"We've been keeping it top secret until now but seems like it may be time to slowly open the gates." "As you may have heard, we have been working on a new spot for quite some time," the post reads. Paragon has been hosting events through the winter, including a Dweller event, but Bossa Nova Civic Club Instagram made a public announcement about its opening on 11th April. Violators will removed immediately, permanently banned and/or prosecuted. Harassment of any kind will not be tolerated. The club's website lays out its policies: "Absolutely no racism, no sexism, no homophobia, no transphobia, no violence. It's the newest project from John Barclay, who was also behind the indefinitely closed Bossa Nova Civic Club and involved with renowned 2010s DIY space 285 Kent. Paragon is a multi-storey space located on Broadway in Brooklyn's Bed-Stuy neighbourhood. Thank god.Įven if I can't get the twee, smirking irony of 2007 out of my head, I am having a good time in the hemmed in musical space, waiting for a heavy beat, photographing weirdos in the bathroom line, pretending I'm at Fillmore East or Limelight.A new club, Paragon, has opened in New York. Among the sweaty humans who take up space with their white dancing, women with inspired take offs on the moody "Dirty Girl" documentary riot grrl derived outfits abound. If you're wearing that you are probably under 20. The preferred way to "update" 90s fashion is with blue ombre hair, black "HOMIEZ" beanie, and something else black with combat boots. People are wall to wall dancing or taking up space to 90s inspired music because 1990-1994 is back or haven't you heard. The air is packed, sweaty, and dusky blue. On this night the stench and humid fog of the smoke machine is everything you imagine it to be, stinky and suspect like in a cheap lounge. But, I can't forget the unsatisfying Belle and Sebastian droning of several years ago, in the awkwardly positioned downstairs "Green Room" in my college freshly graffitied by the art students who called themselves "The Goldbricker Society." Because it's young and hip! I can't stop being shocked and refreshed that I'm reliving my favorite childhood memories and acting like I was old enough to be into obscure grunge. People aren't sporting the Dixie cup colored windbreakers my family foisted on me when I was 10 or the neon Ray Bans of some extra in One Crazy Summer. Thankfully, on this particular night it doesn't blare the Girl Talk Pet Sounds Indietronic remix. It came in with the flood of homogeneous locavore American restaurants like Northeast Kingdom and nondescript bars and coffee shops like Wyckoff Starr or Wreck Room. Stripped down and hackneyed like the McClure's pickle typeface. The Bossa Nova Civics club has a checkered floor and a crooked coffered ceiling that indicates that it was founded a couple of years ago when the vogue was the rusty razor school of hipster manliness pulled from gentleman culture of the 1890s, When it was ok to groom an outrageously curled mustache and cure your own artisanal ham. I don't know where else to go for it.Īnd if you've never experienced real house/techno, or only heard it on your laptop speakers & thought it sounded lame, then swing by, leave your judgement with your $10 at the door & get ready to cut loose when you feel the bass in your chest & rising up through your feet.
Like going to a steakhouse & taking off a star because they don't have a vegan menu.Ĭome here for some place dark, usually foggy, often sweaty, and always pounding to the beat. Unbelievably, one reviewer actually complained about the music, the music that is the entire point of coming here! He called it 'that awful repetitive beat with no lyrics' and lamented that they don't play 80s/90s pop hits they can sing along to. If you want to cut loose in the sweaty dark & forget about anything but the music & the movement then you're in the right spot. You don't go here to see or be seen if you ever pay for VIP anywhere you're probably not going to like it here. We go to a club to hear a DJ spin house music played loudly in the dark and to dance like a fool. The things they cite as negatives are what make this place special. Scrolling through these reviews & paying close attention to the negative ones I've noticed one thing they nearly all have in common - their authors are clearly not techno/house heads.
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