Will Pfeifer blogs to say that a world without Knuckles was a still a world with fun and laughter:
Contradicting earlier reports, I’m going to give the new bar — called The Red Bar — a thumbs up. Yes, it lacks the raucous ambience and Golden Tee Golf Game of Knuckles, but it’s also a lot more open. It’s in a new, more central location, spilling out into the second-floor lobby area and making it much easier to (a) find a seat, (b) have an actual conversation and (c) get a drink. Sure, with $13 martinis you won’t get one cheap, but beers are a normally obscenely expensive $5 or so. Hell, any enterprising young alcholic comic book fan should be able to figure out a way to bring his (or her) own suds into the bar area, thus saving plenty of money for buying varient covers and pogs at the show the next day.
More in the link.
I was going to post this in the other post on Chicago but since this is higher up I’ll do it here. I added my photos from the Chicago show to my Flickr account here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/joewilly/sets/72157601413624528/
By the way, a great place to eat is the Tacos Locos just about a mile down from the Stephens Center in the same strip mall with Dunkin Donuts- awesome enchiladas!!!!
Admittedly having only been to one prior Chicago I didn’t have the nostalgic attachment to Knuckles that others do, but I echo most of Will’s comments on digging Red Bar (more open, easier to hold a conversation, etc.).