Mail & Guardian
Mail & Guardian
nightclubslatest news & developments
Lucky Michaels (right), businessman and owner of the iconic Club Pelican, pictured with some of the patrons. (Photo courtesy of Arena Holdings)

Pelican fantasy: How the iconic Soweto club influenced South African music

A nighttime haunt in the backstreets of Orlando run by a well-known bootlegger should have been a prime zone for nefarious underworld activities. Instead, it nurtured an…

(Reuters)

Doors, chairs and what lies between

One might say that all the doors we pass through in our lives are ours. They belong to us, just because we passed through them, or we belong to them

Night clubs and rave organizers have turned to the group to tackle gropers, men rubbing themselves up against women on the dance floor, the use of date-rape drugs and other problems. (Ollie Millington/Getty Images)

Guardian angels hit Montreal’s clubs to tackle harassment

Night clubs and rave organizers have turned to the group to tackle gropers

Curfew: Kinshasa by night is set to change if new rules are followed. Bars must close by 11 pm but the music can play on. (Paul Botes/M&G)

It’s closing time in Kinshasa

In less than a month, the bars spilling out on to the city’s highways and byways will no longer be allowed to serve customers before 6pm

When bouncers shoot bouncers (Photo Archive)

When bouncers shoot bouncers

Author probes battles of security and gangsters

The man punches one of the patrons, who lays passed out on the floor. He then slaps the two other patrons in the face. (Screengrab)

Patrons assaulted at Fourways nightclub

A man who claimed to be a bouncer at Stones in Fourways, Johannesburg, posted a video on his Facebook account in which he assaults three patrons.

Las Vegas: From Sin City into Club City

Lavish nightclubs have become the backbone of a billion-dollar industry that is soaring while gambling revenue slips.

A bit weird

A bit weird, but you won’t lose your lynch

Silencio, David Lynch’s new Paris nightclub-cum-salon-cum-laboratory of the weird, is certainly an unusual place to spend an evening.

Saturday night in the Serbian capital

Belgrade’s clubs offer everything from Gypsy folk to Balkan bling, but whichever one you end up in, you’re in for a good time.