Category Archives: Nightlife

The death of the Buffalo Bar

January 18, 2007 – 11:44 pm

When the Buffalo Bar opened eleven years ago, Pattaya’s 3rd Road was dirt and the surrounding acreage mostly coconut plantations. My French friends and I called the new establishment ‘le campagne’ or the country. The out of the way location was discreet and the girls were loose as Catholic schoolgirls on Qualludes. Whereas in the west […]

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CBGBs closes forever Long live PUNK

October 14, 2006 – 9:51 pm

CBGBs is closing its doors October 15 after 33 years. The Bowery bar had been home to punk since 1975. The Ramones were the house band in those early days. 24 songs in 30 minutes. Blondie starred as the sex attraction. Talking Heads brought in the college crowd and the heartbreakers with Johnny Thunders appealed […]

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Pattaya Bar Etiquette Lesson

October 2, 2006 – 6:38 am

Somehow when men from the West come to Pattaya they lose whatever manners their parents had beaten into them as children. Bad behavior becomes almost a prerequisite for a good time. drunkeness, rowdyism, and macho studity are usually forgiven by our Thai hosts, but the other night a foreign patron at Lucifer’s Discotheque overstepped the lines. The […]

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Grace Jones Goes Nuts.

August 8, 2006 – 10:07 am

Grace Jones went postal in London at Patrick Swayze’s opening night in the West End. At the aftershow party in Soho the singer/actress slapped a paraparazzi and then embraced him kissy face-huggy bear. The London Standard said she’s 41 and engaged to a viscount 17 years her junior. And what did Jones make of Swayze’s debut? […]

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Gambling in the Casino – Pattaya

May 22, 2006 – 9:06 pm

There is no gambling in Pattaya. Not legally.  Of course the police are constantly arresting card players and seizing 200 baht in wagers. Small-money stakes, although the Ambassador Hotel has been slated for gambling in the near-future, which would make Pattaya the Vegas of Thailand. For the moment the only casino in town is the Casino […]

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