Food and Drink Features
Heide Brandes
The first time Afton Fisher tasted Irish whiskey, she said it “was like being kicked in the teeth by a donkey, but I liked it.”

Food and Drink Features
Jenny Coon Peterson
Saints, a new Irish pub slated to open soon, wasn’t supposed to be in the Plaza District, but owner Patrick Ireland is happy that’s where he’s landed.

Music
Matt Carney

Modern Rock Diaries with Chrome Pony
8 p.m. Friday
VZD’S Restaurant & Club
4200 N. Western
vzds.com
524-4203
$8 advance, $10 door

Food and Drink Features
Greg Elwell
It’s said that St. Patrick drove all the snakes out of Ireland. Except that there never were any snakes in Ireland. And the snakes he said were driven out were attacking him during a 40-day fast which, let’s be frank, could make anybody a bit loopy.

Horror
Rod Lott
I swear, the luck o' the Irish: While moving from her condemned apartment building, a young, pretty and very pregnant woman (Amy Shiels, Veronica Guerin) is brutally attacked by three youths in hoodies while her husband, Tommy (Aneurin Barnard, Ironclad), watches helplessly from the elevator in which he's stuck.

Television series
Rod Lott
I think the best way to review a box set of Mystery Science Theater 3000 would be to list all the references made by and/or targets of the Satellite of Love crew in those episodes, to demonstrate their true depth and breadth.

But that’d also be the worst, because we’d be here all day.