Tag: Dive Bars

New Steps Dance on Old Footprints

Guess they see plenty of tourists come through here, I deduce from the noticeable absence of hard stares a city slicker like me can expect to draw in a one bar town such as this. Either that, or they are just really into the music. And to be fair, song and booze have an age-old partnership.

Cinco de Hongo

Every few years, Cinco de Mayo falls on a Taco Tuesday. The overlap of the two horological events creates a Tex-Mex eclipse that sends shudders through social media while upheaving the avocado market. This Cinco de Mayo, mercifully, is no such Taco Tuesday. But this Cindo de Mayo promises to get weird.

The Great Hampstead Turkey Shoot: Isy and Vic’s Thanksgiving in the Swamp

There’s a famous Chinese proverb, “nothing eases the pain of heart break like shooting assault rifles with new friends who might be in a cult or are actually knife salesmen”.
Vic tests this wisdom with his old friend, Issy Badger. The two visit a famous dive bar from the film Blue Velvet, and turn Thanksgiving weekend into a screwball affair that would make Dennis Hopper proud.