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Bars, nightclubs and venues change names, ownership and come and go like the seasons. One week they’re here, the next week they’re gone. The Muse in Nashville was a modest little indie music spot off the beaten path of the downtown party district. It started life in 2001 as Kung Fu Coffee before it became M.U.S.E. which stands for the “Mixed Urban Sound Experiment.”Continue reading →
What do you call a barbecue shack, a blues joint and a biker bar all rolled into one? If you happen to be in central NY the answer would have to be Dinosaur Bar-B-Que. There’s several locations in NY/NJ including Rochester (in the old Lehigh Valley Railroad Station), Harlem, Troy (Albany area, adjacent to the Hudson River) and Newark, NJ near the Prudential Center. A prime location considering it’s the home of the NHL’s New Jersey Devils and the Big East Basketball Conference’s Seton Hall Pirates and all of their hungry sports fans. Other locations include Stamford, CT, Brooklyn and Buffalo, NY.Continue reading →
“I wouldn’t wanna’ be standing in a bar when Jesus comes back to earth.” – Said by a bargoer in Senuna’s Bar, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
Somewhere along the way bars & nightclubs got a bad reputation that’s been hard to shake. Girls say they would never date a guy they met in a bar. But the girls still go there. Guys say the only girls who go to bars are desperate or easy. But the guys still go there. Dating services saturate the public’s perception with tales from people who claim that they were “tired of the bar scene.”
It seems that everyone has an opinion about bars…. Few good…. But despite the many sins these establishments have been blamed for it seems that they’re more often the victims of bitter derision more often than the perpetrators. They’re the victims of the presuppositions that people make regarding their profile and purpose.
Whether or not we’ll admit it. Bars and nightclubs are a place we expect something to happen…. Where usually nothing happens…. But we all keep going there, so maybe they’re not so bad.Continue reading →
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