Sure, it's not until Presidents' Day weekend next year (Sunday, Feb. 20, 7 p.m., at the Blake Hotel), but what alcohol connoisseur wouldn't love to get tickets to the Bartenders Ball as a gift for Christmas?
Admission includes, open bar with top-shelf liquors and a full line of beers, catered food, and entertainment.
Not to mention, tickets are $50 only through Dec. 5. Go ahead and order 'em!
By Rhiannon Bowman
We've all been there: You throw, or attend, an amazing party, drink too much, smoke too much, dance too much and stay up way too late. But, by morn, despite the fact that the party is definitely over, its sticky remnants remain. Enter the 'Hangover Helpers.'
According to the Associated Press, a couple of University of Colorado graduates have come up with this ingenious business model. These folks show up the morning after your party with breakfast, Gatorade and the fortitude to clean up your mess. Brilliant!
And now, who's going to take up this banner and run with it in the Q.C.? (Quick, now: New Years Eve is just around the corner.) To supplement the business, might I suggest you also offer coffee and breakfast delivery for the greater Charlotte population ...
What would you pay to clean up this after-party disaster ... especially if you're hugging the toilet with a hangover? (Note the dudes with black eyes.)
Rhiannon "Rhi" Bowman is an independent journalist who contributes snarky commentary on Creative Loafing's CLog blog four days a week in addition to writing for several other local media organizations. To learn more, click the links or follow Rhi on Twitter.
The top five nightlife-related events going down tonight, Dec. 1, as chosen from the folks at Creative Loafing.
• 2nd Annual Red Pump/Red Tie Affair at The Palmer Building
• World AIDS Day Event (6 pm - 9 pm) & Pop Life (9pm - 2 am) w/DJ Brorabb at Luna Lounge
• DIVINO College Nights "International and Latin Party" at Marigny (open bar for 21 and up until)
• PURE Ladies Night at Halo
• Suite Covers Kids — money from cover will go toward the Levine Children's Hospital
Much like Christmas, it comes but once a year: a season when people who are usually stuck behind cubicles and under fluorescent lights come to life, venturing out into the Queen City and shaking up the even-flow of weeknight club life.
Starting Thanksgiving weekend and going through New Year’s, the holiday crowd completely changes the dynamic of Charlotte’s party scene. Places like Apostrophe Lounge that usually have no lines now have them going down the sidewalk. The wait at the bar becomes even more infuriating, and the general confusion of people is unexplainable. That free corner you always post up in? Not anymore. The only free space is right in front of the speaker, where you’ll lose your voice trying to have mundane conversations about the chick with the crazy hair or the guy who’s dancing like he popped a pill.
It’s common knowledge that 9 to 5’ers never stay out until 2 a.m. They’re usually heading home when the party is starting to jump. Now, so relieved to be off work, they have to get their drunk legs back, and it’s awesome to watch. The overconfidence in their former tolerance oozing, you can almost guarantee a sloppy end to the night or an outright carrying-out and temporary shunning by the embarrassed friends who had to help do it.
The holiday crowd is also highlighted by its visitors. Like the random cousin from out of state your friend doesn’t know that well but was compelled by their parents to bring because they’re around the same age. That same cousin who shines light on his or her possible whorish reputation hundreds of miles away before the night is over.
And then there are the college kids who come home for break, convinced their hometown sucks now because they can’t find a kegger with ease. They spend most of the night bitching about how, “back at school we ...” Well, you get it.
Much like the spirit of the season though, it’s spirits that bring us all together. After a Sailor Jerry Cherry shot or two — tasting like spiced rum and grenadine, I don’t know where these came from but they’re my new jam — and a couple tallboys, the party strangers quickly become your party friends.
And yet, let us regular partygoers be thankful this scenario is only temporary.
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