There’s an eerie quality to the winding staircase and its painted walls, brought on perhaps by one of the artist’s use of her own blood to color one of the character’s nipples (it’s the artist’s signature trademark) and further conveyed, no doubt, by the likeness that the muraled wall shares with the Haunted Mansion at Disneyland. to 2 a.m., up the stairs and to the left. Of course, this one-stop fun center also includes a discotheque, pumping from 10:30 p.m. With menu prices ranging from $5.50 to $17, the Roxbury restaurant could prove the hot pick on weekend nights, so reservations, though not mandatory, are recommended. If you prefer your meals sitting down, trot on over to the east wing. Go left, past the coatroom, and you’ll get to the bar room, where blues and jazz musicians jam and you can snack on wood-oven baked pizza topped with such items as green chile sauce, artichokes or radicchio (Domino’s this ain’t). Upon entering the club, you come to a fork in the marble tile road.

Thanks to interior designer Chris Breed (co-founder of the original Roxbury) and local restaurateur David Wilhelm (Diva, Kachina, Zuni Grill), there would seem to be enough options packed into this two-story dig to please any group of friends. Meanwhile, the rest of the 16,000-square foot club affords plenty of room to do what you will. A membership card is rumored to cost $800. Word is spreading, by the way, that the VIP lounge could become open to anyone who just wants to get away from the loud crowds. They didn’t seem to give thought two to the “privileged” who were holed up all night in the dark VIP cave. It’s dandy.” But don’t hold your breath.Īctually, those breathing easiest Friday at the opening were the locals, who didn’t seem to care who was who, but just came to get down and get funky, to shake their booty and raise a hooty. Twin Peakie Lara Flynn Boyle proclaimed enthusiastically that she’d “come back without a doubt. But star-gazers probably will have to do without the hodgepodge of well-known and notorious who were present last week, from Tori Spelling and Corey Feldman to Rick James and Ray Liotta. Some limos might roll up for the red carpet welcome, and a parade of fabulously fashionable divas and dudes undoubtedly will enter the nuevo-Victorian building. (Sundays through Wednesdays the club will be available for private functions.)Īnd when the doors officially open to the public on March 26 (until then, it’s charity-related events, by invitation only) don’t expect a repeat performance of opening night. Roxbury owners Elie and Demitri Samaha are banking that the Santa Ana version of their famed West Hollywood hang will become just the playground that grown-up night-clubbers here have been hankering for.īut this is Orange County, after all: Roxbury will be open to the public Thursdays through Saturdays only-as if no one here has a social life the other nights of the week. is in N.Y., not L.A., but the theme is California-grown). night life to O.C., following the yup-scale pool halls, the Hard Rock Cafe and Planet Hollywood (true, the other P.H.

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Too bad, because it clocks in at about 80 minutes and could have run on television as a pretty good episode of SNL, which has been known to get a bit lame itself.Another chapter in Orange County’s quest to become a hip place to party unfurled Friday night with the splashy, flashy opening of Roxbury in Santa Ana. All gifted comedians, Kattan, Ferrell, and Shannon obviously feel comfortable around each other, and their love triangle (which prompts send-ups of Say Anything and Jerry Maguire) is the funniest joke in this mostly lame comedy. Doug and Steve are pathetic but lovable, mostly due to the actors' talents for self-deprecating humor. A fender-bender with Richard Grieco (playing himself) gets them into the popular club the Roxbury, but it's not all good news, as the brothers soon find themselves torn apart. By night they prowl the club scene after spraying on the cologne in their gauchely decorated bedroom. By day they work in their father's fake-plant store. What's funny in a three-minute piece doesn't always get funnier by expansion, but Kattan and Ferrell give it a go with fellow SNL member Molly Shannon as their ambitious neighbor. Expanding their one-joke skit from television's Saturday Night Live, Chris Kattan and Will Ferrell are Doug and Steve Butabi, the wearers of the rayon suits and Speedo trunks who bob their heads in unison to dance music while unsuccessfully preying on women in clubs.

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