Charlottesville, VA is a small city with a small town feel. That small town friendliness shows up most on the Downtown Mall, the ten or twelve blocks of Main St. that are blocked off for pedestrians only, and where you can go into almost any restaurant and see locals running into people they know. It also shows up in the nightlife, particularly at Club 216, which is both the town’s only after-hours club and the only gay/lesbian bar within seventy miles. Whether you’re gay or straight, whether your musical taste runs to disco, hip-hop, or disco remixes of hip-hop songs, you’ll fit right in as long as you’re thin, up late, and willing to pay the $13 cover charge. (Club216.com, 218 Water St, Charlottesville. Fri/Sat 10PM-5AM.)
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