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Ceolta's Irish lines reach Harrisburg

By Ashley Lockard company of friends, I definitely as The Approach, Riverboys, server did not know better, after tasty with hearty pieces of beef, Photography Editor wouldn't recommend taking a Stand, Jim Roberti, and Jack the all, if the owner is that picky about carrots, and potatoes, and was aflsooo g psu.edu date or someone you'd like to get Lad. They are also considering his beer, shouldn't his servers large enough to feed two. The out to eat Between offering live traditional Celtic know how to pronounce them? only thing that would have made Photo courtesy of guardian.co.uk to know here. The hype and popularity of Irish the loud, rowdy chatter and music on Sunday nights and they For being an Irish pub you would it better is if it was served with culture and heritage can be seen background music you won't get have been premiering a DJ on think so, but at least they offer it, colcannon(Irish mashed potatoes Zach anywhere you go lately. Guys to know much of anything about Thursdays. unlike a few others in the area. with cabbage), but that's just my and girls are sporting anything them. Yelling across the table The owner is veryparticular about The menu at Ceoltas is definitely preference. they can find with a clover on to your friends over good food having the perfect Guinness, so, tempting if you like Irish food. If you aren't into Irish cuisine, tunes in it from Notre Dame to Celtics don't worry. The menu features By Zachary Bailey gear, Abercrombie shirts reading typical bar food such as wings, CD Reviewer "Can't hide that Irish pride", and nachos, and potato skins. They [email protected] Guinness logos on anything you also offer non-Irish selections ***** can think of. including burgers, steak, fish, This trend of Irish fascination salads, and various sandwiches. Kate Bush returns to the is not just seen in fashion; it has Some items also come in lunch music scene after a twelve-year also hit downtown Harrisburg's portions with discounted prices. absence with Aerial. This album restaurant row. Countless Irish Ceolta's is open seven days a had been long anticipated by week for lunch until 4 p.m. and Kate Bush bars and restaurants are in our fans. The album for dinner. They host a happy consists of two discs. The first area on either shore and now 5 to 7 is titled A Sea of Honey. The downtownthere are three within a hour every weekday from second is titled A Sky of Honey. three-block radius of each other. p.m. where they offer $3 import I was impressed with the Three weeks ago, Ceoltas Irish drafts and $1.50 domestic drafts. album art from the start; the Pub opened at 310 N. 2nd St., They are looking to start offering cover depicts a golden sunset located between Kokomo's and a different Irish specialty entrée over the water with an image Mars. Ceoltas (pronounced "key- each day in smaller portions of a sound wave over the top. ole-tas") seems to be the new "it" for $5 off during happy hour The inside of the booklet shows spot for Irish bars around town. as well. The bar is open every various pictures of birds, sailors, They seem to have the right idea night until 2 a.m. and offers live sky, and hanging laundry. After to keep around, pulling music currently on Friday and viewing the album art I was them a lot of staff and customers away from Saturday. interested enough to listen. Photo by Matthew Mahoney/The Capital Times Upon first listen, I was quite the old hype of Molly Brannigan's shocked. A lot of the songs very easily by having a lot more Ceolta's Irish Pub are piano-based with other to offer. Ceolta's Irish Pub recently opened in downtown Harrisburg, which prides it- 310 N. Second St. synth pad type sounds in the The second you walk in self on its "perfect Guinness" with its beer lines being straight from Ireland. Harrisburg, PA 17101 background. The album also has the foyer the muffled sounds Phone: 717.233.3202 some very sparse arrangements of 'a hearty crowd of people CC: All major with instruments that tend to gathered in from the cold can and drinks is one thing, having you can rest assured you will get They adopted and expanded Avg. dinner for two, w/o drinks, weave in and out in a very be heard. Upon entering, a cozy intimate dinner conversation is an authentically tapped queen's on the menu of their sister $5O really elegant fashion. I don't atmosphere, dimly lit by large another and won't happen here. pint when coming here, as these restaurant, Irish Pub, Two full bars care for Kate Bush's voice. As Siamsa. The second feature beer in soon as she started singing lantern chandeliers and antique positive that lines are actually imported located Stroudsburg, PA. They Smoking and non-smoking in the first track I thought it looking lamps on the bar, takes no other Irish bar offers downtown straight from the Emerald Isle. offertraditional Irish fare including Wheelchair accessible had to be some kind of joke. you right in. The room is stuffed is live music. The meaning of the Out of the 11 beers they serve fish and chips, whiskey-chicken, To my ears, her voice was the full with oversized benches, name Ceoltas itself represents on draft, I was particularly shepherd's pie, and even an all- musical equivalent to fingernails high-top bar tables, and dark a place where musicians gather excited about their other Irish day Irish breakfast with eggs, The Capital Times is look- on a chalkboard. I couldn't wooden dining tables with velvet and play together, like a jam import, Smithwick's (pronounced rashers (Irish bacon), bangers ing for suggestions for understand a word the woman chairs. Depending where you sit, session. Currently, the pub offers "Smiddicks"). Although, do not (Irish sausage), black and white the Hot Spot section. sings in half of her songs. you may enjoy you neighbor's these live gatherings on Friday be alarmed if when asking for puddings (a blend of grains and Her vocal style is very bouncy conversations. Although this and Saturday nights starting at 10 this beer by its proper name you meat that's fried), fried chips, and send ideas to captimes@psu sounding with a bit too much edu or some adds to the laid back, comfortable p.m. with performances from local are improperly corrected by your you can also add beans. The drop snail mail vibrato for a pop release. In suggestion atmosphere of enjoying the and regional rock bands such server. was disappointed my Guinness stew was definitely in the box. some songs, I had to check the I lyrics to make sure that she was still singing in English. I would have liked the songs a lot better if I could have understood what she was singing about. The subject matter of the album varied quite a bit. From Cultures on campus to the loss of her mother, her By M. E. Adams of enrollment services. some types of stereotypes of because we're black," said underrepresented. The African- new son, to of Arc, this Joan With music playing on his laptop, African-Americans," she said. Kenneth Trail, 18, accounting American culture definitely brings album jumpsfrom one subject Staff Reporter [email protected] Gez Gomez, 20-year-old African- "I love the campus because and finance. "I feel like the token a lot of excitement on campus to another without warning. American majoring in Structural it's very diverse," said Janessa black guy. When I'm trying to sports, clubs. We bring the The lyrics on this album were Design Engineering Technology, Byard, 19, health be friendly some noise." For Drop by the sofa sectional in and human people don't another disappointment. believes the development/Spanish. Byard is respond. In the the lobby of Olmsted and dis- African-American a classes, though, we "I feel the most different example, a large chunk of culture Kate Bush cover a culturally diverse group all know each because I don't see any Spanish song Pi is merely livens up the in the of students engaged in conver- other." people around here. I know spouting off numbers atmosphere calculation of sation. Dressed in baseball caps "I feel two other people," said Brian mathematical at school. "It pi. While I don't have anything and T-shirts of basketball teams comfortable," "Chavez" Vasquez, 18-year-old makes people against the irrational ratio of the and rock groups, a lively repar- said JulieTran, Peruvian majoring in aerospace feel easier circumference of a circle to its tee tickles those who take notice. 18, criminal engineering. "I'm the one who diameter, I still wouldn't want to Several students gather around going to justice. "For brought music. do Spanish, they class," I pay money to hear somebody a laptop to watch a movie, while he said. me, in a lot do hip-hop," he said, pointing to a sing '3.14159265358979323846 others study. Add music to this "Students from of writing nearby group of students. Since 2643383279'. mixture of work and play, and bigger cities, assignments we grew up in an urban area, we The second disc is a bit cultures meld together. as minorities, express tend to stick to the very outgoing to more cohesive than the first. At Penn State Harrisburg, a tend open up my culture and urban." Vasquez returns to It contains an epic quality with mélange of ethnic backgrounds more because [Vietnamese]. Peru every year and looks for titles like Nocturn, Sunset, and affords across-culturalexperience they're from I express my every opportunity to spread his Somewhere in between. After to students. Mostforeign students a more open culture to my culture. "I love my country to listeningto this album in its are not freshmen because most environment classmates death," he said. entirety, I get the feeling Bush countries prefer undergraduate and exposed to and expose Sepideh Safaee, 18, pre-med, is would be more comfortable degrees be obtained in their own a lot of things. them to it." a quietIranian student who enjoys writing songs for musicals than country. Nevertheless, this year's Myself and the "I don't treat learning about different cultures. for a pop album. The album freshman class is comprised of guys bring a people any Safaee has moved 16 times in Aerial. In closes with the song 40 percent non-white students: funny kind of different. I'm 18 years Iran, Dubir, Canada, "What ' this song, Bush sings, American Indian/Alaskan Native; loose. We're from Florida, Ontario, Toronto, Virginia, and this? can't Photo by M. E. Adams/The Capital Times kind of language is I African American or Black; Asian here to have I see no Pennsylvania. hear a word you're saying. left: & Pacific American; Latino/ fun and bring From Alexis McFall, Gez Gomez, Tamara Davis, Ken- difference," As an me are you singing," Trail, African from Nigeria, Tell what Hispanic American; Puerto Rican; liveliness into neth Chris Ziino, Chavez Vasquez, Ngan Hong, Can- said Candice Tobe Ofoha, I couldn't help but chuckle to dice Johnson, 18, business White American; and Foreign. class. We have and Victor Rodriguez hanging out in Olmsted. Johnson, 18, administration, believes there is myself because I had been no shame. We questions. "We're really pleased we were nursing, who a good balance of diversity on asking the very same get up to do things just because mix of stars ableto achieve that goal by using African-American, White, is Spanish and Irish. campus. I give this album three - all the we It's how we were raised to get Puerto Rican, and German. "I because, even though can't criteria that had there. definitely feel like a minority," "I don't see cultures, I see I If a a a laugh." "I think bring a lot of stand her voice and a portion minority is freshman, they I culture said Keith Wiggins, 18-year-old people," said Krystal Miranda, got Tish Holmes, 18, business because I'm more than of the subject matter, I do here because they made the one African-American majoring in 18, White American majoring in marketing, believes that being an culture and overall sound of the cut like everyone else, or not have different views electrical engineering. "At first elementary education. "Different like the African-American brings diversity on life." instrumentation on the album because of special programs," I didn't see African-American to the campus. "It eliminates "We're bringing and most of the production. said Thomas Streveler, director in the noise males, now I see more. We're still See CULTURE on 11