We Are AKBAR: A Neighborhood Oasis

AKBAR, everyone’s favorite Silver Lake hangout and dance bar, is under new ownership. After 27 years, owners Scott Craig and Peter Alexander have sold the beloved bar to their managers, Albert Loya and David LeBarron.

April 2024.

//April

It’s 8:30 a.m., and I am silently sitting in Akbar, the bar I co-own—a small gay oasis in Los Angeles where Sunset meets Fountain meets Hoover. I play a favorite track on the jukebox and this sometimes crazy public space where community is daily forged starts to come to life.