Riga
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Housed in the exclusive Vernisāža complex in the Vērmanes Park, you pretty much have to be well-heeled, well-dressed Read_on (22 Comments)

Underground music lovers, hip youth and over the hill travel writers, this is the stop where you get off. Indie groups and DJ’s Read_on (No Comments)

Riga has a reputation as a nightlife Mecca, but if you’re not in the mood for a giant impersonal techno club with hundreds Read_on (No Comments)

Some of the city’s most prolific club owners have opened a new nightclub in the basement of Latvia’s biggest hotel and conference centre. Read_on (No Comments)

The name doesn’t actually have anything to do with the Far East Movement or G6 airplanes although there were some people getting slizzard when we were there. Read_on (No Comments)

Take a hip music club and add art exhibits and a clothing and accessories shop and you have a recipe for Riga’s best alternative hotspot. Read_on (No Comments)

Centuries ago when we were mere minnows in this town, we used to frequent this Latvian hotspot when it was called Cita Opera. Read_on (No Comments)

Located in a renovated 19th-century brewery on the edge of the city centre, this self-proclaimed sofa bar is hard to find and that’s the way the owners like it. Read_on (4 Comments)

It’s affirmative: the Colonel has gone AWOL. Since the mid-1990s, this was the only bastion of alternative music for a bohemian crowd desperate to avoid pop and techno music. Read_on (No Comments)