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| - Have you ever gone somewhere, expecting that you'd been there before, but then arriving and realizing that this was definitely not the place you thought it was? Well now that I've set the scene of my arrival, lets get down the the details.
First impressions are of a divey student pub. Patio out front, main floor seeming to be the most fit for live music with a stage. The main floor bar is stocked pretty well with a variety of craft and big brand beer options ($7.75 for a pint of Hopsta La Vista, as example), and on this night they were serving 3oz cocktails for about $11 if memory of what my friend told me is correct.
Upstairs you'll find the bathrooms and a couple of other rooms for chilling in, which had a fairly large cross section of demographic in age. While they were charging a cover in the main floor, it seemed anyone could go upstairs to drink and not be there for the main floor event in question.
One thing I noticed was the place definitely seemed to be run a little thin in terms of staffing. The night I was there apparently the sound guy was also the bartender so when there was an issue with sound while transitioning between acts and no one seemed to know what to do. When the sound actually was working it seemed decent for the size of venue. So when it comes down to it, the place doesn't seem without its divey charms, and I'd imagine if I was hypothetically in a local college band hard up for gigs, I'd be pretty okay with playing the place, so 3 stars seems about right in the end of this review.
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