How Alice Of Alice S Lounge Went From Beautician To Bar Owner

To the uninitiated, Alice’s Lounge is an unassuming corner tap with a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it facade. But once Alice Boron permits you, with a quick touch of a door-buzzer button, entrance into her Avondale domain, you realize it’s an oasis filled with cheap drinks, good company, and some of the best karaoke in town courtesy of Fred Wood, a middle-aged man who plays a mean inflatable saxophone.

But these days Boron has seen business boom. Thanks in large part to the karaoke Alice’s hosts four nights a week, the bar has evolved into a destination for a younger crowd looking to drink heavily and sing their hearts out.

“People will come up and say, ‘Oh, you’re the Alice!’ and it’s weird,” she says. “But it’s a good feeling. I don’t know what else I could be doing besides this.”

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