![]() ![]() We want you to have a blast and enjoy the ORA, but remember - all other city and State of Arkansas laws still apply. Be sure to keep your ORA cup to yourself, even if you’re with folks over the age of 21 - they aren’t transferable! While you’re exploring Fayetteville’s gorgeous downtown historic district with a drink in hand, remember to be respectful of our local businesses and don’t bring a drink inside without permission. After that, you’re all set! Experience the thrill of grabbing a cold beer or specialty cocktail and walking straight out into the open air on the streets of Fayetteville and you'll wonder how you ever did it any other way. To start sipping and strolling, choose from our long list of businesses that are happy to supply you with a wristband and official ORA cup! Any type of alcoholic beverage can go in the cup, as long as it’s provided within the district. Beverages in ORA cups must be purchased from a participating establishment (listed below) and may not be brought into another alcohol-serving establishment. Guests 21 years of age and older can carry and consume alcoholic beverages in designated cups while wearing the official wristband on public sidewalks and other public areas within the boundary of the district. The Outdoor Refreshment Area is open seven days a week from 10am to 10pm. Today, the ORA is a mainstay in downtown Fayetteville and remains one of very few places in the United States where you can legally drink in the street! Pinpoint won’t focus on live music, however.Fayetteville, Arkansas was one of the first cities in the nation to pilot an Outdoor Refreshment Area (ORA), allowing visitors and residents of legal drinking age to openly carry and consume alcohol in our downtown entertainment district. “An entertaining place for the people that live and work here, and something that adds to what’s already happening on Block Avenue.”Ĭounts said he plans to preserve the stage area from the old JR’s, and may throw in a few other nods to the legendary bar in his decor once he opens. “I want to create a place for locals,” he said. In addition, the bar will feature cozy high-back booths, a concrete patio with outdoor seating, plenty of wall space to display local art, and a handful of other things to do like a dart board and a shufflebowler game.Ī Phantom of the Opera Machine will be part of the lineup when Pinpoint opensĬounts said he is hoping to provide a place for locals to hang out that has an “adult but not stuffy” environment. In all, he’ll have 14 pinball machines in operation once the new bar opens this summer. He currently has more than a dozen of them, including but not limited to machines like a 35th Anniversary Playboy Magazine Machine, a Back To The Future machine, a Judge Dread machine, F14 Tomcat, Funhouse, Williams Slugfest, Phantom of the Opera, and others. This summer, he is set to open Pinpoint Fayetteville, a brand new pinball bar on Block Avenue in the basement space formerly home to the original JR’s Lightbulb Club.Īs it happens, on top of his other interests, Counts is also a collector of antique and retro pinball machines (of course he is), has learned to work on them and restore them in his spare time (somehow he has spare time?). With all of that entertainment experience, it only makes sense that mayor Counts would eventually find himself in the bar business. Well known for his elaborate Halloween and New Year’s Eve parties, as co-host of the Drive-In Speakerbox Podcast and associated Tavern Trivia nights at Smoke & Barrel, as local DJ Beat Bachs, a co-host of the popular Later with Jason Suel television show, a board director of non-profit arts organization Art Amiss, and for a host of other fun projects, Counts is like a Renaissance man of good times. ![]() If there was an official mayor of fun in Fayetteville, longtime local resident Bo Counts would be a shoo-in for the position.
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