NFL 2010 (HD) at Donnelly Pubs

Sundays – 10:00am / 1:15pm / 5:30pm
Monday, September 13th – 4pm / 7:30pm
Mondays Thereafter 5:30pm

All games in HD and enter to win weekly prizes. Enter for your chance to win a Pro Bowl prize pack and trips to see the Seahawks.

Sunday Specials
$3 bud sleeve
$10 bud pitchers
$4 caesars
$17.60 buckets of buds

Schedule http://www.nfl.com/schedules?seasonType=REG&season=2010

5 YEARS OF FEELIN’ GOOD!

The Library Square Public House (you know it as the Square) is turning five and we’ve loved being your favourite local. We are throwing the bash of the summer!

Live performances from Nearly Neil, Comedians You Should See
DJs Ernold Sane, P Deady, Anna & Keith Talent
Hosted by Pit Boss Cole & Chairman of the Baird

Invite only from 9pm – 11pm, open to the public there after.

We have all been there. The light creeps through the blinds a bit earlier than days before. Your bedroom is and unbearable temperature. The slightest sound disturbs your rest. You are wearing half the clothes you had on the night before and you don’t quite remember how you got home. You’d like to tell yourself that you’ve come down with the flu or some other form of delerium.

Sorry friend, you have done this one to yourself. You’ve acquired what one calls ‘The Hangover.’

Although the details of the night before are cloudy at best. I remember my first hangover minute for minute. I had been smart enough to leave the car in the parking lot of the community centre that night (yes, my first drunken escapade was at the community centre, give it up for the small town!) Left up to my own devices to pick up the car I had left behind, I called my eldest brother to give me a lift. Overnight it had snowed two feet and I now had to dig out my 1983 VW Rabbit from the parking lot. Fatigue hits pretty hard in that state let me tell you. I won’t bore you with the details of my shift that day, but it was a series of slow movements and breaks to the closest garbage/toilet/mop sink for various degrees of vomit.

Had I only been privy to some of the most exclusive hangover ‘cures’ known today, perhaps I could have rallied a bit better. But as in all things in life, there is trial and error, and a learning curve.

Some of these are gimmicks, others are tried and true. Some may or may not work for everyone. I like to use a combination of 3 or 4 depending on the severity. Needless to say, take what you can from the text below, and please drink responsibly.

Cure #1: The preventative late-night snack
Everything tastes delicious at 3am after a night of binge drinking at a club. The guy who runs the hot-dog stand knows this. I fully endorse the drunken feast. It keeps you up and out of bed for a few minutes, takes the edge off the bed-spins and gives you a layer of carbs (bun, pizza crust etc) to even out the lime juice from your vodka slime. Just beware of the kebab, that’s all I’m going to say about that.

Cure #2: The responsible drunk
I have actually been able to execute this on multiple occasions. Before passing out, set your alarm for 2 hours before you actually need to get up. On your night-stand, place 2 extra-strength advil and 1 large glass water. Alarm goes off, take the medication and return to sleep. The idea is that when you wake up for real, the pills are already at work. I think I am at 50% success rate with this one.

Cure #3: The Sha-bath
This goes by many names, and I know I didn’t come up with it, but I like to think that I have introduced it to many. The Sha-bath is my personal favorite and has brought me back to life after many long nights. The technique is simple: Run a hot shower, plug the tub and lie down on the floor of the tub. Let the shower fill up the tub then pull the plug to drain. Repeat as many times as necessary. This technique is most effective when you have 45min or so and have the lights off in the bathroom.

Cure #4: The greasy spoon
Indulge in as much fatty greasy foods as you can acquire: mcdonalds breakfast, a combination of pork foods, whatever. Either you’ll feel better immediately, or it will induce vomiting, both of which are good answers as far as I’m concerned. Bacon has actually been medically proven to help alleviate a hangover.

Cure #5
Sleep it off.

Cure #6
Pick up where you left off. No, I don’t mean start dipping into the half empty bottle of creme de menthe that was left on your kitchen counter. I am talking about indulging in a more vitamin rich libation. Try an non-spicy bloody mary or caesar (these drinks were invented to deal with hangovers). A good friend also recommends a large pint of Guinness to get him through. I can’t speak to the medicinal nature of this, but I have felt better after a few sips of stout.

There’s no real way to get around this phenomenon, and it does seem as though the older I get, the easier it is for my hangovers to creep into my top 5 hangovers of all time. Whatever the case may be, don’t be stingy with the solutions folks. They aren’t trade secrets, help us out and share the love.

Below please find Fernand Petiot’s 1933 recipe for the original Bloody Mary from Harry’s New York bar in Paris:
2 shots 100 proof (50% abv) vodka
2 shots fresh pressed tomato juice
1/4oz fresh lemon juice
5 dash lee & perrins
4 pinches salt
2 grinds black pepper
2 pinches cayenn pepper

Working is totally harsh. And mid-week can be pretty daunting if still have another 2 full work days left. That’s why we’re putting a little treat together for you guys from now on every week on Wednesday nights.

REALITY BITES is a new weekly hang out and eat junk food and drink beer and party night at The Lamplighter in Gastown every Wednesday night.

— THREE THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW

1) NO COVER. EVER.
It’s free to get in, always and that’s never gonna change. We’re never gonna bring in some big shot out of town DJ you’ve never heard of and suddenly tell you you need give us $15 dollars. It’s just not going to happen.

2) ONE HUNDRED BEERS FOR OUR FRIENDS EACH WEEK.
So come by and talk to us and let us hook you up!! There will be tournament and game nights surrounding these give aways some nights and others we’ll just try to get as many people blasted as possible. Arrive early for this.

3) THIS IS A NINETIES NIGHT…
Unlike any 90s night you’ve ever been to. We’re pretty sure nothing else like this exists anywhere in any other city ever right now based on our extensive no research and assumptions.

Allow me to explain: Forget Montel Jordan and Vanilla Ice. This is us trying our best to recreate everything that seemed fun about the 90s in cinematic gems like Encino Man and Reality Bites…

We have a totally rad drink special, 100 beers each week, comic books, playboys, junk food and video games. Plus were gonna have little tournaments and prizes for everyone: Foose Ball, Buck Hunter, Pool, Shotgunning…

— TOTALLY RAD FOOD/DRINK SPECIALS AS FOLLOWS:
$4.25 Domestic Sleeves
$12.75 Pitchers
$3.00 Pound of wings
(plus applicable taxes)

— WE PLAY
Smashing Pumpkins / Nirvana / Green Day / Offspring / Dinosaur JR / Beastie Boys / Pearl Jam / Sound Garden / REM / Beck / Pixies / STP / Crash Test Dummies / Weezer / Everclear / No Doubt / The Cardigans / Butthole Surfers / Dead Kennedys / Foo Fighters / Presidents of United States of America / GOB

Its slacker heaven.

So from now on Wednesdays don’t get bummed out that there are still 2 more days of Workaaaaage, just RELAX and remember that REALITY BITES and come escape the grind to have some brewskies and munchies and maybe even later on a dance party.

Plus there’s no cover, lots of room to hang out and chill off to the side, fooseball, pool tables, cheap food and a dance floor for once the jams start getting kicked out.

DJ’s Christian Flores, Ethic Friends, & Mike Dobbs

Special back to school long weekend party with the original Lamplighter DJ crew. Everything from New Wave, to Rap, strictly classics. Party starts at 7pm, cover starts at 9pm.

Drink Specials:
$4.25 Domestic Sleeves
$4.50 Caesers
$6.50 Bowmosas
$7 Off Bottles Of Wine

Sunday August 1st
ACADEMIC LONG WEEKEND PART # 5

$4.25 Domestic Sleeves
$6.50 Contemporary Cocktails
all prices plus applicable taxes

With Dana D & Hosted by Marc Roberts
Pary Rock & Hip Hop Classics / 9pm – 1am no cover

Vicky Sjohall Live at The Calling
Sunday September 5th

Come join us for a special performance from one of Vancouver’s best live musicians. Enjoy dinner, Mojitos, drink features and much more.
Starts 9pm

Every Tuesday at Cinema Public House we screen a classic film, everything from the Golden Age of film to 80’s obscuria.

Take in your cult faves with $2.90 sleeves of domestic beer in a modern pub atmosphere.

August 16th – “Army of Darkness” is a story about a man who goes through a time warp and finds himself in England in the 1300s. With fighting going on all around him, he must locate the Book of the Dead in order to return to the present day.

August 24th – “Trainspotting” - Renton, deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene, tries to clean up and get out, despite the allure of the drugs and influence of friends.

August 31th – “Muriel’s Wedding” – Muriel finds life in Porpoise Spit, Australia dull and spends her days alone in her room listening to Abba music and dreaming of her wedding day. Slight problem, Muriel has never had a date. Then she steals some money to go on a tropical vacation, meets a wacky friend, changes her name to Mariel, and turns her world upside down.

September 7th – “Brazil” - Terry Gilliam’s 1985 film is a surrealist nightmare of a low-level bureaucrat in a dismal world of the near future.

Email joshh@dhmbars.ca to reserve a table

DUE TO THE HOLIDAY, OUR SUNDAY PARTY WILL BE ON A MONDAY!!!

Bacardi & The Lamplighter present

First Sunday Patio Party
Series Finish # 4

Monday September 6th

It’s been a hot summer and what better way to finish it off then with the final installment of the now- legendary Lamplighter Patio Series.  Featuring Live Reggae with Mostly Marley plus DJs, El DJ Loco, Joe Bars, Tyson V & Dana D on 2 x 4.

Hosted by Lamp Legends Richie & Geoff

1pm – 3pm VIP blended mayhem

Open to public after 3pm

www.dhmbars.ca
www.facebook.com/TheLamplighterGastown
www.twitter.com/DonnellyPubs

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Gold Standard Entertainment presents

Back To School Girl Party

$6 Double High-Balls
House/Top 40/Mash-Ups
DJs UNIT & G-Ratt

$15 at the door
or advance tickets through Gold Standard

Summer is STILL HERE! Join us for the hottest Long Weekend Party in the City! Back to School Girl Party will be host to the hottest School Girls in Town. Hottest School Girl gets a Gold Standard Bar Tab!!

$6 Double High Balls

FEATURING…

DJ UNIT – Unit is one of Vancouver’s uprising stars, playing the hottest in Hip-Hop, R&B, House, Old Skool etc etc. You can catch Unit playing at Summer Breeze Caprice Wednesdays, alongside DJ C-Stylez.

DJ G-Ratt – Still fairly new to the scene, this young up and comer will blow you away with his knowledge of sexy House and Party Rock! Keep your eye on this one, as he will be rocking VanCity Party’s for many years to come.

For Guest List or Party Bookings contact: KF@gsentertainment.ca

All pictures and videos will be posted on our Group!

Join and invite your friends:

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?v=info&gid=175948018790

Check out our past party’s at www.gsentertainment.ca

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geZDlyT27hw

Gold Standard is always hiring promoters to add to the team. If you are interested, send your resume to kf@gsentertainment.ca

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