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Marissa Monson recently returned to Champaign-Urbana, where she earned a bachelor's of journalism from University of Illinois in 2004. She freelances fulltime and works parttime at Jane Addams Book Shop to support a serious book-buying habit. She loves hip-hop and soul music. The first album she owned was Janet Jackson's "Control." She never looked back.
Chris Knight, proprietor of one of Champaign's most popular bars, The Blind Pig, purchased the Barfly yesterday. The cocktail lounge will, Knight says, be open for business under his ownership tonight.
Barfly, a fairly typical lounge that never quite found its footing as a dance club due to the narrow structure of the space, will remain as is for a while. Knight has plans for the Neil Street locale, including a name change to the Twilight Lounge, after some alterations to the current spot.
"It hasn't even really been on the market," Knight says of Barfly.
He and the now-former owner had been talking about the transaction for years. A gentlemen's agreement, Knight says.
So far, Knight's ideas for The Twilight Lounge include good wine, good beer and to "get rid of the TV," along with a pleasant, swanky aesthetic in the vein of an upmarket cocktail lounge.
Comments (4)
Friday, May 2, 2008 4:57 PM
thank god! not to be a dick, but maybe there will be another beer garden option other than M&M's for the non-deuchebag set.
Here's to Chris Knight for "getting rid of the tv!"
Friday, May 2, 2008 6:07 PM
Well, I already like the new name better.
Friday, May 2, 2008 7:27 PM
hell yeah! the fewer TVs the better!
Friday, May 2, 2008 8:32 PM
its funny the tvs drove me crazy too, even though my dad made the boxes they were in.
but im glad chris got the place. cant wait to visit.