"4"^^ . "4"^^ . . . "5"^^ . "2008-01-15T00:00:00"^^ . . "4"^^ . "Had to throw in my 2 cents. If you read about the event, then you may know I was once an avid bowler in a former life. Shoes, I owned a pair. Ball, custom made. Leagues, I was in several.\n\nWhich is why I hate bowling these days. Huh?\n\nAlleys these days try to be all trendy and crap. They all look like a Scottsdale lounge with big couches and funky videos playing in the background. And on any given weekend night you might get \"cosmic\" or \"glow\" bowling with the same thumping music and strobe lights you might find in a Scottsdale lounge! The most egregious of these types of places is Lucky Strike in Boston (though Kings comes in a close second). Bleck. Not to mention they charge like $10 a game.\n\nWhich is why Sunset Bowl gets 4 stars. My perfect alley is straight out of The Big Lebowski. Complete with broken ball returns, balls that have extra holes drilled in them for no apparent reason, pool tables with ripped up felt, and the original Virtua Fighter arcade game. $3 for shoes, $2.50 a game, $6 pitchers of beer. Heaven. The only way this place would have been better was if they had the old-school desks and overhead projectors to keep your own score. But I doubt anyone these days is capable of keeping their own score - math is for computers. Bah! To their credit, the automatic scoring system would mess up and give/take an extra point on about 25% of the tosses. Stellar.\n\n \"The Dude abides. . .\""^^ .