THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEWS
MONDAY, JANUARY 31, 2005
Nightclub offers new amenities
Chris Miller/KANSAN
Former Flanigans reopens with new management
Stephanie Achten, Topeka resident, and Stephanie Dobler, Topeka junior, dance the night away Saturday at the newly remodeled Liquid Dance Club, 804 W. 24th St. The club, which used to be Jack Flanigans Bar and Grill, held its grand opening Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights, and had a line with a two-hour wait.
BY ADAM LAND
aland@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Lines surrounded Liquid Night Club Thursday night in the building that once housed lack Flanigans Bar & Grill.
The new nightclub, located at 804 W. 24th St., opened Thursday. The club offers a night-club scene that is usually found on the east and west coasts, Steve Lisman, co-owner, said. The owners of Liquid have renovated the entire bar, giving small amenities to the customers.
"We had about 600 to 700 people in and out of the bar on Thursday night alone," said coowner Danni Thompson. "We had to turn away 300 people."
The owners of Liquid renovated the 9,000-square-foot bar and the 1,500-square-foot patio during the past year. A private contractor did much of the renovations. The owners did some of the labor and provided the capital.
"We wanted to give the public something they could not find around here," Thompson said.
The nightclub will still cater to patrons between 18 and 20, as well as people of legal drinking age. The bar is split into two sections. The 18-and-older section has a dance floor, two bars and a smoking area. The 21- and-older section has a bar,
dance floor and pool table.
The club's owners also added a VIP section to the 18-and-older area where customers of legal drinking age may purchase top-shelf bottles of liquor for $100 apiece. The patrons will receive a chilled bottle, strainer, mixers and shot glasses for their purchase.
The owners placed monitors in the bathroom that show the dance floor, Thompson said.
"I thought Flanigans did decently well before," said Jeremy Parr, Topeka senior. "This place is a lot nicer and cleaner than Flanigans."
The bar requires a cover Thursday through Saturday. The cost is $5 without a KUID and $2 with it. With the expanded bar, Lisman said the owners had to hire more staff. Flanigans had about 20 people on staff. Liquid has 38 people on staff and the owners expect to have about 60 employees before the hiring process finishes.
The nightclub also offers private parties and catering options. Pricing varies for parties and catering but the bar does have an on-site chef. Thompson said the bar could accommodate a party from four to 500 people.
The new nightclub still offers secondary services Flanigans provided. A party bus can be rented for $60 an hour and the bus is set for interior renovation in the coming months, Lisman said.
The kitchen, which Flanigans used, may be reopened in the future, Thompson said. The owners plan to have a pizza window and an outdoor grill.
"We have really tried to give our customers all the little things," Lisman said.
— Edited by Austin Caster
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Sundance Film Festival.
Sundance Festival presents awards
PARK CITY, Utah — The family drama "Forty Shades of Blue," centering on a modern Oedipal triangle involving a music producer, a Russian wife half his age and his son, won top dramatic honors at the
"Why We Fight," examining the chronically militant stance of the United States during the last half century, took Sundance's grand jury prize for documentaries.
Awards were presented Saturday, with top winners screening one last time yesterday as the
11-day independent-film showcase ended in Park City, Utah.
The audience award for dramatic films, chosen in voting by Sundance film-goers, went to "Hustle & Flow," the tale of a two-bit pimp and drug-dealer (Terrence Howard) who enlists an odd assortment of allies in a bid to break into the hip-hop music scene.
Directed and co-written by Ira Sachs, "Forty Shades of Blue" stars Rip Torn as the aging husband, Dina Korzun as his Russian bride and Darren Burrows as the estranged son whose visit hurls their lives into turmoil.
Multiple fire trucks no cause for alarm
BY JOSHUA BICKEL
jbickel@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Students may have noticed more than a few fire trucks on campus last week after an unexpected number of fire alarms were reported.
Six fire alarms were reported in Kansas University-owned buildings between Monday, Jan. 24 and last Friday, according to Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical reports.
"It's not normal to have that many in a week," said Leslie Rollins, physical plant senior supervisor.
There was an electrical fire in Fraser Hall on Tuesday and one at the KU Small Business Development Center, 734 Vermont St., on Thursday. The other four were either accidental activations or alarm system malfunctions.
Two of the alarms were the results of actual fires.
Capt. Schuyler Bailey of the KU Public Safety Office said despite these malfunctions, all the fire alarms on campus were working properly.
"They're doing what they're supposed to do," Bailey said. "But sometimes there are malfunctions."
Chief Mark Bradford, Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical spokesman, said this many fire alarms wasn't a big deal.
"Sometimes we, as humans, are stupid and set off the alarm by accident," Bradford said.
He also added that it's common for maintenance work in a building to trigger a fire alarm accidentally.
Last Tuesday, for example, a fire alarm in the Kansas Union was triggered after dust from maintenance work set off a smoke detector and then the fire alarm.
Alarms cannot distinguish between dust and smoke, Bradford said.
FIRE ALARMS
Monday, Jan. 24
A total of six fire alarms were reported last week in University buildings.
If a fire alarm is determined
Monday, Jan. 24
11:32 a.m., Student
Recreation Fitness
Center, 1740 Watkins
Center Dr., alarm system
malfunction.
11:33 a.m., Green Hall,
1535 W. 15th St., alarm
system malfunction.
Tuesday, Jan. 25
12:34 p.m., Kansas
Union, 1301 Jayhawk
Bldd, smoke detector
activation, no fire.
12:51 p.m., Fraser Hall,
1415 Jayhawk Blvd.,
building fire.
Wednesday, Jan. 26
1:12 p.m., Art and Design Building, 1467 Jayhawk Blvd., smoke detector activation, no fire.
Source: Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical reports
Thursday, Jan. 27
10:11 p.m., KU Small Business Development Center, 734 Vermont Street, building fire.
false, the fire department will usually still investigate the scene and the alarm will continue to sound until the the Office or Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical gives the all clear. Rollins said.
Rollins doesn't see a growing trend in the number of fire alarms on campus.
"It goes in spurts," he said. "Sometimes we go a week or two with none and sometimes we have as many as last week."
Edited by Nikola Rowe
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