5604 Earlehurst Street
Springfield, VA 22151
Fairfax County
Phone: (703) 256-4686
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by Chris H. on Went here on a Saturday night with a mixed group. Our positive girls:guys ratio acted in my favor by allowing me to sweet-talk myself out of the exorbitant cover. I'm not sure what it was supposed to be, actually, but I only paid $5. It was the kind of place that had a $20 cover attitude though. They have some unnecessarily complicated airlock-like bouncing system with colored tickets and big leather-clad frowning guys pointing you where to go. My buddy picked up a better-looking colored ticket from the floor and got in for $5, too. Wily. Once in, I was overwhelmed by kitsch. Kitsch everywhere, mostly incongruent. Neon-lit bars and southeast Asian wall carvings, the kind you can pick up at IKEA. I wandered past some catered-type food at one point. It felt a little like Vegas but without the hotel or casino. Actually, nothing like Vegas. Three big rooms for dancing. There's the hip-hop dungeon, featuring a big circle of breakdancing dudes and environmental conditions of a tropical rainforest. Great bass, if you like that feeling of having your lungs vibrate. Genuinely good mixes. Next door there's the ethereal dance room, featuring 60% ambient noise interspersed with 40% house beats (=10% worthwhile). This is where you go to talk up that girl for 60% of the time before it gets too loud again. So far, 3 stars. But wait, there's an upstairs. Visually, it brought to mind a Swiss bank, with its brilliant white tiles underfoot and floor-to-ceiling columns. It was unlike a bank in that there were bikini-clad sparkly fluorescent dancers with incredible abs dancing on elevated platforms next to said columns. The music was awesome: part DJ, part live conga drumming with keyboard synths to make a latin-jungle-salsa mix that was tiiight. I'd go back to Temple for this room and this room alone. Worth $5 if you can get in for that.
by Denny Madaris on I am all for the comfy neighborhood bar, and was curious about the local community during a recent trip south. While I am not the tallest person in the room, I found myself getting pushed a lot with little apology. In fact, one patron that ran into me actually gave ME a dirty look. Yikes. I guess Southern Hospitality didn't make it out that night. Then again, this is just one perspective from an out-of-towner who only had a few days in the ATL gayborhood.
