Gallery Night Done Right
Ah, Fall Gallery Night, an evening dedicated to free booze and food — if you can call cheese cubes and tiny, quartered sandwiches food...
Party On
Anyone who's ever been to a film festival, even SXSW, knows that the parties can be as much fun as the screenings. Wait. Who...
Eulogy
As Cinderella's Tom Keifer once said, you don't know what you've got till it's gone. Looking back over the recent months, I can say...
At Your Service
It's reader-service week here at Chow, Baby headquarters - not in the traditional journalistic "we're here to serve the reader" use of the phrase,...
Free Beer! And Boxed Wine! And Assorted Cheese Cubes!
Hundreds if not thousands of people, hopping gaily or slipping and sliding tipsily from local gallery to gallery and local museum to museum, noshing...
Seeing Purple … and Red
I don't mean to come off like some angry young man, but enough's enough. At my place of employment, The Moon Bar by Texas...
Fresh-Air Booze Cabal
For most of us scenesters above a certain age, drinking isn't what it used to be. Most of us do it because we have...
Seeing Purple … and Red
I don't mean to come off like some angry young man, but enough's enough. At my place of employment, The Moon Bar by Texas...
Nothing to See, Officer, Move Along
'Round midnight last Saturday, after hitting the usual downtown stops and doing some gaming - craps, poker, dreidel (a.k.a. kosher craps), gin-rummy - I...
Bar 9 v. Cops … v. Another Previous Owner
Last week's Metropolis story ("Waiting for Drunks") included an account by a former owner of Bar 9 of his dealings with the fire marshal...
