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open closed bar sweden
Places

The Best Cocktail Bar in the World Has Closed

Located 200 miles below the arctic circle, the experimental Open/Closed was never built to last.

  • story: Joe Lindsley
  • photo: Open/Closed
obannons bar telluride
Places

A Crucible of Ski Bums and Billionaires

In Telluride, O'Bannon's was a refuge for mountaineers, nomadic hairstylists and one very famous foot fetishist.

  • story: Laurel Miller
  • illustration: Carolyn Figel
Tailor Bar NYC
Places

The Most Influential Failed Bar

With its molecular leanings and misfit chef-bartender duo, New York’s Tailor was daring, eccentric and 10 years too early.

  • story: Joshua David Stein
  • illustration: Nick Hensley
Foxz Athens Georigia
Places

Friends in Low Places

The original Foxz Tavern was a home base for the queers, punks, rednecks and redneck queers of Normaltown.

  • story: André Gallant
  • illustration: Nick Hensley-Wagner
Langano Lounge Portland
Places

A Ghost of Portland’s Gritty Past

Tucked beneath the city’s first Ethiopian restaurant, Langano Lounge was known for its free shows, pickle shots and requisite grit and grime.

  • story: Ann-Derrick Gaillot
  • photo: Lucas DeShazer
McHales NYC
Places

McHale’s Was a Real New York Bar

The Theater District bar, which closed in 2006, was the sort of working class place that no longer exists in Times Square, or in the city as a whole.

  • story: Robert Simonson
  • illustration: Lauren Cierzan
Bull Moose NYC
Places

The Last True New York Newspaper Bar

Bull Moose Saloon was a hangout for the staff of the Observer in an era where everything seemed to matter both more and less.

  • story: M.H. Miller
  • illustration: Nick Hensley-Wagner
Carrie Nation Bar Brooklyn NY
Places

Everything Felt Cursed After Carrie Nation Closed

Before it became Ginger’s, the Brooklyn gay bar was its very own neighborhood opera.

  • story: Alexander Chee
  • illustration: Lydia Ortiz
Mermaid Lounge NOLA
Places

Mermaid Lounge Was a Total Circus

The New Orleans music venue was a bastion of consequence-free chaos and eccentricity.

  • story: Franz Nicolay
  • photo: Nancy Laskowski Maas
Double Door Chicago
Places

Tell Me Your Double Door Story

In its prime, the Chicago rock club meant something different to everyone.

  • story: Megan Stielstra
  • photo: Double Door
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