Up Next, The Bearded Lady!
Last summer, after being informed by some self-important neighborhood denizen that The Boiled Owl, where I tend bar, needed to serve food, I griped...
V.I.Poltergeist
OK, here’s a question: Have you ever seen a ghost at a bar? Because I’ve drunk at lots of the allegedly haunted bars in...
The Winged Serpent
Maybe I’m getting old. I forget the name of the place, but according to Yelp, the bar I should have gone to was a...
Blarney Blowouts
Last year, as South By Southwest drew to a close, I had this moment when I almost went against my innate urge to avoid...
Once More to the Nerdcore Show
I think there comes a point when, if you’ve consistently been under the influence of various intoxicants for awhile, you have to stop the...
Front Burner Taking Over Gold Standard
And we were just starting to become good friends.
The impending demise of The Gold Standard might come much sooner than anticipated.
Tomorrow (Friday), said Gold...
Spec’s: 2 Cheap
I remember, with surprising clarity, my first trip to a liquor store. I’d just started the fall semester of my sophomore year in college,...
Terminal Daze
I won’t get into why I missed my flight to Los Angeles on Saturday, but getting put on the standby list for the next...
Super Fat Hearts
February is already a short month, but it seems even shorter given that it’s crammed with promotional holidays. In the bar business, the Big...
Vee Fame Game
As the limo rolling down 5th Street pulled over to the curb and stopped, I wondered if it would disgorge somebody famous. Or at...
