Category Archives: Nightlife

Nothing Last Forever – Bangkok

January 17, 2008 – 12:04 am

http://www.bangkokeyes.com/ MIDNIGHT HOUR from this informative Bangkok-based website came out with a 2007 list of recently defunct clubs and entertainment venues. Our favorite had to be the Prasithipol Dance Bar.

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Heaven Above Back from the Darkness – Pattaya

September 29, 2007 – 2:35 pm

After a month’s absence from Pattaya’s galaxy of go-gos Heaven Above has re-opened thoroughly renovated for the upcoming season. The closure was due to the local police’s  moral strictures on nudity and if anyone know how to identify sin, it’s the boys in brown. This is no longer your father’s Pattaya. Last night Heaven was […]

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No Farang Day

September 5, 2007 – 1:21 am

The raids against go-go bars, visa restrictions, and constantly hearing westerners referRed to farang like it was our first name are signs that Thais are experiencing tourist fatigue. After all over 20 million people visit the country year after year after year and some of us want to stay forever. “Don’t they have a home?” […]

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Heaven Above Shut for 60 Days

August 24, 2007 – 11:32 pm

Last night the local police visited Pattaya’s #1 Go-Go to enforce a 60 Day shutdown thanks to a third black eye for onstage impropriety. Heaven Above will be dark for the following two months. No more white on white couches or crazed go-go nudity.     The owners are taking a much needed rest, while the […]

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Thailiban Police Seek Purity for Pattaya

August 18, 2007 – 10:20 pm

North of Pattaya lies a police resort on the beach. Mostly for police officers on vacation, however a few commanders see fit to take their junior associates on working weekend and this Friday scores of uniformed holiday-makers cruised Pattaya for possible infractions of the laws concerning licensing, under-age employees, and possible sex shows. One ever-popular destination is Soi […]

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