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Monday, December 6th, 2010
I don’t need mulled beer as badly as I thought. Metairie is cold enough. Dear weather, I take it back, please warm up.
Those of you familiar with The Rivershack are well aware that our beer selection is almost as unique as our collection of admittedly insane bar stools and the lunatics like you that plant their bottoms upon them while lifting the bottoms of their glasses to the air. A week or so ago I wrote that it’s about time to start drinking some of that beer warm, or even heated as was the standard in the middle ages. They called it mulled. I call it my favorite winter Soup Of The Day.
Full disclosure: I am a New Jersey transplant. A damned yankee. There is no force in this world strong enough to again uproot me and turn me from an Oleander back into a Pine Tree. One of the things I love about this town? The weather. Well, when it’s not too rainy. Back up north I’d get odd looks drinking my ale mulled. Down here I have a feeling bar patrons would slowly shift their stools a few inches away and watch me out of the corner of their eyes. Still, I was looking forward to a cold enough day to justify sidling up to the bar, casting the ‘tender a sly smile and saying, “One pale ale… and warm it up.”
Well that day has come and gone. I’m sick of wearing gloves already. Sun, get your act together and warm me up – I’m ready for an ice cold brew at The Rivershack. Although, another warm buttered rum might just hit the spot!
Tags: beer, good drinks, Live Music, Metairie
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Sunday, November 14th, 2010
Abita’s Purple Haze is the perfect beer to kick off the beer installments of The Rivershack Tavern’s blog. Why, you ask? Well, say I, because it’s a little funky, a little fresh, smooth and sweet – just like us. For those of you who haven’t tried it, Purple Haze is Abita’s year round fruit finished ale. After brewing, some of their amber is taken to a secret laboratory where mad scientists cloaked in hazardous material suits whip a secret raspberry puree recipe into the still-frothy mixture. The result is a beer whose bitterness has been vanquished by the forces of deliciousness, reprogrammed to fight in the name of foamy justice on the bar tables of America.
OK, I made some of that up. What’s true is that Abita Purple Haze is insanely delicious. The raspberry is tart enough to disguise the normal beer bitterness and sweet and flavorful enough to surprise you every time you take a sip or swallow. It’s a great Metairie beer because it’s warm and cool, and it goes great with anything. If you think a raspberry beer is too fruity for a man, think again, it’s good and strong and full flavored. If you’ve ever drank sweet tea, you’ve got no excuse not to down a Purple Haze.
Abita’s other flavored beers are Pecan – which is also great, but perhaps a little too smooth for most beer drinkers – and Strawberry Fest, a seasonal strawberry ale that celebrates the strawberry harvest in what I consider the perfect way. By making it alcoholic.
Tags: beer, fun, fun good drinks, Metairie
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Saturday, November 6th, 2010
There’s a chill wind blowing through the parish, my friends, as we prepare to launch our Metairie beer blog. As happens yearly the weather turned overnight from burning to blowing, from fresh to frigid, from sahara to tundra. But one thing remains hot: Metairie’s live music. And the best place to listen? You guessed it (shameless self promotion!) the one and only Rivershack Tavern.
Huff and puff the chill winds may blow, but our simple shack’s fun times only will grow. One of the best things about good beer, good people and good music in Metairie is that it brings people in out of the cold. Yeah, the river may rise, but the shack will (you guessed it) get down!
Come down to The Rivershack and don’t be shy about it. Come in here and you’re family, and you’ll have a great time.
Tags: beer, Live Music, Metairie
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Sunday, October 31st, 2010
Alright folks, it’s halloween and that means trick or treating. So, let me show you a trick and give you a treat. The trick: we’re starting another Rivershack blog. The treat? It’s about beer and drinks! Check out this site throughout the week and look for our new Beer Blog for special offers on the best little bar in Metairie – that’s right, we’re going to figure out some great promotions (better than $2 beer night? yes – it is, as hard as that is to believe) and share them with you ONLY on this blog.
Get your reading specs out and try not to confuse them with your beer goggles. You’ll need both.
Tags: beer, fun, harahan, Metairie
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Sunday, October 24th, 2010
If there’s one thing Metairie is good for it’s food. If there’s two things, it’s a good time with great live music – and there’s one band that hasn’t made it out here yet. Let’s change that.
Now I know that not everyone in Metairie digs on provincial jazz or acoustic foreign folk music but Haramouche is one hell of a trio. Joyous, energetic and friendly they really entertain. Now, Metairie is a blues, country, folk and rock town – is it ready for something new? What do you say, Metairie, can you deal with a little something new? If you are, the only problem is that I’m not sure they exist.
I heard them jamming out in the French Quarter and everyone (of every description, as you only find in the quarter) was enjoying it. Loudly. The problem is they had four CDs, all of them with a different band name. Can anyone here help me track down my new favorite live music performers and bring them to Metairie?
Tags: food, fun good drinks, good drinks, Live Music, Metairie
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Sunday, October 17th, 2010
Two weeks from now the dead will enjoy live music in Metairie and throughout New Orleans. Cabalistic chants will fill the beer-soaked air. Revellers in boogey masks will dance the tarantella and people from all over the world will try to out-scare one another in the most haunted city in America. Halloween, and with it the voodoo music and art experience, are returning to the New Orleans area. Truly, they’re returning home. The pageantry, the spookiness, the celebration, the downright fun. This is what Metairie is about. Good times and good music with good friends. Of course it also means lots of tourists, more excitement than we see outside of mardis gras and barely any chance to relax.
I don’t know about you, but I prefer to get my kicks in before candyday.. I mean, Halloween. Come out to The Rivershack in the next few weekends and get some preemptive shelter from the coming storm of papier mache and discarded plastic hand grenades. Get your fill of real Metairie live music all year long here, even when the rest of town is selling out for a week.
Tags: fun, harahan, Live Music, Metairie
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Monday, October 11th, 2010
Another week gone, another week of live music down. Were you in Metairie while Refried Confuzion turned our little corner of the world upside down? Were you in the audience on Friday when Truman Holland brought the south back with soul so genuine you can hear the 2 x 4’s creaking on his porch in his voice?
If you weren’t, shame on you. The best live music in the best little bar in Metairie and you stayed home with your mom and them or headed into the French Quarter to get wasted with the tourists and damn yankees when you should have been paying a visit and bringing the whole family to have the best weekend they could have. Shame. But we forgive you – here you’re family and you can always come back.
Come on down this coming week and see what we got in store. Reed Allemen’s kicking off our weekend on Thursday with his unique, low-fi sound and songs that make you think about home and feel the clay between your toes. Li’l Red and Big Bad come by on Friday and you should too, picking up the energy a little bit and making the romantic couples feel right at home. Saturday’s Kim Carson and if you don’t know about Kim you need to find out. You need to be careful when you see Kim – she’ll have your shoes dancing whether your feet like it or not and your gramma might just join in. She’s got the rhythm and the voice to reach into you and tug out some love.
Get on down to the river and stop in the Rivershack on Thursday evening, and don’t leave til Sunday morning.
Tags: fun, good drinks, Live Music, Metairie
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Sunday, October 3rd, 2010
If you like live music, I mean really like live music, and you’re near Metairie on Thursday, you have to stop by the ‘Shack – with your favorite instrument. It’s Jam time with Austin and Jim, and we want to see your funkiest instruments. We’re not saying don’t bring your guitar, bass or trumpet: Metairie loves live rock and jazz! We’re saying, if you have a didgeridoo, tom toms, vuvuzela or snare drum full of hyperactive bees toss it in the car and come on down.
That is, if you’re not too blitzed from Wednesday’s Pintapalooza. I mean, everyone in Metairie loves cheap drinks, so everyone in Metairie likes 2 bucks off every damn pint and two for one Stolis. Just wake up in time for Thursday night or you’ll miss out on the best live music fun you can have anywhere in, or out of, town.
Tags: beer, fun, good drinks, Live Music, Metairie
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Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010
It’s been too long since we’ve updated this blog on Live Music In Metairie, but we’ve got a great excuse – we’ve been too busy enjoying the great local bands and cold brews we serve up with regularity.
Every week at The Rivershack Tavern in Metairie you’ll find at least three great local musicians and musical groups rocking the house. Who’s playing this week, you ask? Just call us up (504 834 4938) and ask – you won’t be disappointed.
We’re proud to show that Metairie is the right place to find the best music, best drinks and best food in the New Orleans area. You don’t have to go to the French Quarter and pay an arm and a leg. Come to the Rivershack and we’ll only charge you a toe and a finger.
Tags: beer, food, fun, good drinks, Live Music, Metairie
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Friday, August 20th, 2010
We realized a couple of things recently. First: Live music is the heart and soul of Metairie and of The River Shack. Second: There is no good online source of information about Metairie’s live music scene. Well, now there is.
Welcome to the first live music blog for the Metairie scene. From now on we’ll be posting weekly about the bands, acts and local talent that really help Metairie shine. And rock. And roll. Yes, we’re biased. We will be featuring the talent that passes through our doors and expounding on the virtue of the shows we host – but how can we help it? They rule. They don’t get in our doors unless they’ve got soul. They don’t hook up the amps if they don’t rock. They don’t sing on our stage if they act their damn age.
New Orleans proper has too long held the public’s eye with it’s well deserved lighthouse beacon of local and non-local musical acts at the expense of Metairie and the surrounding area’s excellent tune makers. New Orleans’ publicity might outshine Metairie’s, but Metairie’s music retains its roots. To be successful in New Orleans’ spotlight, live music acts homogenize their sounds and conform to what tourists think Jazz should be. To please a Metairie crowd a band perfects its form and takes it to the next level.
It’s about time there was a source for information on the bands that play outside the bright lights / big city. That time has come. Stay tuned.
Tags: fun, harahan, Live Music, Metairie
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