Night Watch is a regular feature about bars and clubs by nightlife columnist Tara Nieuwesteeg.Georgie’s Alibi2266 Wilton Drive, Wilton ManorsCall 954-565-2526, or visit here.This week, join me as a take a trip into the most classic gay bars in Wilton Manors. These are two tried-and-true exemplary specimens of everything a…
Night Watch is a regular feature about bars and clubs by nightlife columnist Tara Nieuwesteeg.Big Bear Brewing Company1800 University Drive, Coral SpringsCall 954-341-5545, or visit here.The first thing you see upon entering Big Bear Brewing Co. is a giant picture of a black bear, just above the hostess station. Though…
Night Watch is a regular feature about bars and clubs by nightlife columnist Tara Nieuwesteeg. Taste Gastropub169 Northeast 2nd Ave., Delray BeachCall 561-274-444, or visit here.Taste Gastropub is snooty Delray Beach drinking and dining at its finest. Complete with immaculate counters, chef’s hats, and roaring fires, the kitchen is visible…
Gentle reader, I have downed many Guinnesses and feigned (terrible) Irish accents on many occasions. I’ve sat at dark-wood bars and gazed upon kitschy shamrockesque décor more times than I care to remember. But never in my traveling in our sunny counties have I come upon anything that struck…
Night Watch is a regular feature about bars and clubs by nightlife columnist Tara Nieuwesteeg. Green Room100 SW Third Ave., Fort Lauderdale.Call 954-727-0954 or visit here.I’d been wandering around America’s Backyard for a while. I was misdirected twice by bartenders and nearly knocked out by some unwieldy dancing college kids;…
Night Watch is a regular feature about bars and clubs by nightlife columnist Tara Nieuwesteeg. Duffy’s Sports Grill 1804 Cordova Road, Fort Lauderdale Call 954-713-6363, or visit here.Duffy’s, a mega-monster sports bar, is just the opposite of Tim Finnegan’s. It’s a corporate bar that has spread like wildfire across the…
I’d been wandering around America’s Backyard for a while. I was misdirected twice by bartenders and nearly knocked out by some unwieldy dancing college kids; I’d been tempted with alcohol and distracted by gorgeous women dancing on the bar. Yet I was determined to find the Green Room, a sexy…
Night Watch is a regular feature about bars and clubs by nightlife columnist Tara Nieuwesteeg. Tim Finnegan’s Irish Pub 725 S Federal Highway, Delray BeachCall 561-330-3153, or visit here.Gentle reader, I have downed many Guinnesses and feigned (terrible) Irish accents on many occasions. I’ve sat at dark-wood bars and gazed…
What do you do in Boca after all the frozen-yogurt shops have closed? And more specifically, where do you go if you just want to kick back, have a good time, and not be judged by the supermanicured elite? Well, I embarked upon a quest to find a couple of…
If there’s anything that I don’t like giving, it’s validation to other writers. This is because most of them are trendy hipsters who refer to their craft as “narrative nonfiction,” reference obscure journalism in normal conversation, and never invite me to their short story club meetings. The journalists who comprise…
What does it mean to be American, if not celebrating good music, cheap booze, and scantily clad ladies? This week, I journeyed north to celebrate the finer things in life. American Rock Bar & Grill: Walking into American Rock Bar & Grill means coming face to face with the legends…
Sometimes Wilton Manors bars get a bit of a reputation as packed, low-lit meat markets where dancing, shirtless men slap skin and sip bitch drinks. Well, I am here to tell you this is not the case. I’ve been drunk in the Manors more nights than I can count, and…
As we walked through the parking lot of Sullivan’s — past a Corvette with a vanity license plate (JAK POT) — I glimpsed a flash of electric-blond hair through a window. Then, an unbuttoned white shirt. That trademark loose red tie. I clamored through the door. The man on stage…
A bar is only as good as its bartenders. And while most can make a mean drink, an elite few can make your bar experience truly magical. Here’s a tour of three bars that house the coolest bartenders around. Café Maxx: “He can make gin fizzes!” my friend Fancy shouted…
Coheed and Cambria is known for its emotional, narrative-driven lyrics, little-girl-on-helium vocals, and rip-roaring ’80s-metal-style guitar solos. But beyond that, Coheed and Cambria has always been a musical anomaly: loved by a diverse crowd stretching from nerd to metalhead. The band has defied classification since its mid-’90s inception, and the…
English composer Frederick Delius once said, “Music is an outburst of the soul.” Most of my “outbursts” are alcohol-induced tantrums thrown in parking lots directly following forcible removal from booze-serving venues. Subsequent psychological breakdown occasionally ensues. In an effort to contain myself for one evening, to appreciate the gentle flow…
When the weather is shitty, your boss is pissed, your dog dies, and no one seems to understand, there’s only one thing to do: Stop being a pain. Life is pain, Princess. And the only way to survive it is by going to your happy place. My happy place exists…
On a melancholy Friday evening in May 2009, glasses were clinked and rum was swallowed as South Florida bid its most legendary bar a fond farewell. The Wreck Bar was drawing its gangplank, forgetting the debauchery of yesteryear, and preparing to fade away into the annals of Fort Lauderdale history…
There are some places where spring break never ends. People there will always be dancing and drinking till they publicly pass out. There will be fights and fondling and impromptu football, booze-swigging and beer buckets and pickup attempts on perfect strangers. And that is the beauty of Fort Lauderdale. Elbo…
I like my nightspots to feature partial nudity, enough bitch martinis to drown a sorority, thumpin’ bass, tit-grabbing, dirty grinding, liquor stiff enough to knock you off your barstool, and root beer floats, if possible. Fortunately, the Manor has enough clubs within the complex to satiate my every hedonistic whim…
Shooters Waterfront Cafe: “I thought you were really… different. That was the first thing about you that really caught my attention,” he was saying. His clean sweatshirt was neatly pressed; he was good-looking, dark-complexioned, and had, throughout their conversation, employed many comical cartoon-character voices in attempts to make her laugh…
Night Watch is a regular feature about bars and clubs by nightlife columnist Tara Nieuwesteeg. Here in sunny South Florida, we have the privilege of visiting the beach, with its white sands, surrounding palm trees, turquoise waters, and scantily-clad sunbathers every day of the year. But sometimes (especially with the…
