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Sounding it Out
If downtown has seemed a little quieter recently, well, maybe that’s because it has been. In an unprecedented run of bad luck, Blue Cafe—one of the area’s oldest surviving live entertainment venues—has been closed since Aug. 31, when a broken sprinkler head unleashed watery disaster. For the first time in more than a decade, there’s been no Mama’s Boys to blues away your Sunday afternoons; no chance for a return of steamy Mariposa salsa; and no Poncho Sanchez on Sept. 5—a show that was selling well and highly anticipated when the flood came. A month after the deluge, even the competition is sounding worried. Continue reading The District.