Hearsay’s super-excited about this weekend. Why? Because it’s time for Lizard Lounge’s Grand Reopening, Part 4. In a decade of providing free, fabulous fun on Sunday nights – minus a two-year hiatus – Mark “Put That In Your Pipe” Lee’s party started at its third location just six months ago. But the club, Lima Restaurant & Lounge, decided it was time for an upgrade. Closed the past two Sundays, the Lizard starts squirming again this Sunday at its “Renovation Re-Opening Celebration.” Lee promises “fun, new elements.” The club’s owner, Masoud “We Built This City” Aboughaddareh, who also owned Lizard’s original home, Eleventh Hour, at 14th and Church where Garden District is now, spent over $600,000 renovating Lima, at 14th and K. Improvements include an expanded dance floor and bar area in the basement, with new lighting and sound, and totally new private bathrooms big enough to double as their own lounges.
Lee raved about the club’s new “specially made water feature,” built as part of a new glass-paneled center staircase. How exciting is it? “It’s not as exciting as the New Jersey councilman who urinated off the balcony at the 9:30 Club,” Lee conceded in jest, referring to last Friday night’s arrest of a Jersey City councilman who peed on the crowd down below. Lima’s water feature is more of a peaceful (urine-free) waterfall, trickling down from the top-floor restaurant level to the basement dance floor. No one will get wet, Lee promises. But they can still get lit -- and light up. The outdoor patio will still serve as a prominent and preeminent smoking lounge. Puff, the magic lizard. And DJ Kostas is still the resident DJ, rotating with Luke “Like Sunday Morning” Easley. You know what they say, if it ain’t broke....
