DNA Lounge
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| Location | SoMa, San Francisco |
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| Coordinates | 37°46′15.63″N 122°24′45.70″W / 37.7710083°N 122.4126944°WCoordinates: 37°46′15.63″N 122°24′45.70″W / 37.7710083°N 122.4126944°W |
| Owner | Jamie Zawinski |
| Type | Nightclub, Restaurant, Cafe |
| Genre(s) | Various |
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| Opened | November 22, 1985 |
| Renovated | July 13, 2001 |
| Expanded | October 23, 2012 |
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| http://www.dnalounge.com/ | |
DNA Lounge is a late-night, all ages nightclub in the SoMa district of San Francisco owned by Jamie Zawinski, a former Netscape programmer and open-source software hacker. The club features DJ dancing, live music, burlesque performances, and occasionally conferences, private parties, and film premieres. It is located at 375 Eleventh Street, near Harrison Street.
DNA Lounge has seven full bars, two stages, four dance floors, and a full service 24-hour pizza restaurant and cafe. The club has a number of unconventional features, including a free wireless network for Internet access. The club also provides continuous audio and video webcasts of all events free of charge.
The club's main room has a stage at one end and a bar at the other, with a wall-to-wall dance floor in between. Benches and cocktail tables line the walls downstairs. Above this, a balcony looks down on the dance floor and stage from three sides.
Behind the stage on the second floor is a large lounge consisting of two connected rooms, with its own dance floor and sound system.
Next door is a smaller live music venue with its own stage and a pair of dance floors in two rooms, known as "Above DNA". This space has its own entrance to the street as well as a connecting door to the DNA Lounge main room. On some nights, the main room and Above DNA operate separately, with different events in each; but for larger events, all four rooms are connected together into one large venue. The entire second floor is not wheelchair accessible; there is no elevator.
For live shows, the capacity of the main room is around 800, and Above DNA is around 300.
The venue first opened for business in 1983 as a leather bar called Chaps, owned by Chuck Slaton.
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