Bars

Brazil's economic boom has revitalized the five-block Rua Augusta and turned it into a "cultural blast furnace," writes Vincent Bevins for the Los Angeles Times.

Revelations that a school cafeteria in Philadelphia is being used as a nightclub on the weekends has outraged locals and parents.

After being accused of being party-unfriendly, Paris and other French cities have been officially allowed to keep their dance clubs open as late as 7 a.m.

An argument in a New York City bar elevated to violence recently, when a male Columbia University planning professor punched a woman in the face.