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Time Out
15-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Time Out
The Dead Rabbit team is opening a new bar in Jersey City
Twelve years later, The Dead Rabbit is proving that this hare still has legs. One of New York's most awarded pubs, the Irish saloon and cocktail bar in FiDi brought its mixology know-how to Moynihan Train Hall in 2023, cheekily naming the transit bar as The Irish Exit. Last year, the team made the leap all the way to Texas, bringing its perfect pours of Guinness and Irish coffees to Austin. Still tightly under wraps, a two-story saloon from the same group is set to land in Washington D.C. Now, the hare has found another rabbit hole, this time closer to home, bringing a taste of Irish and Mexican cultures to New Jersey. Come this fall, The Dead Rabbit team is debuting an Irish pub and Mexican cantina in Jersey City, named San Patricios. An unlikely pairing at first glance, the bar's marriage of cultures is one pulled from the history books. In the mid-1800s, Irish immigrants defected to Mexico to escape racial and religious prejudice found in the states. During the Mexican-American War, Irish soldiers joined Mexican forces in battle, forming the San Patricio Battalion, where the bar now draws its name. 'At The Dead Rabbit Group, we believe that Irish hospitality is for everyone. San Patricios is our chance to show that spirit through a different lens, one that honors the shared struggles and celebrations of the Irish and Mexican people,' said McGarry in a press release. 'This is more than a concept, it's a statement about solidarity, community, and cultural pride.' The coming bar plans to blend both cultures under one roof, combining 'the raw textures of an Irish pub with the folkloric vibrancy of a Mexican cantina' with altar walls, hand-painted murals and signage that's translated in English, Irish and Spanish. As for the fare, the Dead Rabbit Team will merge Mexican-Irish-inspired street food, washed down with Irish coffees and Carajillos. The shelves will soon carry Irish whiskies, Mexican tequilas, mezcals and sotol, while taps will soon dispense perfect pours of Guinness and Pacifico's. Much like its FiDi outpost, the bar will celebrate its respective cultures, hosting live Irish musicians alongside Mexican folk bands.
Belfast Telegraph
15-07-2025
- Business
- Belfast Telegraph
Team behind The Dead Rabbit announces new Mexican-Irish bar opening
The team behind acclaimed New York pub The Dead Rabbit, founded by two barmen from Belfast, have announced a new US venture marrying Irish and Mexican culture. Managing partner Jack McGarry said San Patricios in Jersey City was inspired by a connection between Ireland and Mexico forged during the Mexican-American War in the mid-1800s.
The Herald Scotland
09-07-2025
- Politics
- The Herald Scotland
Trump redecorates the White House Cabinet Room
Talking about his attempts to redo the meeting room that was first created in 1934 in the West Wing, he pointed to a wall to his left. "It had some pictures. There were not many of them and not very good ones," he said. Trump then revealed the primary source of his new additions: The White House Vault. "The vaults are where we have a lot of great pictures and artwork," he said. "And I picked it all myself, I'm very proud of it." There were two metrics by which he made his final selections -- presidents he admired and once that were in the right-sized and right-looking frames. "I'm a frame person. Sometimes I like frames more than I like the pictures," he told his captive audience. "Polk (President James Polk) was actually a very good president who's got the same frame that I needed," he said. "He was sort of a real estate guy. People don't realize he was." Polk, who served as president from 1845-1849, was the son of a farmer and landowner in Tennessee, who oversaw the largest territorial expansion in U.S. history through the annexation of Texas and the acquisition of California in the Mexican-American War. Trump has expressed similar annexation desires about Canada and Greenland. Trump has also been on a mission to give the White House a facelift, from blinging out the Oval Office in gold accents to ripping up sod from the Rose Garden to replace it with a flagstone patio. Other handpicked presidential paintings in the Cabinet Room include Andrew Jackson, George Washington, Dwight Eisenhower, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln and John Adams and his wife Abigail. Also from the vault? A "very old, storied mirror," he said pointing to a gold trimmed circular mirror. He also added decorative ceiling medallions around the the hanging lamps. "They had a chain going into the ceiling," he explained. "I said, 'you can't do that. You have to have a medallion.'" The president saved the piece de resistance for the end: A grandfather clock. Trump revealed the tall, freestanding "gorgeous" clock caught his eye when he visited Secretary of State Marco Rubio's office in the State Department. "I said, 'Marco, I love this clock. It's beautiful. He said, what clock?" Trump continued: "It's the clock in the other room, it's incredible. And nobody gets to see it there. I'd love to take that clock and put it in the Cabinet Room." "Marco, said "No, are you serious?" Trump said he responded with: "I have the right to do it, Marco. And he said, 'alright'." Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy is a White House correspondent for USA TODAY. You can follow her on X @SwapnaVenugopa
USA Today
08-07-2025
- Politics
- USA Today
Trump shows off his handpicked Cabinet Room decorations
President Trump played docent-in-chief as he gave an impromptu tour of the paintings and other objects he's sourced from various locations, including the State Department, to redecorate the Cabinet Room at the White House on July 8. The tour came at the end of an almost two-hour meeting with his cabinet as they sat around an elliptical mahogany table. Talking about his attempts to redo the meeting room that was first created in 1934 in the West Wing, he pointed to a wall to his left. 'It had some pictures. There were not many of them and not very good ones,' he said. Trump then revealed the primary source of his new additions: The White House Vault. 'The vaults are where we have a lot of great pictures and artwork,' he said. 'And I picked it all myself, I'm very proud of it.' There were two metrics by which he made his final selections — presidents he admired and once that were in the right-sized and right-looking frames. 'I'm a frame person. Sometimes I like frames more than I like the pictures,' he told his captive audience. 'Polk (President James Polk) was actually a very good president who's got the same frame that I needed,' he said. 'He was sort of a real estate guy. People don't realize he was.' Polk, who served as president from 1845-1849, was the son of a farmer and landowner in Tennessee, who oversaw the largest territorial expansion in U.S. history through the annexation of Texas and the acquisition of California in the Mexican-American War. Trump has expressed similar annexation desires about Canada and Greenland. Trump has also been on a mission to give the White House a facelift, from blinging out the Oval Office in gold accents to ripping up sod from the Rose Garden to replace it with a flagstone patio. Other handpicked presidential paintings in the Cabinet Room include Andrew Jackson, George Washington, Dwight Eisenhower, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln and John Adams and his wife Abigail. Also from the vault? A 'very old, storied mirror,' he said pointing to a gold trimmed circular mirror. He also added decorative ceiling medallions around the the hanging lamps. "They had a chain going into the ceiling," he explained. "I said, 'you can't do that. You have to have a medallion.'" The president saved the pièce de résistance for the end: A grandfather clock. Trump revealed the tall, freestanding 'gorgeous' clock caught his eye when he visited Secretary of State Marco Rubio's office in the State Department. 'I said, 'Marco, I love this clock. It's beautiful. He said, what clock?' Trump continued: 'It's the clock in the other room, it's incredible. And nobody gets to see it there. I'd love to take that clock and put it in the Cabinet Room.' 'Marco, said 'No, are you serious?' Trump said he responded with: 'I have the right to do it, Marco. And he said, 'alright'.' Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy is a White House correspondent for USA TODAY. You can follow her on X @SwapnaVenugopa
Gulf Today
22-06-2025
- Politics
- Gulf Today
Sen. Alex Padilla's crime? Being Mexican in MAGA America
Gustavo Arellano, Tribune News Service When US Senator Alex Padilla was forcibly removed from a news conference held by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, it was almost as if President Donald Trump's most well-worn talking point came to life: A bad hombre tried to go after a white American. All Padilla did was identify himself and try to question Noem about the immigration raids across Southern California that have led to protests and terror. Instead, federal agents pushed the senator into a hallway, forced him to the ground and handcuffed him before he was released. He and Noem talked privately afterward, yet she claimed to reporters that Padilla "lung(ed)" at her despite them being far apart and video showing no evidence to back up her laughable assertion. (The claim was in keeping with Noem's pronouncements this week. On Tuesday, she accused Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum of encouraging violent protests in L.A. when the president actually called for calm.) The manhandling of Padilla on Thursday and his subsequent depiction by conservatives as a modern-day Pancho Villa isn't surprising one bit. Trashing people of Mexican heritage has been one of Trump's most successful electoral planks — don't forget that he kicked off his 2016 presidential campaigns by proclaiming Mexican immigrants to be "bad" and smugglers — because he knows it works. You could be a newcomer from Jalisco, you could be someone whose ancestors put down roots before the Mayflower, it doesn't matter: For centuries, the default stance in this country is to look at anyone with family ties to our neighbour to the south with skepticism, if not outright hate. It was the driving force behind the Mexican-American War and subsequent robbing of land from the Mexicans who decided to stay in the conquered territory. It was the basis for the legal segregation of Mexicans across the American Southwest in the first half of the 20th century and continues to fuel stereotypes of oversexed women and criminal men that still live on mainstream and social media. These anti-Mexican sentiments are why California voters passed a slew of xenophobic local and state measures in the 1980s and 1990s when the state's demographics began to dramatically change. Conservative politicians and pundits alike claimed Mexico was trying to reclaim the American Southwest and called the conspiracy the "Reconquista," after the centuries-long push by Spaniards to take back the Iberian Peninsula from the Moors during the Middle Ages. The echoes of that era continue to reverberate in MAGAland. It's why Trump went on social media to describe L.A. as a city besieged by a "Migrant Invasion" when people began to rally against all the immigration raids that kicked off last week and led to his draconian deployment of the National Guard and Marines to L.A. as if we were Fallouja in the Iraq war. It's what led the White House's Instagram account on Wednesday to share the image of a stern-looking Uncle Sam putting up a poster stating "Help your country ... and yourself" above the slogan "Report All Foreign Invaders" and a telephone number for Immigration and Customs Enforcement. It's what led US Atty. Bill Essayli to post a photo on his official social media account of SEIU California President David Huerta roughed up and in handcuffs after he was arrested for allegedly blocking the path of ICE agents trying to serve a search warrant on a factory in the Garment District. It's why Texas Gov. Greg Abbott called in the National Guard before planned protests in San Antonio, one of the cradles of Latino political power in the United States and the home of the Alamo. It's why there are reports that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wants to rename a naval ship honoring Chicano legend Cesar Chavez and has announced that the only U.S. military base named after a Latino, Ft. Cavazos in Texas, will drop its name. And it's what's driving all the rabid responses to activists waving the Mexican flag. Vice President JD Vance described protesters as "insurrectionists carrying foreign flags" on social media. White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller — Trump's longtime anti-immigrant Iago — described L.A. as "occupied territory." The president slimed protesters as "animals" and "foreign enemies." In an address to Army soldiers prescreened for looks and loyalty at Ft. Bragg in North Carolina this week, he vowed, "The only flag that will wave triumphant over the city of Los Angeles is the American flag." The undue obsession with a piece of red, green and white cloth betrays this deep-rooted fear by Americans that we Mexicans are fundamentally invaders. And to some, that idea sure seems to be true. Latinos are now the largest minority group in the U.S., a plurality in California and nearly a majority in L.A. and L.A. County — and Mexicans make up the largest segment of all those populations by far. The truth of this demographic Reconquista, as I've been writing for a quarter of a century, is far more mundane. The so-called invading force of my generation assimilated to the point where our kids are named Brandon and Ashley in all sorts of spellings. The young adults and teenagers on the street wrapping themselves in the Mexican flag right now are chanting against ICE in English and blasting Kendrick Lamar's "Not Like Us." More than a few of the National Guard troops, police officers and Homeland Security officers those young Latino activists were heckling have Latino surnames on their uniforms, when they show any identification at all. Hell, enough Mexican Americans voted for Trump that they arguably swung the election to him.
