Cabs offer safe drives home

Remember to stay safe this St. Patrick’s Day. Area driving and cab services are available to make sure it’s easy for you and your friends to get home after going out to celebrate.

Locally owned Black & White Transportation offers a free iPhone application that can calculate your blood alcohol content and book you a cab ride home 24 hours a day.

Kate McComb on the dance floor at Mulvaney’s Bunker Irish Pub.

The app, B4UDRIVE, is exclusive to iPhone, BlackBerry and Droid, but the company’s mobile online reservation system is accessible by any Web-enabled phone. You can also call the company at (419) 536-TAXI.

For more information, visit  www.blackandwhitecab.com.

Another company, BeMyDD, offers a professionally dressed designated driver at an hourly rate. The driver will act as a personal chauffer, driving you and your friends where you want to go, waiting for you and then driving you home.

You can also call after you are already out and the company will send two drivers, one to drive you home and one to drive your car home.

The service is available 24 hours a day, but reservations must be placed by 11 p.m. by calling (877) 823-6933 (877-U-BEMYDD). For more information, visit  www.bemydd.com.

— Sarah Ottney

Irish Dance Family Day at Sanger Library March 12

Have you ever wondered why Irish dancers dance with their arms down by their sides?

Find out the answer to that question and more at the hourlong Irish Dance Family Day program to be held at Sanger Branch Library, 3030 W. Central Ave., set for 10 a.m. March 12.

Molly Kujawa, dance instructor at the Perrysburg Academy of the Performing Arts, will educate participants on Irish dance history, music, special dances and dance costumes as well as teach attendees a group dance, called a Ceili, according to a news release.

Kate with a group of U.S. Coast Guard servicemen at Blarney Irish Pub. L-R: Markiel Perkins, Scott Blacknall, Nick Bonner and Jake Redden.

Kujawa, a certified Ceili instructor who has been Irish dancing since she was 8, has performed at the World Irish Dance Championships, at Epcot, with the Tampa Bay Lightning and more, according to the release.

Space is limited. To register, call the library at (419) 259-5370.

— Sarah Ottney

Irish Rovers to play Tecumseh

The Irish Rovers will play at Tecumseh Center for the Arts (TCA) on March 13.

The show is sold out, but there’s still room that night at TCA’s Stew & Brew fundraiser, where the Rovers will be after its show, said Executive Director Johanna Walker. The event, which will feature beer tasting, Irish pub food and a silent auction, is set for 6 to 8 p.m. March 13 at Evans Street Station, 110 S. Evans St.

“Guinness is providing the beer tasting and it’s going to be very fun and tasty,” Walker said. “Come raise your glass with the Rovers and raise funds for the TCA!”

Fare will include Irish stew, shepherd’s pie and homemade bread, Walker said. Each person will get three glasses of beer from a special selection of Irish brews.

Among the silent auction items are three days at a cottage in South Haven; a wine tasting at Pentamere Winery; a 14-karat yellow gold, four-leaf clover from Hacker Jewelers; and a football signed by University of Michigan coach Brady Hoke.

Cost is $45 or $35 with your Rovers tickets. Call TCA at (517) 423-6617 or stop by the box office, 400 N. Maumee St. For more information, visit www.thetca.org.

— Sarah Ottney

Irish eyes turn to local festivities

Kate with Bunker bartenders Kim Williams, Emily Maxwell and Aubrey Beaston

Bedecked in our greenest finery, fashion reporter Kate McComb and I hit the town for a pre-St. Patrick’s Day pub crawl to find out what Toledo has to offer for the upcoming holiday.

Along the way, we met with fellow Toledoans as well as a host of out-of-towners, including a group of U.S. Coast Guard servicemen from Cleveland and first-time Walleye gamers from Michigan, all enjoying the food, drinks, live music and dancing at local bars. On March 17, everyone will be Irish, so get ready to paint the town green!

Below is a list of area St. Patrick’s parties, music, food and drink specials to point you to the location that best draws out your inner Irish. Cheers!

— Sarah Ottney

The Blarney Irish Pub

601 Monroe St. • (419) 418-2339

Open: Three-day Blarney Madness:

8 a.m. to 2:30 a.m. March 17; 11 a.m. to 2:30 a.m. March 18; 11 a.m. to 2:30 a.m. March 19

Drinks: 19 beers on tap, including Guinness, Killian’s, Great Lakes Conway’s Irish Ale, Harp, Smithwick’s

Bands: March 17: Bagpipers in morning, noon to 3 p.m.; Joe Woods, 3:30 to 6:30 p.m.; Dave Pfenning, 8:30 p.m. to midnight; Cincinnati Irish rockers Bloody Tinth, March 18: 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. (in Bullpen): MAS FiNA; March 19: 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.  (in Bullpen): Homewreckers; 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. (in Pub): Toast & Jam $5 suggested donation to benefit Toledo/Sylvania firefighters, Imagination Station

Four Horsemen

4452 Lewis Ave. • (419) 476-3900

Open: 10 a.m. to 2:30 a.m.

Food: $9 Jiggs Dinner,

Dine-in or carry-out available

Drinks: $1 Green Demon shot, beer specials

Manhattan’s

1516 Adams St. • (419) 243-6675

Open: 11 a.m. to 2:30 a.m.

Food: Jiggs dinner

Drinks: Green beer, Irish car bombs,

Guinness, Killian’s, Harp

Bands: 6 to 10:30 p.m.: Green Haggis

Chuck’s on Monroe

4477 Monroe St. • (419) 720-3370

Open: 10 a.m. to 2:30 a.m.

Food: Jiggs dinner

Drinks: Green beer, Irish car bomb

station, drink and shot specials

Bands: Disc jockey Sean David

Doc Watson’s

1515 S. Byrne Road

(419) 389-6003

Open: 5:30 a.m. to 2:30 a.m.

Food: $2.95 Green eggs and ham 5:30 a.m. until it’s gone; $8.95 Jiggs Dinner Drinks: Green beer, Green jello shots, Killian’s, Guinness, Harp, Great Lake’s Conways Irish Ale,

Smithwick’s Guinness,

Killian’s, Harp Cost: $1 after 8 p.m.

Giveaways all day

Delaney’s Lounge

309 West Alexis Road

(419) 476-2883

Open: 10 a.m. to 2:30 a.m.

Food: Corned beef sandwiches

Drink Specials: Jello shots, green beer, Killian’s

Bands: Disc jockey, 2 p.m. to 2:30 a.m.

Mickey Finn’s Pub

602 Lagrange St.

(419) 246-3466

Open: 11 a.m. to 2 a.m. — $5 cover

Food: $10 Jiggs dinner, corned beef sandwiches

Drinks: $5 pitchers of PBR/Miller Lite/High Life

Bands: Starting at 3 p.m.: Paddy Murphy, Don Binkley, Barefoot Fred, Boogie Matrix

Mulvaney’s Bunker Irish Pub

4945 Dorr St. • (419) 534-9830 Open: 9 a.m. to 2 a.m.

Food: 9 to 11 a.m. breakfast brunch buffet; Jiggs Dinner; various Irish food, appetizers

Drinks: Green beer on tap

Bands: Noon to 4 p.m.: Kyle White; 5 to 9 p.m.: THe jUNK?; 10 p.m. to 2 a.m.: DJ

$5 cover charge starting at noon

promo girls throughout the day

M.T. Loonies

6648 Lewis Ave.

(734) 847-7222

Open: 9 a.m. to 2 a.m.

Food: $10 Jiggs Dinner

$7 Corned beef sandwiches

To-go orders welcome until 7 p.m.

Kitchen closes at 2 a.m.

Drinks :Green beer, Irish shots, $4 Irish margaritas,

$6 20-ounce Guinness,

$6.50 Irish car bomb

Bands: 5 to 9 p.m.:

Extra Stout; 10 p.m.: DJ

Free beads and hats

Shawn’s Irish Tavern

4400 Heatherdowns Blvd.

(419) 381-1281

and

105 S. 3rd St.

(419) 441-1081

Open: 11 a.m. to 2:30 a.m.

Food: $8 Jiggs Dinner;

$6.75 hot shredded beef sandwiches; $6.75 corned beef sandwiches;

$6.75 chicken breasts

Drinks: $2 green beers, Irish car bombs, Guinness, Killian’s, Great Lakes Conway’s Irish Ale, Smithwick’s

Bands: 9 p.m.: Johnny Rodriquez (Toledo), Common Creed (Waterville)

Village Inn

4984 N. Holland Sylvania Road

(419) 882-0338

Open: 7 a.m. to 2:30 a.m.

Food: $7.99 Jiggs Dinner

Drinks: Green draft beer,

Guinness, Killian’s, Great Lakes Conway’s Irish Ale,

$2.90 Dundee Irish Red Lager

Shots: Mini Guinie, Baby Guinness

Bands: 4 to 7 p.m.: Shane Piasecki; 7 p.m.: Mt. O’Fuji and the Eruptions

Claddagh Irish Pub

5001 Monroe St. • (419) 472-1414

Open: 8 a.m. to 2:30 a.m.

Food: 8 to 11 a.m., $9.95 Irish breakfast (corned beef hash, Irish omelet, Irish breakfast roll or Irish Monte Cristo); food specials in tent

Drinks: Bomb specials, draft specials, Jello shots, Bud Light alum bottles

Bands: Inside: Noon to 3 p.m.: Extra Stout; 4 to 7 p.m.: The Bridges; 7 p.m.: DJ. In Tent: 1 p.m.: DJ Simplicity and Adam; 8:30 p.m.: Danger Brothers

Cost: $5 cover starts at 3 p.m.; $10 VIP passes – no cover, no waiting in lines, St. Patty’s shirts, hats and Clauddagh coupons; 21 and up only after 8 p.m. — 2,200 square foot heated tent from 1 p.m. to 2:30 a.m.

Bagpipers, Irish dancers, Guinness girls, giveaways

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