“In small towns, bored teenagers turn their eyes longingly to the exciting doings in the big cities, pining for urban amenities like hipster bars and farmers' markets and indie-rock festivals. Like everyone else, they want the vibrant and they will not be denied.” WantBigsEyeTurnsCitiesRocksExcitingTownsBarsTeenagerBoredFarmersDeniedUrbanSmall TownFestivalsHipsterDoingsBig CitiesPiningAmenitiesIndie RockFarmers Markets Book:No Future for You: Salvos from the Baffler Source: No Future for You: Salvos from the Baffler
“I hiked around town, the air sweet and dry, and was sort of overwhelmed by the perfection of it -- the old courthouse, the train depot, Mount [Jumbo] and Mount Sentinel rising up, the neon bars, the funky festivity of a college town .” AirCollegeSweetPerfectionTownsTrainBarsRisingDryOverwhelmedMontanaNeonFunkyRising UpFestivitiesSentinelsCourthouses Author:Garrison Keillor
“Three miles long and two streets wide, the town curls around the bay ... a gaudy run with Mediterranean splashes of color, crowded steep-pitched roofs, fishing piers and fishing boats whose stench of mackerel and gasoline is as aphrodisiac to the sensuous nose as the clean bar-whisky smell of a nightclub where call girls congregate.” LongTwoRunningGirlThreeSeaStreetsColorRiversTownsCleanFishesSmellWideMilesBarsBoatNosesLakesFishingRoofCrowdedCurlsGasolineSteepWhiskySensuousNightclubsAphrodisiacGaudyPiersFishing BoatsMackerel Book:Advertisements for Myself Source: Advertisements for Myself
“When Im in town on Sundays, I sometimes go down to the Central Bar in the East Village to watch English football. But my natural inclination now is to get in the car with my wife and kids and get out of town.” SometimesKidsNaturalWatchesWifeCarFootballTownsMy WifeEastBarsSundayVillageInclinationEnglish FootballMy Wife And KidsEast Village Author:Joe Scarborough
“The town I grew up in was at least fifty percent Jewish, so every weekend in the 7th grade, we went to Bar and Bat Mitzvahs.” GrewGrew UpPercentTownsBarsFiftyGradesWeekendBatsMitzvahBat Mitzvah Author:Vanessa Bayer
“What I really like about Cuba is that you can go into a local bar in a provincial town and you'll get jazz played at the highest standard - played often a cappella, or certainly with no amplification or whatever. Even if you are not knowledgeable about music, and I am not, you can find yourself really enjoying it.” IfsEnjoyHighestStandardsTownsJazzBarsLocalsFinding YourselfCubaKnowledgeableAmplification Author:John Gimlette
“The food thing is crazy to me. In this town the beer thing is also crazy to me. Frankly even with Brightest Young Things, it's such a celebration of [beer and food], all this stuff. I don't think it's bad or evil, but there's something out of bounds. It's like, "A bar opened!" Who cares? Think about that.” ThinkingCareYoungEvilStuffCrazyTownsBoundsBarsBeerCelebrationWho Cares Author:Ian MacKaye
“I started teaching yoga in 1974 in Colorado, I was living in Winter Park, and I started teaching skiers. At that point I was teaching more of the Sivananda system and just pushing it up a little bit to make it a little more rajasic a little more active, a little more physical. People would come, and feel great, and by the time I left Colorado in 1980 I'd taught pretty much everyone in town - the ski patrol, ski instructors, the bar owners.” PeopleFeelsLittlesLeftBitsTeachingTaughtLittle BitYogaTownsWinterActiveBarsParksOwnersPushingSkisColoradoInstructorsSkiersPushing It Author:Beryl Bender Birch
“There has been a ton of excellent music in this period (along with a few misses), evoking scenes like a bar-room brawl at a border-town dive, a washed-up singer in a smoky lounge, and the scenes of violence in Bob Dylan latter-day music videos.I think the ethos of this period is best summed up in the 2001 song "Summer Days".” ThinkingHas BeensSongRoomsViolenceMissingPeriodsSceneSummerTownsSingersBarsVideoExcellentBordersLatterBobDylanEthosLatter DaysSummer Days Author:Jay Michaelson
“I think there is more comedians now than ever, more venues now than ever. There are stand-ups who live in towns where they don't have many comedy clubs where they are organizing more comedy nights in bars. I just think this is a fantastic time for stand up.” ThinkingNightComedyTownsClubsBarsFantasticComedianVenuesComedy Clubs Author:Joe Rogan
“Percy France told me, similarly, he and Bird used to hang out. They were good buddies. And he said, "Man, we'd just walk through town, sometimes with our horns. And we'd walk by past an Irish bar. And you'd stand outside and check out the music. And Bird would go in and sit in with these traditional Irish musicians. Then we'd past a Greek restaurant and we'd hear that. And Charles "Bird" Parker would go sit in with those guys. He was just listening to everything, reacting to everything.” MenSaidSometimesPastUsedGuyWalksListeningMusicianBirdTownsBarsChecksTraditionalFranceGreekRestaurantsHanging OutStanding OutHornsBuddyJust ListenReacting Author:Jon Gordon
“But the law is an odd thing. For instance, one country in Europe has a law that requires all its bakers to sell bread at the exact same price. A certain island has a law that forbids anyone from removing its fruit. And a town not too far from where you live has a law that bars me from coming within five miles of its borders.” CountryLawCertainFiveEuropeTownsSellsFruitLawyerMilesBarsBreadInstanceOddBordersIslandsBakersWhere You LiveOdd Things Author:Daniel Handler
“As an actor, I travel around a lot and live in a lot of hotels, and many times I've been in a town where the only entertainment to be had is what you find in the hotel bar or lobby.” ActorsTravelTownsEntertainmentBarsHotelFunny TravelHospitality Author:Beau Bridges
“Page, Arizona, Shithead Capital of Coconino County: any town with thirteen churches and only four bars has got an incipient social problem. That town is looking for trouble.” ProblemSocialChurchFourTroublePagesTownsBarsCountyThirteenArizonaSocial ProblemsShitheads Book:A Voice Crying in the Wilderness Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness