If social media is to be believed, Checkpoint Charlie’s, the iconic dive bar that once hosted crew for the hit 1994 film Interview with the Vampire is shuttering its doors. In one Facebook message ...

Longtime Marigny bar Checkpoint Charlie’s permanently closed on Tuesday, announcing on social media that “papers were signed this morning.” It was a somber day outside of the dive bar as longtime ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An iconic New Orleans dive bar and music venue, Checkpoint Charlie, abruptly closes down.

Monday marks the 30th anniversary of the removal of the Checkpoint Charlie border crossing between the communist East and capitalist West Berlin during the Cold War. In fact, there never was a Charlie ...