BUZZ CLUBS
Night life will hit full bloom
When Sky Reiss found out Club 66 was up for grabs, he swooped down on the Sunset Boulevard venue, and we can now anticipate the arrival of Magnolia, a bar and restaurant he’s modeling after the Hollywood rock ‘n’ roll restaurant Jones. Reiss, who worked at Swingers under famed nightlife impresario Sean MacPherson’s tutelage, says he sold
his stake in Las Palmas and Deluxe to open the Bar
(see “Going Out†feature) and now Magnolia, which he co-owns with Ronnie Marino. Look for Magnolia to blossom later this fall.... We hear
the Scene, the Glendale nightclub, is undergoing a nip and tuck. The construction will more than triple the venue’s capacity,
allowing owners to step up their band bookings....
Prey was poppin’on Sunday night as promoters advertised a “free till 11 p.m.†Labor Day party. Turns out, free is still the right price on a sleepy holiday weekend.
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Get a little Guitarlos
And speaking of free, don’t miss the chance to see Carlos Guitarlos at Liquid Kitty on Pico Boulevard on Sunday night. The school-of-hard-knocks axman has made it through the wilderness and thankfully, he’s lived to sing about it.
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Black and now white
The long-running Monday night hip-hop club Snatch is now at Shelter (formerly the Coconut Teaszer). Snatch moves more often than Liz Taylor gets hitched.... In more Shelter news, the Sunset Boulevard nightclub has had an extreme makeover. When it made its debut last year, it looked like blackened swordfish -- a bombed-out, “Blade Runnerâ€-like spot just slightly upgraded from its Teaszer days. Now it’s a white-on-white swelegant hotspot.... And this week’s “Shallow Hal†award goes to nightlife
promoters LA2nite.com, who are screening potential members of their clubs by asking them to submit photographs by e-mail. Cheesy.... On Saturday, famed punk photographer Edward Colver, who worked the L.A. club scene from 1978 to 1983, is debuting “Remember September 10,†his first solo show. The exhibit is at the Transport Gallery in downtown L.A. and runs through Oct. 23. His photographs have appeared on album covers for Black Flag, Christian Death and the Circle Jerks. Say cheese.
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