Event promoters who have regular gigs at the Hotel Street haunt said Wednesday that they had heard the place had been shut down because of some undisclosed violation of a Liquor Commission code, but people affiliated with the club were saying it wasn’t as serious as all that. Turns out both sides were right.

This is what we know:

•Initially, the folks at Next Door weren’t saying anything at all. Then they released an unofficial statement yesterday saying that they had closed because they were having sound problems and that they would reopen tomorrow in time for First Friday.

•A report issued June 6 by the Liquor Commission stated that Next Door has been put on probation. Liquor Commission administrator Dewey Kim said that the club is indeed having sound problems — and neighbor problems. Kim said there have been, and continue to be, complaints about the club’s noise level, prompting the probation. During the probation period of six months, commission officials will make routine visits to the club to monitor its sound levels. He said the commission did not order the club to close, and that Next Door has been making an effort to solve its sound problems by hiring a sound engineer and making improvemnets to the air conditioning system, which helps to buffer the sound.

•At 3:15 today, Next Door issued an official statement saying that it will be closed until August 1 for renovation. The statement said:

The venue will be working on some improvements including adding more air conditioning, re-doing interior decoration, and re-organizing and improving the sound system.
As we approach our 3rd anniversary, we want to improve the quality in ambiance, sound, and our entertainment … All in-house promotions including Acid Wash Wednesday, Chinatown Sessions, and Chinatown Social Club will be postponed until August. These events will NOT be moved to another venue.

It’s still not clear why the club decided to close so suddenly and without notice. Phone calls to Next Door staff members have not been returned.

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POP (CULTURE) QUIZ 

1. Which of the following was also directed by Hellboy II director  Guillermo Del Toro?
a. The Abyss
b. Y Tu Mama Tambien
c. The Devil’s Backbone
d. The Three Amigos

2. Complete the following lyric from this week’s No. 1 song on the Billboard Hot 100 chart:
“It’s not what good girls do, not how they should behave
My head gets so confused, hard to obey
I ______ _ ____ ___ _ _____ __.”

3. What cult sci-fi flick has been adapted for the stage as an opera?
a. Blade Runner
b. The Fly
c. 2001: A Space Odyssey
d. Planet of the Apes

4. Who just gave birth to a high-profile baby?
a.  Angelina Jolie
b. Nicole Kidman
c. Tori Spelling
d. Thomas Beatie

5. True or false: Daniel Radcliffe says the new Harry Potter movie is a lot like Trainspotting. 

Rockabilly Wreckher is a member of the Pacific Roller Derby league, a newish crew of derby girls based here in Honolulu that is this city’s most raucous example of chicks in skates. The league is currently training and raising money for its debut appearance at this month’s fourth annual RollerCon in Las Vegas.

The next fundraiser party happens tonight at Anna Bannana’s with music courtesy of SheCanDevour, Busekrus, Commando, Bari Bari 13 and Pimpbot.

Doors open at 8, cover is $7 and there will be drink specials all night.

1. Where are you right now?
At home

2. What is the last album you bought or downloaded?
Kiss Kiss Kill Kill by the Horrorpops.

3. What song always makes you dance?
Anything rockabilly/ska-punk/’80s

4. What is the last book you read?
Flyboys by James Bradley

5. What are the most overrated bands of all time?
The ones that charge you an arm and a leg to see them! Get over yourselves! I’m an avid music lover supporting you and that’s how you repay me? By charging me 38 bones to see you when I remember paying five bucks five years ago when you were in a club with 20 to 30 people at most? Pfffttt….

6. If you could be anywhere in the world right now, where would you be?
San Francisco … or maybe a pub in Ireland drinking the “real” Guinness I keep hearing so much about.

7. You’re running for president. Who’s your running mate?
My husband. He’s smarter than me. He’d keep me in line.

8. What’s in your refrigerator?
Smithwick’s, Blonde Bock, leftover Thai, rotting veggies, and too many condiments… I think there’s some healthy stuff hiding in the back.

9. What’s your guiltiest pleasure?
I like fancy restaurants.

10. Complete the sentence: I want _______.
The island to love roller derby as much as I do!

And if you think the city is slow on the midnight snack uptake, try finding more than a 7-11 musubi after 10 in Kailua. It’s not going to happen. Unless you happen to be driving home on a weekend when Beto, a genius with a taco truck, is parked outside Bob’s Sports Bar hawking his Mexican take-out to Kailuans who opted to go home hungry after a night out instead of trying to hit up a Honolulu diner. But who’s going home hungry now?

Beto, who parks his taco truck on Hamakua Drive from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. on Fridays and Saturdays, has the right idea. Whether the street eatery, called Beto’s Tacos & Platos, will see enough traffic in sleepy Kailua to make it worth Beto’s while remains to be seen, but a plate of tacos after the recent Dropkick Murphys show was the perfect finish to a long night.

Beto’s short menu includes just the staples: tacos, burritos, nachos and a few rotating specials (plates sell for about $6 each), but that’s all anyone needs at midnight. My favorite dish is the nachos, which are piled high with your choice of beef or chicken, cheese, beans, salsa, sour cream and finished off with a handful of shredded cabbage for nice fresh touch. The two-fisted burritos are good too, though they’re far from sophisticated, which isn’t a bad thing at all. It’s street food, and it is what it is.

Beto, who does all the cooking and serving, is friendly and welcoming … and quick with a tortilla. He’s got speedy service down to a science.

And he has a sense of humor.

Shining like a beacon in the night … but seriously, it’s like a beacon in the night.

Last year’s documentary about the Nazi art pillaging during World War II and the ally effort to return it, got mixed reviews, but the consensus is that it’s still worth seeing. I missed The Rape of Europa when it was at the Doris Duke Theatre, but it’s opening Friday at the Kahala Mall theaters for a short run, giving me a second chance to catch it on the big screen. Now I just have to wedge it into my schedule.

Long-time club promoter Rick Rock is launching his next endeavor Friday night at Aaron’s. The event, dubbed Skye Sushi Lounge, is being marketed to “O’ahu’s wealthy 30-something business crowd and hipsters.” The only part of that sentence that describes me is “30-something.” We’ll see how it goes.

Lego artist Nathan Sawaya knows how to play with Legos. I was a Lego lover as a kid, so I’m interested in seeing his work. I would be interested anyway because who thinks of doing that? And so what if the exhibition at a shopping mall in Pearl City? I’m over it, and I’m going.

I forgot how much I like Live. I even like them enough to see them this weekend at Bayfest. Though the Pennsylvania band hasn’t released much over the last few years, I can’t get “Lightning Crashes” out my head.

•Linda Hogan was publicly called out for misbehaving.•Gawker.com has a list of nine ways foreigners are having more fun with Facebook.

•Whole Foods is now promoting indie artists. Further proof that there’s really no such thing as “indie.”

•No divorce for Mr. and Mrs. Madonna. At least that’s what they say.

•Helena Bonham Carter might go up against Christian Bale in the next Terminator flick. Bale will play John Connor.

•Radiohead’s In Rainbows album is streaming for free on Last.fm.

•A new Sherlock Holmes movie will star Sacha Baron Cohen and Will Ferrell. It’ll either be hilarious or ridiculous. Or both. Or it could just be really bad.

•Lil’ Wayne is introducing his own champagne this fall.

•Smart people at MIT have developed a prototype for a Wii game that would let blind people play too.

•Apparently, Australians prefer pop and rock songs for their funerals.

•ABC.com has launched a book club that will feature titles that have appeared in Lost episodes. I don’t about you, but I don’t really want to read Watership Down again. Too sad.

•J.J. Abrams’ new series Fringe is already all over the Internet with secret messages and weird websites.

•Click and Clack are going to be TV stars in an animated version of NPR’s popular Car Talk radio show.

•This American Life is holding a T-shirt design contest.

•Check out these pop culture dolls.

•Josh Hartnett is playing Charlie Babbit in a London stage version of Rain Man.

•Pete Wentz is on the cover of this month’s Out Magazine. What a faker. But is anyone really surprised?

•Molly Ringwald is starring as a mom to a pregnant teen in a new series.

•Will Smith says his new school isn’t a Scientology school.

•American Idol contestant Kristy Lee Cook has signed a record deal with Arista. Further proof that you don’t have to be able to sing to be a singer.

•A reformed video game geek decided to finally get out … to 42 countries. He made this video and now it’s gone viral.

•Laptops have been banned from the Bhutan assembly because people were being distracted by the urge to game.

•These fake speed bumps supposedly slow people down.

Not sure what I’m talking about? Read this.

Suspect you might be a steampunk? Check yourself against this list.

You’re a Steampunk If…

•You bought a flatscreen television and then outfitted it with a burnished brass frame.

•You own a pair of aviator goggles.

•You’ve replaced all the keys on your computer keyboard with keys from an old typewriter.

•You’d rather wear a puffy dress with big sleeves than something a little more comfortable.

•H.G. Wells and Mary Shelly started a religion, you would be a devoted follower.

•You make regular trips to junk yards, rummage sales, estate sales, etc. to find gas lamps, brass chandeliers and parasols.

•Alexander McQueen really gets you.

•One of your favorite movies is The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

•You are a member of a vaudevillian theater troupe.

•You know who Abney Park is and you can sing along.

An example of a steampunked laptop computer.

•This guy can make you a zombie. For a fee. Thanks buddy, but for 80 bucks, I think I could buy me a real one. But he does have quite a knack for creating the undead.

•Peter Travers has an early review of Dark Knight.

•Get the new Dude action figure. Or don’t. I’m not. But I do love the Lebowski.

•Chucks go viral. Just keep clicking on the links at the bottom right of every new screen and realize that there’s never going to an end to our collective love of Converse.

•Jones Cola has launched a line of Campaign Colas.  (The folks at Jones love a good gimmick.) The Clinton cola is flat, the McCain cola tastes sort of old and burnt and the Obama cola is a little too effervescent, but it’s still the celebrity cola of choice.

•Canadians don’t like Mike Myers. But, really, who else do they have? They lost Jim Carrey to us ages ago and Howie Mandel was never worth claiming in the first place.

•A Beastie Boy tries his hand at documentary filmmaking.

•Katy Perry of “I  Kissed a Girl” insta-fame is also Katy Hudson, a one-time Christian recording artist.  That explains a lot.

•Here’s a list of 20 words you can’t say on cellphone TV. Warning: Colorful language after the link! 

•Slate.com reports on a reality TV school, which claims toteach you everything you need to know to act real.

•Check out the winning design for Saudi Arabia’s new cultural center. Trippy!

Marysol Ruiz, and her husband Soufiane Bouharkat, have managed to transport a bit of Paris to Waikiki with their little kiosk that’s making quite an impression on Honolulu food lovers. With their menu of sweet and savory crepe selections, it’s worth a trip to the tourist strip for one (or two) of their freshly made crepes.

Though the creperie offers a variety of fillings, from cheese to tuna to fruit to chocolate and any combination of those, my favorites are the simple ones: the “Oh My Sugar!” (sweet butter and brown sugar) crepe and the “Moulin Rouge” (cheese, chicken, tomato, basil).

Marysol and Soufiane will be at this weekend’s Flavors of Honolulu.

The key to good crepes: even heat and perfectly spreadable batter.

Kamel Hachemaoui manning the griddle.

Kamel has the flipping down to a delicate art.

The making of a “Moulin Rouge” crepe.

Simply delicious: the “Oh My Sugar!” crepe.