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I noticed there is a new sign up at the former Kickstart Scooters and Coffee on High and Price in the Short North. The sign was for either "Groovy" or "Groovin" Bar. Anyone have any news on this?
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Mercurius
First Avenue
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They have a Facebook page - looks kinda fun. The place is called Local Bar. It looks to be strong on vintage kitch and somewhat of a dive theme? Lookin' forward to checking it out.
Posted 8 months ago # -
JimL2
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Local wine and booze (get it? local bar?); a couple dozen draught beers and another 12 in bottles, ranging from Old Style to Dogfish Head 90 Minute IPA Draught; free Adriatico's pizza (!) tonight for some reason; laid-back clientele. I loved everything about it but the sign's typeface.
Jpizzow's right about the shopping spree at Flower Child--that was my first thought as well. Personally I'm not a big fan of 60s-70s nostalgia kitsch, but it wasn't obnoxious. (I suspect a limited opening budget forced them to segregate the bric-a-brac to designated pockets of space.)
The shelves behind the bar are also looking pretty lonely, not sure what that's all about. Maybe they're concerned about keeping their stock out front because the bar area's hard to secure at night? One whole wall is pretty much a window looking out on High and First.
But to reiterate, it was pretty cheap and unpretentious. Seems like a chill little dive bar in the same vein as St. James and O'Reilly's. If I had to describe it in three words: "post-hipster bar."
EDIT: I imagine everybody reading this is mad at that three word characterization for a variety of legit reasons -- TOO BAD, I'M A TERRIBLE WRITER GET USED TO IT!!!
Posted 7 months ago # -
leftovers
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JimL2 said:
But to reiterate, it was pretty cheap and unpretentious. Seems like a chill little dive bar in the same vein as St. James and O'Reilly's. If I had to describe it in three words: "post-hipster bar."It might take some time to prove worthy but it would be great to have more safely walkable 'St. Jamesesque' bars in the Short North High St corridor. I like the mental image of the 'post-hipster bar'. I love the St. James, but I am not walking there at 12am.
Posted 7 months ago # -
MichaelC
Short North
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Does post-hipster entail wearing a suit after having sold out to the man? Or just jeans with a button down and a tie so that post-hipsterism entails a straddling of two worlds? A two-ness, if you will?
Either way, bar sounds great. Look forward to checking it out.
Posted 7 months ago # -
JimL2
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MichaelC said:
Does post-hipster entail wearing a suit after having sold out to the man?I was thinking it was ironically seriously laughing at ironically-purchased cultural dregs which were semi-ironic at the time they were built but preserved out of a non-ironic appreciation for their aesthetics.
It's kind of like... investing in treasury futures because you think they're going to decrease in value and you can realize the loss and write it off on your taxes, but doing so through an online stockbroker based in Europe using US dollars you earned at your defense-contracter job, where you work because you get great healthcare benefits, but you're scared of getting stabbed by a mugger someday in the unsecured parking lot, and your employer donates heavily to congressional candidates who opposed universal healthcare.
Geez, now my head hurts. I need a drink...
Posted 7 months ago # -
Twixlen
Westgate, Columbus
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JimL2 said:
It's kind of like... investing in treasury futures because you think they're going to decrease in value and you can realize the loss and write it off on your taxes, but doing so through an online stockbroker based in Europe using US dollars you earned at your defense-contracter job, where you work because you get great healthcare benefits, but you're scared of getting stabbed by a mugger someday in the unsecured parking lot, and your employer donates heavily to congressional candidates who opposed universal healthcare.Geez, now my head hurts. I need a drink...
This makes me love you.
Posted 7 months ago # -
JimL2
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yessss...
as I'm sure you know, Bio-Blood recently stopped their "refer-a-buddy" program, so now I have to
trickconvince people to check out other fine local establishments in the area (and demand compensation afterwards).Hopefully the owners will see this thread and comp me a free genny cream ale [The Official Beer of Selling Out Your Friends™]
Posted 7 months ago # -
Walker
The KLD / Downtown
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saywhat said:
FB photos hereNo thanks.
Yeah, look at all of those people having a good time and enjoying themselves.
I guess that's not everyone's scene.
Posted 7 months ago # -
Andrew Hall
Dennison Place (The Circles)
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I am kind of mad that they don't have the picture of me and my crew ...
A.
Posted 7 months ago #
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