Times existed in the sticky reality of a dive bar, but its shadow self was online: disseminated and mythologized unglamorously on Facebook. The bar regularly posted “events,” large and small, which attempted to transform the monotony of another night into the fantasy of a post-internet Studio 54.

Times existed in the sticky reality of a dive bar, but its shadow self was online: disseminated and mythologized unglamorously on Facebook. The bar regularly posted “events,” large and small, which attempted to transform the monotony of another night into the fantasy of a post-internet Studio 54.