Reviews

This place has its plusses and minuses, but checks a few boxes. One thing that is important to me is that it is within 2-3 blocks of Fells Point hotels, so if you’re visiting you…

Travelers to Cincinnati quickly realize the relative paucity of SC options for a city of its size .If you are carless and staying in downtown Cincinnati, the Brass Ass and its (“step”? “half?”) sister club,…

I'm sure this place has a niche, but no idea what it is. If you want extras, go to Bridgeport or Tolland. If you want to watch a lot of different dancers on stage, go…

I have never been to a commercial game preserve or on a safari or other guided hunting trip. I suspect that such orchestration can eventually make the pursuit of game as numbing as the mechanical…

Delilah’s Manville on weekday afternoons is the most stable, reliable experience possible. That also means it can run a little on the bland side. The afternoon dancers tend to be a little on the older…

Decided to take a slight detour on my way to catch an evening flight from PHL. Purple Orchid is a squalid looking purple cube at the intersection of two thoroughfares in industrial southwest Philadelphia. It…

It seems obvious that shift changes at a SC are generally a time to be avoided, as is the first hour or so after opening. Sometimes, timing makes this the only option: A quick detour…

I was travelling south from North Jersey after a grueling four days, and nights, on the road. A Cuban and a Dominican in Louisville and then a Brazilian in Bristol, PA and another Dominican in…

The notion of a no-extras, no-alcohol club rubs me the wrong way. While I would certainly prefer both, it seems reasonable to expect to at least get one or other other. When you add on…

Spoiler alert: This is not a shill review. A shill review of Castaways would recommend that it be burned to the ground (while unoccupied, of course) as a service to the public. I would go…

Not to speak ill of the departed, but not too long ago there was an adjudicator who would describe every Desire review as a “shill review or club ad”. I’ll admit up front I find…

Based on a sample size of two visits, one on a Tuesday night and the next the following afternoon, I have a different impression of this place from that of the sporadic, previous reviews. It…