Luna Lounge was a bar and music club located at 171 Ludlow Street on Manhattan's Lower East Side.
Luna Lounge is notable as the place where Elliott Smith wrote the songs for his first major label release, XO.
"Eating It" featured a changing line-up of comedians including Sarah Silverman, Janeane Garofalo, Louis C.K., Jim Norton, Ted Alexandro, Todd Barry, H. Jon Benjamin, Greg Giraldo, Marc Maron, Mitch Hedberg, Patrice O'Neal, Kathy Griffin, Dennis Miller, Patton Oswalt, Sarah Vowell, Mike Birbiglia, Dave Chappelle and Roseanne Barr; performance artists such as Reverend Jen, Michael Portnoy and Tammy Faye Starlite; and dozens of others.
[3] The bar closed its doors for the last time at its original location on the morning of June 12, 2005 and the building was torn down on July 26 and 27 of that year.
[4] Among the artists to play the reopened location were The Meat Puppets, Steve Forbert, The Knitters, The Pipettes, Longwave, Rob Dickinson, The Black Angels, Melvins, Bell Hollow and Kate Nash.