Despite the change in ownership, this off-the-beaten-path bar is still a little off kilter: Moroccan decor provides the backdrop for off-duty homicide cops enjoying happy hour, while a bustling neighborhood crowd packs the place for Latin disco nights every Friday. The new owners, all collaborators in the annual neo-hippie Burning Man festival, are hoping to attract a more eclectic crowd without losing ...
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Veteran club owners/managers Tony Gower and Elizabeth Peterson resurrected downtown LA's oldest bar (formerly the site of Little Pedro's) with a sumptuous style modeled after its former life as a onetime legal bordello. It's lush on the inside: Baroque mirrors and chandeliers set in deep shades of red set the mood for some naughty fun permeated with the innocence of another era. Red lipstick and slightly ...
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We imagine Bettie Pagea sweet girl with a sinister sidewould have hung out at this brothel-inspired bar, where tattooed girls in their prettiest cocktail dresses make the scene with greaser dudes outfitted in top hats, garage jackets and rolled-up jeans. Located in a desolate, sketchy Downtown stretch, Bordellos Moroccan-style exterior still looks like Little Pedros, its former incarnation. But inside ...
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