Fernet, finally!

As you might have noticed, we are, ahem, kind of a northern California bar, but for a long time we haven't carried the essential northern California (via Italy and Argentina) spirit, Fernet. That is no more! From now on, you can order Fernet with your bartender, however you like it--a little bit straight up or a larger pour on the rocks. It's just $6 for a small pour or $7 for a larger one. If you haven't tried it, it's lovely and at least worth a little sip. You won't be disappointed.

Final DadWagon Presents December 12 at 7 pm.

Okay, guys, this is it: the final installment of DadWagon Presents, our somewhat monthly series featuring (pro)creative writers expounding upon their fatherhood triumphs and failures (mostly the latter). If you've been wanting to see what all the hubbub is about, this is your last chance to do so.

To mark the occasion, we'll be giving away FREE BEER! Or at least, 32 free beers (and maybe more, depending on how many of those beers we, the editors of DadWagon.com, happen to consume).

So, this Wednesday, leave the kids at home and come see:

• Christopher Bonanos, the author of the recently released Instant: The Story of Polaroid, is a senior editor at New York Magazine and, far more importantly, a founder and emeritus editor of DadWagon. His 3-year-old son, Alex, appears in hundreds and hundreds of photos.

• Joshua David Stein began his career as an editor for Gawker.com and has served as editor-at-large at OUT magazine, senior editor at Departures magazine, editor of Black Ink, and editor-in-chief of BlackBook magazine. His work has appeared in the New York Times, New York, The Guardian, Maxim, OUT, Details, blah blah blah. He lives in Morningside Heights and is the father of Achilles Heeren Stein, 11 months, and the husband of Ana Maria Heeren, 372 months.

City Harvest Food Drive, November 16-December 16.

Pacific Standard is pleased to announce that we'll be participating in City Harvest's food drive. Starting today and running through December 16 or whenever we reach 100 pounds of food, bring your non-perishable food items to the bar and we'll donate them to City Harvest. The basics on the drive and what items are most needed:

With the support of generous New Yorkers, City Harvest will rescue and deliver over 42 million pounds of food this year. Food drives keep our trucks stocked, helping to feed the more than 1 million New Yorkers who face hunger each year.

Most needed foods: Canned fruit, canned vegetables, peanut butter (plastic jars), mac and cheese (packaged), hot and cold cereal (packaged, family-sized)

More information about what to donate can be found here:

http://cityharvest.org/donate-food/donation-drives

We feel like an anorexic saying this, but let's get to 100 pounds by December 16th!

UCLA basketball pre-parties November 19th and 20th.

You’re invited to join fellow Bruins in Brooklyn Monday, November 19th and Tuesday, November 20th at Pacific Standard two hours prior to each UCLA men’s basketball game during the Progressive Legends Classic Championship Rounds at the Barclays Center.

The event is free and open to all Bruin fans. Appetizers will be provided and a cash bar will be available. The reception will begin two hours prior to tip-off of each UCLA Legends Classic game. Here are the event times:

6:00-8:00pm on Monday, November 19th
5:30-7:30pm OR 8:00-10:00pm on Tuesday, November 20th

Barclays Special!

We're introducing a new deal for people going to Barclays Center events: on those nights, come into the bar before the event and mention you want the "Barclays special." It's a bottled beer (Miller Lite or Bud Lite are currently in stock; our specialty bottles are off-limits, sorry) and a shot of your choice from our well selection for only $7.

Our non-marathon marathon Sunday.

Since the NYC Marathon isn't going to happen Sunday, we figured we should party it up for charities to make up the difference. Here's our hurricane relief effort:

--We will open at noon as usual.

--$1 for each drink we sell goes to the Red Hook Initiative, who are helping one of the best neighborhoods in NYC recover from the impact of the hurricane. http://www.rhicenter.org/

--We are still going to run a grill outside; any tips go to the Red Hook Initiative.

--We'll have our famous Bloody Marys for $7 a pint (with, again, $1 per drink going to RHI).

So let's pretend like the marathon is happening and perhaps run around the block, person by person. With donations!

October 30 poetry reading canceled.

Unfortunately, due to the upcoming weather we've canceled the reading for the 30th. We look forward to doing it in the future, though, once our readers and audience can more easily make it.

Award-winning poet John Brehm October 30 at 7:30 pm.

Taking the reader from the subways of New York City to the savannas of Paleolithic Africa to the transplant ward of Kyoto University Hospital, John Brehm's new collection of poems, Help Is on the Way, is enlivened by the same subtle music, penetrating wit, and emotional honesty that have won him high praise over the years.

John Brehm’s poems have appeared in Poetry, The Gettysburg Review, The Southern Review, Gulf Coast, Barrow Street, Prairie Schooner, the Missouri Review and many other journals and anthologies. He is author of Sea of Faith, winner of the 2004 Brittingham Prize in Poetry, and associate editor of The Oxford Book of American Poetry. He lived in New York City for many years and now resides in Portland, Oregon.

More info on the Incredible Mild

debuting tomorrow! This is straight from the Sixpoint horse's mouth:

"This beer was made using a brewing process known as parti-gyle brewing. On Sept 14th, Sixpoint brewed a barleywine using only the richest of the wort to create The Old Redhooker Barleywine Ale. Once they collected what they needed for the barleywine, they then collected the remaining sugar from the grain to create a second unique beer that we are happy to introduce to you as The Incredible Mild Ale. This is a low alcohol session-able beer with a 'no-waste' brewing approach. The color is amber. The aroma is hop forward with a blend of Goldings and Fuggle in the nose. It's a dry beer with a crisp finish. The flavor is balanced between the low bitterness & maltiness with subtle toffee and nutty notes."

Pacific Standard and Sixpoint celebrate our 5th anniversary!

We recently celebrated our 5th anniversary, but we thought that a 5th anniversary deserves more than just one party. So we collaborated with Sixpoint in order to bring you several weeks of rare beers from their cellar. Starting on the 10th, we'll tap a different delicious curiosity from Sixpoint each Wednesday for five straight Wednesdays (get it?). Here's the tentative schedule (with links to beer info; we don't have much info yet on the first two but will put it up when we have it):

October 10: The Incredible Mild (brand-new, limited edition)
October 17: French Saison (limited edition)
October 24: Mad Scientists #12: Goser the Gozerian (limited edition)
October 31: 2010 Gorilla Warfare (last keg in existence)
November 7: Mad Scientists #3: Big Sticke Double Alt (last keg in existence)

So as Quintana would say, you got a date Wednesday, man. Wooo! Come as early as possible, since these are all single kegs and will go very quickly.

The debates and election.

As we did four years ago, we'll be showing the debates (both presidential and vice) on our big screens with audio. If you want to watch the debates, please arrive early in order to make sure you get space, since it will be limited (not to mention that the debates may have to share our space with A's playoff games, results of the last few games of the season pending). We'll also, of course, have the election results on November 6. Again, get here early for that because we can only admit so many people into the bar. We look forward to seeing you and yelling/celebrating/crying together!

DEBUT LIT presents "New On Tap" Thursday, September 20 at 7 pm.

Come see NYC debut poets, novelists and memoirists peddle their wares in this BROOKLYN BOOK FESTIVAL, 2012 BOOKEND EVENT showcase. In honor of Pacific Standard's microbrews, these authors will read original short work on the theme of "new on tap."

Readers will include:

Greg Gerke (There's Something Wrong with Sven)
Austin LaGrone (Oyster Perpetual)
Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan (A Tiger in the Kitchen)
Laren McClung (Between Here and Monkey Mountain)
Ralph Sassone (The Intimates)
Hugh Sheehy (The Invisibles)

Co-hosted by Debut Lit founder and writer Rebekah Anderson and
PitchKnives & Butter Forks bloggers Jason Leahey and Shannon Dunlap.

www.DebutLit.com
www.brooklynbookfestival.org

Holodeck improv comedy September 25 at 8 pm.

A monthly show where all the comedy is made up on the premises. See some of the city's best indie improv teams perform their stuff. Hosted by the improv group Local Hero with this month's special guests Free Kittens, Scrambled Legs, and musical improv from Hollywood, Kansas.

Step into the Holodeck where all your fantasies come true. Just be sure to knock if Commander Riker's in there.

Local Hero are:
Peter Cestaro
Alessandra Migliaccio
Michael Romanos
Bardia Salimi

Free Kittens:
Kim Brown
Max Cardilla
Betsy Kenney
Liz Noth
Jibri Nuriddin
A.J. Patton
Matt Radlow
Szoke Schaeffer

Scrambled Legs:
Sara Feinstein
Darin Guerrasio
Randy Reiman
Jake Smith

Hollywood, Kansas:
Evan Altshuler
Henry Russell Bergstein
Nikita Burdein
Allison Castellano
Katie Foster
Caryn Lewi
Curtis Retherford
Claire Wilmoth

September 26, 7 pm: DadWagon Presents: Theodore Ross.

Join Theodore Ross for a reading from his new book, Am I a Jew?, recently published by Hudson Street Press.

“I was nine years old when my mother forced me to convert to Christianity…”

Theodore Ross was nine years old when he moved with his mother from New York City to the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Once there his mother decided, for both personal and spiritual reasons, to have her family pretend not to be Jewish. Theodore went to an Episcopal school, where he studied the Bible, sang in the choir, and even took communion. Later, as an adult, he wondered: Am I still Jewish?

Seeking an answer, Ross travels around the country and to Israel, visiting a wide variety of Jewish communities. From “Crypto-Jews” in New Mexico and secluded ultra-devout Orthodox towns in upstate New York to a rare Classical Reform congregation in Kansas City, Theodore tries to understand himself by experiencing the diversity of Judasim.

Quirky and self-aware, introspective and impassioned, Am I a Jew? is a story about the universal struggle to define a relationship (or lack thereof) with religion.

Outside of Sleep launch reading September 19 at 7 pm.

Celebrate chapbooks, birthdays, and friendship!

Featuring readings by Brian Trimboli, Sarah V. Schweig, Eric Kocher, and Florencia Varela.

Eric Kocher received his MFA from the University of Houston. Some of his work has appeared or is forthcoming in A Public Space, Best New Poets 2011, Boston Review, and elsewhere. He currently teaches at the University of South Carolina Upstate.

Sarah V. Schweig is the author of the chapbook S (Dancing Girl Press). Her poems have appeared in BOMB Magazine, Boston Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Western Humanities Review, and Verse Daily, among others. She is a graduate of the University of Virginia and Columbia University, where her manuscript was the recipient of the David Craig Austen Memorial Award for poetry. She lives in Brooklyn.

Brian Trimboli has received fellowships to teach and study poetry from Bucknell University, Hartwick College, and New York University. He has poems published in Gulf Coast, Indiana Review, Third Coast, and Forklift, Ohio. He spends most of his time thinking of escape plans from potential apocalypses.

Florencia Varela's poems have been featured in journals such as Western Humanities Review, Washington Square Journal, Gulf Coast Review, Diagram, Drunken Boat, and Poetry Daily. She is the author of the chapbook Outside of Sleep (Dancing Girl Press, 2012). She completed her MFA at Columbia University, and currently lives in Brooklyn with a pup named Sue.

Bodega magazine launch party September 7 at 6 pm.

BODEGA is throwing a party to celebrate the launch of our first issue!

EMMA STRAUB will be reading from her new book, Laura Lamont's Life In Pictures. ADAM SOLDOFSKY will be reading poetry. Come to Pacific Standard in Brooklyn to hear them and mingle with Bodega editors and friends!

Happy hour special on drinks: $1 off everything until 8 pm!

Check out our website: www.bodegamag.com
Follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/bodegamag

Use this short link to share this event with friends: http://bit.ly/bodegalaunch

Emma Straub is the author of the novel Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures and the story collection Other People We Married. Her fiction and non-fiction have been published by Tin House, The Paris Review Daily, The Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Time, Slate, Cousin Corinne’s Reminder, and many other journals, and she is a staff writer for Rookie. Emma lives in Brooklyn, New York, where she also works as a bookseller.

Adam Soldofsky was born in Oakland, California and raised in the Silicon Valley. He received his MFA from New York University in 2007. Poems of his have recently been featured in Paperbag (www.paperbagazine.com) and Clementine Magazine (https://sites.google.com/a/clementinemagazine.com/issue5/).

Issue #1 will go live on our site Tuesday, September 4th, featuring some incredible fiction and poetry, plus an interview with Emma Straub!

Save the Date: Poetry with Philip Fried and John Brehm Oct. 30 at 7:30 pm.

It's a ways off, but we wanted to give you an early heads-up on a special poetry reading we'll be doing in late October (namely, the 30th at 7:30 pm) with Philip Fried and John Brehm. The rough details on your illustrious readers:

Philip Fried has published five books of poetry, the most recent being Early/Late: New and Selected Poems (Salmon, 2011). Publishers Weekly called that book “skillful and memorable,” and The Literary Review declared, “In realms between and including the Almighty and actuarial tables, Fried speaks every language faithfully and eloquently. Rejoice! Read!”

John Brehm was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, and educated at the University of Nebraska and Cornell University. He is the author of Sea of Faith, which won the 2004 Brittingham Prize, and Help Is on the Way, which won the 2012 Four Lakes Prize, both from the University of Wisconsin Press.

Holodeck Improv Comedy August 21 at 8 pm.

A monthly show where all the comedy is made up on the premises. See some of the city's best indie improv teams perform their stuff. Hosted by the improv group Local Hero with this month's special guests Cindy & Linda, Rain and Food.

Step into the Holodeck where all your fantasies come true. Just be sure to knock if Commander Ryker's in there.

Local Hero are:
Peter Cestaro
Alessandra Migliaccio
Michael Romanos
Bardia Salimi

Rain are:
Andy Bustillos
Betsy Kenney
Hao Lian
Ian Stroud
Brian Urreta

Food are:
Jessie Jolles
Trevor Lyon

Cindy & Linda are:
Jaclyn Backhaus
Emma Barash
Isabelle Barbier
Mason Hu
Lane Kwederis
Eli Mason
Chris Nester
Michael Resnick

DadWagon reading August 22 at 7 pm.

DadWagon Presents: Loinfruit, Meltdowns, and Weeknight Drinking

Every month, DadWagon Presents brings three procreative writers to Pacific Standard to tell parenting tales that may make you laugh, will probably make you cringe with self-recognition, and will almost definitely send you to the bar for another pint. The next one is at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, August 22, so leave the kids at home (please!) and come see:

• Benjamin Anastas is the author of the novels An Underachiever’s Diary and The Faithful Narrative of a Pastor’s Disappearance, which was a New York Times notable book. Other work has appeared in The Paris Review, Harper’s, The New York Times Magazine, Bookforum, and is forthcoming in The Best American Essays 2012. His memoir Too Good to Be True will be published in October and will cost his 5-year-old son a small fortune in future therapy.

• Brian Braiker, a former Newsweek and Rolling Stone staff writer, is a senior editor of Parenting magazine. He loves one of his daughters more than the other, but he’ll never tell which.

• David J. Rosen is the author of the novel I Just Want My Pants Back, as well as the creator and executive producer of the MTV series of the same name. He is also the author of the nonfiction book What’s That Job and How the Hell Do I Get It?, and his writing has appeared in publications like Esquire and The New York Times. Rosen lives in Brooklyn and has the stroller arms to prove it.

Again, the details:

Where: Pacific Standard (82 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn, 718-858-1951; pacificstandardbrooklyn.com)

When: 7 p.m. on Wednesday, August 22

Cost: Free!

Sponsor: “A little better than most blogs” is how Parents Magazine described DadWagon.com, three journalists’ attempt to make sense of the sometimes baffling, often excruciating, occasionally amusing world of fatherhood in New York City. Those three are Nathan Thornburgh, a writer for Time and founder of RoadsandKingdoms.com; Theodore Ross, features editor at Men’s Journal and author of the forthcoming “Am I a Jew?”; and Matt Gross, a travel and food writer and the Times’ former Frugal Traveler columnist.

Contact: E-mail Matt Gross matt@dadwagon.com.

Previous speakers (listen to their talks podcast here and here):

• Peter Meehan, author of the Momofuku and Frankies cookbooks, former NYT “$25 & Under” columnist, and founder (with David Chang) of Lucky Peach magazine. He lives in Manhattan with his wife and their daughter, Hazel.

• Jeff Yang, “Tao Jones” columnist at the Wall Street Journal, regular contributor to WNYC and PRI’s “The Takeaway,” and author of Secret Identities: The Asian American Superhero Anthology (volume 2 to be released this fall). He lives four blocks away in Park Slope with his wife, Heather, and their awesome sons, Hudson and Skyler.

• Paul Ford, ftrain.com founder, former Harper’s Magazine editor, writer for New York, Slate, The Morning News, as well as the author of the novel Gary Benchley, Rock Star, and an all-around Internet-fame guru. He is lives in Ditmas Park (which he claims is much nicer than Park Slope) with his wife and twin babies.

• Donovan Hohn, prize-winning author of Moby-Duck and features editor at GQ, lives in the West Village with his wife and two kids.

• Gabe Soria, a music journalist and co-author (with Jessica Abel) of the graphic novel Life Sucks, has a 7-year-old boy who was kind of impressed when his dad introduced him to Dr. John.

DadWagon Presents: Loinfruit, Meltdowns, and Weeknight Drinking

From the editors of DadWagon.com, a bloggy celebration of the foul-smelling joys of fatherhood, comes the second installment of our reading series featuring some of New York’s most entertaining dads. Every month, DadWagon Presents brings three procreative writers to Pacific Standard (82 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn, 718-858-1951; pacificstandardbrooklyn.com) to tell parenting tales that may make you laugh, will probably make you cringe with self-recognition, and will almost definitely send you to the bar for another pint. So, at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, July 25, leave the kids at home (please!) and come see:

• Donovan Hohn, the prize-winning author of Moby-Duck and features editor at GQ, lives in the West Village with his wife and two kids.
• Brian Braiker, a former Newsweek and Rolling Stone staff writer, is a contributing editor at the Guardian US and Billboard magazine—and an amateur banjo player. He loves one of his daughters more than the other, but he'll never tell which.
• Gabe Soria, a music journalist and co-author (with Jessica Abel) of the graphic novel Life Sucks, has a 7-year-old boy who was kind of impressed when his dad introduced him to Dr. John.

Again, the details:

Where: Pacific Standard (82 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn, 718-858-1951; pacificstandardbrooklyn.com)
When: 7 p.m. on Wednesday, July 25
Cost: Free!
Sponsor: “A little better than most blogs” is how Parents Magazine described DadWagon.com, three journalists’ attempt to make sense of the sometimes baffling, often excruciating, occasionally amusing world of fatherhood in New York City. Those three are Nathan Thornburgh, a writer for Time and founder of RoadsandKingdoms.com; Theodore Ross, features editor at Men’s Journal and author of the forthcoming “Am I a Jew?”; and Matt Gross, a travel and food writer and the Times’ former Frugal Traveler columnist.
Contact: E-mail Matt Gross <matt@dadwagon.com>

Holodeck improv comedy June 27 at 8 pm!

A monthly show where all the comedy is made up on the premises. See some of the city's best indie improv teams perform their stuff. Hosted by the improv group Local Hero with this month's special guests Babyface, The Sheinfeld Family, and Bottom Gun.

Step into the Holodeck where all your fantasies come true. Just be sure to knock if Commander Riker's in there.

Local Hero are:
Peter Cestaro
Alessandra Migliaccio
Michael Romanos
Bardia Salimi

Babyface are:
Michael Beberashvili
Brian Flynn
Sydney Harris
Ilana Meredith
Jordan Siegel
Ryan Stanisz
Ben Sumrall
Marti Zabell

The Sheinfeld Family are:
Sunita Deshpande
Katie Foster
Josh Luckenbach
Michael Romanos
Sam Taggart

Bottom Gun are:
Adam Bildersee
Aaron Gold
Claire Harris
Robert O'Neill
Christopher Toia
Lee Yanco

Varsity Letters reading Thursday at 7:30!

Gelf's Varsity Letters sports reading series returns on Thursday, June 21, at 7:30 pm, at Pacific Standard, with a look at the most respected and detested organization in sports. Rob Fleder will be discussing the book Damn Yankees: Twenty-Four Major League Writers on the World's Most Loved (and Hated) Team, which he edited, along with Sports Illustrated writer Steve Rushin, who contributed a chapter, and Alex Belth of the blog Bronx Banter.

DadWagon Presents: Loinfruit, Meltdowns, and Weeknight Drinking.

From the editors of DadWagon.com, a bloggy celebration of the foul-smelling joys of fatherhood, comes a new monthly reading series featuring some of New York’s most entertaining dads. Every month starting at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, June 13, “DadWagon Presents” will bring three procreative writers to Pacific Standard (82 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn, 718-858-1951; pacificstandardbrooklyn.com) to tell parenting tales that may make you laugh, will probably make you cringe with self-recognition, and will almost definitely send you to the bar for another pint. So, leave the kids at home (please!) and come see our inaugural speakers:

• Peter Meehan, author of the Momofuku and Frankies cookbooks, former NYT “$25 & Under” columnist, and founder (with David Chang) of Lucky Peach magazine. He lives in Manhattan with his wife and their daughter, Hazel.
• Jeff Yang, “Tao Jones” columnist at the Wall Street Journal, regular contributor to WNYC and PRI’s “The Takeaway,” and author of Secret Identities: The Asian American Superhero Anthology (volume 2 to be released this fall). He lives four blocks away in Park Slope with his wife, Heather, and their awesome sons, Hudson and Skyler.
• Paul Ford, ftrain.com founder, former Harper’s Magazine editor, writer for New York, Slate, The Morning News, as well as the author of the novel Gary Benchley, Rock Star, and an all-around Internet-fame guru. He is lives in Ditmas Park (which he claims is much nicer than Park Slope) with his wife and twin babies.

Again, the details:

Where: Pacific Standard (82 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn, 718-858-1951; pacificstandardbrooklyn.com)
When: 7 p.m. on Wednesday, June 13
Cost: Free!
Sponsor: “A little better than most blogs” is how Parents Magazine described DadWagon.com, three journalists’ attempt to make sense of the sometimes baffling, often excruciating, occasionally amusing world of fatherhood in New York City. Those three are Nathan Thornburgh, a writer for Time and founder of RoadsandKingdoms.com; Theodore Ross, features editor at Men’s Journal and author of the forthcoming “Am I a Jew?”; and Matt Gross, a travel and food writer and the Times’ former Frugal Traveler columnist.

Holodeck improv comedy June 6 at 8 pm!

A monthly show where all the comedy is made up on the premises. See some of the city's best indie improv teams perform their stuff. Hosted by the improv group Local Hero with this month's special guests The Indicators, Not Smith, and with musical improv from Hollywood, Kansas.

Step into the Holodeck where all your fantasies come true. Just be sure to knock if Commander Riker's in there.

Local Hero are:

Peter Cestaro
Alessandra Migliaccio
Michael Romanos
Bardia Salimi

Hollywood, Kansas are:

Evan Altshuler
Nikita Burdein
Allison Castellano
Jason Flowers
Katie Foster
Caryn Lewi
Curtis Retherford

The Indicators are:

Lindsey Carter
James Cronin
Matt Gifford
Rob Greene
James Isaac
Candace Lawrence
Alaine Livingston
Ben Owens

Not Smith are:

Matthew Bratnick
Allison Heim
Andrew Lee
Melinda Lin
Anna Mejorda
Casey McCormick
Ben Popken
Colleen Smith

May cocktail of the month!

Now that Rick Santorum has left a gaping, frothy hole in our hearts and our cocktail menu, we decided to hop on the bandwagon with everyone else and create a new cocktail for the rest of the campaign season: the Mint Rumney. It's mint, Rogue light rum (to prove that Mitt is as freewheeling and Tea Party-friendly as he says he is), grapefruit juice, and bitters, topped with a bit of Prosecco (to show you that Mitt is still a classy guy who won't offend the big money in the party). Come by and try one. You really have no other option.

Baseball season is on!

We have the MLB package as usual, and will be showing all the games we can on our two big projection screens, first-come first-served. If you have a large party, let us know in advance via e-mail (pacificstandardbrooklyn --at-- gmail.com) and we can schedule you. We'll also be doing an A's fan special: come in to the bar during an A's game and tell your bartender you're a fan, and you get $1 off Sierra Nevada pints. Let's go Oakland!

Holodeck improv comedy March 27 at 8 pm.

A monthly show where all comedy is made up on the premises. See some of the city's best indie improv teams perform their stuff. Hosted by the improv group Local Hero with special guests The Mannequin Room and Bear in a Hammock.

Step into the Holodeck where all your fantasies come true. Just be sure to knock if Commander Ryker's in there.

Local Hero are:
Peter Cestaro
Alessandra Migliaccio
Michael Romanos
Bardia Salimi

The Mannequin Room are:
Lou Gonzalez
Chrissie Gruebel
Caroline Sweet
Brian Urreta
Megan Venzin

Bear in a Hammock are:
Adam Sachs
Mike Sapp
Betsy Hoffman
Phil Weintraub
Sean Hart

*This show is part of Mannequin Room's "No AIDS, NO!" World Tour which is a comedy fundraising effort to benefit AIDS Walk New York. From now until May 20th, they'll donate $25 for each improv show they do. If you'd like to give a donation at this show that would be nice. Thanks!

New and exciting beers!

Every once in a while, we have such a fantastic lineup of tap beers that we have to brag about it. Here's a sampling of the rare and impressive beers we currently have on tap (including our first-ever Canadian microbrew!):

Green Flash Palate Wrecker (San Diego, CA; $7/12 oz). This imperial IPA has strong grassy and citrusy hop aromas. The flavor is full-bodied, with just enough caramel hops to balance the huge hop presence. 9.0% ABV.

Le Bilboquet L’Affriolante (Saint-Hyacinthe, QB; $6/16 oz). This spiced ale smells like a red ale spiked with maple syrup. The taste is of slightly toasted amber malt with a hint of honey. The clean finish keeps it from leaving too much sweetness behind. 7.0% ABV.

Napa Smith Bonfire (Napa, CA; $6/12 oz). This imperial porter has a medium-full body, with complex coffee, chocolate and dark caramel flavors. The smooth, robust texture will remind you of the winter that never was. 8.0% ABV.

Peak Organic King Crimson (Portland, ME; $6/12 oz). This imperial red ale is loaded with hops, along with plenty of malts and a touch of maple syrup to give it a buttery smoothness. Flavors of caramel, fruit, and toffee give way to a bittersweet finish. 9.3% ABV.

Stone Vertical Epic 2011 (Escondido, CA; $6/12 oz). The latest installment in Stone’s Vertical Epic series is a Belgian-style amber ale brewed with cinnamon and Anaheim chilies from New Mexico’s legendary Hatch Valley. The Belgian yeast produces some banana and clove flavors up front, while the Pacific Jade hops and the chilies provide a warm spiciness at the end. 9.4% ABV.

Come by soon to get a taste of these. They won't last long!

Whiskey Business Web Series Debut March 29 at 9 pm!

Come one, come all! Barside Productions is celebrating our Debut Release with ... alcohol of course! We'll also feature a screening of our webseries, "Whiskey Business." Join us for Jameson, laughter, furries, and of course a night full of debauchery you most likely won't remember. Did we mention sock monkeys?

Pacific Standard Bracket-Off Standings After the First Week.

Here's how we stand going into the Sweet 16:

Glynn #1: 209
Ray Brown: 204
Glynn #2: 164
Nick Hudak #1: 163
Glynn #3: 155
Colombo #2: 150
Addie: 149
Colombo #1: 148
Ashley Stubblefield: 146
The Brewish Bracket: 145
Siam Ghouse: 144
Malcolm: 142
Jake: 140
Ryan Kahl #1: 139
Jon Stan: 130
Jesus Garcia: 125
John Rauschenberg #1: 124
Ryan Kahl #2: 120
Jeremy Hunt: 120
Sean Mintus: 104
Ray Reynolds: 99
Jerusha: 93
John Rauschenberg #2: 90

Details on The Curiosities book release party March 28 at 7 pm.

Come celebrate the Brooklyn release of Brittany Perham's first book of poems "The Curiosities" (http://www.parlorpress.com/freeverse/perham) featuring readings by Brittany Perham, Joseph Fasano, Jason Labbe, and Sarah V. Schweig.

Brittany Perham is a Jones Lecturer in Poetry at Stanford University, where she was a Wallace Stegner Fellow from 2009-2011. Her work may be found in the Bellevue Literary Review, Drunken Boat, Lo-Ball, Southern Poetry Review, TriQuarterly, and elsewhere. She lives in San Francisco.

Joseph Fasano's poems have appeared in The Yale Review, Tin House, The Southern Review, Boston Review, FIELD, and other journals. He won the 2008 RATTLE Poetry Prize, and he has been a finalist for The Missouri Review Editors' Prize, The Times Literary Supplement Poetry Competition, and The Kinereth Gensler Award from Alice James Books, among other honors. His work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and his first book, "Fugue for Other Hands," was recently selected by Jeanne Marie Beaumont as the winner of the 2011 Cider Press Review Book Award. He has taught at Columbia University and SUNY Purchase, and he currently teaches literature and writing at Manhattanville College.

Jason Labbe is the author of the chapbooks Blackwash Canal (H_NGM_N BKS) and Dear Photographer (Phylum Press). His poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in A Public Space, Boston Review, Poetry, Conjunctions, Colorado Review, and American Letters & Commentary. He lives in Bethany, Connecticut.

Sarah V. Schweig's poems have appeared in BOMB Magazine, Boston Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Western Humanities Review, and Verse Daily, among others. She recieved the David Craig Austen Memorial Award from Columbia University for her MFA manuscript, and in the spring of 2012 she will begin the Emerging Poets Residency at Poets House in Manhattan. Her chapbook, S, is available through Dancing Girl press.

St. Patrick's Day at Pacific Standard.

An early heads-up: as we do with most ridiculous corporate "holidays," Pacific Standard will serve as your anti-St. Patrick's Day headquarters. If you want to go out Saturday but don't want green throw-up on you, come here for a drink in somewhat more mellow surroundings.

The NCAA Tournament, Cal, and our bracket challenge.

As usual, we'll be opening early, at noon, on Thursday to show all the NCAA Tournament games possible. (We always open at noon Friday-Sunday.) We have the package, and can show two different games at a time on our two large projection screens. It'll be first-come, first-served--just ask your bartender if there's a game you're interested in. But if you have a large group interested in a specific game, let us know in advance (fiatlux --at-- pacificstandardbrooklyn.com) and we'll see what we can do about reserving a screen for you.

If you're a Cal fan, the first Cal game is at Wednesday at 9 pm against South Florida. We'll have it on both our big screens. If we win, that means another game on Friday, and then, well, let's not get ahead of ourselves.

In related news, we'll be doing our Pacific Standard bracket challenge. If you want to be involved and possibly gain glorious rewards, ask your bartender for details; they can print you out a bracket.

And one other thing: if you're doing the ESPN Tournament Challenge online contest thingy, join Pacific Standard's group, in addition to any others you may be members of. Go here to sign up:

http://games.espn.go.com/tcmen/en/frontpage

Our group name is Pacific Standard, and the password is "gobears". Oh, and to avoid any confusion, this has nothing to do with the bar's own pen and paper tournament pool. It's just for fun.

Book Release Party/Reading March 28 at 7 pm.

Come celebrate the release of Brittany Perham's first book of poems, "The Curiosities." (http://www.parlorpress.com/freeverse/perham).

Brittany Perham is a Jones Lecturer in Poetry at Stanford University, where she was a Wallace Stegner Fellow from 2009-2011. Her work may be found in the Bellevue Literary Review, Drunken Boat, Lo-Ball, Southern Poetry Review, TriQuarterly, and elsewhere. She lives in San Francisco.

There will be readings, there will be toasting, there will be drinking.

(More info to come!)

Kings County at Pacific Standard.

Big Pacific Standard news: we're finally carrying local craft spirits, namely the moonshine from the esteemed Kings County Distillery right here in Brooklyn. A little information about them:

Kings County Distillery is New York City’s oldest operating whiskey distillery, the first since before Prohibition. Kings County makes hand-crafted bourbon and moonshine out of a 325-square foot room in five, 8-gallon stills. Our moonshine recently won “Best in Category” for corn whiskey at the American Distilling Institute’s Craft Spirits Conference.

This whiskey is available here in two different ways:

1. Neat as a sweet, smooth, complex sipping drink ($9). This isn't your great-grandpappy's moonshine. It's incredibly easy-drinking and gives your stomach a nice warm glow.

2. In our March cocktail of the month (and possibly beyond), The Corn Holed Fashioned ($10): Kings County corn moonshine, sugar, orange, bitters, cherry.

You have to try this stuff! Come by during happy hours (Monday-Thursday 4-8 pm, Friday 12-8 pm) when you can get it for $1 off, or on our cocktail Wednesdays, where all cocktails are $1 off all night. In addition, just to kick things off right, we'll be doing $1 off Kings County drinks all night Monday-Wednesday of this coming week. Just ask for the Kings County special.

Holodeck improv comedy on Leap Day, 8 pm!

A monthly show where all comedy is made up on the premises. See some of the city's best indie improv teams perform their stuff. Hosted by the improv group The Mondays with special guests The Heathers and Admiral Goodbar.

Step into the Holodeck where all your fantasies come true. Just be sure to knock if Commander Riker's in there.

The Mondays are:

Pete Cestaro
Alessandra Migliaccio
Jesse Neil
Amanda Ratti
Michael Romanos
Brandon Tarzis

The Heathers are:

Megan Bowers
Mark Dowling
Cristina Duran
Ronnie Fleming
Matt Morgan
Johanna Rice
Evan Hoyt Thompson
Timmy Wood

Admiral Goodbar are:

Kristen Bartlett
Siobhan Beasley
Marcus Bender
Sean Casey
Jason Gore
Jordan Reeves
Nathan Wagner
Claire Wilmoth

February's Cocktail of the Month!

Our February cocktail is a reminder that great things can come in eensy packages. A short month or a smaller boxer can still pack a wallop. Try it out next time you come in (especially on cocktail Wednesdays, when cocktails are $1 off all night)!

Pacquiao’s Punch ($8): Raspberry vodka, Rogue light rum, Campari, orange juice.

Babeland Trivia February 12--Update.

We just wanted to remind y'all that we'll be having our second Babeland trivia night on February 12 at 8 pm. The Babeland crew puts on a great show; expect questions about all things romantic and sexual, as usual. As far as the fancy prizes go, Babeland will give away silver bullet vibrators to those who want them on the top three teams. They'll also hold a free raffle--all you need to do is sign up for their mailing list on the night of the quiz and you'll be entered to win an Orchid G vibrator and lube. Mark your calendars and make it a point to come by!

Haphazard Stance comedy January 17 at 8 pm.

Haphazard Stance: An Improv Comedy Show

A monthly show where all comedy is made up on the premises. See some of the city's best indie improv teams perform their stuff. Hosted by the improv group The Mondays with special guests TolleHarsh and STEAK.

The Mondays are:
Pete Cestaro
Alessandra Migliaccio
Jesse Neil
Amanda Ratti
Michael Romanos
Brandon Tarzis

TolleHarsh are:
Brentt Harshman
Sarah Tollemache

STEAK are:
Lisa Barracuda
Evan Boshi
David Ebert
Jon Monje