Entertainment in North America
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Hyde Park Café
This downtown late-night indoor-outdoor café, pizza place (pizzas $9 to $15), and VIP club gets really packed on Tuesday nights with eclectic music. Patrons drop by on other nights to check out the DJ spinning tunes. Happy hour (with no cover) dominates from 8pm to 10pm, while silicone implants and South Beach slick attire pick up the slack after 10pm.
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Beat Kitchen
Everything you need to know is in the name – entertaining beats traverse a spectrum of sounds, and the kitchen turns out better-than-average dinners. Dine early in the front of the house, since service is unhurried. Music in the homely back room can be funky or jammy, but a crop of Chicago’s smart, broadly appealing songwriters dominates the calendar.
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Pub Ste-Élisabeth
Tucked off a side street, this awesome little pub is positively revered by Montrealers for its heavenly vine-covered courtyard and drink menu that includes beers galore, whiskies and ports. It’s got a mind-whirring repertoire of beers on tap, including imports and rare-to-find microbrewery fare like Boréale Noire and Cidre Mystique.
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La Botica
Like an old apothecary, La Botica dispenses its elixirs from squat bottles lined up on the shelf. Available varieties are suitably scribbled on pieces of cardboard – try the cuesh, distilled from a wild maguey in Oaxaca. La Botica has opened other branches with similar hours at Campeche 396 in Condesa, and Orizaba 161 in Colonia Roma.
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Tiniest Bar in Texas
Tiny bar, huge patio, super-casual vibe.
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Space
This multilevel warehouse is Miami's main megaclub. With 30,000 sq ft to fill, dancers have room to strut, and an around-the-clock liquor license redefines the concept of after-hours. DJs usually pump each floor with a different sound – hip-hop, Latin, heavy trance – while the infamous rooftop lounge is the place to be for sunrise.
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Hi Ho Lounge
The Hi Ho is a perfect Bywater bar, the sort of place where you’re as likely to compare tattoos with the guy sitting next to you as witness a local second-line after party. Costume parties and punk concerts seem to take place frequently, and the atmosphere is redolent of a barnyard decorated by a farm full of Jimi Hendrix roadies.
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Place des Arts
Montréal’s spacious municipal center for the performing arts has excellent acoustics. There are five theaters: the biggest, the 3000-seat Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier, hosts the city’s symphony as well as ballet, opera and dance troupes. The eponymous square is the focal point of Montréal’s International Jazz Festival.
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Carrot Top
Even if his TV commercials annoyed you to death, this wild and curly orange-haired comedian’s shtick could leave your side split and your gut busted. The fast-paced show runs the audience ragged with physical props, some dark and twisted stand-up humor and merciless skewering of pop stars, Hollywood celebs and politicians.
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Empty Bottle
The scruffy, go-to club for edgy indie rock and jazz; Monday's show is always free (and there's $1.50 Pabst).
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Premier Muvico Palace 20
Ahhhh, this is how movies were meant to be enjoyed! This elegant and massive film house (sister property to the one in West Palm's CityPlace), offers luxurious seating, a private bar and a wine menu for sipping while you watch your movie. For some, the best detail is that children are not admitted into the theatres.
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Muddy Waters
A yard sale's mix of cosy furniture? Check. Pool table? Check. Internet access? Check. Live music on the weekends and a kick-ass backyard patio? You got it. Seems Muddy Waters has everything required for the quintessential indie coffeehouse. And the coffee's darn good too. Great place to escape the State St hordes.
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Beretta
After shopping locally and seasonally on Valencia St, nothing hits the spot like Beretta's lip-smacking local, seasonal cocktails, made with fresh everything. Drink before and after peak dinner hours, when the small storefront restaurant-and-bar gets packed and deafeningly loud. You might be inclined to come back for cocktail classes.
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La Divina
La Divina, facing Santo Domingo Church, has a disco-esque interior, and music from salsa to house to trance to reggae. There's live rock a few nights a week, and early-evening (18:00) movies on other nights. As the evening progresses the crowd may generate a warm enough atmosphere to spill out into the street.
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Jimmy’s Woodlawn Tap
Some of the geniuses of our age have killed plenty of brain cells right here in one of Hyde Park’s few worthwhile bars. The place is dark and beery, and a little seedy. But for thousands of University of Chicago students deprived of a thriving bar scene, it’s home. Hungry? The Swissburgers are legendary.
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Buena Vista Cafe
Warm your cockles with a prim little goblet of bitter-creamy Irish coffee, introduced to the US at this destination bar that once served sailors and cannery workers. The creaky Victorian floor manages to hold up carousers and families alike, served community-style at round tables overlooking the Wharf.
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Days of '98 Show with Soapy Smith
Skagway has Southeast Alaska's best and longest-running melodrama. The entertaining and lively Days of '98 Show with Soapy Smith covers the town's gold-rush days and the full story of Soapy and his gang. Four shows are offered daily in summer; the evening show is preceded by an hour of 'mock gambling.'
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BLUES
Across the street from Kingston Mines, this veteran club draws a slightly older crowd that soaks up every crackling, electrified moment.
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Brewhouse
Rowdy dive down by the railroad tracks crafts its own unique small-batch beers and has rockin' live music Wednesday to Saturday nights.
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Marie’s Crisis
Aging Broadway queens, wide-eyed out-of-town gay boys, giggly tourist girls and various other fans of musical theater assemble around the piano here and take turns belting out campy numbers, often joined by the entire crowd. It’s old-school fun, no matter how jaded you were when you went in.
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'Ulalena
Along the lines of a Cirque du Soleil-style show, this extravaganza has its home at the 700-seat Maui Theatre. The theme is Hawaiian history and storytelling; the medium is modern dance, brilliant stage sets, acrobats and elaborate costumes. All in all, an entertaining, high-energy performance.
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Beauty Bar
Swill a cocktail, watch the weekly manicure demonstrations or just chill inside the salvaged innards of a 1950s New Jersey beauty salon. DJs and live bands rotate nightly here, spinning tiki lounge tones, ’80s garage rock, punk, funk and soul. Make sure you wear your coolest vintage threads.
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EOS Lounge
Ladies love the lighting at this trendy nightclub currently hot with SB's martini-sipping scenesters. The sexy décor - rippling waterfall, glimmering fireplace, twinkling patio - is on par with the hippest of Hollywood lounges. Small dancefloor for those wanting to get their groove on.
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Cactus Cafe
Listen to acoustic up close and personal at this intimate club on the UT campus.
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Amc Forum
This may seem like just another multi-theater monster cinema, but it’s worth keeping an eye on these 22 screens. They are likely to have the most recent locally produced indie smash, foreign hit or subtitled Québécois film hit, as well as Hollywood blockbusters.
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