The place is completely hypocritical. You can drink every night. In some places people bring their own alcohol to parties. Other places are set up as full-time pubs, with shelves stacked high with bottles. It's big business.
Some guys make more money selling alcohol than they earn.
At least 12 people are under arrest and anybody connected to them could be swept up in the Saudi dragnet. Any Westerner caught with a few bottles of alcohol is vulnerable, to lashes and imprisonment at the very least. It's for my own safety. Cornered at the city's little golf club, expats turned their backs. For the Saudi police, the inquiry into the bombings must be akin to investigating some closed religious sect.