Barfly Book Signing at Phil Lesh’s Terrapin Crossroads
Etiquette for the civilized drinker, and some other thoughts… Tuesday November 19 7 PM Free Terrapin Crossroads San Rafael 100 Yacht Club Drive The Marin IJ’s…
Getting hip to barrel aged cocktails
“Have you checked out [insert hipster bar name here]?” asked an old friend stopping by for a late night drink. “I have not,” I said, noting…
Freedom to decide, quickly
German psychologist Erich Fromm argued that there were essentially two types of freedom; the freedom from making decisions; and the freedom to make decisions. A thought…
The cycle of change makes the old new again
SHE CAME AT me directly out of the late afternoon sun. With the sun higher in the heavens our little below world gets illuminated in very…
A quiet night among frenemies
IT WAS AS ordinary as any ordinary night in the bar business could be. Shakespeare might have made much ado about nothing in his famous “A…
No sour cherries around here
HOSPITABLE IS the word that defines the bar business. Hospitality industry, we have all heard it. The word hospitable itself is easy enough to define: Friendly…
Taste is simply a matter of taste
I GLANCED UP from my conversation, subtly, and then made my excuses before heading down the bar. It wasn’t that I had one thing in particular…
King Ludwig’s final Oktoberfest reported by Friedrich Engels
The celebration and later commemorations of Ludwig I’s 1810 wedding (then as Crown Prince) are now known as the beer festival named Oktoberfest (this year running from Sept. 21 to…
Vote for Barfly’s Kali Ma Bloody Mary in national contest!
Vote for the Kali Ma Vindaloo Bloody Mary in Absolut vodka contest! Kali Ma Vindaloo Bloody Mary by Jeff
New story by Barfly in Steppin Out magazine #1 Entertainment magazine in NY and NJ!
All I asked for was an old fashioned. The tattooed hipster bartender then took several minutes to make a bizarre concoction utilizing a handful of fruit,…