While there are plenty of bars in this city that could be called “a giant ball pit,” I’m talking about something completely different here.

On March 19th & 20th The Romper Room will be filled with thousands of plastic balls for people like you and me to frolic in. It’ll be just like Chuck E. Cheese, but with booze and without all the pink eye and the stench of feet…hopefully.

Birthday parties as a kid were the best. You got wolf down ice cream while presents were shuffled past you and if you acted like a brat you got put in time out. It was all very democratic. I distinctly remember go down a slide that extended out of the

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In general I’m always a little bit skeptical of any restaurant with the word “fun” in its name. What’s so fun about a Chinese food buffet that sells food for $4.98 a pound? Sure it’s inexpensive, but fun? Come on, Chuck E. Cheese’s is fun. Chuck E. Cheese’s has a