For listening to music it would be Brownwood. For the overall atmosphere and entertainment it would be LSL.
Unfortunately I'm not a big fan of SS. To begin with, seating for the band is terrible. The majority of the seats face the back of the stage. When they made those renovations a couple of years ago, I thought repositioning the stage would of been priority one.
With Brownwood and LSL we often tie in going to an afternoon movie and then come out to the music. The SS theater is my least favorite for movies. I've gone there on ocassion when the film was something I wanted to see, like 'Gone Girl' a couple of years ago. Otherwise we usually go to the other two theaters or skip the film, I've heard this from many others as well. I can remember Gone Girl having a line out the door in the second week of showing. I emailed the theater about the film should of opened at LSL and they said, they have to decide on film positioning months in advance.
Before the film we normally go to Paneras for a nice lunch, at SS you have to decide, do I park near the theater or near Paneras or can I find a spot in between. At LSL it's not that big a deal, you can usually park behind Starbucks in that lot and Paneras and the theater are both a short walk.
Finally, the crowd at SS seems like everyone knows everyone, I guess because they've all been going there 10 or more years and we often feel like outsiders. The one caveat to this is about two years ago we sat on the park bench by the temporary bar and shared the bench with a fellow who lives with his mother in the historic side. The band playing was Uncle Bob's Rock Shop, that's the one group we'll go to SS to see. Everytime we went back to SS to see UBRS, we shared that same bench with the same fellow. We got to know him quite well, and sometimes it might be six months until we see him again, but he's usually there.
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