weekend recap

Happy Monday!

A short update on last weekend's happenings...Friday, I hit The Sports Page for the first time. It was fun, even though naturally I didn't go to actually watch sports. I got a pretty stellar frozen raspberry margarita for a little under $6, although the alcohol content was very questionable. Another bonus? It was karaoke night. 'Nuff said.

Saturday's bar crawl, as usual, attracted bigger crowds than usual downtown. I went to five of the nine venues. Not bad. Something that annoys me about the bar crawls, however, is that The Loft never offers drink specials in conjunction with the event. Right when you pay your cover you get a little flier that has all the participating bars and their featured drink special. Except next to The Loft, it always just says "great live music." Why is that?

Something else about the bar crawl flier...Saturday's flier had a little note urging patrons to voice their support for the bar crawls to the Columbus City Council, since apparently some people are on a mission to shut them down.

If this is true, I think it's really unfortunate. Sure, the bar crawls bring people downtown, but there's not THAT big of a difference between bar crawl crowds and what you see on an average Saturday night. The same holds true for noise on bar crawl weekends.

What's to prevent the same people from eventually changing ordinary weekends as well?

I know the downtown scene isn't for everybody, but the people who complain are usually the ones who base their criticism on exaggerated images of a typical night downtown.

Things could be a whole lot worse.