Beyond entertainment, drinks and free popcorn, Benbow hopes the bar becomes a staple for people looking to engage in politics specifically. They envision Political Pattie’s as the “sports bar of ...

"It's been a tough go," Benbow said. "We realize that the concept — and not just our bar concept but the concept of bipartisanship, the concept of reaching across to someone you may disagree ...

In an expansive interview soon after their bar’s closure, Benbow and Bradford spoke to me about what went wrong. They also managed to make some news: They told me they’re reviving Political ...

“They’re taking my bars like they’re taking my rights,” one person wrote. The online grumbling took Benbow and Bradford by surprise. “People are taking sides and they are entrenching ...

Sydney Bradford and Drew Benbow have seen the comments. And they’re not going to lie, some of the feedback they’ve received about their politics-themed bar on U Street, which soft-launched las ...

“Because D.C. is such a political city I thought that it just made sense,” Andrew Benbow, who identifies as a centrist Republican and opened the bar with his Democratic partner Sydney ...

Benbow and Bradford are a couple who are on opposite ... They were surprised by the backlash to the bar, saying they had hoped it would encourage discourse and "promote unity," according to ...

The owners of Political Pattie’s — Andrew Benbow and Sydney Bradford — painted over the GOP symbol shortly before its grand opening on Tuesday after online critics attacked the new bar for ...