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Missie B's opened it's doors in April 1994 as a piano/karaoke bar with special entertainment and kingly shows. With the back of the community since we opened, we own been able to enlarge from a very miniature neighborhood bar to the most popular nightclub in Kansas City. We are open from noon until 3:00 a.m. 365 days a year serving our clientele 21 years of age and over. We offer the most affordable drinks in town from noon until 8:00 p.m. daily, and offer nightly drink specials Sunday through Thursday. We have the friendliest staff in Kansas City and you are guaranteed to have a good time any period you visit. We hold 3 separate bar areas including a smoking patio, and 3 to 7 bartenders nightly to make certain the best service achievable. After all, we are the home of Pleasant Times and Good Friends!
Through the years, we own done our best to give back to our community that has supported us. With the aid of our sister bars and community our most recent fundraiser was for the victims of Pulse which raised over $53,000.00. We have pot luck dinners on Thanksgiving and Christmas for those people who have no place to go. We own done many benefits for local gay organizations and causes, includ
20 LGBTQ+ Bars to Check Out in Washington, DC
The nation's capital is home to a lively LGBTQ+ nightlife scene with plenty of gay and lesbian bars just waiting for you to join in on the fun.
The diversity of DC’s LGBTQ+ group is growing by the day, resulting in a dynamic, exciting community with plenty of bars and clubs to choose from when it’s time to drink, dance and participate. Read up on some of our favorite LGBTQ+-friendly spots below.
Let’s have a … you get it. Gather all your girls, gays and theys to kiki all night on U Avenue. With four rooms of varied vibes, outdoor spaces and DJs that never miss, Kiki lives up to its name. Advance for the happy hour, stay for the weekly events.
At 14th and U, DC’s first booze-free Diverse bar is lighting up the sober scene with mocktails, music and plenty of main-character energy. Spark kickstarts the day with coffee, pastries and cafe charm, then turns it up at sundown with DJs, drag trivia and zero-proof cocktails that pack a punch.
Next door to Spark Social House is Crush, a retro-inspired cocktail lounge and entertainment mecca for anyone and everyone. Event highlights include all-day happy hour Tuesday
Ascend (or, actually, descend) into showtune heaven
This story was originally published in Encore Monthly magazine in 2021. All second references are from that period.
Come with me down a short flight of stairs to a crowded Greenwich Village basement bar festooned with photos of Carol Channing, Bernadette Peters and the like, and lit by a rainbow of tiny Christmas lights hanging from the low ceiling.
Four dozen people are clustered around a piano player, all singing Rodgers and Hammerstein at the top of their lungs.
I cain’t resist a Romeo
In a sombrero and chaps
Soon as I remain on their laps
Something inside of me snaps
Collective deep breath.
I caaaaain’t say noooooo!
The pianist pounds out the last five chords—bum bum bum BUM, bum—and the place erupts in applause and cheers.
One or two people can be caught reading the lyrics on their cell phones, but the rest were singing off the foremost of their heads. At Marie’s Crisis Café, which has been around since it opened as a speakeasy in 1929, they don’t hand out lyric sheets. They presume you know the words to every showtune by heart.
Elise Orecchio, a Queens resident who works for the Theatre Development Fund
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Well-liked local gay bar and tavern located two miles east of the world-famous Las Vegas Strip, expose 24/7/365. We offer a full service bar surropunded by booths and banquettes, pub tables and other congregating areas. Pool tables, dart machine, shuffleboard table and gaming devices. Glad Hour DAILY 11a-7p, ANY drink is buy one, get one free. We are just east of Maryland Pkwy with ample free parking and never a cover. Music via TouchTunes jukebox. Visit our Specials page for Daily Deals, specials and other recurring events. Outdoor patio (weather-permitting) year-round with heaters in fall/winter and forced air cooling in spring/summer.
Indoor & Outdoor Seating
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FOOD
V8 GRILL
Located inside The Garage
Delicious Food,
Fresh & Made to Order
GRILL HOURS
Mon-Thu 5p-1a
Fri 4p-1:30a
Sat: 12:30p-1:30a
Sun: 1p-1a
V8 Elated Hour: Open–7p
(BAR IS Clear 24/7)
V8 Grill Menu
DRINKS
Glad HOUR
11a-7p Daily
ALL DRINKS 2-FOR-1
DAILY DEALS (8p-4a)
FRI
$5 Cherry or Jäger Bombs
SAT
$6 Drawn-out Island Iced Teas
24/7 Gaming
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The International Bartenders Association, or IBA, maintains a list of official cocktails, ones they deem to be “the most requested recipes” at bars all around the world. It’s the closest thing the bartending industry has to a canonical list of cocktails, akin to the American Kennel Club’s registry of dog breeds or a jazz musician’s Real Book of standards.
The IBA official cocktail list is the kind of list that has its own Sporcle quiz and its own Wikipedia article—an “IBA official cocktail” label even christens the top of each cocktail’s control Wikipedia infobox:
As of 2025, there are 102 IBA official cocktails, and as of July 12, 2025, I’ve had every one of them.
The journey has taken me to some interesting places, and now that it’s done, I have a small story to reveal for each cocktail. I’m not gonna tell you all 102 stories, but I do desire to debrief the experience. Drinking all 102 cocktails turned out to be unexpectedly tricky, and for reasons you’ll soon understand, I might be one of the first people in the world to execute it.
How it started
I’m something of a list keeper. But it can be hard to resolve when to open keeping track of things. So sometimes, I pick an arbitrary s