Dallas' iconic Lizard Lounge shutters after 28 years
Lizard Lounge, a landmark Deep Ellum nightclub since 1991, has shuttered. For now, at least.
Known for DJ-driven music, hosting major touring acts such as Moby and Fatboy Slim, and for ’80s industrial and Gothic music nights known as “The Church,” the bar has a colorful past. It also recently surmounted major hurdles — like losing much of its parking to Uber — in order to keep going.
Lizard Lounge owner Don Nedler says “The Church,” which began in 1994 and helped rejuvenate his business, will eventually live on at It’ll Do Club, where he is a managing partner. He also insists that Lizard Lounge will return, perhaps in a smaller building, and live to see its 30th birthday.
But this is not just another crazy chapter in the bar’s history, which includes legendary block parties under the nearby overpass, as well as Dennis Rodman and Madonna showing up in a black Ferrari back in the mid ’90s, wanting to buy the place. Nedler admits that he closed Lizard Lounge because his other option was to burn his retirement funds paying $28,000 a month to maintain an empty building.
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At least I have this club checked off on my bucket list. I went there back in 1991 and had a great time.
