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Caroline Gallay

Arts/Entertainment, Food/Drink

Caroline Gallay graduated with a journalism degree from the University of Missouri and has written for a variety of publications both in the U.S. and abroad. She's a Houston Heights native and St. John's grad with a special interest in lifestyle and human interest reporting, and has been working at CultureMap since October of 2009, when she appeared at the office and refused to leave. She was given a desk and a regular paycheck that January. Caroline enjoys seafood, sno cones, snogging, summertime and alliteration. Check out her column, Home and Deranged, here.

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Antique is old news

Houston gets a new speakeasy bar with secret back door passwords & no one under 23 allowed

By Caroline Gallay

The lot at 2511 Bissonnet has become something of a nightclub graveyard. After short recent stints as a replacement Gallant Knight and then as Antique Bar, the venue has been ...


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Open the Taps at work

Vote based on beer! New voting guide details where politicians stand on craft beer issues

By Caroline Gallay

Name your district. Even if you're informed enough to do it normally, it might well have changed since the last election in all the Texas redistricting brouhaha. Know your ...


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Beer, bites & cupcakes

Pints for the Planet fundraiser at Saint Arnold Brewery draws big turnout

By Caroline Gallay

Around 200 like-minded revelers turned out at Saint Arnold Brewery Wednesday evening for the Pints for the Planet fundraiser benefiting Whole Foods' charitable initiative, Whole Planet. Taking place in short ...


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Beer Experiment

And your Houston beer food champion is . . .

By Caroline Gallay

Home chefs with an array of local beer loyalties turned out Sunday afternoon at Fitzgerald's for Houston Beer Experiment, the Houston stop on a 16-city tour that culminates in ...


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My Drunk Cookoff

The Food Experiments makes its first ever Houston stop with a beer-y exciting home chef cook-off

By Caroline Gallay

Like beer? Hows about edible chemistry experiments? Houston Beer Experiment, this Sunday at Fitzgeralds, combines both.  The cook-off, reminiscent of Saint Arnold's annual sell-out One Pot Showdown, pits home ...


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Car Love

Step inside Houston Motor Club's plush CityCentre palace: 3D facial IDs, a cigar sommelier & more

By Caroline Gallay

If Houstonians lived through a recession, it's tough to tell. A new club at West Houston's chichi CityCentre oozes excess out of each tufted leather pore: The Marque ...


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Order a bud light, they welcome it

The secrets of Hay Merchant: From The Library to hidden history, this craft beer palace is full of surprises

By Caroline Gallay

There is much to discover at new craft beer bar Hay Merchant, whether it's a new sour ale or another nod to Houston's past embedded in the west ...


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From fancy to dancy

How to make Fat Tuesday a Phat Tuesday: The best Cajun parties in town

By Caroline Gallay

If you didn't make it east of the border this weekend, fear not — there's still time to celebrate Mardi Gras right here in Houston. Get your fill of ...


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Pour one out

Anheuser-Busch asks Hay Merchant to stop making fun of them with Bud Light water bottles

By Caroline Gallay

Most craft beer-loving Houstonians got a kick out of it when the staff of Hay Merchant — the just-opened passion project of Anvil co-founder Kevin Floyd — poured out cases of 40-ounce ...


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Snifter the roses

Craft beer heaven? Hay Merchant opens to full crowd, beer nerd celebrities & Bud Light water vases

By Caroline Gallay

By 4 p.m. Wednesday afternoon, craft beer bar Hay Merchant was packed on its first day of official public opening — even with a hard rain outside.  Respected beer blogger ...


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#rude

Inside AT&T's "throttling" plan: How to make "unlimited" data use anything but

By Caroline Gallay

If you thought it was out of vogue to be in the 1 percent these days, you're only sort of right — it's the 5 percenters who are really ...


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A Family Man

No, straight men can't look that good: Houston hunk Matt Bomer comes out publicly

By Caroline Gallay

Houston native Matt Bomer, the ridiculously good looking star of White Collar and the soon-to-be-released male stripper fantasy-film Like Mike, has dashed the hopes of women everywhere by publicly coming ...


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#CanIHaveIt

Why the new iPad 3 is completely irresistible to even a shoe-loving girl

By Caroline Gallay

First things first: I'm no tech writer. I have a certain level of comfort that comes with growing up in the digital age, but I definitely can't write ...


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Not Your Ordinary Beer

Shrimp beer brewer launches a Kickstarter campaign to live the dream

By Caroline Gallay

Down Easy Brewing's Jack Winkler spent 10 months of research assembling a detailed, $5 million-dollar business plan for the brewery he one day hopes to open. Then, he scratched ...


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Get it in growlers

Saint Arnold is set to debut its limited release Bitter Belgian — here's where you can find it

By Caroline Gallay

Saint Arnold's fourth and final release from its Movable Yeast Series — which launched in 2010 but took a one-year hiatus — will hit better beer bars Thursday, and we had ...


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Bang for Your Buck

Rice beats Yale in rankings; University of Texas lauded for its low-cost tuition

By Caroline Gallay

The Princeton Review and USA Today have partnered to release a list of the nation's best value colleges, and two Texas pillars of higher education make the list. Princeton ...


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Tim and Katy, sittin' in a tree

Let's make Katy Perry and Tim Tebow happen: Why two good-looking kids for Christ should make a go of it

By Caroline Gallay

I have a long-standing belief that fans have the power to will celebrity happenings into being. Maybe it's the thirst for fame that allows them to sense our most ...


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Maria Maria

Switch it up this Super Bowl weekend with a Texas-style Bloody Maria

By Caroline Gallay

Food and drink options at annual Super Bowl shindigs can get stale. There are all the usual suspects — wings, light beer, chips, dip — but there are ways to put a ...


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Bottoms Up!

Sampling Triniti's holy trinity: sweet, savory and spirits — can you guess our favorite part?

By Caroline Gallay, Marcy de Luna

For this edition of Bottoms Up!, what better place to sample cocktails than Triniti — the hot new restaurant with the triad representing sweet, savory and — our favorite — spirits. The 5 ...


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Back to work

About-face: Komen reverses its Planned Parenthood decision, insists politics never involved

By Caroline Gallay

After an overwhelmingly negative response to its decision to cease its longtime funding of Planned Parenthood, the Susan G. Komen Foundation has reversed its decision less than a week after ...


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