The Global Barfly’s Companion
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The Global Barfly’s Companion #16: The White Horse Tavern (Newport, RI)
The Global Barfly’s Companion #16 by Nancy Caronia (Photos by Nancy Caronia) Bar: The White Horse Tavern Location: 26 Marlborough Street, Newport, RI 401-849-3600 I often refer to Rhode Island as the postage stamp sized state. No matter where you are located, it takes about an hour to get from one side of the state Continue reading
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The Global Barfly’s Companion #15: Half-Step
The Global Barfly’s Companion #15 by Scott Gilman Bar: Half-Step Location: 75 1/2 Rainey St Austin, TX 78701 What to make of Rainey Street, just barely north of the river and walking steps west of I-35, tucked away in its own corner in downtown Austin? The transformation of a sleepy block with small, wooden, occasionally dilapidated houses into Continue reading
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The Global Barfly’s Companion #14: Independent Bar
The Global Barfly’s Companion #14 by Brett Pribble Bar: Independent Bar Location: 70 N Orange Ave, Orlando, FL 32801 The Independent Bar, more commonly know as I-Bar, is one of the few remaining old school watering holes of downtown culture. Most venues that the less-mainstream-minded locals frequented closed over a decade ago: Kit Kat Club, Continue reading
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The Global Barfly’s Companion #13: Eden Bar
The Global Barfly’s Companion #13 by Susan Lilley (Photos by Phil Deaver) Bar: Eden Bar Location: 1300 S Orlando Avenue, Maitland, FL 32751 It’s five o’clock somewhere, but it seems to be forever five-ish at the lush and lovely Eden Bar, where the magical glow of twilight is filtered for hours through the moss-draped oaks that shelter Continue reading
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The Global Barfly’s Companion #12: The Knockback
The Global Barfly’s Companion #12 by Scott Gilman Bar: The Knockback Location: 2315 NE Alberta Street. Portland, OR 97211 On vacation in Portland, Ore., I am taken by my companion to a bar called The Knockback. I’d like to tell you what part of town we’re in, but it’s my first trip to the Northwest Continue reading
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The Global Barfly’s Companion #11: The Imperial
The Global Barfly’s Companion #11 by Caitlin Doyle Bar: The Imperial at Washburn Imports in Sanford Location: 116 1st St., Sanford, FL 32771 Book To Bring With You: Henny Youngman’s Bar Bets, Bar Jokes, Bar Tricks. While attending a literary event at the Imperial in Sanford, it’s hard not to think of Henny Youngman’s famous Continue reading
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The Global Barfly’s Companion #10: Verne Club
The Global Barfly’s Companion #10 by Daniel Yeom Bar: Verne Club Location: Av. Medrano 1475, Buenos Aires, Argentina I blame Jules Verne for kindling my wanderlust. Ever since I read Around the World in Eighty Days as a pre-adolescent youngster in South Korea’s suburbia, I started to dream about exploring the world one day. For Continue reading
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The Global Barfly’s Companion #9: 61 Local
The Global Barfly’s Companion #9 by Kristin Maffei Bar: 61 Local Location: 61 Bergen Street, Brooklyn, NY Book to Bring: Stop Wanting by Lizzie Harris. It’s a gutting read, and also her book launch in March 2014 was the first time your humble correspondent every visited the establishment. Why Writers Love It: This Boerum Hill Continue reading
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The Global Barfly’s Companion #8: Trader Sam’s Grog Grotto
The Global Barfly’s Companion #8 by John King Bar: Trader Sam’s Grog Grotto (and Tiki Terrace) Location: The Polynesian Village Resort at Walt Disney World Walt Disney World can be an absolute phantasmagoria of whimsy and adventure, but it can also be a great vomitus of humid immolation claustrophobically mashed by psychotic tantrums and impaling selfie-sticks and Continue reading
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The Global Barfly’s Companion #7: The Cloak Room
The Global Barfly’s Companion #7 by Scott Gilman Bar: The Cloak Room Location: 1300 Colorado St, Austin, TX 78701 As I am walking north on Colorado on a humid but comfortable night, tall, expansive trees provide visual cover from what really shades The Cloak Room bar just past 13th Street: the Texas State Capitol. There is a Continue reading
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