Stuart Saloman may not be a household name…
That said, the owner of the midtown nightlife Aura’s success is nearly unmatched. However, he’s a low key dude, like his counterpart Shawn McClenny, the owner of Fuel, One Block South and Kanza Hall in South Overland Park. What these two highly successful club owners have in common is the ability to stay current and change dramatically with the times as the needs of their nightlife customers evolves.
Today there are few notable, busy dance clubs here.
Yes, the Power and Light District has a couple, but they’re not nearly as consistently busy as Aura, Stuart’s club at 38th and Main. Stuart also owned and ran Fallout, XO and the Beaumont Club in Westport in the 1990’s when I was running my infamous Club 504 also in Westport.
Over the years Saloman’s been successful at changing the looks, names and redoing his clubs every so-many years. He’s made a great living all the while and migrated his urban concept out east near the ballpark for another hit club.
His pride and joy today though is Aura, in the space formerly occupied by the Grand Emporium. It’s an eye-catching, eye-candy laden, smash hit.
Aura’s dance club crowd is diverse and with its 3 a.m. license it gets what’s left of the late night clubgoers after 1:30 a.m. A crowd that is mostly white, Latino, Asian, with some upscale African Americans.
Better yet, Aura has very little violence or trouble, a great door staff and the place is Vegas like inside. It’s simply a dream nightclub, with all the bells and whistles.
Bill Nigro, my date and I were there Saturday night and I hadn’t been in the space since it was Zen a few years back. Zen was an urban club and it too was usually packed.
Stuart redid the space for Aura at great expense.
He’s got go-go dancers, Eric the Magnificent as bartender, a ton of hot girls working there, a highly professional door crew and Stuart himself to let the customers know they’re his pals.
There’s a door cover but if you’re a local VIP, Aura will comp you in.
The place was jammed when I was there and Stuart said it was a slow night.
Today Aura is really the dance club to see and be seen in for midtown.
The women clientele dress to the nines, the guys are showing their best as well.
If you want to step into a time machine and relive how the 1990’s nightlife scene – updated for today – check out Aura.
By the way, Stuart is adding on to make Aura even cooler and bigger soon. Three bars. It even has a “selfies” photo booth for the ladies.
Check it out.
Same club that tweeted a rape joke for their New Year’s Eve party. Pass.
HEY PV boy I’m not aware of any rapes at the club or really any major violence at all..so a joke is a reason not to go? WTF. Has it come to that with some people, are we that judgemental.
Rape jokes are not funny ever.
Psychopaths would try to argue otherwise.
Mr. Glazer, having owned a number of properties on the street (Baltimore and Wyandotte) directly behind this club, rest assured there are all kinds of crime going on there. Since most of the people in that club come from outside that hood, little of the crime ever gets reported. It was so bad in the 90’s when you were tugging daddy, that KCPD put in a bathroom sub-station in the old bank drive in on the corner.
Yes, there is all kinds of crime there. Don’t kid yourself, or anyone else.
Once you guys decide that you have met a realy great chick at Glazer’s new hot spot, you might want to look at this first. Really hillarious and it has not only a Hot Chick – Crazy Chick Matrix, but one for guys too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMxZEXjZr4E
Screw you chuck.
my feeling exactly….the guys a pos!
Please don’t send me any more pictures of your dick.
this reads more like an advertisement. paid endorsement, cg?
Everything this clown talks about is an ad, get used to it.
was there…perfect for glaze.
will be the next place to have problems.
if you’re looking for women dudes you have 2 choices…
1. hit the strip clubs. those money hugry “med students” will do whatever
it takes to lasso your pocket book. VIP rooms…rubbing your crotch….
after hours sex….overused cheap perfume….morermakeupthan the
macys entire cosmetic department…..sure they might look good upside
down on a pole but would you wnayt to be seen in public with one.
“oh bob…theres the girl who gave me a +++++++ at ___________
last night….wow…..and it only cost $50!!!”
2. an intelligent…articulate…artactive….well heeled….classy…smart….
woman with some brains who doesn’t need to use their body
to make $29 rubbing their twAAAAA t on some guys kock.
who in their right mind would want to be seen…sleep with…wake up to…
take into a public place or every carry on a intelligent conversation
with some stripper…sorry…not me.
stewart is a nice guy….lots of good candy up in xo vip bathroom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Are you implying it would be the nose candy that Craig thinks is dandy?
no…not that…just some hotties.
“hit the strip clubs. those money hugry “med students” will do whatever
it takes to lasso your pocket book. VIP rooms…rubbing your crotch….
after hours sex….overused cheap perfume….morermakeupthan the
macys entire cosmetic department…..sure they might look good upside
down on a pole but would you wnayt to be seen in public with one.
“oh bob…theres the girl who gave me a +++++++ at ___________
last night….wow…..and it only cost $50!!!””
Harley?JoJo this sounds like your area of expertise. How do you know it’s $50.00? Who is “bob”? You HAVE the details down! Come on dude, come clean, you are flogging your dolphin to dreams of “bob” upside down on that stripper pole arn’t ya?
This is your best post ever Harley, it even has some humor. That sh&t about you and “intelligent conversation” was a hoot!
get back to filling that pothole chuck….maybe wash the
“beater” truck for the first time in 2014….then fall asleep
on your recliner while you watch “Great Nazi Leaders”
on the military channel.
Only chuckles thesad lonely clown couldcome up with
a comment like that.
AND BESIDES MR. EINSTEIN…STILL WAITING FOR YOU
TO PROVE ME WRONG ON ANYTHING.
You can’t do it….so back to the street crew at 6am Tuesday.
LOSER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Im pretty sure harley gets all his bar experience from Sidekicks. I think the “Pole and Bob” reference was code. No fish sticks.
was going to check them out, but their website doesn’t even work?
That isnt candy in the bathrooms harley. I know they look like giant blue mints, but those things are supposed to stay in the urinal, which isnt an odd shaped, waterfall serving bowl by the way.
WHERE YA BEEN MARK SMITH…..GET SOME BETTER MATERIAL
NEXT TIME…
we know about you and your “lovely life” so move on down the
street hobo!
Ask your sister where I’ve been……..
Hey Mark, did ya by chance run across my high school ring in there?
No, but I did find someones TV remote and Hearnes Fiat.
Now that was funny!
Harley that was original material. Old material would go something like this……
Harley and his best bud Ralph are walking down the street. They pass a house with a dog on the front porch, licking its balls. Ralph looks at the dog licking its sack, turns to Harley and says ” Man, I wish I could do that.”
Harley replies ” Dont try it, he bites”.
I’ll be here all week. Don’t forget to tip your waitress.
mark smith…you already told us about your “sad sack” life and your
horrid existence. I willgo find it and post it again. You’re a loser.
so go play with your friend chuck the sad lonely tired old clown and
the two of you can talk about how life left you both behind.
by the waay if you can get some moneytogether like maybe 20 years
of wages….youcan buy myhouse…its for sale.
you’re both losers…you stalk me. Never mentioned eitherof you
two losers because I choosenot to associate with low lifes.
Sorry…all this is what you wrote on here…will post the fact that
both of you are losers!!!!!!!!!
Calm down and have a Mazel tov cocktail or something Babe. You are way to uptight H-ster. So where’s the house at daddio? South-fork park in Belton or the fancy one in Olathe. Speaking of potholes, how’s your sister?
chuck…you missed a pothole on wornalll …about 77th street. Besure
and get that filled Tuesday so I can drive my Mercedes by and wave
while you sweat and fill holes on the streets.
good luck…watch out for the traffic.
Here is the thing pretender, why would I be ashamed to sweat and work my ass off filling holes in the street? I see those fuc*ers, shoulder deep slugging mud out of a hole to make sure citizens in the neighborhood have running water the benefits of indoor plumbing.
I love those fu*kin guys. Why wouldn’t it be an honor to drink beer with those guys and work with them every day? Me, I wanna get down on my fuc*in knees in the dirt and sweat and sweat and sweat every day with real honest to God Americans who actually produce something for thier city and country, other than puke fu*ks like you who move money at the behest of thieving cun&&tns like Lloyd Blankfein and the millions of shitheel pukes who sucked the life out of the entire country, doing JUST WHAT YOU DO EVERY DAY. move and sell money.
So, when you see me on 77th and Wornall, hit the gas in your Mercedes and have a laugh at we proles. Totally cool with me. I will have just had my coffee and sh*t bigger than you, then as I pull up my jeans, the wind will blow around me while the stench trails your “Mercedes” and finds it’s home, as it always will, with you.
Chuck is “Little People” Harley. As usual, you are always right.
What exactly is a “dry African American?”
no clue typo
Thats means the dude is ashy. Moisturizing is the key.
glaze…these old guys aren’t going to stewarts place. They’re waiting for
chubby checker to come back.
And factually you’re incorrect.
No clubs will equal the take of Fannys. That was a premiere spot…one of a kind…
nothing like it since….and it was packed every night! Not just Friday and Saturdays!
good luck with the new place…..youcansee that sign in front from royals stadium
(lol)/nice move!