Barfly wins first place in CNPA journalism awards contest!
My Barfly column has beat out all the other columns in California for the top slot in the California Newspaper Publishers Association (CNPA) contest! just saying……
Barfly Podcast: Season 3: Episode 11
Guest: Chef Heidi Krahling
Never the Twain shall you meet
“All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn,” once wrote literary giant Ernest Hemingway. But where did Mark Twain come…
San Anselmo restratueur reflects on Covid, cocktails
In the restaurant business there are chefs, and then there are Chefs. The word literally means “chief” in French, so the idea that there are multiple…
What goes around comes around, sometimes
I had already put my two weeks’ notice in, in fact I had given them a month’s. But by the time they hired him I only…
It’s not you, it’s me – except when it’s you
I walked up to the couple just in time to hear her say: “It’s not you, it’s me…” I tried to turn and head in a…
Sammy Hagar returns to his agave roots, and brings Guy Fieri along for the ride
“Over my career I’ve teamed up with a lot of high-profile people,” says veteran Marin rocker Sammy Hagar. “It’s kind of like what you do with…
Pandemic has revealed that “We the people” has now become “I the person”
She sneezed. And then she sneezed again. Both sneezes were loud, long, and productive, as the medical practitioners say. She didn’t sneeze into her arm, like…
Barfly Podcast Season Three Episode Ten
We welcome sportscaster/columnist/humorist Barry Tompkins to talk mixology vs bartending, old San Francisco, new San Francisco, and the bar scenes of both. https://www.buzzsprout.com/169913/9093874-season-three-barry-tompkins.mp3?download=true
First impressions don’t always matter, but sometimes they do
“How are you?” I asked the man in the rumpled brown leather jacket, who had just sat down. It’s not an idle question, it’s a question…