DJ Brent Crampton expects and accepts miracles on his new home turf By Augusta Olsen In the beginning there was Brent, and Brent had a groove, and from this groove came the House of Loom. Surely the old club music anthem about the house that Jack built has continued to beat in DJ Brent Crampton’s [...]
Read moreLiquor store and deli make a great combo deal By Peter Warne Walking into the Spirit World (75th and Pacific streets) the other day, I had forgotten the huge selection of wines and specialty beers there is to choose from there. Add that to one of the finest delis in town, and it doesn’t take [...]
Read moreYeah, it’s a grudge match.
Victory Fighting Championship’s VFC 32 main event match between Drew Dober and Jimmy Seipel features two fighters that aren’t about to fill the pre-fight atmosphere with good feelings, said Victory’s director of operations Ryan Stoddard.
“They genuinely don’t like each other,” Stoddard said.
Read moreDan Houlihan takes pride in his staff at Sullivan’s Bar. “We’re all professionals,” he said of his small staff of bartenders at the midtown bar that’s been open since 1954. “Everyone here knows what the hell they’re doing.”
Read moreTwo a.m., and the living is easy. At least that is the hope of Mayor Jim Suttle, the Omaha City Council and many service industry professionals as Omaha rings in its new 2 a.m. last call ordinance this Thursday. Omaha joins over two-thirds of the nation with a 2 a.m. last call for alcohol, as the ordinance was unanimously approved by the Omaha City Council on June 22.
Read moreMark McClellan hasn’t figured out all the mysteries in the world of bar ownership, but he’s got a good thing in the Candlelight Lounge. McClellan has owned the bar for 26 years, but the Candlelight itself has been open since 1968, back in the days when a lounge was a lounge, McClellan said. “There aren’t very many left,” he said.
Read moreTJay Johnson likes golf, so it makes sense that the bar he owns is named Caddy Shack.
It also helps that Johnson’s a big-time fan of the 1980 golf comedy Caddyshack. In fact, he said it’s one of his favorite movies.
Johnson has owned Caddy Shack for the last five years. His golf-themed sports bar shows all the PGA Tour events, in addition to a whole host of other sporting events, including a professional baseball package and Nebraska football pay-per-view games on eight flat-screens in his northwest Omaha sports bar.
Read moreWhen it comes to craft beers, I guess there are no absolutes, but in the case of most of them, there are five basic ingredients. Way back when, in Germany, a standards board of sorts outlined the German Purity Law, which pertained to the beers of the day. Reinheitsgebot was its title, and the original decree provided for the only ingredients which could be used to create the land’s ales. Three whole ingredients.
Read moreThe bar on the southeast corner of 50th Street and Underwood Avenue may be a reference to writer Hunter S. Thompson’s druggiest saga, but Beer and Loathing in Dundee co-owner Dave Witt said his bar is about beer. “I’m definitely a Hunter S. Thompson fan,” Witt said, “but we were [just] trying to get clever with a little play on words.”
The open bar space is anchored by a sprawling main bar that takes up the core of the space. Beer and Loathing, co-owned by Witt and Mike Sartori, took over a space that was reputed to be a place that was hard to keep a business in.
Read moreFor our nightlife issue, Shout! sat down with Myth owner Brian Murzyn to pick his brain about the next big thing in cocktails, to learn why you should be careful when you tell him you don’t like gin, and, okay, to have a really sublime ginger-vodka concoction.
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