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Vice Seattle’s ‘next level of nightlife’ ready for red carpet debut below Capitol Hill’s Melrose Market

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(Images: Vice Seattle)

Seattle’s “next level of nightlife” has arrived below Capitol Hill’s Melrose Market. New dance club Vice Seattle will celebrate its grand opening this weekend.

$20 “red carpet” tickets are on sale for the new Minor Ave club’s opening night as event producer White Rabbit Group begins its ongoing Friday residency in the premier of the new venue “with its world class custom sound system and visual display, built to bring party back to the Hill.”

“With breathtaking sound and light production, the world’s hottest touring artists and painstaking attention to detail, this is the nightlife experience that Seattle has been waiting for,” the venues backers say. Vice Seattle will debut with a custom sound system featuring “award-winning Fulcrum Acoustic sound providing crystal-clear sound quality, and the jaw-dropping arrangement of LED visuals and smart lighting design.” Rules include no vaping, of course, and no nudity. “This is the nightlife you deserve,” the promo concludes.

CHS broke the news in January on plans for the club project as part of a new wave of activity around the Melrose Market development after the market’s 2019 purchase by Regency Centers, the same real estate investment trust that owns the Broadway Market shopping center. New food and drink options from Harry’s Good Times plus Cantina Sauvage and Cafe Suliman are also part of the mix. Around the block, San Francisco-based real estate company Prado Group’s purchase of the market’s neighboring property has also brought a host of changes including the new Cheese Room in the old Machiavelli space and the opening soon, first Seattle expansion of Voodoo Doughnuts.

Vice Seattle is the latest creation from Noah Garroutte, Raj Tubati, and Roger RoRo Eng. The nightlife entrepreneurs are also behind Forum Social House, an activities and club space in Bellevue’s Lincoln Square mall. Continue reading →

Search underway for DJ who went missing before show at Broadway’s Q Nightclub

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A popular area DJ who never showed up at his show last week at Capitol HIll’s Q Nightclub has gone missing.

Family, loved ones, and fellow performers have joined the effort to help find Mark Martinez who has not been heard from since Wednesday before the show when he was scheduled to perform as Subset on a night before Thanksgiving bill with headliner Mija at the Broadway dance club.

Family hopes details of Martinez’s missing vehicle might help.

“Thank you for loving and caring about my brother,” his sister posted Monday. “He still has not been found. If you’re in the PNW his license plates should be easy to spot/ THNKFL4 on his black Toyota Rav 4.”

The 35-year-old Martinez’s last known location on the 22nd was Tacoma where he resides.

The Seattle Police Department is investigating. Continue reading →

Massive — ‘a portal to a futuristic nightlife experience unlike any other’ — transforming former R Place into new Capitol Hill dance club

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An image from the R Place building’s real estate listing in 2022

Kauer (Image @nark_magazine)

A history of queer nightlife at Pine and Boylston will continue with a new future for the corner’s three-story, 106-year-old building where R Place once ruled.

Massive will be an “avant-garde club catering to the queer, allied and music-focused community” embracing “an electrifying fusion of underground dance music, captivating performances, and visionary shows,” the backers of the new club said in a Seattle Pride week announcement.

Music site Resident Advisor was first to report on the new project with statements from the Massive team of music and event promoter Kevin Kauer, designer Emi Vega, and the building’s owner and restaurant entrepreneur Tam Nguyen of the Tamarind Tree Restaurant Group.

“We intend to take advantage of all three floors on a regular basis, and involve many different queer artists, musicians and performers over time,” the Massive statement reported by Resident Advisor reads. “It’s most important to know that we are here for everyone, and we will be a platform for queer performers to thrive and grow, without taking any ownership or control over their art form.” Continue reading →

Arrests, cop injured after reports of fights brings large police response outside Capitol Hill’s Mint Lounge

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Capitol Hill’s Mint Lounge has found itself at the middle of another large SPD response to troubles with nightlife crowds after a officers from both the West and the East Precinct rushed to disturbances and scuffles with police outside the Pine nightclub early Saturday morning.

According to Seattle Police, there were two arrests and a police sergeants received minor injuries when they were kicked during the just before 2 AM fracas in the streets outside the club as multiple fights reportedly broke out among last call crowds.

The SPD report on the incident describes multiple fights in a large crowd bringing out the first call of officers “to try to get the crowd to disperse and not block the roadway.” Continue reading →

Capitol Hill’s Baltic Room is now the Mint Lounge

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Despite challenging times for nightlife balancing business opportunity with pandemic risk, Capitol Hill is now home to “Seattle’s newest premiere club” — kind of.

The Mint Lounge debuted earlier this year on Pine below Melrose in the connective zone between downtown and Capitol HIll. This week’s events will include a Trophouse Thursdays night of Afrobeat and Dance Hall and a glamorous Friday “All Black Party” where the dress code will be “strictly enforced.”

The new life for the old Baltic Room follows the 2019 acquisition of the club by new owners. That same ownership is in place with the change in branding as the club sets out to make a new name for itself in the Capitol Hill nightlife scene. Continue reading →

From cannabis to clubs, Capitol Hill’s The Baltic Room has a new owner

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Proud owners Rachel Keith and Rahsaan Henry (Image: The Baltic Room)

From The Ganja Mom to Capitol Hill’s new queen of clubs? Rachel Keith is a long way from creating anything like Linda Derschang’s empire just yet but with her summer takeover of The Baltic Room, she’s proud to at least be following in a few of Derschang’s earliest dance steps.

Keith purchased the Baltic, the Pine dance club Derschang first opened as a piano bar in 1997, this summer and celebrated a grand reopening last month.

“What’s the Baltic Room?,” Keith asked earlier this year as she was searching through listings for an available club. “My husband and I have always been in the nightlife scene. I decided to go check it out.” Continue reading →

Broadway home to Neighbours hits market for $6.9M

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(Image: Nate Gowdy with permission to CHS)

There are a few things to remember.

Everything is for sale.

Capitol Hill is dying.

Forever.

Add all of that up, and you have $6.9 million — the listing price for the 1911-built, 14,000-square-foot home to Broadway gay dance club legend Neighbours. Continue reading →