Then, when the Stud, the bar where I worked, asked me to start a drag night, I thought the name was perfect -- and not just perfect but cool, original, and transgressive.
That makes it all the more remarkable that the Stud, a gay bar in San Francisco's South of Market (SoMa) district, has stuck around for half a century, even as it becomes harder and harder for the city's queer spaces to survive.
Other savories were an elf-hat-shaped truffle embedded with taleggio cheese ($2.75) and a chocolate bar studded with bacon ($7.50), an homage to smoke and salt.
Sipping a beer at the Big Apple, a popular sports bar studded with 30 television screens, Mr. Paszek did not have to wait long before his gripe was borne out.
It is cheering to see, at each outlet, the "Made in Brooklyn" snack menu, including a milk chocolate bar studded with shards of pretzels and toffee ($6.50) from the Sunset Park confectioner Tumbador and potato chips ($4.25) from McClure's Pickles, which does research and development in Williamsburg (but produces its goods in Detroit).
A variant of the coil chain is the stud-link chain, each of whose links has a bar or stud across its inside width.
A leather-clad dude, ass snugly straddling his motorcycle, checks out a beefy stud heading into a bar.
The eponymous Neil – a bona fide Irishman – has gone full foreign correspondents club with the decor: the bar is studded with international coins, there's a wall of foreign banknotes and the sign combines ye olde Celtic font with Khmer script and a respect for UK trademarks that's rare in south-east Asia.
The horizontal T-bar and stud bolts in the vertical plates were designed to transmit the tensile stress from the bottom flange of the beam to the filled concrete.
Bars and stud attachments are the primary attachment systems compatible with the majority of the implant systems currently available; however, treatment planning in certain situations may be challenging due to the component available with the implant system used.
