The Bigfoot Lodge has quickly become a hipster hangout for the Los Feliz-Silverlake ‘Swingers’ crowd. Looking like a cozy lodge circa 1960s, the bar is replete with oversized chairs, plush couches, big booths, a stone fireplace and Smokey the Bear. The entertainment ranges from French jazz and bop to lounge music during the week, and [...]
Archive for April, 2009
The Bigfoot Lodge
April 30, 2009Hustlers Convention
April 23, 2009With the demise of Piper’s Ballroom, the popular Hustler’s Convention night has been relocated to Maxim’s, formerly a kitsch nightspot for the well-heeled, opposite the Opera. With its cheesy décor still in place, the club attempts to create an atmosphere of fashionable slumming, reminiscent of a 1970s Italian porn film. While it got off to [...]
In A Soulful Mood
April 3, 2009The natural amphitheatre at Am Himmel in the rolling hills overlooking Vienna is the scene of a programme of jazz recordings by the likes of Keith Jarrett, Abdullah Ibrahim and Miles Davis are played over a magnificent soundsystem. Amidst the vineyards of the Cobenzl hill on the edge of the Vienna woods, punters can picnic [...]
