Best place to clear a dance floor
There are regulars at the Courtside Restaurant who treat karaoke as an art form. They hold their mikes
with the ease of a Tom Jones or a Stevie Nicks. They swivel and jive. Sometimes they will point at an
audience member, as if to say, "Heeey." They leave the stage to a cannonade of applause, a caterwaul of
woo-hoos. Then there's the rest of us. Courtside has the most extensive and eclectic karaoke list in the
city - thousands of titles ranging from Flock of Seagulls to Laurel & Hardy. This is a great thing for
lovers of obscure music, but maybe not such a good thing for music lovers. One recent evening (karaoke
nights are Thursday, Friday, and Saturday), a Phoenix staffer sang a rousing rendition - in the style
of a hen being fed through a threshing machine - of "Hurry Up Harry," Sham 69's raucous punk anthem.
You'd think someone had lobbed a smoke grenade onto the dance floor - it was like the parting of the
Red Sea. The amazing thing is, after the "performance," the audience - regulars and all - clapped.
Courtside Restaurant, 291 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, (617) 547-4374.
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