The Singers: Formed in the late '60s when the members
were school mates at the Tuskegee Institute, the Commodores are best known for
two things: having fostered a young Lionel Richie, and the funk jam "Brick
House". The group's hits were
split between "Brick House"-like funk songs ("Machine Gun" and "Lady (You Bring Me Up)" ) and
Richie-penned soul ballads, like "Still" and the eternal "Easy." Today's slow jam, however, comes from 1985, after Richie had left the group for
worldwide fam
I'm not easily scared. There have only been two bars I've visited in the past six months that have made me uneasy. While Frank's 1st Alarm Bar and Grill isn't what I consider a scary bar, I was quite alarmed during my visit.Biker's don't scare me, but I don't like taking my husband to bars where bikers are present. He's a five-foot-seven computer geek with floppy indie-boy hair and ever-present red Converse sneaks. He might as well be wearing a shirt that says "Biker Chow."Despite the presence
