Bar, Theme entertainment in USA
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Buck Owens' Crystal Palace
This venue, off Hwy 99 at the Rosedale Hwy exit, is a must-stop for country music fans. Looking like it belongs in Branson, Missouri, the flashy, Disney-esque joint is fun nonetheless. It regularly hosts touring country acts and Buck himself plays here every Friday and Saturday at 19:30 (around US$6, reserve in advance to assure seating). Memorabilia lines the hallways too. The overpriced food is OK but nothing special.
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Hookah Cafe
The hip Hookah is a swank-looking bar/supperclub with a gimmick, which is that patrons can smoke hookahs at their table. For the uninitiated, a hookah is a groovy Middle Eastern water pipe that looks like an extra-terrestrial musical instrument, or something pulled out of a goat. A full tobacco menu features shisha blends from far-off Saudi Arabia, Jordan and the UAE.
Most people just drink here, or sup on Indian cuisine, but we encourage sharing a smoke with your friends. It's a rare pleasure. A good time to do it is Sunday night, when the Sisters of Salome Belly Dance troupe invades the isles and raises the atmosphere bar a few hip-shifting notches. Between the 'backy'…
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Union Jack's
A staple of the Bethesda nightlife scene, Union Jack's tries to recreate jolly old England in the 'burbs. There's a restaurant resembling the pub in the Harry Potter movies and a front room attempt to recreate downtown London, with many street lamps and a replica of Big Ben. Way in the back is a marvelous saloon with pool tables, darts and welcoming leather chairs. The entire thing sounds ridiculous, but somehow it works.
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Stubbie Shirt Pub
When Berkeley Hoflund visited Australia, she fell in love with the beer. Upon returning, she opened this very orange, very Aussie, very awesome pub serving 255 types of international ‘stubbies and tinnies’ (beer bottles and cans, mate), plus quirky T-shirts, custom-made while you wait. Don’t try to outsmart the razor-sharp staff: they know waaaay more about beer than you. BYO food; they have games behind the bar.
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Pioneer Saloon
About 10 miles north of the California border on I-15 is the enclave of Jean. Turn off at Nevada Landing, a steamboat-style casino hotel, for the 7-mile trip west on NV 161 to Goodsprings, where this little roadside shack dates from 1913 (which makes it southern Nevada's oldest bar). Riddled with bullet holes, the saloon still boasts a vintage cherrywood bar and movie-star memorabilia.
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Saloon No 10
Saloon No 10 is hands-down the best saloon in Deadwood, with dark paneled walls and sawdust on the floor (though slot machines have slipped in to detract from the atmosphere). The original Saloon No 10, where Wild Bill took a serious loss at the gambling table, stood across the street, but the building burned to the ground and the owners brought the bar over here.
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La Femme
Za, za, zoom. The classiest topless show in town defines sexy. The 100% red room's intimate bordello feel oozes amour. Onstage, balletic dancers straight from Paris' Crazy Horse Saloon perform provocative cabaret numbers interspersed with voyeuristic l'art du nu vignettes. Zut alors - it's a classy peep show par excellence.
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Gestalt Haus
Post breakup with girlfriend-slash-coffee shop partner, Anthony said to hell with the coffee and created a guy's dream bar: bikes, brats and beer. With amazingly cheap but great beers sold by the pint or liter(!), tasty organic sausages, two-tiered bike racks and a dog-friendly rec area, the bike messengers and bulldogs aren't complaining.
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James's Gate
This gastropub and its small wooden interior has a prissy, faux-Irish feel. But its enormous fireplaces is still a fine thing to sit by in the winter and the food, from the 'pub' menu or the more elaborate (and pricey) restaurant list, is pretty good. A big outdoor seating area is a popular place to drink during warmer months.
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Billy Bob’s Texas
The 100,000-sq-ft building that is now the world’s largest honky-tonk, called Billy Bob’s, was once a barn housing prize cattle during the Fort Worth Stock Show. After the stock show moved to the Will Rogers Memorial Center, the barn became a department store so big that the stock keepers wore roller skates.
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Rx Gallery
Live, breathe and drink technology at Rx, where new media artists and Silicon Valley whiz kids come for soju cocktails, bonding and coded flirting. The mood is engineered with video and robotic art shows and spooky, reverberating beats that sound like the Bionic Woman in motion.
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Abilene
Chess and domino lovers will feel right at home at this low-key beer and bourbon joint, where the back tables are set aside for gamers. The bar has a good assortment of beers on tap, and the usual assortment of well drinks, but its the gentle aura that pulls in the regulars.
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Beauty Bar
A kitschy favorite since the mid-90s, this homage to old-fashioned beauty parlors pulls in a cool local crowd with its gritty soundtrack, nostalgic vibe and around US$10 manicures, with a free Blue Rinse margarita thrown in, from Wednesday to Sunday.
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Minus 5 Ice Lounge
Cool your heels at Minus 5 Ice Lounge, a bar where the entire room, including tables and chairs, is made completely of ice - you even sip cocktails out of one-use ice goblets. A warm coat and gloves come with admission.
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Cowboy Bills
Do your best bow-legged saunter here for some (very) over-the-top country ’n’ western vibe, live honky tonk and weekly ‘sexy bull-riding’ competitions. If you just spilled your Miller High Life in excitement, git on down here.
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Frankie’s Tiki Room
West of I-15 and downtown’s 18b Arts District, this genuine tiki bar with kitschy tropical decor is a locals’ hideout. Libations are rated by potency from one to five skulls (watch out for the Zombie and Green Gasser!).
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Stevenson's Library
An exclusive gentleman's-club library…on the beach. Might seem incongruous but, hey, why not? From the gleaming 27ft koa-wood bar, enjoy an impressive selection of liquors, fine cigars, live jazz, pool and chess.
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Green Dragon
Also purporting itself to be a historic watering hole, the Green Dragon is almost indistinguishable from the Bell in Hand. The place is stuffed full of overdeveloped biceps kept in perfect tone by constant high-fiving.
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:08
An insanely popular country bar - you have to stay on the mechanical bull for eight seconds, get it? There's no electric bull inside, but call to find out about upcoming rodeo events, which are staged outside.
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Scruffy Murphy's Irish Pub
It's small and smoky - just what you'd expect from a pretty darn authentic Irish pub in America. The hearty selection of native brews keeps the fun crowd lively enough to break out into song on occasion.
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Velvet Margarita
Sombreros, velvet Elvises, cheesy Mexican cult movie projections and margarita-swilling scenesters - it's Cabo San Lucas meets Graceland at this dark palace of kitsch on the Cahuenga Corridor party drag.
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B'n'B Bar
Across from the harbor, B'n'B claims to be Alaska's oldest bar, having served its first beer in 1899. It's a fishermen's bar; and the giant wall-mounted king crab alone is worth the price of a beer.
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Pit Bar
Just past Exit Glacier Rd; this bar's interior has color to spare and good grub, as well as pool tables, a horseshoe pit and the second-oldest shuffleboard court in Alaska. Closing time is late.
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Bare
A smaller VIP pool club with ‘European-style’ (ie topless) sunbathing, mod chaise lounges and palm trees waving overhead. Fruit smoothies and tapas plates enhance the flirtatious atmosphere.
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Tangerine
TI turns up the heat with its orange-flavored ultra lounge featuring a showy open-air Stripside patio. DJs spin pop, house and hip-hop, while burlesque dancers shimmy on the bartop hourly.
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