Pure Poetry: San Diego CityBeat's Annual Bar & Club Guide

By Kelly Davis, Edwin Decker, Sheena Hamilton, Troy Johnson, Kia Momtazi, Kinsee Morlan, Justin Roberts, David Rolland, Tina Safi, AnnaMaria Stephens, Kim Swain, Eric Wolff and Candice Woo

San Diego CityBeat | August 30, 2007

In honor of a good drink and a good rhyme, CityBeat broke out the rhyming dictionaries and hit up some of our favorite watering holes to create as accurate-as-possible lists of amenities.

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