4
The Michigan Daily
What your bar
says about you
Compiled by the Daily Arts staff
i
ASHLEY'S
338S. State St.
You enjoy the finer things in life.
You want your beer like you want
your women: foreign and stout.
When youhave more than 70 of these
beauties on tap, then surely you've
stumbled into heaven (or where your
GSI holds office hours). Ashley's is
undoubtedly the beer-snob water-
ing hole - its plug is "Friends don't
let friends drink cheap beer." A fre-
quenter of Ashley's won't buy bricks
of PBR or be caught near a frat keg,
and drinksbeer at room temperature
(because it's supposed to be served
that way, not because it's been left
out for days). If you find yourself
drinking beer that's darker and
heavier than coffee, you're a philoso-
phy major and your beard is unin-
tentionally ironic, you might just be
at Ashley's.
CONOR O'NEILL'S
318 S. Main St.
If Conor O'Neill's is your regular
stomping ground, you're obviously
the type of person who strives to get
something more out of your week-
day nights. Whether you like the
crooningvoice of guitar player Jerry
Sprague on Tuesday nights, need of
agood pint, a drunken Monday night
game of trivia or are simply trying
to get in touch with your Irish roots,
Conor O'Neill's is worth the ice-cold
trek to Main Street. Just don't be
the guy who orders Guinness and
fish'n'chips just to fit into your sur-
roundings - theyall know you're not
Irish.
LEOPOLD BROS.
523 S. Main Street
If your idea of a wild night at the
bar includes board games, then Leo-
pold Bros. is your bar. This spacious
Main Street pub, with its high, vault-
ed ceiling and long wooden benches,
is reminiscent of a summer camp
dining hall more than anything else.
Leopold Bros. distills its own whis-
key, gin, vodka and various liqueurs
- a major draw for connoisseurs. But
if you're looking for action, you'd bet-
ter try something a little less snobby
and a whole lot cheaper.
GOODNIGHT GRACIES
301 W. Huron St.
You are over the college bar scene.
You are ripe and ready to move to
New York City, chain smoke in jazz
clubs and have a lover 10 years your
senior who will buy you pricey mar-
tinis. But beware: Gracies is not for
the thin-walletcollege kid with little
appreciation for live music. If you
roll into this classy joint without
the proper bills and skills, the posh
crowd will immediately recognize
you don't belong here.
RICK's AMERICAN CAFE
611 Church St.
Rick's isn't the bar or club where
everyone knows your name, and
chances are you'll end up going home
with someone who won't remember
it in the morning.
THE BROWN JUG
1204 S. University Ave.
You, 21st-birthday boy, are finally
welcome to enter The Jug after 9
p.m. without fearing the ethnically
ambiguous bouncer and his ability
to take aware your second, dearly
paid for fake ID. Enjoy that shot of
151 topped off with mayonnaise and
get used to spending many of your
Wednesday and Thursday nights
here during the rest of your under-
graduate career. You're the kind of
bar patron who will miss "your bar"
after graduation takes you to a con-
sulting job in New Jersey or some
vaguely technically named engineer-
ing corporation, and relish catching
up with the same people you know
you'll see here night after night, as
well as the cheap pitchers of beer.
You go to the Jug because you
want to get wasted or you go because
you already are and you end up there
every Wednesday night anyway.
TOUCHDOWNS
1220 South University Ave.
You must be in Dance Marathon.
SCOREKEEPERS
310 Maynard St.
S'keep's is the bar every underage
undergrad tries to get into - then
immediately realizes is really tacky
when she turns 21.
The beauty of S'keeps is that you
never know who you'll find there
- Greeks dancing to bad Yung Joc
remixes, 20-something Ross stu-
dents drinking $1.75 Heinekens,
EMU 6migr6s trying to pick up Uni-
versity guys. But you'll know exactly
on which nights to find them (Tues-
days, Thursdays for MBA happy
hour and weekends, respectively). If
you're an undergrad, S'keeps is your
first bar: the first one at which you
successfully pass off your Califor-
nia fake ID, where you sloppily have
your first dance-floor makeout with
a random SAE brother, where you
actually take a cab to with your Mar-
kley hallmates, then stand outside in
line for 20 minutes. And if you're a
graduate or transfer student, S'keeps
is the first place people point you to
- until you realize that Ashley's is
just down the street.
\aut\BAR
325Braun Ct.
Brunch, gay or hipster. Or all
three.
THE HEIDELBERG
215S. Main St.
If you frequent The Heidelberg
(either the Club Above, its main-
floor restaurant/bar or its basement
bar the Rathskeller), you're probably
flexible enough that you fit any of fol-
lowing categories.
COSI
301 SouthStateSt. -
No one gets drunk at COSI, four-
star restaurant of every sorority
girl's dreams.You should get over the
overpriced sandwiches and move to
the overpriced Long Island iced teas
(the bartender/manager calls them
"the best Long Island you'll ever
have").
This article originally
ran Feb. 8, 2007
4
PHOiS BY ANGELA ESERE, ROB MiGRIN AND BEN SIMON/Daiy
Most students can find a bar to fit their taste in the Ann Arbor area. -
Art fair draws national crowd
Yearly tradition
transforms Ann
Arbor into tourist
hot spot
Every July, 500,000-plus
people from all over the country
flock to the streets of Ann Arbor
to browse the town's annual art
fairs. The award-winning fairs
include the Ann Arbor Street Art
Fair, the State Street Art Fair, the
Ann Arbor Summer Art Fair and
the South University Art Fair. In
addition to featuring an array of
artists and art forms, the fairs
provide tourists with activities,
workshops and live music per-
formances.
The original fair is the Ann
Arbor Street Art Fair. Located in
the area underneath the Univer-
sity's Burton clock tower, it was
started in 1960 and was named
the number one art fair in the
country in AmericanStyle Maga-
zine in 2004. It usually features
around 200 artists.
The State Street Art Fair,
which began in 1968, includes
400 artists, while the Ann
Arbor Summer Art Fair, which
began in 1970, has a variety of
children's activities. The South
University Art Fair was found-
ed in 2000, making it the most
recently established of the fairs.
The fairs offer the "Ambassador
Art Walk," which takes visitors
on an in-depth tour of several
artists' booths. Although many
Ann Arbor residents protest the
fairs each year because of the
amount of traffic and tourists
they attract, the art fairs have
become anationally recognized
tradition.
EMILYANGELL
Patrons enjoy a collection ofathe unique each summer on the streets of Ann Arbor.
0
4
I
a