Tag: bar
-
Historic bitcoin theft tied to Connecticut kidnapping, luxury cars, $500K bar bills
Two young men accused of committing one of the largest person-to-person crypto thefts in U.S. history went on a brazen spending spree that included buying exotic cars, a $2 million wristwatch, renting mansions and running up nightclub tabs of hundreds of thousands of dollars apiece, new court records reveal. The Aug. 18 cyber heist swindled…
-
Queer bar devastated by Hurricane Helene raises more than $191,000 to rebuild
Brandon Davis and his husband, Davie, said they were “over the moon” when they finally opened their queer bar and event space, DayTrip, in Asheville, North Carolina, on Aug. 22. Plans to host LGBTQ fundraisers, burlesque shows, dog adoptions and other community events were in the works when it was all brought to a halt,…
-
Colorado’s only lesbian bar closes its doors
The sole lesbian bar in Colorado, Blush & Blu, hosted its final party on Saturday night after announcing it would close its doors. In a farewell note posted on Sept. 28, owner Jody Bouffard thanked “every promoter, performer, DJ, drag queen, drag king, comedian, poet, and artist” who contributed at Blush & Blu, calling them the…
-
Dani’s Queer Bar opens in Boston, giving Beantown its first lesbian bar in decades
Dani’s Queer Bar opened its doors to Boston’s LGBTQ community last month, giving the city its first lesbian bar in decades. The venue joins a yearslong “lesbian bar renaissance” that has seen more than a dozen bars for queer women open across the country since the height of the Covid pandemic. Dani’s, which has branded…
-
Lawsuit could bar Arizona residents with missing citizenship documents from voting in state races
A top election official in Arizona said filed a suit Tuesday that could bar almost 100,000 residents from voting in state and local races this fall, claiming they have not provided citizenship documents required under state law. The suit from Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer is related to a specific part of Arizona election law…