
On Saturday I went to Pancho’s, a Latin American restaurant and bar on California, to see White Mystery, Loose Dudes, and the Pink Torpedoes. The show had been moved from Ronny’s, which was shut down the previous weekend and supposedly won’t open again till it gets right with the city. Pancho’s is two blocks north of Ronny’s, and it’s hosting Ronny’s shows that were already booked when the plug got pulled—so far its schedule runs through the end of November. As I walked to Pancho’s, I wondered if it could possibly be a worse place to see music than Ronny’s.