Is Lava Lounge the new Club Malibu?
Remember the dumpy club Malibu way out on South Ponca Street?
No?
Don't worry -- you didn't miss anything.
I went there in the fall of 2006, shortly before a brutal two-week span in late October when 12 people were stabbed, cut or beaten in the club.
Well, it looks like someone has renamed the space and is trying to resurrect it as the Lava Lounge.
The address for Lava Lounge is 1130 S. Ponca St.
And the address for Malibu was 1301 S. Ponca St.
I could be wrong, but from the photos on the MySpace site, it looks like the same building to me.
Anybody know more about the Lava Lounge?

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