DC’s thoughtful new microbrewery Lost Generation Brewing Co. draws inspiration from great American novelists with its retro design and opening beers named after timeless literary quotes.

Tucked away off Eckington’s Metropolitan Branch Trail, this IPA and lager specialty brewery breathes new life into an old early 20th-century Nabisco factory (327 S. Street NE). The 5,000-square-foot cavernous space accommodates a speakeasy-style taproom in the front. The 30-seat bar exudes history, surrounded by original brick walls and reclaimed Douglas fir dug from beneath the floorboards.

Husband-wife duo Jared Pulliam and Anne Choe have their own stories to tell. Pulliam is a teacher-turned-brewer and ran the show at Lagunitas in the west, while Choe worked at some of the wine country’s finest restaurants.

Lost Generation begins with a cast core of IPAs, lagers and seltzer fermented with fruit juice (strawberry lychees and mango passion fruit). There are two Kesselsauers, a tangy grapefruit gose ale and a dessert-style sour that tastes like peach a la mode. Also on tap: a wheat beer with Mandarina Bavaria hops called “Only a Sunny Smile” based on a famous line by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Other beer titles and vintage decorations like books, metal gramophones, manual typewriters, and quotes on display pay homage to the brewery’s muses: legendary writers Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, and the Fitzgeralds. The unsterile brewery also gets a dose of color from a long mural by DC artist Kelly Towles.

lost generation

“Lost Generation evokes themes from that era of art as well as a mix of modernity, as the notions of the lost generation are still poignant today,” says Pulliam.

Production is primarily driving the taproom, Pulliam says, with plans for “very limited” distribution. Kegs will soon be finding their way into DC and Virginia bars, notes DC beer. There’s also scope to add more silver tanks to the production facility, which is showcased behind a glass wall at the back. Stay tuned for the release date of a North German-style Pilsner.

The couple have 30 years of combined restaurant and brewing experience. Pulliam started professional brewing in DC as a side hustle while he was still a public school teacher, “doing chores while I bitched,” he says.

The duo have a long-term goal of opening a brewery and taproom here in their hometown. That was a decade ago, when pioneering brewery DC Brau was pretty much the only big game in town.

“Since DC was still in the early stages of beer, we knew we had to go into one of the epicenters of brewing culture to really grow,” he says.

So they moved to California, where he landed a dream job at Lagunitas Brewing Co., managing all three brewing divisions for five years. Choe also honed her hospitality trade by working at Sonoma’s cherished Girl and the Fig and all-female cocktail bar Drawing Board.

“Petaluma wasn’t Paris, but we had to leave to grow in our own jobs and really be around people who believe in the products we love as much as we do,” he says.

A pair of “Shift” lagers at Lost Generation pays homage to Pulliam’s early morning brews at Lagunitas and its Santa Rosa sibling Moonlight, when crushing a 6 a.m. beer after work was the order of the day. Lost Generation’s Grave Shift dark lager mimics Moonlight’s best-selling book, Death and Taxes. Its crisp “Shift” counterpart is made with Tettnang and Hallertau Blanc hops (4.7 percent vol.). The strongest of the bunch is the “Feather Kitty” (8% ABV), a hazy double IPA named after one of Hemingway’s beloved cats.

When the duo returned to DC, Choe worked for the Michelin-starred Fiola and Neighborhood Restaurant Group (Bluejacket Brewery and Iron Gate). DC got its first taste of Lost Generation’s IPAs earlier this month at Snallygaster, NRG’s massive annual downtown beer festival.

A little further up is the popular Metropolitan Branch Trail City-State Brewing Co.’s years old plant in Edgewood. If Lost Generation’s insanely busy opening day (Saturday, October 29) was any indication, there’s a clear demand for more neighborhood breweries in the Northeast.

“We had to stop admission and start a line because we were busy for about six hours at a time,” says Pulliam.

Opening hours are Wednesday and Thursday from 4pm to 10pm and Friday to midnight; Saturday from 11 a.m. to midnight; and Sundays from 11am to 10pm (closed on Mondays and Tuesdays).

Food trucks will be parked on site shortly. For now, the fare is limited to bar snacks like jerkface jerky.

Now that you can break cast cores, many rooms in the castle have opened up for you. Your next goal will be to find them Monocular Key This is how you can find the next mask, but you can also access the gallery and make your first try paint jigsaw puzzleswhich is a necessary part of the game.

After climbing the stairs in the Great Hall, go down the corridor on your right. That Hand drawn map is here on the floor and indicates that the monocular key is in a bedroom, but it is difficult to get there and you have to run away from a monster. Once in the room, wait for Michael to point out the fireplace before crouching and walking through it. In the next area you will find another “Power Amplifier”. RW variant hip flask. You can now focus on enemies to stun them with a dose of power when ammo is low and you find it necessary.

Once you make it back to the room you were trapped in, you can escape, but there are a lot of enemies outside. It’s unlikely you’ll be able to defeat them, so use your new skills to stun them and blast your way through. Refer to the hand-drawn map and your main map to get into the room with the monocular key. You can find him next to a book in the dressing room. Now that you have the Monocular Key, you can get the second one Upgrade Pistol.

Use the monocular door in the courtyard to proceed. Follow the path to get to Dimitrescu’s bedchamber. Head into the Hall of Ablution and you will find a statue puzzle. Complete it to open the passage and continue.

The dungeon you fall into is evil. In here, it’s a mostly narrow path with a few cast cores to break through while either sneaking past or fighting sculpted enemies. Standing still for too long is a death wish and you need to keep moving. While it’s high voltage, there aren’t many other avenues you can take. So as long as you keep moving forward, you’ll find him Silver Mask at the end of the dungeon. You’ll have to exit the dungeon the same way you came in while being chased by multiple enemies, so use your stun powers to make it.

Make sure to move through Dimitrescu’s bedroom when exiting and grab those snake painting. Once you return to the courtyard, you’ll find a ton of more enemies to avoid. Luckily they won’t follow you into the dining room.

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Laguna Beach was once a sanctuary, an oasis, a protective cocoon for men who loved men in ultra-conservative Orange County.

A whole block of South Coast Highway was home to gay bars, the most famous perhaps being the raucous Boom Boom Room, which was pouring its last drink 15 years ago as people danced on the bar and the crowd went wild. The Little Shrimp, a popular piano bar, was reborn as Woody’s and then Avila’s El Ranchito Mexican Restaurant. And on Saturday, October 22, the owners of Anchor Line Bar, aka Main Street Bar & Cabaret, are also scheduled to serve their final libations.

The Anchor Line is the last of Laguna’s vintage gay bars, a staple since 1958. Its future is bleak — it could be resurrected with new ownership and name, new design, and new zeitgeist — but the Nelson clan that almost ran it has two decades, is done.

“My brother Jimmy bought this bar 18 years ago to save what was left of gay Laguna,” said Nurse Wendy Nelson, sitting at the bar in the dim afternoon light. On the wall behind her was an “I can’t even think straight” sign.

But Jimmy Nelson died in August. Business was difficult even before COVID as Laguna’s land values ​​skyrocketed and much of the gay community moved east to the Palm Springs area. Then came pandemic-related closures and rent increases and staff conflicts and open hostilities — The bar’s windows were smashed in 2020 — and Nelson said it was just time to let go.

It feels like the end of an era. But it’s happening across the country, not just in Laguna: According to the tally, half of America’s gay bars disappeared between 2002 and 2021 Data compiled by Greggor Mattson, Professor and Chair of Sociology at Oberlin College.

Why?

Add it to the rise of virtual hangouts — it’s easy to find like-minded people online — as well as rising rents, competition for the entertainment dollar, and a growing climate of inclusion that’s making these types of physical spaces less important than they once were for LGBTQ+ people , experts say.

But much is lost if they disappear.

“Sometimes I like to think of gay bars as archives,” Mattson said. “They can be very literal archives — in their attics are the account books measuring the economic life of the community, the Pride marches and floats that were organized there, the squares of AIDS quilts sewn.

“They are also metaphorical archives containing the life experience of our elders. We are a people who are not taught our history in high schools, so often our history – especially our local history – is there. What has it been like to be LGBTQ in Orange County over the past few decades? This comes from our elders. When we lose connection with them – who are often not online as much as younger people – we lose a part of our community and our history.”

Jordan C. Grasso, a UC Irvine graduate student in criminology, law, and society who studies the history and culture of these spaces, is skeptical of the “increasing tolerance” used to explain their decline.

“We can’t look any further than the recently proposed ‘Don’t Say Gay’ statewide law,” Grasso said via email. “In addition, more anti-LGBTQ+ laws were proposed in 2022 than any other year in recent history. Laws like these create an incredibly unsafe environment, not only for LGBTQ+ children (who are either forced to stay in the closet and develop psychological distress from internalized homophobia, or face potential abuse and harm for their coming out), but also for LGBTQ+ adults being scapegoated by the law – politicians at every turn in states like Florida and Texas, but also locally in Orange County.”

Economic reality, Grasso believes, plays a big part in the decline.

Grasso has found that gay bars are increasingly using ambiguous marketing to attract more customers in order to generate greater profits, which can be particularly problematic for queer women, who are being “doubly marginalized” by an emphasis on male-centric programming, as well as an influx of straight women, seeking shelter from the male harassment they find in regular bars.

“Every night at my research sites for my study of queer, female-centric bars and events, at least one or two people come up to me and ask, ‘Since when is this a straight bar?'” Grasso said. “So bars have a choice: open up to a wider clientele and stop being truly an LGBTQ+ bar or face financial difficulties.”

Over the past year, Grasso has spoken to several people fighting to open new gay bars for queer women and gender-segregated people in Southern California. “Even with investors, business plans and a track record of success from previous events, it’s virtually impossible to afford to lease a building, especially as gay neighborhoods are being gentrified and being bought up by more prominent investors and corporations,” Grasso said. “The buildings just cost too much money. Couple this with the growing post-pandemic inequality gap and it’s no wonder these companies aren’t staying open.”

Resistance

Historically, these places were of crucial importance. The early civil rights struggles for LGBTQ+ people were spearheaded by bar owners who insisted on the right to serve gay people.

New York had them Stonewall Uprising 1969, when New York police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay club in Greenwich Village, confiscating its liquor supply and roughly dragging away guests. Six days of protests and violent clashes with law enforcement ensued, and Stonewall became a catalyst for the gay rights movement in the United States and around the world.

Before Stonewall had Los Angeles the black cat. It was New Year’s Day 1967; Police beat guests and arrested more than a dozen people for “indecent behavior” – same-sex kissing at the start of the New Year. Peaceful protests followed around the Silver Lake Bar and resulted in the birth of The lawyerthe nation’s oldest and largest LGBT publication.

“After Stonewall, bars have often served as community centers, yes, where people found romance, but also where they found jobs, friends, and information,” Mattson said. ” ‘Where’s a gay-friendly doctor?’ ‘My relationship is in trouble, where can we find a gay-friendly marriage counselor – even though we’re not allowed to get married?’”

It’s great that people can easily find each other online, but one of the lessons COVID has taught us is the importance of having physical places to gather, Mattson said.

Grasso agrees on the importance of meeting in real time in real space. “People meet online through social media and dating sites, but they still need a safe, physical place to meet, interact and form relationships without the burden or fear of anti-LGBTQ+ sentiment and harm,” said Grasso. Every person Grasso interviewed “lighted up discussing it, walking into a gay bar for the first time…often one of the first times they feel completely at home, or at least understood and unquestioned about the love they have for others.” Experienced.”

There is hope even as the bars shrink, both Grasso and Mattson said. “Underground parties and events” are organized online, as are “pop-up parties” and “queer guerrilla bars” where people meet in an otherwise straightforward place “to show that they are at peace are there,” Mattson said.

Gay bars aren’t going away entirely, but they do need to adapt, Mattson said. Many of the old ones were “white men’s clubs,” and those that survive must appeal to the broadest reach of the LGBTQ+ community.

Formerly Anchor Line was Fleur de Lys and Bounce and Main Street Bar & Cabaret. We’ll see what it turns into next.

gay resorts
The Greater Palm Springs Area still boasts the gayest resorts out there. All are marketed to gay men and are optional. the newest resort, Descanso, is among the best. It’s north of downtown in the area occupied by the East Canyon Hotel and Spa, which eventually sold and became a mainstream hotel, only to return to its gay roots for its current incarnation. The property’s General Manager, Kent Taylor, has helped restore the luxury of the old East Canyon and take it to an even higher level. Hotel staff pamper guests with a premium continental breakfast, complimentary lunch, and a pantry with complimentary drinks and snacks available throughout the day.

Descanso’s sister hotel, Santiago, located south of downtown, is also known for its high-end amenities, including an expanded continental breakfast and lunch. It’s the only two-story gay resort in the city and has the largest pool and hot tubs of any resort.

The aforementioned Inn Triangle is just a few steps away from the Santiago. Green and Boyd, the longtime owners, live on the property and make guests feel like family. The mid-century modern building is a gem of the neighborhood with a beautiful front yard framing the property.

The largest cluster of gay resorts is in the Warm Sands neighborhood, about half a mile from downtown. The mainstay of Warm Sands InnDulge is owned by a gay couple, John Jackson and Sandy Miller. In addition to a continental breakfast, they host a free cocktail hour every night. Miller seems to remember everyone’s names and is great at introducing himself so all guests can get to know each other.

That Hacienda at Warm Sands in Palm Springs is a luxury property across from InnDulge and includes two pools and a hot tub. A free lunch is also included. Known for pampering guests, the resort even has a pillow menu to please even the most discerning guest.

Desert Paradise Resort Palm Springs is kitty-corner from Hacienda and is another high-end resort with steam room and dry sauna.

Vista Grande is another luxury property that includes a huge whirlpool grotto and steam room. The resort has three pools, all heated to 94 degrees, for comfortable swimming on the coolest of nights.

El Mirasol villas is a historic resort originally built by reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes. The sprawling resort includes two pools.

CCBC is the only resort in neighboring Cathedral City. At 3.5 hectares it is the largest of the gay resorts. It is also open for day passes and is particularly popular with bears. The attached Runway Bar and Restaurant serves great food and hosts live shows.

While not strictly a gay hotel, it is Trixie Motel opened in June under the ownership of RuPaul’s Drag Race alumnus Trixie Mattel (aka Brian Michael Firkus) and her husband David Silver. The motel’s renovation was featured on the Discovery+ channel. Trixie is pretty – and pink – but she’s not cheap. A night in one of their very colorful and unique seven rooms will set you back around $600 on average, and prices go up to $900 a night during peak demand.

nightlife
All gay nightlife was concentrated in Cathedral City until the 1990s. Now, LGBTQ nightlife is returning to Cathedral City, home to five gay bars. The largest concentration of gay bars in Palm Springs is in downtown Palm Springs on E. Arenas Road, just east of S. Indian Canyon Drive. There have been no lesbian bars in Palm Springs since Delilah’s closed 15 years ago, but Toucans and Hunters in Palm Springs is one of the most popular with lesbians.

Toucans Tiki Lounge and Cabaret is famous for its drag shows, dances and Latin Fever montages. Hunter has a huge dance room, a main bar and an expansive terrace.

Hunters started serving food during COVID lockdowns so it could stay open and it has carried on that tradition.

StreetBar is a local favorite and always attracts a lot of people, especially in the early evening.

Quadz Video Bar is another mainstay on Arenas Road with karaoke on Thursdays and Sundays. To celebrate Halloween, Quadz will be hosting a “Rocky Horror Picture Show” sing-along on Tuesday, October 25 at 7 p.m

Chill Bar Palm Springs is right next to Quadz. The bright corner bar with glass walls always seems to draw a crowd. Like Hunters, it also serves food.
black book is the new kid on the block and known for its delicious gourmet bar food.

That Eagle 501 is a favorite with the leather, Levi’s and bear crowd.

Located just around the corner from Arenas Road on S. Indian Canyon Drive, Tryst Bar and Lounge is known for featuring local musicians.

That tool shed, on the edge of the Warm Sands neighborhood, is famous for its Thursday night underwear night. In response to the pandemic, it was expanded into the parking lot so it can accommodate a large crowd and serve people who don’t feel safe with large indoor gatherings.

Cathedral City’s version of the toolshed, the barracksWednesday is her underwear night. It has always had a large outdoor patio.

An Eleven bar is a popular piano bar with karaoke on Thursdays and Sundays and a popular drag brunch on Sundays.

That AMP Sports Lounge takes its name from the couple who own it, Paul and Antonio Lopez-Cochran. AMP stands for Antonio Marries Paul. In addition to being the place to catch sporting events around the city, AMP’s stage also hosts karaoke on Fridays and drag bingo on Thursdays.

Roost lounge is just around the corner from AMP and is revered for its monthly Chicken Ranch charity fundraiser. She boasts that she raised $18,000 for breast cancer this month. Wednesday is karaoke night, Friday is disco and Sunday is bingo.

Enjoy your meal
Palm Springs is full of great restaurants. Belong to the best Tropical, with its huge outdoor terrace ideal for those who don’t want to eat inside. Fried chicken is one of the most popular dishes.

trio is famous for its happy hour and fabulous gourmet food. The fixed price menu of $24.99 daily from 3pm to 6pm is a great bargain considering the quality of the restaurant.

That Emperor Grill has great food, an exceptional wraparound patio, and is a good spot for people-watching on Palm Canyon Drive in the heart of downtown.

That Eight4Nine Restaurant and Lounge is a magnificent luxury restaurant with delicious food served in style in its very comfortable and colorful dining rooms.

Mid Mod Cafe is a great spot for breakfast and lunch with a good selection of burgers, burritos, and salad bowls at reasonable prices.

shopping gay
Jeffrey Bernstein and his husband Oscar Chamudes own the Target PSP Shop on Palm Canyon Drive in the heart of downtown. The store specializes in California-made clothing and mid-century modern Palm Springs-inspired memorabilia. The shop works with non-profit organizations to produce t-shirts with the group’s name and logo, with a portion of the proceeds from sales going to the organization itself. You can see Destination PSP merchandise at various stores across the city. Incidentally, Bernstein is running for a seat on the Palm Springs City Council in the upcoming November 8 election.

GayMartin the heart of the gay E. Arenas Road Strip, specializes in trendy menswear and swimwear. BearWear is just a few steps away on Arenas Road and stocks clothing to fit men of all sizes.

In Warm Sands, just a few steps from the Tool Shed Bar, you’ll find the Q trading company that sells everything from cards and books to erotica. his neighbor, gearspecializes in fetish clothing and gear.

For more information, contact the city’s official tourist office website.

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