LYNNE MEREDITH COHN
Scene Editor

Scene

Young adults' ways of going out
certainly change after college.

5/15
1998

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n college, the bar scene had lit-
tle to do with the actual locale
but more to do with the peo-
ple, music and drink specials
of a particular watering hole.
Remember those late-start 'nights
that began at 11:30, with a six-pack
of friends trudging, on foot, across
town for the $1 pitcher special? And
when you got there, it was all who-
do-I-know, as you walked laps
around the bar's perimeter and
shmoozed with familiar faces.
Boy, how things change. The post-
college bar scene — if you can even
call it that — has far more to do
with locale than loquacious possibili-
ties. You know how it goes: A buddy
calls on Thursday (still the biggest

bar night. for some), wants to know
if you'll go out for a few hours, and
you meet up at a place that has
home-grown beer flavors, an offering
of cigars and The Game on 12 TV
sets. Or it's three girlfriends in
black Gap pants, in search of live
music, a different venue and some
cute guys. And you're home in time
for "ER."
Nowadays we go to the bar once
or twice a month — and always for
the Jewish community-sponsored bar
nights, including the ever-popular
one sponsored by the Jewish Federa-
tion's Young Adult Division. No -
more than once a month (if that fre-
quently) is it a "last-call" night where
you stay out until 2 a.m. Bar-hop-
ping in the 20s and 30s is merely a
way to get out of the house for a few
hours — we're too old to quaff half a

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