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From the main foor to the wraparound balcony, there’s not a bad sightline S TE R in the 575-capacity venue that was built in the 1920s, and that includes u O C R

the view of from the balcony’s stained-glass window. Part O i speakeasy, part opera house, the Bowery features high ceilings, stellar TER X E acoustics and a friendly basement lounge where you can grab a drink at E EN u R G

the U-shaped bar or strike up a conversation before the show. But it’s the ; l l main foor full of revelers that puts the roar in this Lower East Side locale. A h E EN u R G / N O d EN l C C M N N A Y

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marCh 3: ryaN biNGham R G ; T K E O Gruene Hall was built in 1878 and is billed N O u R EB C as the oldest continually run dance hall in E B A M F O M R O Texas—and you’d better be wearing a six- E O Y J R l l

shooter if you say otherwise, ’cause them S B A O B T Y there are fghtin’ words. With a pitched O h ER E P W R tin roof and side faps for open-air danc- O O B E M l l i ing, the 6,000-square-foot hall is a Texas Th

Gruene hall has a Y ; F S A N texas-sized dance throwback to the days of yore, where you TE T R E u R

floor for perfor- O can pitch horseshoes out back, drain a / C h R T mances from heavy i O i cold Shiner at the bar or two-step on the M hitters like Garth . S TER d T X T

brooks (below left) wooden dance foor to a lineup of per- E O Y C

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formers that reads like a historical marker. Y S W O

bert (below right). B B Y ; M d E O N C . S C A i R ENT ; E v S E i Y B R ER O W C / O P B A / Y i S K S TE E i R R u d O N C R d A O i Y E S B NTER i K Y C O ER W d R E O B R

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