Nightlife

The Hard Rock Hotel nightlife (and daylife!) update

Partiers can play ‘round the clock with Hard Rock’s new and returning venues

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The Hard Rock Hotel’s new Paradise Tower.
Photo: Erik Kabik/Retna/www.erikkabik.com

The Hard Rock is presently hard at work making sure that come summer partygoers can do what they do best for literally 24 hours straight on one property — eat, dance, drink, swim...

Vanity: The newest kid on the Paradise/Harmon block will continue Body English's tradition of Wednesday night house music by keeping Godskitchen going strong Thursdays at Vanity with resident DJ Roger Sanchez. Sin industry night also will follow in the footsteps of Body English's Sunday School, with ladies earning free champagne on the merits of their indiscrete wardrobe decisions.

Johnny Smalls: A second collaboration between the Dolce Group and the Nightlife Group* (Rare 120 was the first), Johnny Smalls will be a petite restaurant serving breakfast, lunch and dinner, located directly beneath Vanity. Named after a small, hand-rolled marijuana/tobacco cigarette, Johnny Smalls is expected to open in March.

Beach Club: Just beyond the Vanity escalators lays the Brannon Hair Salon, a juice bar, Reliquary Water Sanctuary and Spa, and the exit leading to the new Beach Club. The hotel-guest-only pool is going to be about 80 percent the size of the neighboring Rehab pool and will offer guests a pool experience without all the 'roid rage of the Rehab populace. The Beach Club should be ready to bask in the sun by April.

HRH and Skybar guests will have a front-row seat to Rehab this summer.

Rehab: Returning for season seven (!), Rehab is expected to kick-off Sunday, April 18. The Nightlife Group will operate the pool (which also boasts such parties as local fave Relax Mondays) Friday through Monday.

Skybar: Also opening in April is the two-story Sky Bar, which will be part of the hotel's Pool Club by day and part of Vanity by night. The restaurant and poolside gaming lounge downstairs is connected to the Pool Club while upstairs the low-key lounge connects to Rehab and the Vanity Patio by concrete paths through the foliage. The Nightlife Group will operate Skybar's upstairs lounge from 10 p.m. to 4 a.m. Thursday through Monday.

Body English: The six-year-old club finally closed its doors after a final New Year's Eve bash. The iconic Body English chandelier was awarded at well over the $15,000 reserve to a loyal Body English/Rehab patron from Boston. After dropping a fortune and claiming his prize (destined to hang somewhere in his home), he reportedly headed over to Vanity and dropped yet another fortune. Body English's successor, Afterlife Afterhours, is expected to open in May or June and will operate from about 1 a.m. to 8 a.m.

*The Nightlife Group at the Hard Rock, which operates multiple nightlife venues at the property including Vanity Nightclub (which opened on New Year's Eve); the Rehab Pool (reopening for its seventh season on April 18); Rare 120 in conjunction with the Dolce Group; and coming soon, Johnny Smalls restaurant, Skybar at the Beach Club hotel pool and Afterlife Afterhours club.

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