400 E National Rd
Vandalia, OH 45377
Montgomery County
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by Shane J. on I LOVE, LOVE , LOVE this venue. I enjoy the upstairs shows when I am getting drinks with friends, to purchasing tickets to take in a show in the intimate setting downstairs. I love the acoustics and what puts it over the top is the friendly service. I have been here many times, and I always feel the patrons are laid back and everyone always seems to be having a good time. The food is adequate, so no real complaints here. If you haven't been- you have to check it out for yourself.
by Vivian C. on Loud, resounding MEH. When I first visited the newly renovated CA Academy of Sciences, I was so disappointed that it compelled me to open a rateclub account to warn others. I mean: DINOSAURS? GONE! SHARKS? NO MORE! CHILDHOOD MEMORIES? SHATTERED! I decided to give it another try, though. People have been talking about how awesome Nightlife at the Academy is, so I decided to check it out. It seemed like something new and different to do on a Thursday night, and I'm always looking for new and different things to do. Plus, popular science is right up my alley. Aite, this will be a list of tips for interested museum-goers, and how you should plan your visit: 1. BUY YOUR TICKETS ONLINE at least 4 days in advance! And then PRINT IT OUT AT HOME! I cannot stress how important this is. If you don't buy them online, you'll have to wait in a long-ass line on the day of. And if you don't print them out at home, you'll have to wait in a line at the service desk for them to print them out the day of. I made the mistake of not printing my tickets out at home, and so even though I showed up early, I still didn't get into line till almost 6pm because of the museum's poor planning. They brought out these service desks 10 minutes late (5:40pm), couldn't figure out how to turn on their computers for 15 minutes, and when they finally did, they had to face a line of angry-looking patrons. Apologies for the rambling, but you get the point. Buy it online; print it at home. 2. As soon as you get into the museum, run to the planetarium and snatch up your tickets. They go FAST. The planetarium is actually quite small, and I think they only do 3 showings a night, so you'll thank yourself for doing this early. My suggestion is you try to get tickets for the 6:30pm show; it's 30 minutes long and quite good. 3. After you get out of the planetarium, get yourself a drink if you're feeling it and then wait in line for the rainforest after you get that drink. WARNING: Drinks are, as expected, quite expensive. You can pregame if you want, but because the tickets to Nightlife are cheap(er), I think it's okay to get a drink here. 4. After strolling through the HOT HOT HOT sweltering rainforest (take it offfff!), go anywhere. Places of interest: the aquarium downstairs, the living roof, the African Hall. Lame places you should skip out on: the middle floor with nothing but artwork and that area in the back with hands-on stuff. 5. Post-academy, the Inner Sunset is a great, safe place to eat a late dinner or to just hang out and drink. I think almost all the restaurants here are pretty reliable. Just a five-minute walk from the Academy. So, as far as the exhibits themselves, the planetarium is the most awesome. The show is pretty beautiful and, in some ways, inspiring in the same way that An Inconvenient Truth was. A green message, but without all the overt, annoying in-your-face-ness that some other places tend to do when packaging Green-ness. Everything else was kind of lackluster. Nightlife wasn't as exciting as the website makes it out to be. Props to that design team for making the event look awesome; y'all certainly fooled me. I couldn't find any DJ, MC, and it's not really a party of any sort. More like just...a night...at the museum. Final word: Cool place to take out-of-towners to impress them with something uniquely SF, but I won't be going back for a while.
