By minor bar critic Duncan Moore, freshman

Located on 14th and P street, it certainly is a long walk from Harper Hall, but I’m sure the Zoo Bar is worth it.

Established in 1973 and with a large selection of quality food, drink and music, the Zoo Bar has it all for a future 21-year-old bar goer. The venue features local and national jazz and blues artists almost every night of the week, according to Google.

Anonymous sources leaving frat parties I was unsuccessfully trying to get into reported that – as the name suggests – there is a fully functioning zoo in the Zoo Bar, complete with tigers, penguins, silverback gorillas and more.

Drawing on my prior knowledge that all bars have a colorful cast of characters, a popping cantina band and that they don’t let in droids, this information was mind-blowing to me.  

Zoo tours include feeding peanuts to the elephants and watching the Zoo Bar’s novelty alto saxophone-playing giraffe, although reportedly there has been an ongoing problem with customers hurling crisp Miller Lites at the monkeys.

A very outgoing and forward cashier at the downtown Goodwill also told me that the bouncers are quite lenient in their fake ID policy, accepting McLovin IDs and above average knock-knock jokes for admission.

Mixing alcohol, jazz and live caged animals sounds bold and dangerous, but this senior girl at an Ultimate Frisbee club party I was at said it was the tightest thing in Nebraska.

Despite being off campus and therefore outside the bounds of the known universe, I can’t wait to visit the Zoo Bar and experience this amazing local hotspot in three years when I go myself.