Category: Bar Life
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City Weekly Whiffs with Best of Utah
How did you numb-nuts fuck this up? All you had to do was enter Raskin’s Rhetoric in the City Weekly Best of Utah 2012 poll for best Utah blog and I would be proudly showing off a piece of hardware recognizing the hours I have spent in the basement ranting and raving about bartending here…
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SLC PubCast
She was statuesque to say the least. Her knee-high boots wrapped around her long legs meeting up at a short black mini skirt. She had long blond hair that wrapped around a pretty face and perfectly white teeth. If Dashiell Hammett wrote her into a story, she would clearly be the femme fatale. She was…
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Mea Culpa
Something people don’t know about walk-in beer coolers: they smell like marijuana. I don’t know if it is the spilt beer that gets sprayed on the walls, the humidity coming off the compressors or the stench from the cardboard boxes that hold the cases of bottled beer but walk-ins smell like pot. I remember once…
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Put Them In A Chokehold
There is no man more dangerous with a company’s corporate credit card than me. Hand over that corporate American Express and I guarantee I will draw a bead on every one of your customers and pull the trigger. Well vodka and tonics become double Grey Goose with a hit of tonic. Every scotch and soda…
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Leap Year Blues
Four years ago I was screaming into a telephone like a madman. I had been planning a leap year party at The Woodshed for over a month when at the last minute the promoter backed out. We were organizing a once-in-four-year event with a night of gospel and blues music that was going to feature…
Ben Raskin 