Personal record of dance clubs (mainly), concert venues, and bars

Venues are grouped by their cities, sorted alphabetically, and written in Markdown.

• Berkeley
• Los Angeles
• Oakland
• San Francisco
• SF South Bay
  • Notes on all of them
  • Mountain View
  • Palo Alto
  • San Jose
  • Sunnyvale
• Santa Cruz

• Miami

• Chicago

• Black Rock City aka Burning Man

• New York City

• Portland

• Austin

• Salt Lake City

• Berlin

• Tel Aviv

• Notes on all of Japan
• Hiroshima
• Kyoto
• Osaka
• Tokyo

• Puerto Vallarta

In our notes, we try to answer the following questions. We skip over music since that can vary significantly from night to night.

• Is it a bar, club, combination, or something else?
• How many rooms are there? What is in each room (e.g. bar, tables, dancefloor)? How big are they? What kind of visual effects did they have?
• When did you go? (day of the week, date/season)
  • How crowded does it get? Can we still dance?
  • What was the cover?
    • Is reentry allowed?
  • In foreign countries, how many locals were there? How many foreigners?
  • Was there a dress code?
• What is the cost of a drink?
• How much was coat check?
• In foreign countries, how much English did the staff speak?