Odyssey is the hottest and hippest gay/mixed dance bar in town (alley entrance is for men; women go in by the front door). The medium-size dance space is packed. Shows vary depending on the night. Saturday it's Fallen Angel go-go dancers, and Sunday it's the Feather Boa drag show. And on Thursday, it's "Shower Power" -- yes, that is a naked man in the shower above the dance floor.

The city’s classic gay dance club—complete with naked go-go boys on Thursday and Saturday nights and drag shows Sundays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays—has had a stay of execution. The city had plans to force them out, but thanks to the recession, they can’t afford to anytime soon. Things carry on apace, then, at the venerable cruising grounds, with the proviso that its vine-canopied patio (once the... more