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BEST PLACE TO HIDE IN THE DARK
The Emerald Lounge
The Emerald Lounge
1514 North Seventh Avenue
602-256-9705
1514 North Seventh Avenue
602-256-9705
The Emerald Lounge is the CBGB of Phoenix. All the proper elements are there: a garage-like punk-rock stage where you can peep such acts as Hell on Heels, Smut Muffin, and Spaz Kitty; a cool bar with an even cooler bartender -- Don "Mr. Spock" Baber; ice-cold beers on tap; and the sort of inky darkness that takes your eyes about 10 minutes to adjust to. Even then, you'll never be certain that "the dime" in the low-cut blouse beside you isn't "a deuce" -- or vice versa -- until the sunlight hits her bedsheets the next morning. But then, the darkness hides a multitude of sins both ways, bubba. The real reason we like the club's crepuscular ambiance so much is that we can hide out and be as sociable or as unsociable as we want to be.
And if it allows us the occasional anonymous, surreptitious grope of the opposite sex, that's not so wrong, is it?
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