Dress Codes

Necktie: no service? When a patron at Rice University bar Valhalla refused to remove his tie, he was banned from drinking there. Brittanie Shey writes: "Here's what's weird. I have gone into Valhalla sweating and stinking like a pig after middle-of-summer runs around the Rice loop and been served. I have snuck my dog into Valhalla and set him on a barstool as if he were a human being, and I was served. For a place that feels so laid-back, this seems like a really uptight way to respond to an alumnus." [Houston Press]