Neighborhood Spotlight: Mickey's Tavern

Neighborhood bars are awesome. There, that's my editorial for the week.

Mickey's Tavern is located at 2345 N. Leavitt

More on Mickey's in tomorrow's pipeline if I ever finish writing it!! We're sending it on Wednesday due to the fact we're guessing most of our readers are cranky like we are and recovering from a long weekend with lots of other email to catch up on.

Get Your Frog Legs on at Joey's Shrimp House

Some serious deliciousness was had via Joey's Shrimp House, at 1432 N. Western. The menu pics were snapped by Dina of Littlerock who insisted I try some shrimp so she could live vicariously through me or something like that.

As Dina popped into Joey's, I chatted up Joey Jr. who maybe one day will take over the shrimp house reins. For now he's just holding Lucy's leash.

Holstein Park at Night

Images to be I'D'ed in next Pipeline

Beauty & Guns: New work by Florian Retkowski

Florian seemed happy that I'd included the photo of him and his patriotic snail in last week's issue-- we spent a good five minutes in his studio, room 311 of the Flat Iron Building, waiting for the Pipeline to load on his trusty yet slow computer- that I decided to feature him again in Wednesday's post holiday issue so he can experience more issues loading the next one.

A longtime Flat Iron resident sculptor specializing in miniature ceramics, and well known around the neighborhood, Florian recently departed from animals and aliens and appears to be sculpting humans.

The model used for Beauty & Guns is an Iowan named Patricia.

If you are trying to guess as to what Florian's feelings are on the Second Amendment based on his art, he says that he supports a citizen's right to bear arms for protection.

"The government has a weapon- it's the government, and the people should be able to have weapons too," Florian explained this past week. If you can't tell by his hat, he also supports the White Sox.

The Beauty & Guns pieces are $80 each. The insect reliefs are $8 each and he still has a few remaining. The M-16 piece is not yet complete but he allowed me to shoot a picture of the gray mother mold.

360SEE to Celebrate Anniversary

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Will Joe of Odd Obsessions Submit a Review?

Popping in on Joe Rubin et al at Odd Obsessions Movies is one of my favorite things to do and a guaranteed informative experience.

I'm not a betting person, but I'd say that there's an 80% chance I will not receive a submission from Joe this week. Joe's a busy guy, and reported that he'd be spending the holiday weekend watching as many movies by the same director, in this case Joe Dante of Gremlins fame, as possible. By Saturday he was on the fourth movie, Innerspace, and joined by film critic and colleague, Andrew.