Hola! Music is in the air at Hi Point this weekend...
Blarney, our favorite Irish duo, is back at Hi Point this Friday evening. One of our baristas, Alex, is graduating from McQueen and his family has asked Blarney to come play Hi Point for the event, but we are still open to whoever wants to come listen, drink some brews and enjoy a lamb sausage pizza that is Alex's favorite recipe. He's a wild man in the kitchen, but this one is a winner! We're also featuring a selection of wines from Irish Vineyards for the occasion and we'll have our famous stout floats with our homemade ice cream, as well!
On Saturday, we're featuring the ACAM jazz trio from UNR playing 7-9pm. We've never hosted a jazz event and this is exciting to me, because of the great reputation of the UNR jazz program. Should be a night of truly excellent music!
Father's Day brunch is around the corner and you need to start planning something for good ol' Dad. If your pop is like mine, he loves bacon! Last year we did a bacon themed Father's Day brunch and it was so fun, we'll be doing it again. Different recipes, but same idea...three courses with bacon in every course, including the dessert. The bacon ice cream last year was the big hit, so I think that'll have to come back but for everything else, I'm still pondering my options. It's just too much fun! :)
Alright-y folks, tis all for now. It's time for me to take my main computer to the shop. It's dead. I must have got a virus got it last night and now all I get is the dread blue screen. Thankfully the folks at Moondog are way smarter than I, so I'm not too worried and I am profoundly grateful for my little laptop! But, word to the wise, don't click on anything on the internet ever again. It's dangerous out there! ;)
Take care and see you soon!
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Sunday Brunch!
Served 9am - 2pm
Bacon-wrapped eggs with cheesy polenta, served with smoked salmon and dill scones, fresh greens and a side of strawberries with lemon sugar and creme fraiche. |
Live music this Friday!!
Blarney Band
I stole this from their website...a great description of the fan-tab-u-lous music of Keith and Dan Shannon.
"Whether you enjoy a lilting ballad, a rousing pub song, or a sweet sing along, you'll find it with Blarney. This is music for any age and for any occasion."
Two of the loveliest people you'll ever meet (no lie!), these guys are wonderful performers of traditional Irish tunes to sing along with, bring a tear to your eye and make you laugh out loud. Truly good times! They have a video on the homepage of their site, so check it out and come in! And, of course, drink some beer. It is Irish music, after all. :)
http://www.blarneyband.com/
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Live music this Saturday, 7-9pm!
ACAM Trio
ACAM is a collection of jazz musicians from the University of Nevada, Reno Jazz studies program. The faces of the group (and its name) change frequently, but each incarnation produces fun and exciting music that tips a hat to jazz tradition while embracing the changes occurring in today's modern jazz scene.
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Weekend Dinner Special
Alex's special pizza night!
Lamb sausage pizza with fig and mozzarella baked on homemade pizza crust and served with fresh watermelon and greens salad. |
Beer and Wine List Special in for Blarney this week. A fun selection of reds and whites from the Irish Vineyards of Calaveras County in California. This is currently my favorite county in the CA wine growing regions!
Reds Scout 2008 Russian River - Merlot $6 Four Vines 2008 California - Zinfandel $6 Flaco 2009 Spain - Tempernillo $6 Whites Four Vines 2009 California - Chardonnay $6 Lonen 2007 Napa - Chardonnay $6 Flaco 2009 Spain - Marda $6
Sparkling Trevisiol Proseco $7
Wine Cocktails Kalimotxo $6 Cherry Kalimotxo $6
Beers $4 Sweet Grass Pale Ale - Grand Teton Brewery Hop Box IPA Death Valley Pale Ale - Indian Wells Brewery Mojave Red Amber - Indian Wells Brewery Jamaican Stout Bitch Creek Brown Ale - Grand Teton Brewery Howling Wolf Wheat Beer - Grand Teton Brewery Black Out Stout - Indian Wells Brewery Persephone Imperial Pilsner - Grand Teton Brewery $12
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New Book to Read!
We're reading "A Place of My Own" by Michael Pollan. I've loved his other books, including Omnivore's Dilemma. He's an absolute genius, as far as I'm concerned, and so I'm super excited about this book. It is an examination of the spaces we inhabit and creating spaces that are meaningful. I know I've had fantasies of a little cabin or space that is my own for the day I grow up and become a writer. haha! I used to want to be a writer, anyway. Right now, a space of my own would become a place to play solitaire, but I'd be a happy little clam playing solitaire in my cabin!
So...call to action, all ye would be book club members. Now is the time to go get the book and start reading! And then join us to discuss June 26th, 2pm!
Here's the description of the book from Pollan's website... A Place of My Own: The Architecture of Daydreams"A room of one's own: is there anybody who hasn't at one time or another wished for such a place, hasn't turned those soft words over until they'd assumed a habitable shape?"
When writer Michael Pollan decided to plant a garden, the result was an award-winning treatise on the borders between nature and contemporary life, the acclaimed bestseller Second Nature. Now Pollan turns his sharp insight to the craft of building, as he recounts the process of designing and constructing a small one-room structure on his rural Connecticut property-a place in which he hoped to read, write and daydream, built with his two own unhandy hands. Invoking the titans of architecture, literature and philosophy, from Vitrivius to Thoreau, from the Chinese masters of feng shui to the revolutionary Frank Lloyd Wright, Pollan brilliantly chronicles a realm of blueprints, joints and trusses as he peers into the ephemeral nature of "houseness" itself. From the spark of an idea to the search for a perfect site to the raising of a ridgepole, Pollan revels in the infinitely detailed, complex process of creating a finished structure. At once superbly written, informative and enormously entertaining, A Place of My Own is for anyone who has ever wondered how the walls around us take shape-and how we might shape them ourselves.
A Place of My Own recounts his two-and-a-half-year journey of discovery in an absorbing narrative that deftly weaves the day-to-day work of design and building-from siting to blueprint, from the pouring of foundations to finish carpentry-with reflections on everything from the power of place to shape our lives to the question of what constitutes "real work" in a technological society. |
Newsletter Photography!!
Ian Kahler is our resident photographer, supplying all these awesome shots of Hi Point. We're gonna try to keep it fresh, adding new photography all the time. I'm so grateful to you, Ian! :) You can check him out at
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