Err, false alarm. The Clermont Lounge has once again delayed the reopening it announced earlier this week. Yeah. Bummer. The iconic strip club is now blaming a faulty sprinkler system for the delay. No word on a new date, but we hope it will be soon because we really miss Blondie.

In other Clermont news, Jeb Aldrich (son of Noble Fin’s Jay Swift) has been named executive chef of the Clermont...

The Clermont Hotel is one step closer to receiving a facelift and potentially reopening its doors.

The Atlanta City Council unanimously voted 11 to 0 rezone the Poncey-Highland property at its meeting this afternoon.

As part of those changes, Clermont Hotel Partners LLC, the property’s new owners, would be able to transform the shuttered landmark into a boutique hotel. The rezoning allows...

Good news, friends! Blondie, the Clermont Lounge’s resident poet and recycling advocate, is answering her Twitter followers’ questions. Today she rattles off the songs she likes to hear while entertaining the masses in the smoke-filled den of iniquity.

You were expecting Philip Glass? So were we! (Also, note to kindhearted jukebox mechanics: One of Blondie’s favorite songs — “The Clermont...

Here’s the good news: Only days after the Clermont Hotel was condemned by county health inspectors for a staggering array of gag-inducing infractions, work began to clean up and restore the 1920s-era building for future operation as a newly renovated hotel, complete with a restaurant.

Here’s the bad news: The company that’s apparently doing the renovation and will manage the property,...

The Clermont Hotel — unfit for human consumption? Hell, I could’ve told ‘em that.

The AJC reports that Fulton County health inspectors have ordered the landmark hotel shut down by the end of the month because, well, it’s nasty and gross:

“There are several issues that would have to be addressed,” said Kevin Jones, a manager with the Fulton County Department of Health and Wellness. Dirty...

Little Kathy: Very sad. I’ve been working here for over 20 years. I came here when I was in my 20s. I can’t even imagine life without the Clermont. I’ve always had a positive thought that everything will work itself out and that we’ll be OK. If there are new owners, they will take into consideration that lots of people love the Clermont. They come from all over the world. It’s a landmark. We...

1. Video: Midtown Atlanta parking deck collapse aftermath (Weirdly, this ain’t the first collapse tied to Hardin Construction.)

2. Inman Park Properties implosion leaves neighborhood landmarks in limbo (UPDATE: Foreclosure of Inman-owned Clermont Hotel has been delayed.)

3. Profile: Matthew Cardinale, editor of Atlanta Progressive News (Cardinale isn’t one to shy away from controversy....

Good news, Atlanta — you can book your fiancee’s parents into the Clermont Hotel this weekend secure in the knowledge that the famed Ponce flophouse won’t be changing hands any time soon.

The hotel’s foreclosure auction, originally scheduled for tomorrow morning on the Fulton courthouse steps, has been pushed back at least 90 days, thanks to a last-minute deal worked out between Inman Park...

Yes, the Clermont Hotel, which was put up for sale in April for $6.5 million, is now in foreclosure. And, yes, that puts the future of the fabled Clermont Lounge in doubt. It’s doubly a shame when one considers that the five-story (but definitely not five star) hotel had finally achieved enough of a landmark status that it has attracted interest from local restaurateurs and retailers.

As...

Atlanta’s favorite den of iniquity is calling “all designers, architects, students, creative geniuses, butlers, bell boys, photographers, tourists, bartenders, dancers and engineers” to try their hand at redesigning the iconic Clermont Hotel.

But it’s not the hotel’s infamous basement lounge — where boobs obliterate beer cans and strippers strut their sometimes sagging stuff — that needs a...

Yes, you read correctly: The fabled Clermont Motor Hotel is up for sale for only the second time in more than a half-century. The seven-story, 130-room hotel has been owned since 2003 by Atlanta’s Inman Park Properties, which bought it from the Loudermilk family. The Loudermilks had operated the Clermont since the ’50s and, the last I heard, still manage the property.

Inman Park Properties...

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BLONDIE STILL IN ACTION: The Clermont Lounge’s infamous beer-can-crusher will be available for your viewing pleasure. (Photo by Joeff Davis)

We heard back from Inman Park properties agent Danny Glusman and he tells us that, while the company has been marketing the Clermont Hotel, the idea is to...

People For The Ethical Treatment of Empty Beer Cans is giddy.

The rest of us are nervous.

The Clermont Hotel and its property are for sale.

We do not yet know if this means the Clermont Lounge, which resides at the bottom of the hotel, is going to close.

We’ll let you know as soon as we find out.

Let me just warn in advance that I concede that these observations are probably nothing new to the average reader, and certainly the average patron of the Clermont Lounge. Still, I couldn�t help but notice the difference in vibe at the ironically legendary hole on Ponce. I hadn�t been there in about five years, and after some nudging by curious out-of-town guests spurred on by other...