... is this weekend
Synergy Nightclub is synergizing nightlife at the lake and putting the sin in synergy.
The grand opening celebrations for the new club started last night with their country night, and tonight is George Acosta and Saturday DJ Rush.
And every Thursday is the lake's one and only country night hosted by the one and only Big Sexy from WSOC. Last night Tim Hall & Buffalo Country rocked and honkey tonked. If you missed out, sucks for you ... well, not too much because next week is Brian Davis.
Synergy Nightclub is located where NV Lounge use to be
20924 Torrence Chapel Rd. (Shops on the Green)
Cornelius, NC 28031
704.896.6982
Also celebrating their Grand Opening this weekend at the lake is the Dirty Martini - get the "dirty" here .
… a Holistic Healing HAPPY hour. Emphasis on the happy.
My friends all call me a dirty hippie – yes, to my face - but I beg to differ … I’m more like a hygienic hippie. I just prefer holistic medicines over western ones — and not just because the cost of health care is ASStronomical, but because it’s natural and effective in most cases. My primary care physician, Dr. Haas is even a holistic healer.
Well, I took my hippie ass to Healing Hands Clinic for their Acupuncture Happy Hour.
For a mere $10, I got a 15-minute acupuncture treatment on the “5 points in the ear” and 15-minute massage. Now I have gotten a lot of rub downs in my life … as in massages, and that might just be the best one I’ve ever gotten – even if it was just a quickie … again, I am talking about a massage.
It’s like a sample of Chinese medicine — a buffet of health.
Healing Hands Acupuncture and Herbal Clinic serves their holistic healing happy hour once a month, and each one with a different form of modality treatment from yoga to Reiki to massage. The next one is coming up July 14.
Oh, and Adrienne that works there makes the most amazing dip!
6207 Park South Dr.
Suite 101
Charlotte, NC 28210
704-571-8783
Dance with the stars down by the river ... as in Dancing with the Stars star Julianne Hough at Whisky River's anniversary party!
In order to get into Whisky River tonight you have to either be Julianne Hough, Dale Jr. or a winner of tickets ... and I have tickets you can win. The first person to e-mail me and tell me the name of the drink I invented at Whisky River scores!
Well, technically it was before dark, but there is nightlife at the Mint Museum.
When it comes to artwork, I always feel like I’m staring at those magic eye books. It doesn’t matter how far away I stand - I still don’t know what the hell I’m looking for. Yet, like music, art speaks to everyone, no matter our culture and what language we speak. So what better way to bring people together for a cause than with the universal language of art.
This week is the final week of the New Orleans exhibit at the Mint and it's going out with a bang and a bash; the Mint is turning into Bourbon Street (kinda) with “Big Easy on the Lawn” on June 19 from 6 – 9 p.m.
The Deal
Between The Country Music Association Music Festival in Nashville and Bonnaroo about an hour away in B.F.E., there was a lot of good live music in Tennessee this past weekend.
The Good
Darius Rucker and Kid Rock are now considered country artists. Kid Rock was even the encore act for the concerts Friday night with a line-up including Lady Antebellum, Jason Aldean, Zac Brown Band, Rodney Atkins and Jake Owen. Kid Rock even supplemented Sheryl Crow for Martina McBride. My favorite show was Lady Antebellum … in addition to the 5-year-old who was dancing on the otherwise unoccupied stage earlier at McFaddens.
Meanwhile Wynonna Judd had a family reunion on stage with her band-member, her mother. Wynonna arguably has the most soulful voice in country music, though there’s a new minority country singer on the map … well, at least at CMA Fest, and that's Rhonda Towns.
The Bad
It was the Coca-Cola 600 all over again … the concert was put on a rain delay before a drop of rain even hit the ground. They interrupted Reba McEntire during her set to clear the stadium, only to wait over an hour for it to rain on the parade, but pass by as quickly as a parade. The show went on … kinda. Rascal Flatts and Julianne Hough didn’t end up going on, but Hootie did, without his Blowfish. Along with Dierks Bentley, and Brad Paisley who played up until 2 a.m. Julianne Hough will be in Charlotte, however, playing at Whisky River’s one year anniversary party (stop back by on Wednesday for your chance to win a ticket to the concert you can only win tickets to).
And I don’t mean to be mean, but Wynona Judd kinda looked like a villain in Star Trek on stage.
The Verdict
There is live music everywhere in Nashville. From the stage of LP Stadium to the street corners. There was either live music or karaoke at every bar we went to. There’s even a bar where the bartenders serve you while singing, and a strip club with naked karaoke in Printer’s Alley.
And when did John Rich become the P-Diddy of country music? He even has his own very exclusive and essentially hidden club in downtown Nashville called The Spot where lots of celebrities can be spotted.
CMA Fest 2008 ... 2000 and late
Go shorty its yo birthday, we gonna party like its your birthday ... Jacinda!
ASaturday, my girl Jacinda, from Brotha Fred's A.M. Mayhem on 96.1 The Beat, is celebrating her birthday ... and you're invited.
Last year for Jacinda’s birthday, all she wanted to do was go rollerskating, but Kate’s closed early and we ended up back-up dancing to karaoke at Murphy’s instead. Well, this year they planned ahead …
Saturday is an adult skate party at Kate’s Skate in Indian Trail starting at 11 p.m.
Beer and wine will be served (good luck remaining vertical) and old school music will be played — the kind of skate party us adults use to have when we were kids ... as if we ever actually grow up! Now we just hire a babysitter so we can go act like kids.
Proceeds of this skate soirée will benefit Cystic Fibrosis.
As the summer sun starts making an appearance, so do summer music festivals — and as it turns out, Marshall Park is the right venue to hold them both ... and will every Sunday in June from 1-6 p.m.
After spending a weekend in clubs and wine lounges, what’s better than doing more lounging … in a lawn chair, that is. You can bring out your picnic furniture and relax to the beats of live jazz music. And if you don’t pack the picnic basket, there’s food for sale. There’s a four band line-up every Sunday. Music for the following weeks will include ....
The Garden and Gun Club got shot down, and Halo has been planted in its place.
Apparently some lawn jockey magazine in Charleston called the Garden and Gun threw a hissy fit about the Garden and Gun Club sharing its name — and with a slap of a gavel, the Garden and Gun Club had to change its name … to Halo.
Well, to me it’s irrelevant because the whole time it was open I for some reason kept referring to it as the Gun and Garden Club.
Anyway, same scene, same music, same cool patio … but now you can hear the Uptown Amphitheatre from it, starting with The Fray this Saturday.
Aside from a revamped interior, the only difference is now they’re going to have benefit parties and Burlesque shows — the La Petit Mort Burlesque Revue to be exact.
Halo is having its grand opening this Friday for the Global Fever 4 International Party with DJ Nickankis and DJ Kosta X. And right next door is the Fillmore that opens next weekend with Corey Smith.
I felt inclined to check out Taste of Charlotte considering there was an emcee, karaoke contest, “Dance your @$$ off” dance party, the “Little Blue Choo Choo” and a Single Ladies dance off with the Lady Cats right outside my window luring me outside.
And further down Tryon there was an inflatable mechanical bull, a rock climbing wall, a “Frik-N-Frak” booth and an entire bathroom display with actual tubs and showers ... Random. It was like a mixture of an N.Y.C. street fair and Speed Street.
The most interesting thing at Taste to me was the “Other White Meat Tour” … a tour?! For some reason this doesn’t make me just think of pork — but it does make me wonder, what is the other white meat? ... Spanish? And chicken could essentially be the other dark meat, right?
By Brittney Cason and Sarah Coombes
Another parade was rained on in Charlotte when the water cycle got stuck on the precipitation dial again, raining out opening night for Dammit Janet … dammit! Yet the place was still packed for the VIP grand opening party this past Thursday, even the rain came … in the building as it leaked through the roof above the dance floor. But no worries, people just started dancing in the rain. Oh, what a glorious feeling …until it rains on the sound system. Owner Jeff Lowry announced he’d take us back in time by using mixed cds rather than a DJ system … now that’s a time warp.
Dammit Janet has a bar in a barn appeal — like a keg party in a small town in rural America, and it mimics a bigger version of The Thirsty Beaver. The novelty décor of the '70s-themed venue includes a Jaws fin and an escaping boat, a peeing statue (with suggestive cherries and bananas), a Beatles yellow submarine DJ booth and a live art showcase — and by live art we mean an actual living person.
Lowry said the premise will change frequently, while the opening party featured a man in a prison cell, next weekend it may be a girl in a bath tub. Lowry may be basing the art in his NoDa bar on its '70s (and '60s) theme, but he also wants to stay true to the theme of the hood by incorporating art.
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