Hey, it's Curious City's Jason Mark, and our old friend Liz Garibet from the Chicago

Briseum came to us a few months ago with an idea.

Well, actually, more like a theory that's been rolling around in her head for a while.

And that theory is, most of your favorite movies and TV shows have important scenes, pivotal moments,

that take place in a bar.

On Solo, I'm Captain in the Millennium Falk.

Chewy here tells me you're looking for passage to the Alderman system.

Yes, indeed. If it's a fast ship.

Fast ship. You've never heard of the Millennium Falcon.

Should I have?

It's a ship that made the castle run in less than 12 parsecs.

Of course, that was the famous canteena scene from Star Wars, and it shows that bars and taverns are so ingrained in

our culture that we imagine they'd even exist in galaxies far, far away. A big part of the

Briseum's mission, in fact, is to show the role bars and taverns have played in the history of our

country, in our city, and in our individual lives.

Bars can be a place of community where...

You want to go where everybody knows your life, good and bad.

And it turns out, all of that is reflected in how bars are portrayed in TV and film.

So a few weeks ago, Curious City teamed up with Liz and former longtime Chicago Tribune writer Mark Carrow for a live event in front of lots of Curious City listeners just like you to dive deeper into this idea.

We called it suds on screen.

And I'm going to bring you some of our favorite moments from that event right after this break.

If you're already a WBEZ member, thank you.

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