Howl at the Moon is a franchise of dueling piano bars As of January 2012, Howl at the Moon Dueling Piano Bars were located in or were being constructed in:
- Howl at the Moon Dueling Piano Bar Hollywood
- Howl at the Moon Dueling Piano Bar Destin
- Howl at the Moon Dueling Piano Bar Orlando, FL
- Howl at the Moon Dueling Piano Bar Tampa, FL
- Howl at the Moon Dueling Piano Bar Indianapolis, IN
- Howl at the Moon Dueling Piano Bar Chicago, IL
- Howl at the Moon Dueling Piano Bar Baltimore, MD
- Howl at the Moon Dueling Piano Bar Charlotte, NC
- Howl at the Moon Dueling Piano Bar Minneapolis, MN
- Howl at the Moon Dueling Piano Bar San Antonio, TX
- Howl at the Moon Dueling Piano Bar Louisville, KY
- Howl at the Moon Dueling Piano Bar Kansas City, MO
- Howl at the Moon Dueling Piano Bar Houston, TX
- Howl at the Moon Dueling Piano Bar New Orleans, LA
- Howl at the Moon Dueling Piano Bar Boston, MA
The following cities were former sites of HATM:
- Seattle, Washington
- Columbus, Ohio
- Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
- Coconut Grove, Florida
- Scottsdale, Arizona
- Singapore
- Cleveland
The theme driving Howl at the Moon is audience participation. Piano players take requests for songs and the audience sings along. Special contests for Armed Forces fight songs, college fight songs, country vs. rap and so on are popular. "The World's Most Dangerous Wait Staff" serves the crowd drinks and occasionally does a dance number.
Nightclub and Bar Magazine named Howl at the Moon Dueling Piano Bar as one of its 100 best of 2005.
The first HATM opened in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1990.
Famous quotes containing the words howl, moon, piano and/or bar:
“Who lives among wolves has to howl with them.”
—Estonian. Trans. by Ilse Lehiste (1993)
“Ms. Dog wouldn’t give them her buttocks.
She would moon at them.
Just at the killers of the dream.
The bus boys of the soul.
Or at death
who wants to make her a mummy.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“When you take a light perspective, it’s easier to step back and relax when your child doesn’t walk until fifteen months, . . . is not interested in playing ball, wants to be a cheerleader, doesn’t want to be a cheerleader, has clothes strewn in the bedroom, has difficulty making friends, hates piano lessons, is awkward and shy, reads books while you are driving through the Grand Canyon, gets caught shoplifting, flunks Spanish, has orange and purple hair, or is lesbian or gay.”
—Charlotte Davis Kasl (20th century)
“I am of course confident that I will fulfil my tasks as a writer in all circumstances—from my grave even more successfully and more irrefutably than in my lifetime. No one can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I am prepared to accept even death. But may it be that repeated lessons will finally teach us not to stop the writer’s pen during his lifetime? At no time has this ennobled our history.”
—Alexander Solzhenitsyn (b. 1918)