Some bars want to sell a lot of beer. Some bars want to be cool. Some bars want to be written up in glossy lifestyle magazines. Asiento, which is the newest tenant in the Starry Night building at 21st and Bryant, really does want to be a neighborhood bar. It’s run by woman who lives a few blocks away. It is the sort of joint that your mom would feel comfortable in. It has events that go something like this: “Board Game Night.” That’s right.

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H.R. Smith has reported on tech and climate change for Grist, studied at MIT as a Knight Science Journalism Fellow, and is exceedingly fond of local politics.

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