Bars and Nightclubs

October 15, 2023

A New Membership Club Bets on Black Business

Marva and Myriam Babel spent much of the past few years thinking about the concept of a space, especially how to sustain one in a gentrifying […]
September 15, 2023

Paris Wine and Ice Cream Bar Folderol Takes Back Control After TikTok Fame

This summer, the owners of the wine and ice cream bar Folderol took a number of measures to manage crowds after their small business experienced an […]
August 30, 2023

Singers, the Brooklyn Bar Where Anything Can Happen

Singers has played host to sauna raves, pop-up petting zoos and the most perfectly deranged Olympic Games imaginable. Maybe you’ve seen it on social media? That […]
August 28, 2023

Patti LuPone Performs on Fire Island for Her Most Ardent Fans

Last weekend on Fire Island in New York, far from the bright lights of Broadway, Patti LuPone performed at the Ice Palace nightclub for some of […]
June 21, 2023

What Partygoers Wore to a Gwyneth Paltrow-Themed Drag Show in NYC

Gwyneth Paltrow has been popping up in unexpected places this year. She was in court in March, dressed impeccably, and won $1 after being found not […]
May 23, 2023

Tiny Love Stories: ‘I Never Saw My Parents Kiss’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Blinking With Love Growing up in the ’50s, I never saw my parents […]
April 29, 2023

Stud Country, a Queer Line Dancing and Two-Step Class, Makes a Return to New York

On the night of April 17, a crowd of 20- and 30-somethings, many of them queer, packed into Georgia Room, a Georgia O’Keeffe-inspired nightclub at the […]
April 6, 2023

Scenes from the N.C.A.A. Final Sports Bra Watch Party

The Sports Bra in Portland, Ore., is a rarity dedicated exclusively to women’s sports. The latest highlight was the N.C.A.A. women’s basketball final. PORTLAND, Ore. — […]
April 1, 2023

Lesbian Bars in Los Angeles Change With the Times

LOS ANGELES — One pleasingly bitter, gently botanical, sort-of purple nonalcoholic cocktail in, and I was just happy to be caught in the gravitational pull of […]
January 28, 2023

“The White Lotus” Dance Remix is the Hottest Club Song

Variations of the spine-tingling intro music have played at rave parties, Australian music festivals and Sundance. On a recent club night in Chicago, a high-pitched woman’s […]