Barfly Sunday at San Rafael Pacific’s ballgame Aug 17!
Join Jeff Burkhart, celebrity mixologist, Barfly columnist and author of “Twenty Years Behind Bars: the spirited adventures of a real bartender” at the ball park for specialty drinks and…
Madness is never a solo condition
Jean-Paul Sartre spent his life arguing that there is no madness in individuals and that it only occurs within groups. Dealing with both on a regular…
The challenge of making the customer right
The waiter came quickly over to the bar with a combined look of stress and perplexity upon his face. “That guy over there,” he said pointing…
When stereotypes collide
“Got any light beer?” the man in a trucker’s snap back hat asked. “Light in color or light in calories?” “You know, light,” he said, offering…
It’s more about mixing people than drinks
“When are you going to get a real job?” my relative asked recently.
Youth gone…and now wild
It could have been any Wednesday night, but it wasn’t. Because it’s not every Wednesday night that a bachelor party rolls through. Maybe every third Wednesday,…
Being called ‘doctor’ doesn’t mean you are
It was another of those lazy Sunday afternoons, the kind that make working the night shift that much harder. A day of leisure followed by a…
Explaining the unexplainable
Our relationship didn’t start exactly auspiciously. If memory serves, it went a little like this: “May I get some bread?” I asked the young kid standing…
When ‘most people’ really means ‘me’
HE ENTERED THE coffee shop through the wrong door, embodying “against the grain.” Most people would have realized that everyone else was going the other direction.…