Bars and Nightclubs

December 26, 2020

Michael Alig, Club Kid Who Served Prison Time for Manslaughter, Is Dead

Advertisement Continue reading the main story Supported by Continue reading the main story Michael Alig, Fixture of New York City Nightlife, Dies at 54 Mr. Alig, […]
November 29, 2020

Making Bar Trivia Virtual

In the spring, just before lockdown hit North Carolina, Steve Bahnaman met some friends at a Cider Brewery, just outside Raleigh, for an evening of bar […]
November 14, 2020

Boozy Hot Chocolate

With the days growing colder and al fresco dining still the norm, bars and restaurants are likely to offer more hot cocktails on their menus. One […]
September 9, 2020

Drag Queens Deliver Dinner and a Show in San Francisco

Before the coronavirus, drag queens and kings lip-synced their way across the jewel-box stage at Oasis, a San Francisco cabaret, and performed parodies of shows like […]
June 20, 2020

New York’s Gay Bars Fear They Won’t Survive the Pandemic

Protesters have returned to the Stonewall Inn again and again in recent weeks to demand an end to police brutality, raising their fists, taking a knee […]
June 12, 2020

A Barware Company for the Pros Adds Amateurs to the Mix

This article is part of Owning the Future, a series on how small businesses across the country are coping with the coronavirus pandemic. Greg Boehm recognized […]
June 11, 2020

Hotels Transformed New York’s Social Life. Now What?

There was a time in the not so far-off past when hotels lived or died by being an out-of-towner’s fantasy: the Plaza, the Four Seasons, the […]
May 20, 2020

Slosh! Slurp! Welcome to the ‘Walktail’ Party

Earlier this month, as the state of Texas was about to ease its stay-at-home restrictions, Pam LeBlanc pulled her wedding dress out of a vacuum-sealed box, […]
May 3, 2020

Beirut’s Nightlife Survived Civil War. Can It Withstand Pandemic?

BEIRUT, Lebanon — When the disruptive threat of the coronavirus first came for Beirut, I was, appropriately enough, in a local bar. When a friend and […]
April 2, 2020

Peter Gatien, the ’90s ‘Club King,’ Wants His Final Say

“Thoughts flash in your mind of incredible nights here, whether it was Jay-Z, or Junior Vasquez, or the thousands of people inside and outside, waiting in […]