Bar Exam

Lead Photo Sexy servers and soup

C. Moon Reed | Wed, Nov 11, 2009 (5:16 p.m.)

“The waitress isn’t wearing any pants,” my friend whispered to me in hushed tones.

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Lead Photo Drinking with mermaids

C. Moon Reed | Wed, Oct 28, 2009 (2:35 p.m.)

Mermaid's Lounge at the Silverton is neither hip nor tacky, but there are mermaids. And sometimes that's enough.

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Lead Photo A watery grave (and cheap drinks, too)

C. Moon Reed | Tue, Oct 13, 2009 (6:34 p.m.)

Every time I’ve gone to Davy’s Locker, it’s been with a different guy. No, it’s not like that; they’re just friends. I originally recruited them as bodyguards, actually.

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Lead Photo Stumbling into Dino’s, the ultimate dive

C. Moon Reed | Wed, Sep 30, 2009 (2:35 p.m.)

Where can you meet shitsters (shit + hipsters), sing karaoke and vote for the "drunk of the month?" Only at Dino's.

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Lead Photo Fong’s, Hogs, Hard Rock: In search of the perfect bar experience

C. Moon Reed | Thu, Sep 17, 2009 (midnight)

On a quest for the perfect bar experience, criss crossing the city with two fake names and two fake boobs.

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Lead Photo Fox hunting

C. Moon Reed | Thu, Sep 3, 2009 (midnight)

“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to drink cheap.” I don’t believe that quote is posted anywhere at Ellis Island Casino & Brewery, since I just made it up. But it should be.

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Lead Photo The reluctant wino

C. Moon Reed | Thu, Aug 20, 2009 (midnight)

Anyone know how to hit on a mechanical bartender?

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Lead Photo Wandering the drink desert

C. Moon Reed | Thu, Aug 6, 2009 (midnight)

Rhumbar's shadows contained people I wanted to meet. People who inhabited that sweet spot between hip and conservative, ironic and genuine, artistic and well-groomed.

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Lead Photo Half-baked thoughts about Half Shell

C. Moon Reed | Thu, Jul 23, 2009 (midnight)

The sunset was a dud. In my rearview mirror, I watched the golden disk dip behind the mountains with as much fanfare as Pac-Man bopping off the screen.

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Lead Photo Slushie solos

C. Moon Reed | Thu, Jul 9, 2009 (midnight)

“No extra shots this time,” said the tourist from Austin, Texas, as he handed over his empty 100-ounce tube o’ booze to be refilled.

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Lead Photo The youthful rush of hookah

C. Moon Reed | Thu, Jun 25, 2009 (midnight)

Now I’m grown up, and I’d long forgotten the feeling of being a princess inside a cloth palace … until I went to the Hookah Lounge at Paymon’s. I don’t know whether the Hookah Lounge is like that childhood tent or that childhood tent was like the Hookah Lounge, but they both sparked my imagination in a special way.

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Lead Photo Mystery solved?

C. Moon Reed | Thu, Jun 11, 2009 (midnight)

According to Mr. Bar Manager, this bar was the lone spark of rock ’n’ roll in town, which was apparently defined by female Jell-O wrestling. Dude even shared photos of the joyous escapades.

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Lead Photo This is the end

C. Moon Reed | Thu, Jun 4, 2009 (midnight)

Scripting a strange night at the Nice Place.

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Lead Photo The happily-ever-after bar

C. Moon Reed | Thu, May 14, 2009 (midnight)

Parasol up is the type of bar that looks best from the outside looking in. The bar is the adult version of a Christmas-toy display window that you can press your nose against and wish on.

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Lead Photo Return of the freeze

C. Moon Reed | Thu, Apr 30, 2009 (midnight)

There’s a dark secret many of us try to hide: Back before I was a local, I was a tourist. I’d like to say tourist me was too good for yard-long containers of frozen sugar-booze, but ... well, you know.

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The Jaded Kiss

The bar is open! Or rather, back open. Adjacent to Dos Caminos at Palazzo, itty bitty Fusion Mixology Bar has gotten itself some fresh new beats and mixology talent as ...
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