Last night, like every alternating Tuesday night, is Tacky Ashtray night here at the Rivershack.  This does not mean we want you to make our ashtrays sticky.  This does not mean we put on a show of our tackiest ashtrays, though that may be the case.  This means you bring us your tackiest ashtrays and you get a drink in trade.

Get your pre-game on, ladies and gentlemen: Bring us your old, your tired, your soiled, your technicolor, your with-feet, your in-the-shape-of-a-person, your bobble-headed, your crocodiles, your crawdads… if it’s a tacky ashtray, it’s worth a drink.  Yes, River Road in Harahan is the home of the tacky ashtray and we are calling our children to dinner.  Or after-dinner.

While you’re here ask us to point out our fine collection.  If you’ve already had a few do your best not to let your beer escape your person via your nose.  For some reason the site of a neon-pink sombrero ashtray poised delicately above barstools fashioned to look like a businessman’s legs results in violent fits of explosive laughter.

Almost in New Orleans.  Just outside the hustle and bustle, nice and cozy nestled inside true southern roadhouse hospitality, you can actually find good, inexpensive drinks within view of the levee.  On any night the Rivershack you get a good price on drinks.  Add that to the carefree, fun attitude of the patrons and staff and you have enough of a reason to come by for a drink or two or ten.  But Wednesdays?  Well, Wednesdays are special.

Wednesdays are Pint Night.

Now we don’t want you to go crazy, but you get two bucks off pints down here on Wednesdays.  Hey, put that empty gallon jug down, it’s only on pints.  Come out to Harahan, escape (or avoid) the downtown crowds and have a good time without losing an arm or a leg.  Unless you get too friendly with a gator.  In which case, alcohol is a great anesthetic.

No, we do not serve Vodka by the pint.

If you come down River Road to the Rivershack tomorrow for the seafood and steak specials – which are well worth it – you might leave hungry.  You might just end up tapping your foot and shaking your rear too much to be bothered ordering.

Truman Holland and The Back Porch Review sound just like the amalgamation of “blues, jazz, gospel, bluegrass, country and funk,” that their website professes them to be.  And are the perfect accompaniment for a night by the levee. Expect to be humming tunes on the ride home.

If you don’t like to dance on an empty stomach, you’re in luck.  It’s steak and seafood night, as noted above, with a nice special on a great plate of chow.  Just try to make sure your fish doesn’t start singing along – that’s a sign you should have started eating before you started drinking.