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Buy a Date With Orr Shtuhl, Help Haiti

Andrew Beaujon — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:11:29 +0000

Anyone hoping to purchase some one-on-one with Orr "The Beerspotter" Shtuhl will have to wait a week: Tonight's planned "Hotties for Haiti" date auction at Sova Espresso & Wine has been postponed till next Wednesday, Feb. 17, at 8:30 p.m., says organizer Helly Schtevie. A slate of what Shtuhl calls "F-list celebrities, and me, somehow"—Gavin Holland, Mike Way, Maureen Andary among them—will be available for rent that evening.

Shtuhl is not worried about his competition for the dating dollar. "I think I have an advantage," he says. "Mine comes with a gift certificate."

That's right, you and the Beerspotter are going to ChurchKey! The winner, Shtuhl says, will "be playing fantasy beer drinking with someone who thinks about nothing else all day."

Shtuhl is currently single, so maybe if things go well one could taste beer with him again? "I think it's just as likely a dude bids on it because my following leans male, but you never know," the beer scribe says.

"He did express to me that he thought it was possible he'd be going out with a beer nerd rather than a pretty lady. But the date auction falls around Valentine's Day on purpose," says Schtevie, who describes her job at SOVA thus: "I make the sandwiches there. It's pretty low-key."

"Whoever gets a date with Orr," she says, "is gonna be lucky whether they get lucky or just have a nice dinner involving beer."

Proceeds from the auction will benefit Doctors Without Borders' work in Haiti.

Editorial Bastards at Crafty Bastards

Andrew Beaujon — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:55:40 +0000

Have you ever wanted to punch any of us in the face? Tomorrow's your big chance! Here's the schedule for ed-staff appearances at the City Paper booth for tomorrow's crafty fair.

Time	Name	Who might want to punch them in the face
noon-12:45	Erik Wemple, Jason Cherkis	Marion Barry, Matthew Yglesias
12:45-1:30	Mike DeBonis, Dave McKenna	Art Monk, Charles Mann, Jim Graham
1:30-2:15	Amanda Hess	Tucker Max, the pope
2:15-3:00	Ruth Samuelson, Darrow Montgomery	Jack Shoptaw, this lady
3:00-3:45	Sarah Godfrey, Andrew Beaujon	Thomas Ryan, CEO, Caremark CVS, fans of Widespread Panic, the people in this feature
3:45-4:30	Orr Shtuhl (the Beerspotter), Tammy Tuck & Bruce Falconer (the Lager Heads)	Who'd want to hurt these lovely people?

Jazz and Beer

Andrew Beaujon — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:13:10 +0000

They go together like sports and wine! Orr Shtuhl hangs on the porch with NPR.

Welcome the Beerspotter

Andrew Beaujon — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 18:15:47 +0000

Please give a big welcome to the Beerspotter, aka Orr Shtuhl, whose new weekly column spotlights interesting brews he's found around town. Shtuhl's written a couple pieces in this space, and he knocked out a fine Young & Hungry once. He's really interested in music, specifically lyrics, which he writes about on a blog called Wordsworth, and beer. If you see an interesting beer, drop him a line.

Photograph by Darrow Montgomery