Nightlife
Bars, clubs, late kitchens and the places still open after midnight, mapped by the people who close them.
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- Leipzig's live music clubs — Leipzig's concert rooms are held together by a trade body rather than a scene: LiveKommbinat Leipzig e.V. speaks for clubs and live venues…
- Cologne's live music clubs — Cologne's live rooms are mostly inherited: a machine factory in Ehrenfeld with its crane rails still bolted to the ceiling, a basement unde…
- Hamburg's live music clubs — Hamburg's concert rooms are small, loud and mostly older than the acts that fill them, and they are organised: the Clubkombinat keeps a mem…
- Berlin's jazz clubs — Berlin's jazz is played mostly below street level and mostly in rooms built for something else: a cinema basement, a corner grocery, the ce…
- Paris's jazz clubs — Paris keeps its jazz in three kinds of room: Left Bank cellars dug long before anyone played bebop in them, the fifty-metre run of rue des…
- Frenchmen Street's live music clubs — Frenchmen Street runs through the Faubourg Marigny, just downriver from the French Quarter. Since the 1980s its three-block stretch has bee…
- London's jazz clubs — London jazz happens mostly below street level: a basement under the Polish cultural centre in Hammersmith, a cellar bar under Greenwich wit…
- Buenos Aires milongas in century old dance halls — Buenos Aires keeps its tango on the first floors and in the basements of buildings that were built for something else: a Belle Epoque confi…
- Amsterdam venues holding a 24 hour licence — The city began issuing round-the-clock permits in 2013 on the condition that the rooms sit away from the residential centre and run a cultu…