Afrotek Festival
The Dark Room
December 20, 2008
Review by Eric K. Arnold; Photos by EKAphotography
Better Than: A typically clichéd hip-hop club.
Arriving at Club Six's "Dark Room" at around 11 p.m., I overhear a group of about seven people with Eastern European accents. Where are they from, I wondered. Germany? Austria? Romania? Czech Republic?
"It's here, it's here," one Euro dude says, pointing to the club's entrance (as it turns out, he and his posse are from Austria, and they were cel
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