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Oakland club and music venue<\/a> Crybaby will close at the end of this month after just four years in business, the venue announced in an Instagram post Tuesday.<\/p>\n Located at 1928 Telegraph Ave. across the street from the struggling city<\/a>\u2018s Fox Theater, the club focused largely on hip-hop and R&B music, hosting DJ sets<\/a> and live performances.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\tSign up for the California Morning Report newsletter\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe biggest news, opinion and culture shaping California right now.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n Oakland club and music venue Crybaby is closing after four years in business. Instagram\/@Crybabyoakland<\/p>\n The venue\u2019s owners announced the closure this week, saying the club would close before the end of the month. Instagram\/@Crybabyoakland<\/p>\n \u201cFive years of loud music, sweaty dance floors, and the best people in Oakland,\u201d the venue\u2019s closure announcement read, rounding their years open up to five.<\/p>\n \u201cCrybaby is closing its doors at the end of this month, and all we can say is THANK YOU. To everyone who came through, black, brown, queer, and every community in between\u2014 *you* made us what we are.\u201d<\/p>\n Crybaby first opened in March 2022, taking over the space of Uptown Nightclub,\u00a0which closed in September 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic<\/a>.<\/p>\n The post did not share a reason for the closure, but thanked their staff and encouraged patrons to support them during their final weeks of operation. <\/p>\n \u201cFive years of loud music, sweaty dance floors, and the best people in Oakland,\u201d the venue\u2019s closure announcement read. Instagram\/@Crybabyoakland<\/p>\n The hip-hop and R&B club took over the space of the former Uptown Club in 2022. Instagram\/@Crybabyoakland<\/p>\n At the time, owners Miles Palliser, Dominic Green, Jesse Tittsworth, and Conrad Loebl said the club set out to support local artists and revive Oakland\u2019s nightlife scene post-COVID-19. <\/p>\n \u201cI want people to come on down and say, \u2018I saw this band that I\u2019ve never heard before. I saw this DJ I\u2019ve never heard before.\u2019 I want for people to have those kinds of life-changing experiences through the sounds of music,\u201d Green told the Oaklandside<\/a> in 2022 ahead of the club\u2019s opening.<\/p>\n The venue took its name from the 1990 film \u201cCry-Baby\u201d by John Waters. <\/p>\n Two of the club\u2019s owners opened a larger venue in Oakland last year. Instagram\/@Crybabyoakland<\/p>\n The closure comes a year after Green and Tittsworth opened Ceremony, a much larger, 1,000-person-capacity music venue, at 1220 Broadway in Oakland. The goal of the new venue was to host touring and international acts. <\/p>\n Crybaby has several events scheduled for its final weeks, including an R&B party on Nov. 20, an over-30s\u2019 day party on Nov. 21, and its final concert, headlined by rapper BbyMutha, also on Nov. 21.<\/p>\n Download The California Post App, follow us on social, and subscribe to our newsletters <\/p>\n California Post News: Facebook<\/a>, Instagram<\/a>, TikTok<\/a>, X<\/a>, YouTube<\/a>, WhatsApp<\/a>, LinkedIn<\/a> \t\t\t\t\t\t
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