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Deep Nasta Pub Crawl on East East Sixth Street

East East Sixth Street — meaning East Sixth Street east of Interstate 35 — finally fosters a street life …

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Deep Nasta and Cassie Bishop

Most of the dozen or so Latino bars that clustered there remained dark, inward-turning for so long …

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Kathy Sokolic, Deep No. 1 (Nasta’s friend from NYC with the same name), and Kara Winebright

The newer hipster joints — Shangri La, the Good Knight, Rio Rita, East Side Show Room, Buenos Aires, plus some arty food trailers and the nearby Scoot Inn — have promoted pedestrian club-hopping in a positive way …

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Caitlin Stewart, Travis Jackson and Brittney Covey

That’s where I caught up with Austinite-turned-New Yorker Deep Nasta’s East Side Pub Crawl. Always a treat to spend time with this gregarious man and his friends …

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Raj and Diane Chudgar

Walked home via regular East Sixth Street. All the clubs were hopping around 11 p.m. As were the Fifth Street, Warehouse District and nearby niteries …

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Angie Ludolph, Craig Niedermeier, Bethany Sioux

Let’s grossly simplify: That’s 100 watering holes downtown with an average of 100 guests, making our simplified count 10,000 revelers on a hot night. They spend an average $25 on drinks. That’s a quarter million dollars easy.

Not on a holiday or a game night. And not counting food, parking, entertainment, lodging and other expenditures. So why don’t we pay more attention to this economic sector?

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