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,...
Main Stream
The food/drink options last weekend at the 2009 Main St. Arts Festival were both spend-y and, like most of the art, short on locally...
Second-Hand News
There's nothing worse than a dry drunk, they say, except for a reformed smoker. I quit smoking back in May, toward the end of...
West-Ex Redux?
West Exchange, a cluster of bars in one central location in the Stockyards, recently closed down after being open for barely three months. Sounds...
Sinister Beauty
So I kept hearing about how great Winslow's Wine Café is from a friend who lives nearby and often walks to the place for...
Mashups
Like polyphonic ringtones, mashups are the real underground music. Any DJ who's able to lay, say, Christina Aguilera's vocals over a Scorpions song and...
Bar Convo Tips
I'm tired of people telling me "Never talk religion or politics at a bar." Well, why the hell not? Especially now that the most...
The Plug
Big thumbs-up to Mark Irving, famous raconteur and former bartender-in-chief (at least according to me) at the recently shuttered Shamrock Pub (now Poag Mahone's)....
Scary
On Friday, the newest addition to non-countrified Stockyards nightlife will belatedly celebrate its grand opening. Fubar ("Fun Unique Bar And Restaurant," not what you...
Communication Breakdown
Look around a lot of bars these days, and you'll find more people talking by text than actually interacting verbally. Texting certainly has advantages:...
