By floor9 on Oct 17, 2006 in Downtown | 2 Comments
So Wanda’s er, Club One er, Legend’s er, Hardware Bar opened on the West Shore today (right?). If you recall, about three months ago I predicted that we’d see a move to less developed areas — namely, the West Shore. The Coliseum is on track to open along St. John’s Church Road, and [...]
By floor9 on Oct 11, 2006 in Downtown | 1 Comment
Thanks to forums member Cashmere for the tip - Smalls is opening this Saturday (9/14) with Pariah Lout and The Lookies.
Smalls is the aptly-named venue opening in the Spot Formerly Known As Good (also formerly known as Mars). Rather than try to find a DJ-centric niche that both hasn’t been locally catered to AND can [...]
By floor9 on Sep 28, 2006 in Downtown | 0 Comments
Thanks to dskillz78 for pointing this out in the forums: Fisaga is for sale, this time to Capitol Property Management Inc. The link goes to PennLive, so registration, first-born child, and your soul is required. Remember, you were born in 2003 and your ZIP is 90210.
At least they bucked the LLC trend.
By floor9 on Aug 21, 2006 in Downtown | 0 Comments
8/19/06 - 8/21/06: One of the best weekends in a long time at Dragonfly. Friday night brought techno upstairs, and Saturday night brought Meghan.
For starters, I arrived on Friday night to the sound of midtempo techno wafting down from upstairs. DJ Matrix had decided to shake things up a bit by deviating [...]
By floor9 on Jul 20, 2006 in Central PA, Downtown | 12 Comments
Now that we’re past the half-way mark for 2006, it’s going to be a little hard to bill anything forthcoming as “the best ___ of 2006″. Looking forward to 2007, what substantial events do you see coming down the nightlife scene? Could be anything — a new concert series, openings / closures, reformatting, the end [...]
By floor9 on Jul 8, 2006 in Downtown | 15 Comments
There’s a rule of thumb in the industry concerning the lifespan of any given nightclub. Generally speaking, the average life of a club under the same owner is four years. Furthermore, the average nightclub — not counting superclubs and major market venues — has three owners in its lifetime. Having opened in [...]
By floor9 on Jul 1, 2006 in Downtown | 12 Comments
I wanted to say “reloaded”, but that’s somehow managed to become such a cliche that it would sound more like a bad Eclipse commercial than an even remotely interesting post. That’s not to say that this post is even remotely interesting, but it certainly is not a bad Eclipse commercial. Anyway, I was [...]