Live music, a full bar...and an enormous blinking and flashing Best Western hotel sign behind the stage welcome visitors to perhaps the city's most hip club. In addition to often-peculiar patrons, pinball, pool and Ms. Pac-Man fill the space of the dim, smoke-filled narrow building on the periphery of downtown's nightlife. Bands, ranging from the obscure local to the borderline mainstream variety—Cherry Poppin' Daddies, Built to Spill—usually play Thursday through Saturday. Other nights, DJs spin music and wannabe models strut their stuff at fashion shows. Cover varies. Earplugs sold at the door.
• Hours: 1p-2a