With no Thanksgiving in Ireland, Christmas celebrations are just around the corner. It’s bartender Keith Lynch’s favorite time of year.
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Guy I met in the pub last night
Engle frequents local pubs in search of lively conversation and a good time. He writes a recurring column about the people he meets entitled “Guy I met in the pub last night.” This week, he met two Irishmen named Tom Murphy and Paddy Daly.
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Safer to train local bars on recognizing sexual assault
Bystander intervention could make its way downtown, thanks to Safer’s Safe Bars program, which would be used to train bar managers, bartenders and bouncers.
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Creeky Tiki expands onto Higuera
San Luis Obispo has its bars and its restaurants. However, the new kid on the block — Creeky Tiki — has lit up Higuera Street since its expansion onto the main road on Nov. 22.
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Bars open doors at 6 a.m. for graduates. Tequila anyone?
Saturday marks the send off for another graduating Cal Poly class. As students toss their caps in the air, some are relieved about finishing five years worth of work, some thinking about the future, and some are, well, too drunk to care. Graduation being one of the two days out of the year that bars […]
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Speakeasy tradition lives on at newly opened Creekside Brewery
In the 1920s prohibition reigned and lovers of the suds had to go underground to enjoy a good brew and the speakeasy provided a haven for friends to meet, enjoy laughs and escape for a few hours from the drudgery of day to day life.
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Left behind, but left with good advice
Paul Bittick As graduation for many super-seniors is approaching, some of us less fortunate juniors are stuck on this wonderful campus for another year of educational bliss. Many of my friends will be graduating in a week and leaving me to fend for myself during times of senioritis (I hear it is a serious situation), […]
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Welcome to 'Club Alum'
Mariecar Mendoza It is 1:01 a.m. and “Late Night with Conan O’Brien” is blaring from my television. But it’s not Conan’s jokes that are keeping me awake, nor is it the screen’s glow or my computer’s hum. It’s this darn thing: The goodbye. The adieu. The farewell. I knew it was near; shoot, I cursed […]
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Walking the plank of graduation
Katie Hofstetter As a graduating senior, there is one question that I hate above all else. It’s the dreaded, “What are your plans for next year?” Each time I hear it, I have to pause for a minute, allowing the “Dodgeball”-style bit of throw-up that has entered my throat to subside, and forcing back the […]
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I'm a graduate, not a grandma
Paul Bittick I feel old. Some days I look in the mirror and I see a woman I do not know and wonder where the 16-year-old me is. Oh my God, I am turning into my mother. I blame the sweater sets I wear to meet the dress code of my internship and to look […]
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Memorial Day movies: big guns, big bucks
Amy Asman “Oooh, man didya zeee da mooviee about tat guuyy witda boat ontop of that giiiiant wave?! That wasss AWWWSOME?” This previous blurb of drunk-speak is actually an excessively intoxicated friend of mine asking whether or not I had seen the movie “Poseidon.” Or what I like to call: “Poseidon: The Ultimate Lame-o Memorial […]