“A Bar Of Their Own” has apparently had a good first month, according to this cheerleading press release.
Since its inception, enthusiasm has only grown for the tavern with the radical concept of playing only women’s sports on its multiple TVs. The idea was overwhelmingly embraced, from a successful crowdfunding campaign to an opening day met with cheers and a line of fans stretched around the block.
We spoke with owner Jillian Hiscock, who said the lines have calmed a bit since the March 1 opening, but haven’t dissipated. She shared a few of the stats from the history-making bar’s first 14 days.
The bar’s PR person is doing bang-up work, leading the cheering for their client, and…
…uh…
…hang on just a dog-gone minute. It’s not a PR flak’s press release. It’s a “news” story from the Star Tribune. Y’know – journalists who tell you the who, what, when, where, why and how of a story, remaining detached from…
…(sknzxxx)…
…detached and objective and…
…oh, I can’t keep a straight face.
- “The mega-hit sports bar opened with a big splash,”
- “the absolute dominator of a Minneapolis sports bar that highlights women’s sports”
- “Since its inception, enthusiasm has only grown”
- “radical concept of playing only women’s sports”
- “The idea was overwhelmingly embraced”,
- “from a successful crowdfunding campaign to an opening day met with cheers and a line of fans stretched around the block”
The “journalist”, Joy Summers, is credited as “a St. Paul-based food reporter who has been covering Twin Cities restaurants since 2010”.
To be fair, Esme Murphy is still more embarassingly effusive talking about Amy Klobuchar than this.
Seriously, though – new businesses are good. More power to A Bar Of Their Own.
But they’ve had effusive – let’s say “fawning”, even “embarassingly brown-nosing” – media coverage ever since the idea first went public.
That’s gotta be worth a lot of free advertising.
Which is what an awful lot of Twin Cities “journalism” is, these days.