Dateline: Los Angeles, city of eternal night.
Though the original home of Noir at the Bar, the reading event where crime-fiction’s most talented drunkards gather, will always be St. Louis, Mo, the franchise has grown and reached out to smaller towns that may not otherwise have such a cultural happening, flyspeck burgs like New York City, NY, and Los Angeles, CA.
I was lucky enough to attend L.A.’s most recent conglomeration of booze, broads, and bullets last evening at the lovely Mandrake Bar in L.A.’s aptly-named Art District (where all guys named Art live), and folks, it was a doozy. And not just because of the several Red Stripes I took out of commission. I’ve been to a couple of these here Noir at the Bars now (even read at one, if memory serves), and I’m here to tell you that last night...
Though the original home of Noir at the Bar, the reading event where crime-fiction’s most talented drunkards gather, will always be St. Louis, Mo, the franchise has grown and reached out to smaller towns that may not otherwise have such a cultural happening, flyspeck burgs like New York City, NY, and Los Angeles, CA.
I was lucky enough to attend L.A.’s most recent conglomeration of booze, broads, and bullets last evening at the lovely Mandrake Bar in L.A.’s aptly-named Art District (where all guys named Art live), and folks, it was a doozy. And not just because of the several Red Stripes I took out of commission. I’ve been to a couple of these here Noir at the Bars now (even read at one, if memory serves), and I’m here to tell you that last night...
- 10/23/2012
- by Jimmy Callaway
- Boomtron
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