Here are the five best events to get you hot and bothered with or without a date going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today January 11, 2011 as selected by the folks at Creative Loafing.
$2 Taco Tuesday at The Men's Club
Free Beer at The Crazy Horse in Rock Hill
11 Till 11 at Whisky River
$2 Tuesday at Club Onyx
Rock The Wok
When it snows in Charlotte, the city shuts down. We don't like the cold in the Queen City, but when it's cold outside you should be heating things up at home. Snow can be the backdrop for a romantic and grown-up snow day.
The fireplace: Light a fire and place a blanket near the fireplace (if you have one) for you and your companion to relax on. Have your favorite beverage chilled. (And since you're so Charlotte, you have cheese and bread, so make sandwiches.) Turn all the lights off and play some soft music in the background while watching the snow fall.
Have a snow ball fight: There's nothing better than tapping into your inner child. While you and your mate toss snowballs at each other, make sure you have a warming station inside, complete with hot chocolate, whipped cream and warm robes because you have to get out of those wet clothes.
Just stay inside: Movie day on the sofa ... in the nude.
Here are the five best events to get you hot and bothered with or without a date going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today January 10, 2011 as selected by the folks at Creative Loafing.
Manic Monday at Dilworth Billiards
SIN Night at Club Onyx
Steak and Shrimp Monday at The Men's Club
$20 Package deal at Leather and Lace SouthEnd
Bill Hanna's Vintage Dance Band at Grand Central
Here are the five best events to get you hot and bothered with or without a date going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today January 7, 2011 as selected by the folks at Creative Loafing.
Holiday Unwind Party at Whisky River
After-hours breakfast buffet at The Men's Club
The World's Longest Happy Hour at Howl at The Moon
Tassels, topless burlesques, now open
Corset Fantasies at The Estate
Why do folks say cut a rug? Most dance floors are hardwood. Shouldnt they say, "cut a wood"? Just saying. And speaking of wood and dance floors dance floors are for dancing, not poking. Holla if you hear me ladies.
As a former choreographer, NFL cheerleader and dance teacher, I would be remiss not to share a few dance tips with the fellas so that they don't confuse dancing with sexual harassment.
Rules of the dance floor, so you can be the ruler of the dance floor ...
1. You should get down on the dance floor, not up. I get that dancing is a vertical expression of a horizontal wish, but no boners should be permitted on the dance floor! When you are grinding behind us to Baby Got Back we can feel it, on our back. The only time its appropriate to poke girls you want to flirt with is on Facebook.
2. Please refrain from humping our legs. We are not dogs. You dont sniff our ass to see if were in heat.
That is one major difference in men and dogs men dont want their mates to be in heat.
3. Like Will Smith said in the movie Hitch, This is where you live. Alcohol does not give you rhythm but you dont need to be able to dance. Chances are if you just stand there, some woman will come up to you and start grinding on you like youre a stripper pole.
So, what have we learned?
Now I get why they made you dance ruler length at middle school dances. Otherwise, it'd be a bunch of 15-year-old boys walking around with boners with 13-year-old girls not knowing what they are. I actually learned about the birds and the bees at my first middle school dance when this 7th grader gave me my first kiss while we were slow dancing to Boyz II Men. He went to slip me some tongue with his mouth wide opened and BURPED in my mouth! He effin' burped in my mouth; I almost choked on the bubble. I can still taste the Spaghetti-Os he had for dinner.
Consider that another dance floor rule. Actually that is more of a commandment: Thou shall not burp in a girls mouth.
Here are the five best events to get you hot and bothered with or without a date going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today January 6, 2011 as selected by the folks at Creative Loafing.
Uptown Thursday Night at BAR Charlotte
Open Mic Night at The Comedy Zone Fort Mill
Champagne Thursday at Club Onyx
Kick Ass Filet at The Men's Club
Thirsty Thursday at Baby Dolls
Here are the five best events to get you hot and bothered with or without a date going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today January 4, 2011 as selected by the folks at Creative Loafing.
QC Music Series at Ultra Lounge
Pure Wednesday at Halo, ladies free
No Cover Wednesday at Club Onyx
Wet Wednesday at Leather and Lace SouthEnd
The Wednesday Fabulous Feast at The Men's Club
Last week, I was flipping through the channels and found out that Lifetime was doing a movie about The Craigslist Killer. I was kind of excited.
Remember, the alleged killer, Philip Markoff is one of the reasons why the site closed its erotic services section. That means many people who lack real-life social skills were cut off from sex. The dark ads for the movie made it seem as if Lifetime was going to pull back Markoff's mask and show why he did what he's accused of doing. After all, it's 2011 and Lifetime has gone beyond making all of those bad stories that happen in the real world tidy and ultra-girly.
Big sigh I was wrong. Here's what the real Markoff did:
Markoff was a Boston University medical student, charged with the 2009 murder of Julissa Brisman, a masseuse he was said to have met with via a Craigslist appointment. Markoff, who pleaded not guilty, was also charged with robbing another masseuse at gunpoint four days prior to the murder.
There were even reports of him going to fetish sites and things of that nature. Guess what Lifetime did? Glossed over this, as well as the women he robbed and killed, and focused on his whining wife-to-be. Talk about a waste of two hours.
Lifetime even cleaned up his suicide scene, which ABC News reported like this:
A law enforcement source told ABC News that Markoff was able to take a razor blade from one of the disposable razors jail inmates are allowed to use, and he used it to slash not only his wrists but also the femoral artery in his leg.He then wrapped the wound in his leg in a garbage bag to conceal the blood, and put another garbage bag over his head and tied it tight around his neck, the source said.
Lifetime's ratings grab fell short, and with a story this juicy, it's a shame. This movie could've used some of its two hours to inform people how to use the Internet safely, because with stories like this and the death of Charlotte resident Nikki McPhatter, who met her killer online, shows that the danger is real.
Here are the five best events to get you hot and bothered with or without a date going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today January 4, 2011 as selected by the folks at Creative Loafing.
$2 Tuesday at Club Onyx
$2 Tacos at The Men's Club
Triple Tuesday at The Pub at Gateway
College Night at Whisky River
$2 Tuesday at The Gold Club
Last year, I discovered that I'm a criminal. And I also discovered that North Carolina has some of the most antiquated laws about sex on the books.
For example:
Women must have their bodies covered by at least 16 yards of cloth at all times.
But that's simply the beginning. When it comes to being a sex offender in this state, it seems as if the "law" wants you to wallow in your past mistake forever. Now, don't get me wrong, pedophiles and rapists have no place in society. But too often, sex offenders are teenagers who got caught sexting or having sex with someone two years younger than them.
Imagine my surprise when I found out churches yes, churches are off limits to sex offenders. Right here, I could make a quip about a Catholic priest, but I won't.
A sex offender was shocked after being arrested for attending church. According to North Carolina law, a sex offender could be forced to serve 12 more years in prison for worship.
An additional 12 years in prison because you want to praise the Lord? That's crazy. Now, no sex offender should be allowed to volunteer at the church's nursery, babysit the kids and what not. But what can a sex offender do in a crowded church? Do parents allow their children to run around the church and hang out with strangers? I hope not.
If a sex offender can't find forgiveness in a church in the Bible Belt, we're all screwed.