Via Hollywoodreporter.com:
A pop-up inspired by the cantina in 1977’s ‘A New Hope’ draws Jedis, slave Leias and geek-friendly stars from Greg Grunberg to Jaime King.
Step through a door in an alleyway off Cahuenga, just north of Hollywood Boulevard, and you’ll find yourself in a galaxy far, far away. Scum & Villainy Cantina — which gets its name from Obi-Wan Kenobi’s foreboding quote about the clientele at the Mos Eisley cantina in Star Wars — is a hotspot where you can cosplay while you cocktail.
Launched as a two-month venture with entry via advance ticket sales ($50 to $80), the pop-up bar and restaurant in the former Loaded space is such a sensation with Jedis, Sith and Slave Leias — who sip drinks like Wretched Blue Milk and The Chosen One — that it has extended its run through at least June. “This was my dream when I was 9: to create a full-scale play set my friends and I could play in,” says founder J.C. Reifenberg, an exec producer on Kevin Smith’s Yoga Hosers. “People who show up here dressed up are no different than people [at a sports bar] in their team jersey with eye black on.” Hollywood bar-scene regulars say they’ve never seen such an embracing scene.
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