by Lawanda Weichman on I came here with a friend before the Dandy Warhols show at The Regency. It's not bad, but not great either, somewhere in the middle. The red-haired bartendress steered me away from The Guinness, saying it was a little funky that night. Okay. It was fairly busy that night, so I understand that you're going to have to wait a bit. Someone else apparently did not understand this and all I saw down the bar to my left was a glass flying into the bar taps I think. She told him (them?) to get the fuck out, and if you don't like waiting, then leave. So sorry. I'm glad she stood up for herself and essentially told them to fuck off and go home. Not sure if and when I will be back, but it's so close to The Regency Ballroom that it's really really convenient before a show, particularly if you don't want to walk up from the Polk street bars in the rain, you know, if you're afraid of water.
by Hazel Freligh on Yes it's a cool, creative venue-it exemplifies the "Brooklyn warehouse party'." One part burning man, one part rave, one part underground circus show. But the New Years Eve party was incredibly irresponsible and wound up ruining a hell of a lot of peoples' nights. It was so crowded that it was not fun and it was kinda dangerous. The fire department showed up and cops shut it down. We had been there less than an hour. It find it highly objectionable that the people putting this on (or the people they paid) all hung out at the entrance collecting a very steep $30 cover, but had NO ONE doing crowd control. Even after it was so crowded that you literally couldn't move and the masses started shoving each other down the organizers kept funneling people in. You couldn't dance or even raise your arms. Not fun. And honestly it WAS A DEATH TRAP! All those decorations, curtains, and do it your self loft build outs are very flammable. There were a bunch of narrow corridors and bottlenecks were it took 10 minutes to go 30 feet. People were encouraged to smoke not only *ahem* herbs but cigarettes inside of large pieces of installation art and obscured nooks. There were electrical wires, overloaded power bars and shoddy lights everywhere. Even though they appeared to have a sprinkler system had there been a fire, even a small one, there would have been a stampede. There is no doubt in my mind that people would have been trampled to death in the event of a perceived emergency. Even something as small as a fistfight would have gotten a bunch of people hurt. I've been to plenty of underground parties and raves that were illegally overcrowded and "unsafe," I usually don't care-whatever fun is fun. But Rubulad was dangerous enough that I have to say I'm kind of relieved the authorities stepped in. I haven't been in a venue that overcrowded in years. If this joint had any kind of crowd control I would give it 5 stars Considering this was heavily advertised and that Rubulad events have been going on for years the organizers should have known better. At the very least maybe offer a refund, I feel cheated.
by Andrew D. on I used to love Bruno's when they featured the Jazz Mafia tuesdays and $2 Stellas... Well now there's a new venue... bigger and with big windows, so a bit less of that old-school speakeasy feel, but still very chill. Same GREAT Jazz Mafia musicians playing it up every Tuesday night. And $2 TRUMER! fuck yea!
