The ONE FUN THING you wish was available in Jackson

What's the ONE FUN THING you wish was available in Jackson?

For me, the list is long.

I'll start with...

Clean, smokeless lounges and kareoke bars. I *don't* support ordinances that ban smoking in bars. I *do* support locales that offer a smoke-free setting.

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Permalink Reply by Beth Kander on May 29, 2008 at 12:25pm

I have a long list, too. I can't start with just one, but will limit it to two:

1) A movie-house-slash-restaurant, like the Alamo Drafthouse in Austin

2)A salsa-dancing bar!

Permalink Reply by Charles Morgan on May 29, 2008 at 12:54pm

SERIOUSLY. The Alamo is awesome. I cried when the way-too-short-lived Video Cafe shut down (well, sort of. The place itself was okay. The IDEA was awesome.)

I would climb a mountain if it meant have a place truly devoted to dancing.. Not a blitzed out, bullriding club like the Cowboy.. but a cool lounge where each night featured different dance themes.. Monday Salsa, Tuesday Merengue, Wednesday HipHop, Thursday Swing...

Permalink Reply by John M. Westerburg on May 29, 2008 at 2:42pm

To go with the theme of a theater/restaurant, how about an open-air amphitheater/bar. Sort a drive-in, but without cars. Some place you could get a couple of drinks from a bar, then go sit on a blanket or something with your friends while a movie plays on the big screen overhead.

You'd have to have a good wall and patrols to keep minors from climbing in, but I think it could be done.

Permalink Reply by Bret Kenyon on May 29, 2008 at 2:49pm

1. I wish we had a decent dance club--and I don't mean a space on a floor in a restaurant that's open every so often, but a place *dedicated* to dance--the kind of place that would have a rave once in a while.

And I know Fire and Ice exist... but they suck

2. An independent film theater

Permalink Reply by Charles Morgan on May 30, 2008 at 7:07am

Fire and Ice, the Electric Cowboy... I'm glad we have something, ANYTHING that gives us a dance floor, but they still fall short for me... The best time I have had dancing here wasn't even in a club. It was at Dance Connection taking salsa lessons! They roll through the lesson for an hour, then they have a dance party for everyone. Every Thursday - dance lesson from 7-8pm, dance party from 8-930pm.

Headed there this Thursday! Bring your friends!

Permalink Reply by Donna Ladd on May 29, 2008 at 2:50pm

Smokeless bars and restaurant = fabulous. I love going out in San Francisco and NYC these days. Even Irish bars are smokeless, and you don't stink when you get home.

We need a great Caribbean restaurant/nightspot with fabulous run drinks and sexy dancing. Hint, hint: Chef Godfrey is the man if someone helps him get it going.

Permalink Reply by toddstauffer on May 29, 2008 at 3:44pm

I'd like to see the Pix/Capri become a multi-use theater for independent films, live music, live theater, comedy, community meetings, etc. And I want it to have at least a beer bar (MQ anyone?) and tons of seating configurations. Oh...and bathrooms.

Permalink Reply by Charles Morgan on May 30, 2008 at 7:11am

And A/C? :) Awesome idea. The Pix/Capri is perfectly poised to become the multi-use theater you've described.. Live music, theater, comedy, community meetings.. It will just take a group of us making it our mission to make it happen. I think this city deserves it!

Permalink Reply by Julie on May 30, 2008 at 2:11pm

I am DYING for that to happen. It would be so perfect. Like the Belcourt in Nashville, which I adore.

Permalink Reply by Kimberly on May 29, 2008 at 4:15pm

I'd like decent movie theater in the city limits that served good food and had restaurant style(or something close to it) seating.

Permalink Reply by Donna Ladd on May 29, 2008 at 4:24pm

Let's start with a decent movie theater in the city limits. :-(

Permalink Reply by Diana Howell on May 29, 2008 at 4:52pm

I definitely agree with getting The Pix or someplace like it going to serve as a multi-purpose performance/cinema/meeting space. I'd also like to see a decent wine shop (as in wine exclusively--not a liquor store) "in" Fondren, rather than having to venture down to Kats or up to McDade's @ Maywood--guess there's no commercial space that's not within a church zone, though....

Of course, I'll always dream of FTW having its own little black box theatre, too....we don't need much room - maybe 3,000 square feet of raw space?