Barfly wins “best column” in California!
Barfly wins 1st place in California Journalism contest (mailchi.mp)
Barfly wins 1st place in California Journalism contest (mailchi.mp)
This Sunday is Easter, and this week is Passover (April 1 through 9). They don’t always line up, but when they do, it means brunch season…
It was my first day as a bartender. In my mind, I had arrived. I was the king of my domain. There’s a joke: “What’s the…
It was a slow night, but not dreadfully so. In the bar business, you have your waves, and then you have your eddies. It’s like the…
There’s a saying, “As goes California, so goes the nation.” And that was certainly the case with the decriminalization of cannabis. California was the first state…
That little red light was mocking me. Blink, blink. Blink, blink. It took me about two weeks to actually first notice it, but once I noticed…
Sometimes I feel like the new sheriff in town — not like Gene Hackman’s aggressive character in “Unforgiven,” but more like Gary Cooper in “High Noon.”…
Can the consumption of one mollusk actually help another? Hog Island Oyster Co. and McPrice Myers Wines seem to think so. They have banded together to release Sea Legacy, a…
Humorist Will Rogers once said, “I never met a man I didn’t like.” What’s noticeably absent from that sentiment is how he felt about them 30…
They had brought in a large-screen TV just for the occasion, or more correctly, the future occasion — the Super Bowl. Losing two tables in the…
It wasn’t busy yet, but I believe that was exactly the point. I recognized her immediately, and I recognized what she was going to do too.…