Have you ever found yourself caught in a “trip trap?” This term, introduced to us by nightlife and culture impresario Ryan Doherty, describes an art spectacle engineered to command total attention while you teeter on the edge of disbelief. An oracle of downtown’s Fremont area, Doherty is the personable founder of Corner Bar Management as well as a major collector of Pop Surrealism. He has masterminded an art-forward nightlife empire that reflects his eclectic taste in bric-a-brac and a keen sense of fun. Step into one of his venues—among them Discopussy, Cheap Shot, and We All Scream—and you might meander from a tentacled EDM dance floor to a rustic Mexican cantina to a padded speakeasy to a gnome-filled burger bar—and it’s all happening within a single Vegas bender.

In the burgeoning Arts District, Doberman Drawing Room, a taxidermy-adorned craft-cocktail bar, opened in May with a strong collection of drinks from mixologist Juyoung Kang. One drink, the Pillow Book, is made with vodka, nigori sake, strawberry, sumac, lemon and egg white. Another, the zero-proof Coffee Cheesecake, is a rich and creamy take on the classic espresso martini with a surprising twist: parmesan.

When Ryan Doherty was about 6-years-old, he took interest in a backyard chat his father, Billy, was having with a friend.

The kids didn’t usually pay attention to his dad’s grown-up conversations. But he took notice of how the gentlemen described Ryan’s dog, a doberman named Sheeba.

“They said, ‘They look sleek, elegant and dangerous, but they are incredibly loyal. They look fast standing still,’ ” Doherty says. “This was burned in my memory.”

Doherty started speaking differently to his friends at Cheverus Catholic School, an all-boys institution in the Boston suburb of Malden, Mass.

“I never heard these words before,” Doherty says. “I used ’sleek’ ‘elegant’ and ‘dangerous’ over and over, even for inanimate objects that had none of those qualities. I said, ‘It looks fast even standing still’ about a chalkboard.

”Doherty has held that memory of his doberman. When it was time to attach a name to his new nightspot in the Arts District, he used Doberman as a place-holding title. The name has stuck. Doberman Drawing Room opens to the public April 30, 2025”

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