Hippening = hip happening

Sunnyvales hottest club is: Booooooooof. (With nine Os.)
Description: Located at an abandoned orphanage on the Lower Lower East Side of Maude, this round-the-clock puke party is creation of narcoleptic club owner Snoozin? Lucci.
This place has everything: Pugs, geezers, doo-wop groups, a wise old turtle that looks like Quincy Jones ? and you?ll have your own When Harry Met Sally moment when you share a special kiss with Gizblow, the coked-up gremlin.

Stefon, well now there's some writing. I like everything but the puke part.

In Blacksmith's previous incarnation, it was known as The Living Room and some of the owners there were pretty nutty with Booooooooof-style things happening in the alley behind the place. A few years ago the same owners also tried to open a restaurant next door on the corner, but it failed miserably due to mismanagement.

Hopefully the new bar will be successful and the location has a lot to offer.

I've been to Blacksmith and absolutely love it. It is such a fun place to hang out and the vibe is great. I definitely recommend this bar. I am so happy it came to RWC.

Stefon - my husband and I not only miss you on SNL, we can't stop laughing at your post :-)

Ummmm, "an upscale dive bar"? No no no no no. You can be one or the other, but not both. You can also be an upscale bar with signature drinks, or a dive bar with signature drinks, but that's where it ends. It actually sounds like a high end *faux* dive bar, which makes it an upscale, potentially smug hipster hangout, aka for smugsters. No thanks! I'm grateful that Deadwood City still has some real dive bars.

Water - I used to think a dive bar was a scuzy place too - but actually as discussed in Best High Dives to Watch the Game, some define dive bar as the place where "everyone knows your name." Nothing to do with the look, but more the feel.

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"Cute bartender?" What kind of reporting is that?

@Poor reporting:

Laura Stec is not a staff journalist for Embarcadero Media. She's a blogger.

Weblogging (a.k.a. blogging) is a more personal form of online communication and often includes personal opinions, conjecture, emotional commentary and other material that is atypical of modern journalism.

Sorry Poor reporting, but at least "cute" is a real word, right?

I cannot imagine any person being described as "cute" would be offended. Get over yourself poor reporting.

> "Cute bartender?" What kind of reporting is that?

At least she didn't say Like Horse *****

Poor reporting?
Women's ages, hair colors, clothing, make up, weight are all commonly reported on in actual news articles, irrespective of the achievement which makes them newsworthy. This is true of Nobel prize winning scientists. Why is mentioning that a bartender is cute, in a BLOG, worth being outraged about? Is it because a girl might be judging a guy based on appearance. Well, welcome to a woman's world, every day...... and I am sorry if I am not more sympathetic for your outrage.

If the "blogger" not reporter had said the woman behind the counter was "hot," everyone would be up in arms.

Who said the bartender was a man?

Poor reporting, I'm glad you came - real discussions make great parties. I thought about you throughout the day and wondered what the problem with "cute" might be?
When I cook privately I can listen to the radio/NPR. For 5 hours today, I paid attention to how reporters describe things. KQED Forum was on marine life. Funny enough, Paul Rodgers, Mercury News reporter, said when media talks marine animals, they "must use the word cute" in order to attract readers. So animals ok - people, no? Later a reporter said a "group of dodgy-looking people." Ok? There are a lot of negative personal descriptions in media - think Clinton and Trump. So negative personal comments are ok / not demeaning,but positive personal comments are not ok because they are demeaning?

Or maybe you think my use of "cute" was too subjective or informal? Then that's a whole other story.

It's all interesting though.

Do tell.

OK, what do you guys think about this? Poor Reporting objected because he/she thinks "cute" means "hot," and "hot" means "sexual", and sexual (or the smallest taste of) doesn't belong in a newspaper (he sees this as such). Well, I think that says something about Poor Reporting... you dirty little stayout. Cute means hot, since when? The comment has opened an interesting conversation off-blog. What men can say in public, what women can say. Also, dis-ing someone in media is fine but don't you compliment them. Interesting, no?

So much here to explore.

Oh, Laura, I'm too much of a realist to believe that description of a dive bar :-)

My objection is to the term "cute bartender." This is a blog posting that will be published online and perhaps in two newspapers. When I read a review of a restaurant from a food critic such as Michael Bauer pr Peter Wells, I expect to learn about the food, the ambiance and the service at a restaurant, not a rating of its wait staff.

@Poor reporting:

Clearly, Laura did not post a restaurant review à la Bauer.

You still don't get what a blog is.

Worse, you don't get this specific blog; Laura has been quite consistent in her tone and style over her posting history.

If you don't like her style, don't read her blog, but you are wrong for calling it "bad reporting." She's not a reporter. SHE'S A BLOGGER.

Oh yeah, if you want to read Michael Bauer, go read Michael Bauer. If he doesn't review this bar, well, feel free to ask him why, but don't expect everyone else who writes about this property to provide a full-blown restaurant review like a paid restaurant reviewer will write.

Since you haven't figured this out, people write things for different reasons on the Internet. LAURA IS NOT A TRADITIONAL MAINSTREAM NEWSPAPER JOURNALIST. She is under no obligation to provide a full-blown restaurant review.

Go read the stuff from the people who are paid to review restaurants if you want a full-blown restaurant review.

Anyhow, welcome to the Internet. We hope you like the rest of it.

Wow everyone, it's a Party! Thanks for coming.

Poor Reporting, I am glad you clarified, and actually, your expectation is understandable, if this was a newspaper restaurant review. But it's not. Local Flavor is my idea - not an assignment. And actually, I never asked the bartender their name. I didn't even know I was going to feature Blacksmith when I was there. When I sat down to write, I didn't know how to refer to the person I spoke with. So in playful Food Party! style, I made up a nickname. If I was a news reviewer - I would have gotten their real name before I published.

Do you think the paper might ever consider me for a real restaurant review?

I promise not to use cute.

How can you not mention the San Jose Bacon Festival - Sept 5-6? Bacon deserves its own level in the Food Pyramid.