Bowling Green resident Semir Bahic exhales cherry coke flavored smoke from a hookah at the Saharan Lounge on Tuesday, Nov. 3. TANNER CURTIS/HERALD

Greensburg junior Leslye Davis has worked at Imagine Cakes, Candies & More since mid-August. “We’re Bowling Green’s best kept secret,” Davis said, with a laugh. The shop, located downtown, has little street exposure. “Today is slow,” Davis said. EMILY FOX/HERALD

Western graduate and business owner Erin Huntsberry of Bowling Green measures a garment at Just My Fit, an alteration shop she operates from her apartment downtown. Huntsberry has been sewing since she was 8 years old. MARY POWERS/HERALD

“Happy New Year!”

As the ball dropped into 2009, Entourage Tapas Bar and Lounge at 935 College Street celebrated its grand opening. With the new year came a new style.

Owned by Bosnia native Boris Vignjevic, Entourage is bringing a new-age dining experience, called tapas, to the area.

Amy Smrtic, 28, and Bill Smrtic, 27, both of Bowling Green, co-owners of Fluid nightclub, which opened in downtown Bowling Green in June 2009. ALEX SLITZ/HERALD

 
Downtown Bowling Green has its fair share of dive bars where scatterbrained jukeboxes supply the music and student regulars spill and swallow equal amounts of beer.
But Fluid, a new nightclub [...]