<![CDATA[Gawker: Bars]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png <![CDATA[Gawker: Bars]]> http://gawker.com/tag/bars http://gawker.com/tag/bars <![CDATA[Sausage Factory Worker Falls Into Meat Grinder]]> Michael Raper, a 26-year-old employee of meat processing company Bar S, died this week after falling into a meat grinder. Is there a way that this story could be more horrible? Yes, yes there is: More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5821879&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Six Things That Should Be Banned From Bars Forever]]> Bars exist for people to hang out with their friends, watch the game, unwind, and maybe play a game of pool or pick up a bit of strange for the evening. What bars are not for are all your silly games that are not only annoying, but dangerous. People are getting sued! More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5816322&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Beware of Barfly Banking Chaperones]]> The next time you're getting drunk in some bar — let's call it Boomer's — and a stranger suddenly offers to take you to the bank and help you open up a new account, maybe don't go with them. Yeah, just keep on drinking. More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5802013&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Shopping Drunk Is the New Shopping]]> First, Starbucks started serving up wine. Beer counters were installed in Duane Reades. Now, fellow New York City neighborhood gentrification staple Whole Foods is also installing bars inside its stores. What gives, nillas? More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5786414&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Brownstone Brooklynites Absolutely Terrified of Hip-Hop Music]]> As the huge (largest-ever in Brooklyn) and controversial Atlantic Yards development project, adjacent to some of Brooklyn's most bobo-filled enclaves, makes further progress, the level of hysteria rises and rises. The latest story has a group of Park Slope residents freaking out about a new bar opening in their neighborhood (in anticipation of arena crowds supposedly) that they fear will dare to play hip-hop music. More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5774507&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Volunteer Bouncer Uses Stun Gun Over Backwards Hat]]> What's worse than being a bouncer? Being a volunteer bouncer! Like 23-year-old Nathan Landis, who, while keeping a vigilant watch over his favorite watering hole, saw another man wearing his hat backwards and zapped him repeatedly with a stun gun. More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5713274&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[NYPD vs. Drunk Dutch Embassy Guys]]> When a group of Dutch Embassy guys allegedly tried to leave Arthur's Tavern in Greenwich Village without paying a $315 tab, NYPD officers intervened and a brawl ensued, resulting in a chipped tooth, a broken finger and bruises. And arrests! More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5702033&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Woman Arrested for Giving Breast Exams in Idaho Bars]]> Ladies: Ask for some ID before agreeing to a "breast exam" at a bar, okay? More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5693092&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Hot New Trend Alert: Guns in Bars]]> Are you familiar with the patriotic new trend of carrying your favorite gun to your local bar? Four states now have laws that explicitly allow people to carry loaded firearms in establishments that serve alcohol. Can you guess which ones? More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5654681&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[The Times and the Rockaway Beach Barfly]]> The New York Times found a Rockaway Beach man who personifies the annoying local barfly. More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5630572&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[How to Sell Jell-O Shots to Drunk Guys]]> You have probably been thinking to yourself lately: "What are the best practices for selling Jell-O shots to drunk young men at bars?" What a coincidence! Because The Wall Street Journal can tell you exactly that. More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5629267&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Man Breaks Into Closed-Down Bar, Reopens It, Gets Arrested]]> A 29-year-old Californian named Travis Kevie was recently arrested after he broke into a closed-down bar and reopened it using six-packs he bought at the store. The best part? The police found out after the local paper published a profile. More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5593336&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[John Edwards Is a Sad, Sad Barhopper]]> It's been a while since we've had a depressing look at John Edwards' depressing life. So thanks to the New Republic for this hot update, about how Edwards just wanders to bars every night, dancin' with grad students. More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5576745&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[NYC's War on Flaming Bars]]> Albert Trummer, co-owner of the Chinatown bar Apotheke, was arrested by fire marshals Sunday for setting liquor aflame on his bar. Flaming bars outlawed in New York? If only there were some humor to be found here. [NYT. Pic via] More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5562762&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Soho Noise Nazi Shutters Yet Another Bar]]> Restaurateurs of New York, beware: Do not open a late-night spot anywhere near Georgette Fleischer. The downtown scold, a Barnard professor, has just successfully had hotspot La Esquina closed down because of code violations. And this isn't her first victory. More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5536153&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[ • The Tavern on the Green auction kicked...]]> • The Tavern on the Green auction kicked off today and continues through Friday. Expect long lines if you plan on checking it out yourself. (But forget about meeting Regis Philbin if you go; he was already there today.) [Crain's] More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=508535&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Brooklyn Bar Endorses George Will Column]]> George Will wrote about the Atlantic Yards mess! Which we learned about in an email blast from beloved Prospect Heights dive Freddy's! All of this is weird, to us. Especially the "agreeing with George Will" part! More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5443864&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA['Closed for Renovations' Is the New 'Closed']]> Restaurants, bars, and clubs don't just shut down these days. They "close for renovations" for a few weeks or months. Then they announce that they are not, in fact, planning to reopen and they've been shuttered for good. Below: a few recent examples of what is sometimes the result of a series of unexpected events, but is often a face-saving public relations technique. More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=507596&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Is $9 Trillion a Lot of Debt?]]> The Way We Live Now: Gap-toothed. Too poor to get a falsie to complete our smile. Lawyers aren't making it! Kitschy yuppie bars on skid row are losing ambiance! Nine trillion dollars in debt is a lot. A lot. More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5346019&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Eating & Drinking: Monday Edition]]> • The hot dog vendor in front of the Metropolitan Museum has been given the boot. Why, you ask? Shockingly, it seems he's been having some trouble coming up with the $53,558 he has to pay the city in rent each month. [NYDN] More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=506856&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[The State of Clubland]]> Zagat's new nightlife survey has some details on how the city's bars and clubs have been faring amid the downturn. Roughly half of the 6,000 New Yorkers surveyed reported going out less often because of the economy, although 67 percent said the nightlife scene was "the same as it ever was," which is nice to hear, of course, but may come as news to people who remember the days when no one knew what HIV was, the idea of a smoking ban would have been laughable, and clubgoers had yet to figure out that the obsessive use of cocaine can kind of screw up your life. According to the survey, the Lower East Side is NYC's "hottest nightlife neighborhood," while the meatpacking district was named "most over-rated/or over-hyped." As for "the growing trend of bars with master mixologists," more than half of the people surveyed said it was "an excuse to charge more for drinks." You've been warned, Sasha Petraske. More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=506219&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Bars Too Cool For You]]> Did you know that any bar worth drinking in is now a speakeasy that would never tell the likes of you its secret location? If you didn't already know, then how do you ever expect to get into one? More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5279140&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Eating & Drinking: Thursday Edition]]> • The Beatrice Inn will probably reopen next week. [P6] More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=505280&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[The Filthiest Bars in NYC]]> New York City's dirtiest bars, according to one blogger: 1. Mars Bar in the East Village; 2. American Trash on the UES, 3. Billymark's West on 29th Street; 4. Rawhide in Chelsea; 5. Welcome to the Johnson's. The full top 10 list is here. [Meet Live Now via EVG] More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=502956&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Reality Stars To Open Bar, New York To Weep]]> Because Angels & Kings didn't quite drive the knife of inanity far enough into New York City's weakening heart, a new celebrity-backed bar is opening in Manhattan. I'm sorry, did I say celebrity? I meant Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt, the tumbleweeds from MTV's high-gloss people-spoof The Hills. Don't worry, the planned "upscale sports lounge" isn't in your precious East Village like Pete Wentz's sadness factory. More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5043479&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Much Like the Irish At Old Timey Factories, Brunettes Need Not Apply at Hudson Hotel Bar]]> Be warned, ladies. If you want in on the once-great-now-sorta-fading Hudson Hotel bar scene, you better dye your damn hairs did. An irate (hopefully drunk) tipster wrote us last night (well, this morning) about a ridiculous injustice—worthy of the ACLU and inspirational films and the slow mourn of Barber's "Adagio for Strings"—that befell her at the midtown inn. She was denied entrance to the bar, threatened, and shamed. All because her hair was not flaxen. More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5040883&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Daddy, Do I Really Have to Wait in Line?]]> Last week I did something I have not done in a long time: wait in line to get into a bar. (Hold the rotten tomatoes, that's the only perk this job has.) Actually, scratch that. I have NEVER waited in line to get into a bar. Clubs? Sure. But bars? Um, no. But this wasn't just any bar. This was Father's Office, the brand spanking new Culver City outpost of the Santa Monica hotspot. And as if to prove just how hot it was, there was not only a line, but also a velvet rope (!!!) and a doorman. More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5027949&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Ad People: Drunks]]> The ad industry is home to even more barely-functioning alcoholics than related fields like media or pest control. While the average reporter at least waits until his last story is filed to hit the bar, ad agencies are installing bars right there in-house, so shaky, sweating employees can get some sips of their sweet, sweet medicine to help them focus on the task of thinking up jingles. Ha, no really it's all a very glamorous, Mad Men type of swinging party thing. At least that's what they want you to think. More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5027214&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Drunken Writers Celebrate Drunken Writer Den]]> Lushy journalists turned out in force for Jack Bryan's documentary on the storied, now-shuttered hole of a watering hole Siberia when the flick premiered last night at Soho House. Gawker founding editor Elizabeth Spiers, former Page Sixer Chris Wilson, The New York Observer's George Gurley, publicist / bigtime author Sloane Crosley and a host of other party-loving media types showed up to watch themselves and their colleagues ramble nostalgically about the place that ruined so many young livers. Sadly, one member of that crowd was home with a mystery illness. "Former 'Page Six' reporter Ian Spiegelman opens the film: 'I don't even know how you could make a documentary about Siberia,' he says. 'I don't know how people have any memories of what happened there.'" More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5011482&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Michael Musto: I Am Totally Not a Drunk!]]> So HX magazine has a column called "Homo Dish" and in it is this item about Village Voice gossip Michael Musto: "We hit up Pieces Thursday night, where we ran into gal pals Michael Musto and Chuck Attix, who we'd just kiki-ed with at 'cuda the night before. They told us they'd been trying to beat their personal record of nine bars in one night, and Pieces had put them over the top with 10. Congrats, you crazy drunks! Chuck later slurred that their real dream was to hit 10, and that they were determined to do so this summer. Don't judge. At least they have a hobby." But Musto begs to differ! More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5007723&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Express Yourself With A 'Seat Saver']]> When you're in a bar, and you need to get up from your seat for a moment, have you ever felt a desire for a paper square—preferably printed with a cheeky message—that you could place on your chair as a "seat saver" until you return? Us neither. But someone in Philadelphia apparently thought that such a thing would be useful innovation. As well as a perfect medium for advertising messages! So they made the thingamajigs, which are double-sided with two contrasting messages that you can change based on (guessing here) how drunk you are. What branding initiative wouldn't be enhanced by its inclusion on a product meant to primarily sit underneath people's asses? Two more pictures of these unreasonable things [via Adrants] below. More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=386661&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[2 A.M.? But We Haven't Even Made Out Yet!]]> Talk about a cock-block. Community boards are making it so hard for new Manhattan bars to get a liquor license that allows them to serve liquid happy until 4 a.m., because they hate the things that make New York better than everywhere else. Also something about noise pollution or whatever. But what about not-getting-any pollution? These new bars will have to close up at 2 a.m. and everyone knows that true love is only found in the hours between 2 and 4 a.m. And here we thought the city was trying to get us to use all those free condoms. [NYSun] More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=380926&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Pretty Drunk Girls]]> An online poll declares that Rose Bar, at the Gramercy Park Hotel, has the most attractive female clientele of any bar in New York City. The runner-up bar, Beatrice Inn, immediately burst into tears and became anorexic. [DBTH] More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=380903&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Hey, Want To Help Me With This Fun Project I'm Doing?]]> Even with the demise of print journalism and the so-called end of journalist watering holes, writers still drink quite a bit. Gridskipper has done pieces on blogger bars, and we've made references the New York Observer's predilection for Old Town Bar before, but I'm going for a full list of drinking places, so you, the media adoring public, can do a little casual stalking. A cursory Google search leads me to believe this hasn't been done before, but I could be wrong. Feel free to object to my ignorance in the comments. But after that, let me know where your staff drinks. The office is not an acceptable answer. Every writer drinks in the office. More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=369769&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Journalist Bars Suffer As Profession Gets Boring]]> Newspapers aren't what they used to be, what with their declining circulations and evolving missions, and old-school, hard-drinking writers and editors like the Post's Steve Dunleavy are retiring and dying of liver failure in droves. The exciting new "journalists" of the internet like to talk about how much they drink and sometimes actually do booze it up with sources and each other, but really their pageview quotas and intense competition usually keep them from becoming true barstool jockeys. The pansy new era of journalism has resulted in a wave of sad bar closures, which MarketWatch ambitiously documents in five cities and two continents in the video after the jump. More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5003959&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Poll: Do You Srsly Hate Park Slope? Would You Live There?]]> All writer Lynn Harris did was ask people on the Brooklynian messageboard why people hate Park Slope, and all that it represents, so much. (She's working on an article for New York.) The brownstone neighborhood used to be cheaper and down-to-earth, with lots of lesbian couples and artistes, but these days it's known for armies of anal-retentive richie moms with their passive-aggressive strollering. The article will "focus not just on WHAT people say they hate about Park Slope, but also WHY the hate seems to have become a meme of its own. Why PS and not other gentrified, Bugaboozled parts of Manhattan? Why has Park Slope become shorthand for all that is evil and twee?" Answer our poll! More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=359390&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Sexy Lounge Threatens Brooklyn With 'Details' Crowd]]> Details Magazine executive editor Greg Williams was caught by a Times reporter sipping Snow Mosquitos, twee blueberry/ mint/ vodka drinks, at a terrifying den of yuppiedom called The Hideout in the already teetering hood of Fort Greene, Brooklyn . Look how precious: More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=351999&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[TONY Asks: Where Have All The Cougars Gone?]]> "Cougars." Ladies "of a certain age" cruising for young men. Often used on obnoxious television comedies, by fratty assholes, and on the internets. And Time Out NY would like to know where, exactly, to find them! More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=340859&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Wondrous And Shitty Siberia To Reopen, Really]]> Siberia, the Hell's Kitchen bar that was a home away from home for legions of disgruntled alcoholic journalists, closed in May. Its owner, Tracy Westmoreland, has been promising ever since that the bar will reopen. Now he's saying it louder!
[H]e thinks the club will remain in the same dank, subterranean space on 40th Street and Ninth Ave., but whatever happens, it will definitely be in Hell's Kitchen. "We're not straying from our roots. Siberia's always been in Hell's Kitchen and it works. There have been some shit holes in Hell's Kitchen, and that's basically what we're looking for.
Does this rebirth send hopeful smoke signals to former frequent visitor Jayson Blair that he too can be reborn as a shit hole? More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=329258&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[ Last we heard, recently-busted sort-of underground...]]> Last we heard, recently-busted sort-of underground gay party super-hangout Mr. Black wouldn't be back until January. Now they're saying it's coming at the end of November! With like a 500-person occupancy! And a night devoted to Baltimore Club, to which we say, hell yes. It will be somewhere—possibly in the Financial District? [Next] More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=317707&view=rss&microfeed=true