Showing posts with label reopening after COVID. Show all posts
Showing posts with label reopening after COVID. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 22, 2020

Friday, September 25 is the soft RE-opening for dining inside at NABC Pizzeria & Public House.

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Trek to the Deck, 1999. Think of it as a public service announcement. We did curbside at NABC on Saturday, and if I may say so myself, the R...
Thursday, August 06, 2020

Birds of Prey.

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True; the whole class is losing recess because of the actions of a few. At the same time, local governments have refused to enforce th...
Wednesday, August 05, 2020

Roll With It.

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At Food & Dining Magazine today I wrote a brief report about the (partial; carryout only) reopening next week of NABC, my former com...
Saturday, July 11, 2020

Pints&union begins to reopen today, 4 to midnight. Mask up or miss out.

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Pints&union is slowly reopening for dine-in service. We're also still doing curbside ( menu here ). There was a small, invitat...
Thursday, July 09, 2020

ON THE AVENUES: Mask up, folks. Pints&union is coming back, and we're taking precautions.

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I'm sharing column space this week with sentences written by two others, so let's get started. Pints&union is coming back, al...
Sunday, July 05, 2020

BEER WITH A SOCIALIST: Believe it or not, "Drunk people can't socially distance."

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Yep, it takes a pandemic to grasp that drunks slobber, hug each other, start fights and behave abominably. Been there, seen that. To be hon...
Thursday, July 02, 2020

New Albanian Brewing Company looks to reopen on or around the 1st of August.

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The post below drew almost 500 likes on Facebook and generated 80-odd comments, almost all of them positive. When you've been around ...
Wednesday, June 17, 2020

"The not-honest operators are making sick people come to work, refusing to offer paid time off or pay for testing, and that's gonna get people killed."

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Journalist Amy McCarthy (@aemccarthy on Twitter) is the editor of Eater Dallas and Eater Houston . I've joined together a recent Twi...
Monday, June 15, 2020

CounterPunch on "the difference between people who think others should die so they can get a haircut and those with a strong social conscience."

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True, a great deal of reopening fervor owes to personal narcissism and a pervasive ignorance; science always will be attacked because it ...
Sunday, May 31, 2020

Texas: "Cautiously coming back from the shutdown."

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The key word in the clock-baitish headline is "cautiously." What if there were a reopening, and very few came? It would lessen ...
Wednesday, May 27, 2020

It's time right now for City Hall to use our public spaces for COVID recovery.

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I'm delighted to learn that Al Knable agrees . Knable suggested exploring whether the funds could help downtown businesses expand ...
Sunday, May 17, 2020

COVID: "States and cities need to watch the data and design circuit breakers that prompt new restrictions if infections start snowballing."

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Yes, the key word is "if." Last week was the first in Indiana for reopened restaurants. We'll all be looking at the trend...
Thursday, May 14, 2020

Dear Peter: "10 Tasks for Cities Responding to the Pandemic."

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The mayor's most recent video reminded me of that Downfall flick. Meanwhile, Chuck has more good advice that doesn't stand a c...
Wednesday, May 13, 2020

BEER WITH A SOCIALIST: What is a "bar" and what is not; who can open now, and who must wait?

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The Frozen Weenie Chronicles of 2014. Last week my friend Jeff at Riverside Cigars/Match Cigar Bar in Jeffersonville posted a conundru...
Monday, May 11, 2020

LIVE TO EAT: 50% of Indiana goes first. Getting your queue on, or keeping to the curbside?

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Habana Blues. These past few days I've been reminded of forgotten topics in history, as in the late 1980s, when those in the profes...
Sunday, May 10, 2020

With independent small businesses at risk, no use looking to a panic-stricken City Hall for help.

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Always remember -- and never forget -- that in the case of New Albany, even if we're able to struggle back to our feet at any point ...

Bunker Deep -- Experiment Nigh.

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There's a consistent feature of recent news stories and commentaries about the approaching economic reopening, and the different ways...
Thursday, May 07, 2020

ON THE AVENUES: COVID tolls for thee -- whatever, so hurry and get your ass back into this seat.

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“Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls ...