Doesn’t it just warm the cockles of your heart to know that there are so many opportunities for line dancing in Austin? In fact, serious competition queued up for the title of Best Place to Line Dance in the A List readers poll. Topping the list were two ancient dance halls — Broken Spoke (36 percent of the vote) and Gruene Hall (27 percent) — where lines have been drawn with boots for decades Midnight Rodeo on Ben White Boulevard and Dallas on North Lamar Boulevard nearly tied up with Rusty Spurs on East Seventh Street and Graham Central Station in ...

Nineteen years after meeting and marrying Kip, I still haven’t negotiated a completely comfortable new relationship with gay bars. Essential social centers of my young adult years, they are still tinged, for me, with the sexual politics of singledom. Other friends have successfully settled into roles as bar-side observers, or participants in small, specialized subsets of the club crowd. Stephen Rice, Eric Lewis and Ben Solis Jr. I actually feel more comfortable in straight clubs, where the sexual tension, at least for a gay man, is absent. I chat — and even flirt demurely — with men and women. It’s all ...

Austin’s nightlife changes from night to night. It’s tough keeping track of all those bars, clubs and restaurants where we all socialize. Help us update our annual bar guide through this series of open-sources lists by micro-district. Send updates to mbarnes@statesman.com. The guide will be published alongside interviews with bar regulars on Dec. 10. (Thanks to readers who have already helped!) EAST SEVENTH STREET Beauty Bar. 617 E. Seventh St. 391-1943 Colors. 403 E. Seventh St. 482-9002 Creekside Lounge. 606 E. Seventh St. 480-5988 Driskill Bar & Grill. 604 Brazos St. 391-7162 Emerald City. 403 E. Seventh St. 482-9002 Firehouse Lounge. 605 Brazos ...