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The exterior of the newly renovated Alamo South Lamar theatre and the relocated Highball cocktail bar and karaoke lounge, opening this weekend. The old six-screen theater opened in 2005 but closed for repairs in Jan. 2013. Now it returns with nine screens (all fitted with digital 4K projectors, plus RealD 3D in two theatres and 35mm in two more), nearly twice the square footage, and extra on-site parking. -
The old Highball was famous for its restored 1950s bowling alley. In its new, smaller location, there was no space for the lanes, so the original wood has been repurposed as the bar floor. -
The new patio at the Highball, with benches featuring more rescued wood from the old bowling alleys. -
The Highball rolls again: Fittings from the old bar, like this bowling ball, the booths and the octagonal mirrors, have been fitted into the new location. -
Inside the new karaoke rooms at the Highball and into a parallel reality with the blacklight-powered Fifth Dimension, a tribute to The Twilight Zone with 5,000 stars painted by hand by designer Laura Fleischauer. -
Highball karaoke room designer Zack Carlson calls Joysticks “the room for everyone.” During construction, one builder said nothing for weeks, then when he entered the finished 8-bit gaming heaven, he just yelled “Mario Bros.!” -
The super-satanic Inferno. Designer Zack Carlson explained that this is the biggest of all the Highball’s karaoke room, so this is where big groups like corporate events and bachelorette parties may find themselves. -
A pentagram, burnt using a blow torch into the floor of the Highball’s Inferno karaoke room. Just don’t sing anything backwards. -
Who ordered the damn fine apple pie? The Black Lodge karaoke room at the Highball pays tribute to David Lynch’s Twin Peaks. -
Girls just wanna have fun! Designer Zack Carlson created an Eighties throwback experience, referencing glam, Jem and Rubik’s Cubes (he admits, over the protests of his wife and co-designer Laura Fleischauer). -
Grimly fiendish: Designers Laura Fleischauer and Zack Carlson, aka Space Warp Design, channeled their love of home Halloween haunts into the Highball’s Midnight Madness room, complete with coffin table and a miniature graveyard outside of the window. -
The Freaks karaoke room at the Highball celebrates the classic era of sideshow attractions, including re-created canvases for acts like the fat man and the cow born without ears. -
Do not feed the two-headed goat, a permanent attraction in the Freaks karaoke room at the Highball. -
Alamo CEO Tim League and his team introduce the newly renovated Alamo South Lamar. -
Part of the renovation of the Alamo South Lamar includes a new lobby, meaning the old one, with its alien invasion mural, had to be knocked down. So Alamo boss Tim League hired original muralist Heyd Fontenot to create a new work, commemorating the old site, and featuring many Drafthouse friends and employees. -
The new lobby at the Alamo South Lamar brings back the aliens versus biplanes theme of the old lobby. -
The new 1,000 pound metal zeppelin at the revamped Alamo South Lamar. Eagle eyed movie fans may recognize that sculptor Evan Voyles has actually reused the giant milk bottle he built for the 1996 film Michael, while its “refueling station” is the old sign from the Tastee Kreem. -
More reuse of a classic: The original sign from the first Alamo Drafthouse at Fourth and Colorado now hangs from the outer wall of the new and expanded Alamo South Lamar. -
Come watch films with us forever and ever and ever. The Shining photo booth at the Alamo South Lamar, blown up from an original 35mm frame from Kubrick’s horror classic. -
Designed and built by Seattle-based artist Mark Palm, the new entrance to the screens at the Alamo South Lamar pays homage to Le Café de L’Enfer, a 19th century hell-themed restaurant in Paris’s notorious red light district, la Quartier Pigalle. -
One of the three new, smaller rooms at the Alamo South Lamar: Theatre 1, with 44 chairs plus room for two audience members in wheelchairs. To maintain a constant design across all nine screens, the screen has the old-style long bench tables, rather than the new shared couple tables seen at other new Alamos. -
Down in front! Alamo CEO Tim League (right), South Lamar Chef Jason Donoho, and Alamo Market Concept Chef Trish Eichelberger run through the new menu options at the refitted Alamo South Lamar. -
Theatre 5, the biggest of the screens at the Alamo South Lamar, will seat 194 audience members, plus space for four people in wheelchairs. -
With the Highball cocktail bar and venue relocated inside the lobby of the Alamo South Lamar, instead of at the other end of a strip mall. There’s no longer any need to get fresh air before your martini. -
Time for a snifter at the new Highball. The bar and venue will host new and returning residencies, including Dale Watson, Titty Bingo, and Avant Glam Cabaret.
The New Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar
