Lo-Fi re-opening this weekend
Got a sneak peak at the new Lo-Fi Social Club late last week.
It's smaller than the old warehouse location (even though it occupies the first floor of two adjacent buildings).
Founder Neil Freebairn (pictured upper right) and the rest of the crew adopted a small tabby cat (also pictured upper right) that started hanging around.
They named the feline LoFi (pronounced Loaf-ee) after the club (pronounced Low-Fi).
I'm going to post some video and more pictures of the place later this week.
While renovating the club-to-be, Freebairn and crew found a few bones in one wall. They're pretty sure the bones were from an animal, not a human. Either way, that's a chilling discovery.
Cooler still: They also came across a Tommy Gun in another wall.
The weapon was cemented into a brick wall, which made it regretfully inoperable. Freebairn gave it
away to the owner, an antiques collector.
Bones (of any kind) + Tommy Gun = a hair-raising background to a club with a hopefully long, successful future. Freebairn plans to have a mini-record store complete with merch display cases on one side and the stage area on the other. The capacity should be somewhere around 200.
The club's re-opening party is Friday.
Erik Maza is a features reporter at the Baltimore Sun. He writes for several sections of the Sun paper and contributes weekly columns on music and nightlife. He also writes and edits the Midnight Sun blog. He often covers entertainment, business, and the business of entertainment. Occasionally, he writes about Four Loko, The Block, the liquor board, and those who practice "
