Don't Know Tavern lawsuit settled for $115K; in shocker, lawyer grabs most of it
Jason Zink has settled the lawsuit five former employees brought against him two years ago.
Under the settlement, which was filed Tuesday in federal court, Zink agrees to pay his former employees and their attorney $115,000.18.
The payment is to be made in several installments of several thousand dollars over the next two years.
Under the settlement, Zink and the former employees also agree to a confidentiality agreement that bars them from discussing the details of the case. The Daily Record first reported the settlement news.
This week's bar review is on Baltimore Taphouse, a low-key Canton bar with 14 rotating drafts and 25 bottled beers. 
For the summer, Power Plant Live has started a happy hour for all its bars – which include Luckie’s Tavern, country-western bar PBR Baltimore (at right, as if you didn't know already) and Angels Rock Bar.
When the first tax hike on alcohol in a generation takes effect Friday, expect some bars to bump the price of beer by at least 25 cents, not the three cents that the lawmakers asked for. 
We've been keeping a close eye on Barfly's Pub since owner Mike Leeds first mentioned it. It's finally 
Barfly's, the old Rafters, is finally open, a few months after it was originally supposed to debut. 
Hampden's 
Red House Tavern, which I 
Red Maple will have some competition this Fall. A new lounge is expected to open in Mt. Vernon in September, said its owner. 
It didn't bode well for Red House Tavern when owner Ron Singer 
Congrats are due to the 
The Hexagon Space, the Station North gallery and music space, will close in July after losing its lease. 
The Black-Eyed Susan has been the official cocktail of the Preakness Stakes since time immemorial. At least since the 1950s, estimates Pimlico Race Track historian Joe Kelly. 
Club One has closed, management has confirmed. 
Sonar has regained its liquor license. That's it at right. Club management posted it on Facebook Monday, lest there be any doubt about its validity. 
Redwood Trust, the historic downtown building that housed mega-club Palma and now Dubai/Velvet Rope, failed to sell at auction last week. 
Joe Squared and Leinenkugel's Beer Hall will join Power Plant Live by this summer.
Canton Arts and Entertainment will get an Irish pub this summer, said Marc McFaul, who is looking to start managing the sprawling complex on Boston Street. 
Sonar has re-opened, acting general manager Dan McIntosh said. 
No, in short. 
Redwood Trust, the downtown building that once housed Palma and is now the home of Dubai, the former Velvet Rope, is up for auction again. 
A fan of 
A couple of weeks ago I posted the 
If anyone could will the sun into coming out after a week of crummy weather, it would be William Donald Schaefer. 
The Baltimore Comedy Factory has now been open in Baltimore for 25 years. 
Tributes to William Donald Schaefer started Monday night at Harborplace and Camden Yards. 
At around 4:30 today at City Hall, a handful of cranky, loud critics and supporters of the 
Fells Point's The Whistling Oyster has closed temporarily.
Bond Street Social, the bar that has 
The 
Four men were stabbed early Saturday morning at Bourbon Street Live, and one of them, a 24-year-old, died from his injuries, police said. The others have been transported to area hospitals and are expected to survive. 
Contributor Jeremy Trucker reviews recent addition to Locust Point, Barracuda's. 
Woodberry Kitchen, Kooper's Tavern are some of the first local restaurants selling 
The Baltimore Comedy Factory will officially re-open in April at its new location in Power Plant Live, management said Wednesday. 
Liam Flynn, who used to run the Pint-Size Pub, adding a medallion logo to his new, self-titled place on Station North, which I wrote about back in October. Like several other local bar owners, Flynn is using 
Tipsy? Taxi! did a better job on St. Patrick's Day than on New Year's Eve, a spokeswoman for sponsor AAA Mid-Atlantic said. 
Surely that's the first question to ask about the return of the free cab rides on St. Patrick's Day. 
In response to the March 11 earthquake and tsunami that have devastated Japan, a couple of Baltimore bars are raising money to help with relief efforts. 
No, in a word. In the past week, some bar owners have written with alarm about a Senate bill (#844) that would ostensibly ban people under 21 from bars and clubs. Thursday morning the Examiner had an 
Pairing food and beer is not a new concept; 
John Householder and Tom Pomroy, the owners of Five Points Tavern in Locust Point, opened the bar in November, taking over the space where Aloha Tokyo used to be. 
Contributor Alexander D. Mitchell IV, who writes for trade publication Mid-Atlantic Brewing News and 
The Canton sports lounge Clutch has closed. 
Last night's snowstorm disrupted air travel, shut down some schools early, and generally made it a dogfight to get home, even if you lived inside the city. 
This is today's first post. No, it's not the mixer's fault, like some of you guessed. Not entirely anyway. 
So late last week a small brouhaha rightfully erupted at the liquor board meeting. 
It's been a damn long week, even though it was actually a damn short work week. 
Delia Foley's, whose development Midnight Sun has been 
Columbia's Frisco Tap and Brew House 
Select Lounge, the site of two fatal shootings Sunday morning, will re-open Friday, manager Alex Wolde said. 
Violence at downtown night clubs and lounges, including the 
Six people, including two police officers, were shot Sunday morning outside Select Lounge, a recently opened West side club that billed itself as the "premiere [sic] destination for sophisticated club connoisseurs, savvy socialites, A-list celebrities and Baltimore's elite."
You asked for it, and here it is: a guide to the week in nightlife. Call it the Midnight Sun Nightlife Pocket Guide: small enough to print out, and carry in your snuggest back pocket. On Monday, Red Maple's weekly free 
The Man knows you’re going to drink yourself into a stupor on New Year’s Eve.
In September, when I 
Want $15 for $30 worth of beer? Here's Groupon's pitch for some local bar called 
The Sunday after a devastating 
The 
DuClaw had its 
The owners of the Congress Hotel are looking to lease the historic Marble Bar. 
Frisco Tap House is officially open in Columbia. 
So who would win in a battle between Hanukkah beers and Christmas beers? 
The Ottobar will revive its Underground party next month. 
Bill's Lighthouse Inn was auctioned today in South Baltimore. 
Forget those 
To get a free glass of wine at Sascha's 527, all you have to know is the secret word. 
Last month, when I wrote about 
Contributor Jay Trucker spent a day barhopping in Canton on game day. 
Recently, I went barhopping using just the 
An update on the 
South Baltimore's Taps bar, which was auctioned off in August, finally has a replacement. 
South Baltimore has a new bar called the Park Bench. 
If you've been to the Landmark Theater in Harbor East, you might have seen and tasted some of the movie-inspired drinks bartender Ginny Lawhorn makes. 
When I wrote about Maryland Bartending Academy last week, a 
Max's Taphouse has scheduled 
Dustin Sugar-Moore is fed up with Baltimore’s gay scene. 
Next week, a reader will start a semi weekly column chronicling his visits as a straight guy to local gay bars. (He's heard all the jokes - so save it). 
On Saturday, Power Plant Live will hold its annual Halloween party - "Baltimore's Biggest!" its website announces. 
Morris Martick, the 88-year-old proprietor of Martick's Restaurant Francais, is selling the liquor license he's held for 40 years.
It's not Charles Village Pub. Or Brewer's Art, as many readers snarkily predicted it would be. Instead no. 1 on 
Baltimore's gay scene is as famously anorexic as some of its twinks. As far as dance clubs go, there's only 
Storied dump Full Moon Saloon will reopen in no more than 30 days as Garbo, a lounge catering to an over-25 crowd, owner John Saki said Tuesday. 
Well, it's finally here. The official, definitive, ultimate: 
Little Italy has a new wine bar at Exeter and Fawn Streets called Amedeo's. 
For brewers like Steve Jones, the next 10 days will be like the week before Christmas.
When Liam Flynn started building his new bar in 
Canton bars fall into two basic types. There's the O'Donnell Square, sports-centric watering holes (Looney's, JD's Smokehouse, Claddagh's), and there's the low-key neighborhood haunts that exist in semi-obscurity on the streets between O'Donnell and Eastern.
Jonathan Franzen is to literature what Lou Reed is to music: someone who's produced some canonical works, lots of middling ones ("How to be Alone," anyone?), and is still universally reviled for his personality.
Before the home opener against the Browns this weekend, Midnight Sun picked the 
When picking a sports bar to watch a Ravens game, there's really very little difference between one bar over another. They all have the same beer and the same cable access; fans aren't too discriminating as long as there's booze around. 
A new beer hall will open today in the West side, the city's most punishing neighborhood for new bars.
In yesterday's paper, I 
Promoters are once again busing in students from area schools for a weekly "College Night" at Mosaic, a lounge in Power Plant Live.
A little bar called the Funky Buddha has opened in the space beneath Kumari, where Liam's Pint-Size Pub used to be. 
Marc McFaul (pictured), the manager of Ropewalk Tavern, bought Taps at an auction earlier this week, he confirmed yesterday. 
In the coming weeks,