Post #133603 by Tipsy McStagger on Sat, Jan 1, 2005 5:17 PM

happy new year all!! hope everyone made it through safely....
this month will mark the long overdue opening of chicago's first "posh" tiki bar in the south burbs. The canoe club is set to open towards the end of this month. It's a big place, sort of a high end tropical club with a huge fish tank in the center of the bar with black tip sharks circling the coral. huge ceilings and skylights plus a thirty foot high waterfall that cascades down between two tall rows of wine racks. The outside of the building was designed to look like a giant balinese tiki hut. It even has gas fed torches and a car port like the old places used to have. I dragged king kukulele down there when he was in town for a sneak preview. i'll post more about the grand opening and what not as it gets closer to completion.
On another note, I'll be re-vamping my dsk designs website, adding more items and giving the site a whole new look. Also, I am opening a low-brow gallery in the next couple of months mainly focusing on the local talent of midwest low-brow artists. It will feature original works and prints by artists Paul Moch, Mitch O'Connell, voodoo LG, Deacon and many more. I have an ad in tiki magazine and both sites should be ready by the time the magazine hits your mailbox. I'll be sending out a call to artists in the next month or so who would like their work to be shown in the gallery. more on that later...