A Girl's Guide to Attending a Gay Bar "If you take away one thing from this article, let it be this: keep your fucking bachelorette party out of our bars. If you treat my safe space like your zoo, I will seduce your fiance while you're out selecting stationary." See also:
Queers Read This (1990), "Rules of Conduct for Straight People".
posted by sevenyearlurk
on Nov 22, 2011 -
266 comments
Some news about the return of Chumley's. Chumley's in New York's West Village has been closed since 2007, when a
chimney collapse shut it down "temporarily." The building began life around 1830 as a blacksmith's shop, and during the Civil War
may have been used to shelter runaway slaves. In the 1920s, Leland "Lee" Chumley, a
"Soldier, Artist, Writer and Covered Wagon Driver," [paid NYT archive link] established it as a speakeasy, with two unmarked entrances – one on Barrow Street, and one at
86 Bedford Street [Google map].
[more inside]
posted by precipice
on Aug 24, 2011 -
8 comments
MappyHour is a Google Maps and happy-hour mashup. It includes mostly US cities, with decent Australian representation ... plus Paris, France and Windsor, Ontario.
Sorry, direct city links don't seem to work.
posted by mrgrimm
on Oct 3, 2006 -
21 comments
Dive bars. Every town must have one. This is an interesting story about the bar that I imbibe at most often. I'm sure there are more like this. Please share.
posted by TurkishGolds
on Apr 12, 2003 -
42 comments
Bar Signs. Modern Drunkard has posted a handy guide for the alcoholic in us all, a set of gestures to communicate your needs when it's too loud to hear, or just because, as the site says, "when words come out, whiskey can't get in."
posted by jonson
on Dec 16, 2002 -
21 comments
91-year-old bouncer The triumph of guilt over brawn: OSLO, Norway (AP) - "What the new bouncer at a Norwegian pub lacks in brawn, she more than makes up in experience: She's a 91-year-old great-grandmother. "
posted by christina
on Jun 12, 2001 -
4 comments
