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