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Ah, but edalso whereour does one a nightcap, or, better the Rain Forest atop the Hilton , the the Rain atop HiltonJax Hotel, the where go for and a nightcap, or, Orleans better also Jive New still, does for aone nightcap Hard RockForest Cafe in thethe second Brewery still, for a nightcap and live New Orleans Hard RockonCafe in theand second Jax Brewery music? Decatur, Jax Fest, a series of complex music? on original Decatur,Jax andBrewery Jax Fest,development. a series of The following is a list of bars and nightclubs complex bars in the night than the Columns Hotel patio, located on night than St. theCharles Columns Hotel The patio,movie located on Avenue. ''Pretty historic historic Charles Avenue. The movie "Pretty Baby"St.with Brooke Shields was filmed here, as Baby" Brooke Shields filmed here, as was awith recent music videowas with Aaron Neville was recentRondstadt. music video with Neville SeraAaron is another good anda Linda Que and Linda Rondstadt. Sera is another good spot on St. Charles Que for drinking and streetcar spot on St. Charles for drinking and streetcar watching. watching. Magazine Street has plenty of fun bars, in- Thethefollowing is a list ofUptown, bars and and nightclubs in the original Jax Brewery development. Magazine Street (a haswine plenty of Le funBon bars, inassorted bars Temps in French Quarter, Flagons bar), Tujague's Restaurant up the street also has a cluding inoutlying the French Quarter, and assorted up the streetthat alsothere has are a cluding (a wine bar), Le doubles Bon Temps I'll tryUptown, to fit in as many as this Tujague's (Keep in mind, though, Roule Flagons , and Hotbrau (which as a areas. nice bar. Restaurant outlying areas.will I'llallow. try to fit in as many as this nice bar. (Keep in bars mind,onthough, that there are Roule, and Hofbrau (which doubles as the a small space steakhouse) . Tchoupitoulas countless little and around Bourbon Street contains small space will allow. Quarter bars Quarter I'll start bars with probably the most famous I'll start hole withinprobably theO'Brien's most famous on St. watering the city, Pat watering hole inwhich the city, Peter Street, hasPat the O'Brien's distinctionon ofSt. sellPeter Street, which has the distinction ofUnited sellvolume of alcohol in the ing the largest ingStates. the largest volume oftoalcohol in theHurricane United The best spots drink your States. The best spots to drink your Hurricane or Pete's Special are the piano bar and the exorpansive Pete's Special arelatter the piano bar and on theaexis preferable cool patio; the pansive patio; the latter is preferable on a cool fall night. fall night. If you want a drink in a historical New If you building, want a drink in a historical Orleans the Napoleon House onNew CharOrleans building, the Napoleon House on Charis a must. It was built in 1797 and got tres Street tres is aname must.from It was built in 1797 itsStreet present a legendary plotand thatgot failitsed. present name from a legendary plotathat fail-of A plot was hatched whereby group ed.men, A plot wasthehatched whereby a were groupgoing of led by pirate Jean Lafitte, men, led by the pirate Jean Lafitte, were going to rescue Napoleon from the island of St. toHelena rescue and Napoleon from the island of This, St. bring him to New Orleans. Helena and bringhouse," him to New This, "Napoleon's was Orleans. remodeled and "Napoleon's house," remodeled and readied for his arrival,was but he died before the readied his arrival, but heindied before voyageforcould be attempted, 1821. The the bar's voyage could attempted, ina1821. The bar's specialty is be a Pimm's Cup, refreshing drink specialty is awith Pimm's Cup, a not refreshing drink lime. garnished cucumber, lemon or garnished with cucumber, lemon lime. a Try it! If you're hungrynot , the placeormakes Try it! If you're hungry, the place makes a respectable muffaletta. muffaletta. respectable The balcony at the Chart House offers a great The balcony at the Chart House offers greatof view of Jackson Square and the acast view of Jackson and the cast ofto characters millingSquare about below. If you want characters milling below. If you want mingle with theseabout Quarter characters, checkto out mingle withPlace theseorQuarter characters, out Coop's the Blue Crystal check on Decatur Coop's the The BlueDungeon Crystal on Street,Place alongorwith onDecatur Toulouse Street, Dungeon on Toulouse Street.along The with latterThe is not for the faint of heart. It Street. Theopen latteruntil is notmidnight. for the faint heart.your It doesn't Youofwind doesn't open until midnight. Youtowind way around a spiral staircase get your to the way aroundbar. a spiral to aget to theof upstair's Therestaircase you 'll find mixture upstair's There you'll find a mixture of bikers, bar. debutantes, headbangers, and Tulane bikers, debutantes, headbangers, Tulane of hard rock students getting rowdy to the beatand students to the beat of hard rock music.getting Drink arowdy Witch's Brew at your own risk. music. Drink a Witch's Brew at your own risk. 212 PLAY METER/November 1990 212 PLAY METER/November 1990 countless little bars 'tontheand around Bourbon Street that I haven space to mention.) Street that I haven't the space to mention.) Quarter nightclubs Quarter nightclubs Next to Pat O'Brien's is the world famous Next to Pat O'Brien's is the world Preservation Hall , a veritable shrinefamous to DixPreservation a veritable shrine to Dixieland music.Hall, Expect to be jammed in there, and ieland Expect to be jammed in there, and is worth theymusic. don't serve alcohol, but the music they alcohol, but theHall music worth it. don't Lulu serve White's Mahogany onisBourbon it.Street Lulu White's Mahogany Hall on is also another Dixieland hotBourbon spot, as is Street also another Dixieland hot spot, Hilton as is Peteis Fountain's Club in the Riverside Pete Fountain's Clubher in the Riverside Hilton Hotel. And, despite advancing years, leggy Hotel. despite advancing leggy 'em onyears, Bourbon. ChrisAnd, Owens stillher wows Chris Owens wowsrhythm 'em onand Bourbon. Newstill Orleans blues can be Fiery Fiery rhythmHouse and blues can be had atNew The Orleans Old Absinthe on Bourbon, had at The Old on Jump Bourbon, performed by Absinthe Bryan LeeHouse and The Street performed by Bryan Leethis andplace The Jump Street Five. Don't confuse with The Old Five. Don'tBar, confuse thisaplace with The Oldon Absinthe located few blocks down Absinthe Bar, located fewmusic blockshere, down There's noalive butonits Bourbon. Bourbon. There's no live music here, but its sports mofif makes for a fun time nonetheless. sports mofif a funthere time'snonetheless. For live makes Cajun for music, Michaul's on For live Cajun music, Street. (This there's place isMichaul's technicallyon not Magazine Magazine Street.but (This place is technically not in the Quarter, rather in the Central Business in the Quarter, butenough.) rather in the TheCentral other Business live Cajun District; close District; close enough.) The other livewhich Cajun I'll spot is Uptown at the Maple LeafBar, spot is Uptown the Maple Leaf Bar, which I'll mention in a atbit. mention in a and bit. I'm stretching the term "live Finally, Finally, andthis I'mone, stretching term "liveon music " on try the the Cat's Meow music" on this one, tryitthe Cat'stheMeow on Here's how works: contestant Bourbon. Bourbon. how it works: theof contestant potentials. picks hisHere's favorite song from a list picks favorite songup from a list of potentials. He his or she then gets on stage and, in front of Hea or she then gets up on stage and, in, sings. front of packed house ofunruly drunkards The a packed house ofmusic unrulyis drunkards, background provided, sings. alongThe with background music Lousy is provided, along with lyrics on a screen. acts get gonged off the lyrics onina screen. get gonged off the of you Expo attendees stage shame.Lousy Any acts stage in shame. Any of you Expo attendees interested? interested? Uptown bars Uptown bars There isn't a better drinking venue on a fall There isn't a better drinking venue on a fall steakhouse). Tchoupitoulas contains & Grill and Street the F &M Patiothe Bar, Absolute Bar Absolute Grill and theinto F&M Bar, a primeBar spot&for drinking thePatio wee hours. a prime spot for drinking the weehas hours. The Carrollton section into of Uptown some The Carrollton Uptown hasBrown's, some Cooter gems as well, section among of them gems as well, them Cooter Phillip's, andamong Carrollton Station.Brown's, The latter Phillip's, andvisited Carrollton Station. The on Thursday's nightlatter for its should be should be visited Thursday's its "chicken drop" on contest. I won 't night go intofor details, "chicken I won't into details, but trustdrop" me oncontest. this one. It's agoscream! but trust me on this one. It's a scream! Uptown nightclubs Uptown nightclubs I'm running out of room fast, so let me be I'm running out of room fast, let memust be brief. Any discussion of live N. 0so. music brief. Any discussion of live N.O. mustof located on music the comer begin with Tipitina's, begin with Tipitina's, located on the of Tchoupitoulas and Napoleon. Thecorner acts range Tchoupitoulas and Napoleon. The acts range from R&B , Cajun, zydeco, rock, world beat, from zydeco, rock, beat, jazz,R&B, and soCajun, on. Check out the bustworld of Professor jazz, and so on. Check out the bust of Professor Longhair. Longhai r. are three music clubs on Oak Street: There There are three clubs on OakJimmy's Street: the Maple Leafmusic (Cajun/zydeco), the(rock), Maple and LeafMuddy (Cajun/zydeco), Jimmy's Waters (generally (rock), and .Muddy (generally R&B/blues) Benny 'sWaters has good live music R&B/blues). Benny's has but goodit' slive without a cover charge, in music a seedy without a cover charge, in a seedy neighborhood. Ask me but for it's directions at the neighborhood. Ask me for directions at the show if you want to be daring. showTwo if you want to be other places of daring. note are Snug Harbor for Two other places of note are Snug Harbor for Street, and Bart's jazz, located on Frenchmen jazz, located on Frenchmen Street, Bart's on the Lakefront. The latter isn't and a nightclub, onbut theit's Lakefront. isn'twhile a nightclub, a popular The placelatter to drink overlookplace to drink while overlooka popular it'sLake buting Pontchartrain. ing Lake Pontchartrain. See ya'll at the show, or, more likeWhew! Whew! Seeor ya'll at the show, or, more likerestaurant. ly , in a bar ly, in a bar or restaurant. her Caire ChristopChristopher Caire Christopher Caire News Editor News Editor