sets of facts about a total stranger. The routine generally...
Division Intervention
You might say I’ve been feeling the funk a little, and not the kind that comes out of Parliament’s Mothership. More specifically, it’s a...
He Shoots, He … Scores?
I can pinpoint the exact moment when, as an unreasonably angsty teenager, I turned my back on pro sports. It was 1994. Deion “Prime...
Three, Two, One … Happy New Year!
Event tickets are a fun gift in general, but scoring a pair for New Year’s Eve (Wed, Dec 31) can help set the tone for...
Tow the Line at Arts Goggle
I don’t know the attendance or sales metrics, but from my observations (a series increasingly beery ambles between The Boiled Owl, The Chat Room...
Off-Season Shopping, Summer-Style
Like doing Christmas shopping in July - don't laugh; some people are that anal - shopping around now for good deals on, of all...
Back in 2008 …
The big news in Barland this past year was the ado about - for lack of a better nickname - Carroll Street Corner, a...
