Subject: Tara Nieuwesteeg

• Last Night: Nightwish at the Culture Room

  November 15, 2007

• Last Night: Kamelot at the Culture Room

  October 13, 2008

• The E-Spot: a Chill Fort Lauderdale Hotel Bar

  ​You've got to love Fort Lauderdale: where stilletoed women drink directly from the beer tap, where "happy hours" last eight-hours, and where the geriatrics can put 'em away with the best of them. During a single outing, I can rest my happy bar-hopping self at a classy hotel bar, then walk across the street to an old-as-dirt raw bar, and finish out the night a few blocks away, at an immaculate Irish pub. The point is, in Fort Lauderdale, it's never hard to find a place that rocks, although fin

  October 29, 2009

• Fort Lauderdale Bar Tour: Southport Raw Bar

  ​Note: Night Watch is a regularly-occuring feature by Broward/Palm Beach nightlife columnist Tara NieuwesteegOn a recent evening in advance of the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show, I decided to check out bars near the 17th Street Causeway, and ended up at the yachtie mecca, Southport Raw Bar. It's a 1960s-style, let-it-all-hang-out kinda place, and the sign by the door reads: "Eat clams, last longer; eat fish, live longer; eat oysters, love longer." Inside were booths with fish-patterne

  October 31, 2009

• The Village Well in Fort Lauderdale: Home of the Eight-Hour Happy Hour

  ​Night Watch is a regularly-occurring feature by Broward/Palm Beach nightlife columnist Tara NieuwesteegThe sign for the Village Well glowed through the darkened shopping plaza like a beckoning blue promise of beer and all that is good and pure in the world. The smoky, rectangular room was homey but still classy; the place was all wood, with the mirror-and-liquor bottle-lined bar stretching along one side, a high shelf (packed with books, clocks, miniature lighthouses, model ships, and other t

  November 2, 2009

• Boca's Not Just for Fogies: Flanigan's Seafood Bar & Grill in Boca Raton

  ​Night Watch is a regularly-occurring nightlife column by Tara Nieuwesteeg.Boca is not renowned for much except its manicured shopping plazas, delicious lunch spots, and its armies of early-bird-special-seeking Q-tips who make the roads a little less safe and the frozen yogurt shops a little more busy. But Boca and I have a long and complicated history; our lives are as entwined as a pair of melodramatic lovers caught between adulation and detestation; constantly rolling in and out of each oth

  November 6, 2009

• Bar Hopping in Boca: The Warehouse Pub

  ​Night Watch is a regularly-occurring feature by nightlife columnist Tara Nieuwesteeg.Last weekend, it took a minute for me to muster up the courage to enter The Warehouse Pub (1599 NW 1st Court, Boca Raton; 561-392-3798). Sure, this was Boca, but still -- the pub was located in a dark part of town, and pick-up trucks (blaring country music) packed the parking lot. Good ol' boys stood smoking and laughing raucously out front. I darted inside and was relieved--I discovered a narrow, well-lit

  November 8, 2009

• Find Liquid Inspiration at The Lion & Eagle Pub in Boca

  ​Night Watch is a regularly-occurring feature by nightlife columnist Tara Nieuwesteeg.The Lion & Eagle English Pub (2401 N Federal Hwy, Boca Raton; 561-447-7707) was a dignified, stately establishment replete with a rich wooden bar, regally upholstered booths, paintings (of soaring eagles, mostly), decorative kettles, lanterns, and model ships. It was also not large--and quite busy. Liz, the blond, bubbly bartender, told me that the place was very well-established; owned by a pair of bro

  November 10, 2009

• Taste-Testing Brews at Ye Olde Falcon Pub

  Night Watch is a regularly-occurring bar review with nightlife columnist Tara Nieuwesteeg.​Liquor is a cruel, messy mistress, and she doesn't love me. The last time I saw her, she left me with a hangover that lasted for three days. So, as I do every time she leaves me aching, I swore her off. It won't last, of course -- but it will give me ample time to make her jealous by experimenting with her smart, sexy, multilayered cousin, Miss Beer. Early in life, my parents impressed upon me the beauty

  November 19, 2009

• PRL Euro Cafe in Hollywood: Curious Beers and Curious-er Patrons

  ​Night Watch is a regularly-occurring feature about bars and clubs, written by nightlife columnist Tara Nieuwesteeg.This week, I bar-hopped in Hollywood and stumbled into the PRL Euro Café (1904 A Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood. Call 954-980-8945 or visit prlcafe.com).  PRL is a narrow venue with a few chairs at the front and a long bar extending along the right wall. I had to tit-punch and bow just to get through the sardine-packed bohemian crowd clustered around the bar and leaning agai

  November 21, 2009

• Night Watch Visits the Whiskey Tango All-American Bar and Grill

  ​Night Watch is a regularly-occurring feature about bars and clubs by nightlife columnist Tara Nieuwesteeg.When we walked in to the Whiskey Tango All American Bar and Grill (1903 Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood Call 954-925-2555 or visit whiskeytangofl.com), we were assaulted by the sounds of an atrocious cover band playing "Summer of '69" and grabbed a high table since all the booths were packed full of dudes in Ed Hardy shirts. The place reeked of new-ness and carefully arranged décor--it had b

  November 23, 2009