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The supperclub in San Francisco has an upstairs that accommodates the beds everyone talks about. The DJ booth is on the first level, toward the center of the room. (Stéphane Delbecque via Flickr)
On Hollywood Boulevard, directly across from a shop with the sweetest Sean Combs knock-off tuxedo jackets in LA proper, is the Vogue Theater. If you've missed it, it's probably because either a Wonder Woman impersonator was passed out in front of it or the summer heat had ripened the urine smell around the former landmark. It's been abandoned since 2001.

Those days, as they say, are about to be over. As a matter of fact, they're soon to be rather extravagant.

Hollywood is continuing its march back to business legitimacy with the arrival of supperclub, an internationally successful night-club experience.

Supperclub has five locations, worldwide, including up the coast in San Francisco. The LA installation will open in Spring 2010. It started in Amsterdam, then moved to Singapore, San Francisco, Istanbul and soon London.

It's a project that melds the historic Vogue (more later on that) and a "paradigm-shifting interior" that will serve the drinkers, the dancers, the diners and the entertainers -- even the smokers (with a small, adjacent enclosure). supperclub -- a company that delves into music, cruises, dining and even it's own booze -- will create a multi-purpose venue/experience within the theater.

Pre-supperclub facade of The Vogue Theater. (JustAboveSunset.jpg)