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Things to Do in Ocala Tonight — What's On at the Skipper

Downtown Ocala after dark, on a weekly schedule. Live music some nights, an eighties party every Sunday, a monster movie on the wall always. If it's happening here, it's on this page.

Coming Up

One-off nights with a date on them.

Thursday, September 10

The Marion Turns 85

The Marion Theatre next door hits 85 and we're pouring like it's 1941 — a 1941-inspired menu, a complimentary birthday toast when you show your ticket stub, a photobooth, and the after-party once the Aloma of the South Seas screening lets out. Hollywood or Hawaiian finest.

Every Week

The standing programme.

These don't need a date because they're always on. The one that moves is live music — the lineup changes week to week and Instagram gets it first.

Every Sunday · Doors at 2pm

Vice Sundays

Eighties South Beach on the speakers from two in the afternoon straight through the night. Pastel encouraged, sleeves optional, the whole bar lit like a Michael Mann establishing shot.

Select nights · Check Instagram

Live Music

Exotica, surf, lounge and the occasional Elvis. The lineup moves week to week — the Instagram story is always the fastest way to know who's on tonight.

Playing on the wall, always

Creature Feature

There is a black-and-white monster movie running silently behind the bar every single night we're open. It has been on since we opened and nobody has ever asked us to turn it off.

Making a night of it downtown

We're on the same block as the Marion Theatre, which makes the obvious plan a good one: eat somewhere on Magnolia, catch whatever's screening, then come here afterwards and stay until they turn the lights up. Park once, walk everything.

If you're putting together something bigger — a birthday, a bachelorette, a work thing that deserves better than a chain restaurant — we do private events and the whole room can be yours.