Swallow Hill Music

Helping people make music since 1979, Swallow Hill Music Association is a nonprofit music organization dedicated to preserving and presenting the best in folk, roots and acoustic music. Swallow Hill’s school presents programming of all kinds from basic classes ranging from guitar to didgeridoo and dance to special, intimate artist workshops, to outreach programs that […]

Syntax Physic Opera

After a five-year stint as a talent buyer at the Meadowlark, Jonathan Bitz started what would become a three-year hunt for his own place. In August 2013, he took over the building at 554 South Broadway that most recently housed the Bar (and the Atrium before that) and began transforming the space into Syntax Physic […]

Tap House on the Backside

A damn cool spot stocked with seventeen beers on tap, including Boddingtons, Kronenbourg, Hoegaarden, Beamish Irish Stout and a few local microbrews. The place is jumping too, especially on Mondays, when the lovely and talented Angie Stevens holds court at the weekly open stage. And on Saturdays, there’s a steady stream of live blues and […]

Tenn Street Coffee & Books

Every neighborhood needs a cozy place where people can meet and kick back over coffee, and the multi-tasking Tenn Street – stocked with Dazbog java, Bluepoint pastries, Udi’s sandwiches and other notable treats – fills the bill. When the weather’s nice, the street-side patio bustles with chatting friends and folks with their noses buried in […]

Tequila Blues

Our mission is to provide our guests with a musical experience, and satisfy their thirst for “Good Tequila”. Tequila Blues is the vision of our founders who thought to pair Blues music with good quality Tequila. Tequila is as much a drink to sip and enjoy, as it is to sit and enjoy the lyrics […]

The Toad Tavern

What was once a quaint suburban bar turned into a full-fledged music venue in 2008, when the Toad Tavern space was expanded to nearly 5,000 square feet and filled with new furnishings, refinished surfaces, raised ceilings and a stage that’s been beefed up considerably from its postage-stamp-sized predecessor. The new stage can easily accommodate a […]

Twist & Shout

If Twist & Shout heralds the end of the record store as we know it, well, we feel fine. With the advent of digital music files, most record stores are vanishing from the commercial landscape. But rather than passively wait for its demise, Paul and Jill Epstein are raging against the dying of the light. […]