NEWS BRIEF: Star Bar Co-Founder Passes

Marty Nolan, co-founder along with the David Heany of the Star Community Bar in Little Five Points, passed away Oct. 2 at the age of 65. Known as "Marty the Plumber" for his day job, it was the work he did with Heany thirty years ago, converting an old C&S Bank building on Moreland Avenue into a unpretentious neighborhood bar that that also happened to have live music, for which Nolan is best known. The two opened the Star Bar in October, 1991, and with it grew a scene that wasn't subject to the latest musical fads or hype, but centered around the belief that music, whether it rocked, rolled, twanged, screached, or hollered, was as medicinal as the cases of PBR sold there, and was the weekend redemption needed by its regulars. The Star Bar continues to be a way-of-life, as much as a hang-out, for the common and uncommon, who walk through its doors. Nolan follows Heany in death by three years.