Lipgloss

It's not just for lips. Lipgloss is also a weekly club night every Friday at La Rumba, located at 99 W. 9th Ave. The Westword voted it Best Club Night in 2002, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008. During my last two years B.C. (before children), my husband and I were regular Friday night attenders of Lipgloss, when it was located at 60 South (now the 3 Kings Tavern). We made friends with the hipsters and my husband was even a guest DJ once or twice. We are fans of brit-pop and indie music, and that's what this night is all about. It's totally fun (and rare) to go out for a night and hear nothing but music you love. I think a lot of people don't really pay attention to that sort of thing, but for Chris and I, music makes the world go round (especially great music) and to find a place full of kindred spirits, well, it was just like that little girl in the Blind Melon video that opens the gates and finds hundreds of other bees just like her.

So two kids and four years later, weekly club nights have fallen to about 256 on the to-do list.

But I still love good music and I still like to dance and last Friday I got to! There's still no cover before 10 and there's still $2 gin and tonics and it was so totally fantastic I vow to go regularly once again, although it may only be once every few months.

La Rumba is a much nicer venue than 6o South, and there's way more people now, and the music is quite different. I didn't recognize most of the songs. But I still loved it. DJ Tyler Jacobson was as hospitable as ever, and the music has such a good beat you don't need to know it to love dancing to it. And there are still traces of its Brit-pop roots. Fit But You Know It was a pleasant surprise around the midnight hour.

I was trying to talk a few preschool-moms into coming out dancing recently, and now that I've been back I will be even more animate in my coersion. This place is friendly and non-intimidating. The music will get your body moving. Lipgloss provides the best night out in Denver and I recommend it to everyone!