rubulad for alex

alex,
have you heard of this place called rubulad? it's in the neighborhood and is not your regular party venue or "club". maybe it would be worth a visit. i was at a halloween party there last year and i'm told that this place is actually someone's home. here's a quote from the voice i found after doing a very quick search:

Every few weekends in the summer, and occasionally at other times of the year, the Williamsburg basement calling itself Rubulad puts on a show, and they don't do it in a small way—it usually involves local and out-of-town bands, weird arty decorations all over the place, DJs, slide shows, costumes, quasi-legal beverages, drone-chants, giant-sized puppet shows, circus performers, cookouts, and a few hundred local hipsters staying up past their bedtime. There's a festive vibe here that's been missing from Brooklyn rock venues since the early-'90s days of Bicycle and Room Temperature. Rubulad's not terribly official, but poke around on Bedford Street and you'll see signs alerting you when something's going on.

so judging from my experience there and from this info about it also being the home of a group of folks this may also shed a little light on your zoning issue.

does anyone else know of rubulad?...or any other leads for alex that are not in the crobar or mega club vein?

here is an invite link for an event/interest listing source that publishes digitally on a weekly basis...this is the one i mentioned to you alex.

http://lists.laughingsquid.org/mailman/listinfo/nonsensenyc/

don't be dissuade by it's title "nonsense"

a little more mainstream source is flavorpill...go to http://www.flavorpill.com/