The brand new Crocodile has been the talk of the town since the club's official opening last week. In this week's paper, Christopher Frizzelle paints a beautiful picture of the new space:

Many walls have been knocked down. The false ceiling in the main room is gone, revealing hidden skylights and enough extra space to comfortably fit a proper mezzanine with a bar. The capacity of the club has gone from 381 to 560. The stage is in a different place. The old cafe area is gone. The walls have gone from pale green to a dark, flattering red. There's a long main bar along the south wall, where the wall of windows looking out onto Blanchard Street used to be. That wall of windows is gone, but there is a high, unbroken, two-foot-tall horizontal stripe of windows on that wall now, looking out into treetops and Belltown roofs—referencing the windows that used to be there, giving the room depth, granting the crowd privacy, and reminding you that you're in the middle of the city. The famously inconvenient post is no longer in the center of the room. (It's been preserved, for hilarity's sake, but it's off to the side.) There are new bathrooms, gleaming white, with marble countertops. The build-out, done by GHL Architectural Millworks, is gorgeous. Maybe too gorgeous.

If you've yet to check out the new Croc (or want to see it again), I have the perfect opportunity for you! Line Out and the Crocodile are giving away a pair of tickets to Saturday night's U.S.E. show which, as Eric Grandy says in this week's Stranger Suggests, "...may as well be [the club's] official grand reopening party. You couldn't hope for a Seattle band to christen your new club with more positive vibes and body-moving sounds than electro-rock crew United State of Electronica."

Entering is easy: just send an e-mail to freetickets@thestranger.com with U.S.E. in the subject line. If you're so moved, maybe include a U.S.E. inspired haiku! (That won't improve your chances at winning, but I think if any band could inspire a great haiku, it's U.S.E., and it'd be fun for me to read through them all... blank e-mails get boring.) A winner will be chosen at random and notified via e-mail tomorrow afternoon.

Good luck!

UPDATE: The tickets have been won. Thanks to everyone who entered! See some of the haikus here.