Back in 2008 …
More Year-End Observations1.) This past year witnessed the first indications of SoDo's transition from Cowtown to ... Northern Mexico? Sí, cabrón. Eavesdropping on the...
Big Balls
Karaoke. The word itself looks like it might be the name of some frighteningly conceived, poorly designed, rubber-suited star of a Japanese monster movie....
Wasted Away Again
By the time we reached the lake, the rain had begun to fall. My wife and I have been living in Fort Worth for...
Steve Stories: Vol. IX
At a certain age, the prospect of going to a themed house party can elicit the same emotions as a trip to the dry...
Home Run
There are a million - and by "a million," I mean, two billion - sports bars in the world, and probably half of them...
Blue Notes
I've always had a fantasy about opening a punk-rock tiki bar. Think of it: a dark room with lots of bamboo crap, busted surfboards,...
Nothing to See, Officer, Move Along
'Round midnight last Saturday, after hitting the usual downtown stops and doing some gaming - craps, poker, dreidel (a.k.a. kosher craps), gin-rummy - I...
Rapture
You know how, when you hear a great song from your misspent youth, it gets you remembering all manner of things you used to...
Taxing Weekend Ends Well
Someone please 'splain "tax-free weekend" to me. The list of what's "eligible" for tax exemption and what isn't seems so ... random. Spendy Vans...
Beer Goggle
Before every Gallery Night is Arts Goggle, a block party on the South Side, where I happened to find myself driving through last Friday...
