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There are four ways to get into The Viper Room's long standing weekly Monday night music bash, 103.1 Check One... Two. The most advertised way is to e-mail them via MySpace to get on the list and enter for free. But if you show up to the door unannounced, it's $10. Likewise, if you show up without the e-mail RSVP, but know a secret password, it's $5. But if you already spent $5 on your Metro Day Pass, then the Viper Room has you taken care of (weekly and monthly passes work too).
It started with Melissa Renee Hernandez, the venue's talent buyer/booking guru whose in charge of Monday night line ups. The Silver Lake resident was savvy to Metro's number 2 local line that snakes down Sunset Blvd. with a stop at The Viper Room, so she combined her green and logical sensibilities. "It's so much easier than having to drive," she said in a phone interview. "It's good to get people in Los Angeles taking public transit. It is a good transit system, if you know how to use it."
This upcoming Monday, Check One... Two presents Foreign Born, Restavrant, Willoughby and Ride on Rides. At the end of June, The Viper Room will be part of the first Sunset Strip Music Festival.
Related: LA Booker Interview: Melissa Renee Hernandez of The Viper Room
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sounds great. i'll go see some music and head home after midnight, when the 2 starts running once every other hour.
When I lived in London, I would go clubbing deep into the night and took advantage of their amazing Owl bus system.
I love the idea of hipsters taking transit and not thinking they are "too cool" to ride the bus.
But, a beef up of the owl bus system will be necessary in the years ahead as not everyone works 9 to 5, and as Los Angeles evolves into a more 24 hour city as it sure will with increasing density.
The Regency Fairfax Cinema has a public transit display in their lobby, since they have no parking of their own. Having businesses see transit riders as desired patrons rather than just the undesired poor and marginal is an important part of moving away from the “transportation welfare” idea of transit that conservatives prefer.
It makes business sense. Higher gasoline prices and ever-worsening congestion means fewer customers willing to take the time to travel for entertainment and fewer customers having the extra cash for the cover charge.
Also, there is the social good of having a viable alternative to drinking and driving.
#3: Yep! Every DUI incurs fines in excess of $2k, more for repeat offenders. I think that money should be funneled straight into improving the transit system. Every time someone gets a DUI we should get that much closer to having a transit system viable for more than basic 9-5 commuting (ie: one that is practical to use until 3am). I'm not talking about digging new tunnels or plotting new routes; just keeping more busses on the road after dark.
The city will not only become cleaner and less congested, it will become safer.