52nd City

Creepy Crawl to Grand Center?

In a scenario that's so unlikely that it's akin to, say swine taking flight or Brian Marston leading a Metropolis event, Grand Center's seemingly picking up a live music venue. According to Wayne St. Wayne - spied while holding up the bar at Saturday's wrestling night at the SBAC - Creepy Crawl will be moving to 3524 Washington, a building that used to be Club Riviera. The new venue'll be about a block east of the Fox Theatre, just off of Leon Strauss Park, a situation that should make for some interesting passings-in-the-night, as the Fox/Powell crowd mingle with the Creepy Kids. The old Creepy space, according to the P-D's Deb Peterson, will be the new home of Gus' Fashions, sans Gus, who is rumored to be retiring.

Now, unless this is only a blurry, inaccurate memory (quite possible), I once went to the Club Riveria, when the venue was in a point of inactivity. Someone rented the room for an art show/concert. (Was Jerald Ieans showing?) A couple bands - a debuting Bent and Voice of God - played sets. The space was overrun by artists of all sorts. Someone wanted to take a poke at me, for reasons unmemorable. And there was a woman wandering through the crowd, cradling a baby kangaroo in a blanket. Perhaps that's tangental to the possible "news" above, but somehow, talking to Wayne St. Wayne seems to bring up odd recollections.