Every Day:
4pm - 2:30am
1297 Parsons Ave Columbus, Ohio 43206
-614 Magazine
Happy 2010 all!
To kick off the new year, we're gonna visit a new-ish Columbus establishment that has joined forces with a well-known local vegan presence. Hal & Al's, a pub featuring live music and rotating artwork, is the current home of Rad Dog!
With gallery space at a premium in Columbus, artists are finding new and unusual places to exhibit their works.... For silk-screen poster artist Mike Martin, owner of EngineHouse 13, who is currently exhibiting his art at Hal & Al’s bar on Parsons Avenue, the concept of art will always be in the eye of beholder, no matter where it’s found.
“Good work deserves to be viewed, whether it’s in its native habitat or in a gallery,” he said. “I would rather have it at a bar, because it’s the average person, average concert goer and they understand it more.”
Before I get started here, I'll have to lay my biases on the table: when I first started college education, had to find a way to pay for beer.
Obviously, I needed to be educated, pay for books and gain insight from social interactions while in school. These things were very important things as well. But in college, ultimately the most important thing was to figure out an effective method to pay for beer.
Grand opening of Rad Dog inside the Hal & Al’s bar. Come and sample the expanded Rad Dog menu and help us launch the next chapter of Rad Dog as we begin this new season of serving our delicious wares to the patrons of Hal & Al’s bar.
A bright blue pocket of pop culture sits on a stigmatic South Columbus street. The beer selection is vast, the dress is casual, and sirens only occasionally interrupt the alternative music.

Hal & Al's on Parson's
Photo: Christopher Atwood
Thursday, July 16, 2009 6:00 AM
By John Ross
The loose archipelago of great neighborhood bars along Parsons Avenue got a bit longer several months ago with the opening of Hal & Al's, a small music and comedy spot south of Thurman Avenue. Nearby neighborhood blight along the Gateway to the South may seem a bit scary to those who frequent more established nightlife districts,
"My goal is to have this place be the start, midpoint or end of a really great night,"... "That would make me smile."
Wednesday, July 22
at Hal & Al’s in Merion Village
6pm-9pm | 1297 Parsons Ave.
Featuring $1 cans of Stroh's, Coors Originals,
PBR, Blatz, Milwaukee's Best, Busch and Schaefer.
$2 Jim Beam Cocktails & $3 Sailor Jerry or Skyy Cocktails
Complimentary Pizza Provided | Bring Your iPod for iPod Night