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SANDRINGHAM HOTEL
cash will score you a live-music fix (everything from acoustic acts to goth metal) at the
Sando, where, according to local band The Whitlams, God drops by.
LIVE MUSIC
ZANZIBAR
town)
Eastern opulence continues all the way to the roof at this late-night Newtown bar
with a winged art deco facade. Catch the sunset from the rooftop, settle into a cushioned
couch or shoot pool in the funky downstairs bar. Beaut bar food; $8 cocktails until 10pm.
BAR
MARLBOROUGH HOTEL
PUB
(
10am-late Mon-Sat, noon-late Sun;
Macdon-
aldtown)
The Marly has a front sports bar with live bands on weekends, a shady beer
garden, a cellar nightclub and a large cocktail floor with a cool wraparound terrace.
Enmore
SLY FOX
hosts Sydney's biggest weekly lesbian night on Wednesdays, when drag kings pack their
crotches and hit the stage - gay men don't have a monopoly on gender illusion in this
town. Cheap cocktails ($6!) every night from 6pm to 9pm.
PUB
Erskineville
IMPERIAL HOTEL
(
www.theimperialhotel.com.au
;
35 Erskineville Rd; front bar free, cellar club before/after 10pm free/$10, cabaret bar
Fri/Sat $10/15; 3pm-late; Erskineville)
The art deco Imperial is legendary as the setting for
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
. The front bar is a lively place for pool-
shooting and cruising, with the action shifting to the cellar club late on a Saturday night.
But it's in the cabaret bar that the legacy of Priscilla survives.
GAY, CLUB
