Thank you. I walk by Liberty at least 3 times a day and this has been driving me nuts for the last few weeks. I can't figure out if they just don't care or if somehow they just haven't noticed. Either way, it's unprofessional and I cannot bring myself to go in there until the situation is remedied.

Has anyone told the folks at Liberty? I mean, I'm sure they'd jump through the necessary hoops to get Dan's boyfriend in.

I've been in there, and I can tell you that the cocktails are yummy and the service was also quite nice. Glad to hear the word's spreading.

Dear Liberty
If you take mr. Savage's advice you will ruin your bar. Your logo's is collegiate and the "exposed guts of the booth" implies wild sex. If you can't sell delicious coctails with that combo on cap hill I'll eat mr. Savage's sub pop cap.
And that is the last word on this subject. Please no more posts.

screw you ahura, we'll post all we want. and let me say that the unfinished booths might be firmly nailed in place (yet another sexy term) and so not easily finished.

Perhaps leaving the backs open was intentional - I will leave it to the lit majors to interpret the meaning.

What the hell do these old gas bag fags know?

Ask Cienna, new piper for the young and trendy.....

I'd have to see a bigger picture of the whole front, but I kindof like the way the booths look. The wavy wire looks neat. The material behind the wire would need to stay clean though because any resemblance to a couch on the street with a free sign would be a deal breaker.

SHeeSH,

First, Dan has a thing about high-nosed restaurants that won't let him put a little oil or grease on his table bread and NOW, I learn that his better half is "a complete snob"? Oh the DRAMA of it all... what will I learn next from SLOG? That someone in the Savage Household has a thing about used shoelaces or that someone inappropriately used of "top half" towel for "bottom half" drying?

But Liberty folks... what is the point of having a window booth visible from the street if all I am going to see is the "back" of someones head from the street? or why do I want a fancy-pants cocktail in your place, and if you are using really fruit juice, you know this anonyomous poster wants that cocktail to look all "oh-la-la" and nicely garnished and all, but WHY do I want to spend my money at your watering hole if people on the street can't see me drinking it?

WHY? oh, Why, pray tell, WHY? There are plenty of low-light, dark bars with nicely garnished drinks in this town that plenty of people already can't see my face in from the street.

We all are just saying...

Um, why can't they just paint the windows? If it's good enough for Christmas murals...

How much you wanna bet there's a nicely-finished bench back pressed snugly against the wall nearby? I can hear the installer now: "Fuck! Oh well, they won't notice."

That looks like shit.

We all have our own towels at the Savage estate.

let me just chime in here a second, in defense of myself.

it's not just the missing backs facing the windows that bother me. it's also the fact that tere are low couches inside the bar too.

twice i've walked by the bar in the evening recently and have seen women who couldn't get out of the squishy and low couches alone. they had to be hauled out by friends who didn't have drinks in ther hands.

not because they were drunk mind you, the couches are just the wrong type for a restaurant. as a rule of thumb your ass should never sink lower then your knees when you sit down on a pulic couch, because there is no way of looking good getting out of something like that. it's very unflattering to women, making them look obese/crippled without it actually being true.

also whenever i've sat in a bar on a couch like that, people just tumble into eachother and you end up getting slouched on by somebody you don't know/want to know.

bar stools, proper well designed chairs and benches a'la hopvine are much more pleasant and don't make you look like a crippled obese drunk when you get up.

when liberty fixes those things, i'll be in.

i did see some stools in the back, so if i do go in, that's where i'll be, but it's not likely until they get rid of the weird couches and fix the banquets.

dan, i don't think that's snobby, just common sense.

Oh, I noticed. It looks incontrovertibly dreadful. They apparently painted the bottom part of the windows black to cover the unsightly innards, and then the windows cracked, and then they got new windows, and then the window installer said there's no way to paint windows in such a way without them cracking—improbable, no?—and then I was told that it was to be taken care of in a timely manner, elsewise I probably would've written a whole column about the issue of the springs.

Meanwhile, the owner's mother just sent me a heart-explodingly cute email thanking me for giving Liberty some love. I salute her for reading past the junkie shooting up between his toes.

Why is this place getting so much free pub in The Stranger? It's just a bar for christsakes. I'm all for finding new places to get lit up but honestly this is getting a little suspicious.

you call telling everyone you don't plan on setting foot in the place until the make it nicer free publicity?

i guess you're right, but it's not good publicity.

no such thing as bad pub, especially apparently when it comes to a! new! bar! in! Cap! Hill!

The seats look like ass, by the way.

man, leave it to a free newspaper that totally has perverted the very spirit of something as nice and neighborly as a block party - to sit around and tell a new bar what it needs to be to make their cut....if you ask me the future is in people who do not take their marching orders or who 'learn' things from a paper like the Stranger....but rather in the people who are working on opening Liberty, you know the people who are actually doing something not sittin around passing judgement....

as for the benches or whatever....who the fuck cares.....I mean really - who cares?.....

damnation slog - this is crap....we're livin in a world on the verge of collapse and all ya wanna do is stay tightly focused on the everyday bullshit and give it your own particularly ho hum spin....

FINE!!!

be that way.....'-)