Trend Alert! The 90's Are Back!
We agree: Nightclub NA is a total bust, and when Lindsay Lohan isn't there, Marquee is starting to slip into bridge and tunnel territory. Basically, there's nothing to do in this city after 10 PM, and we're bored out of our minds. So it's with hope in our hearts that we heard the news that a new club is coming town. The second coming will be at Nerveana on Varick Street, and today's Post confirms the speculation that the venue opens tonight. If you hadn't already been reminded by the gang at VH1, nostalgia is hott right now, and second-tier club owner Robert Wattman is capitalizing on the trend by regurgitating the most recent decade he can recall, the 90's, into a 5,000 square-foot mega-club.
Lest you think Nerveana (named partly for 90's grunge icons Nirvana, partly for Wattman's "nerve to bring the 90's back") is just another cheese-encrusted incarnation of Wattman's 80's-themed Culture Club, you should know that this place is going to totally rock. Murals of the Spice Girls and Kurt Cobain adorn the walls, a plexiglass-protected Monica Lewinksy mannequin models a replica of the Clinton-juiced blue Gap dress, and a white Ford Bronco reminiscient of O.J. Simpson's car chase has been gutted to serve as a V.I.P. room (reservations required, natch). Drinks include the John Wayne Bobbit, which is "A Cut Above The Rest."