HOM is where the party is. HOM is re-opening this Saturday with Redman’s DJ, DJ Dice and DJ Magic from Power 98. I wonder if DJ Magic does magic tricks at his appearances ... cause that would be even cooler.
For the big UNC game TILT is having a Pig Roast serving up Carolina Bar-B-BLUE and $2 Tarheel shots (Saturday 7 – 11 p.m. )
If you like big butts, I will not lie … you need to go to the 1st Annual “Celebration of Curves” Fashion Show Saturday at Grand Central Events & Catering. Hosted by Jaye Delai of Jaye & Monica and featuring The Kurvy Kuties of ATL and Curveaous Cuties Calendar Models
Crave dessert bar and lounge opened up last night ... sweet! (literally)
Décor 1202 is also new on the nightlife menu, it opened last week on CPCC campus. Friday is their first First, First Friday, which according to the flier is “America’s #1 Urban Event and Afterparty”
Ding! Ding! Ding! The Battle of the Thursday Happy Hours has a winner ... the EpiCentre.
There will be an "Alive After Five Thank You Celebration" on Thursday April 16 at the Wachovia Plaza then Charlotte's biggest event is permanently moving to the EpiCentre. The launch of Alive After Five At EpiCentre kicks off Thursday April 23 at the Pavilion at EpiCentre.
While the Plaza Midwood Art Krawl was rained out, the Carolina Cup went on rain and NO shine ... and, for lack of better terms (and weather) was a complete and utter shit show.
The Carolina Cup is kinda like a NASCAR race, with a different form of horse power ... in regards to the amount of heavy partying off the track. Except all the men wear really tacky preppy and plaid pants and the girls wear Easter dresses and big hats.
At 9:30 a.m., I boarded a bus, was handed a mimosa and found myself on an Easter egg hunt on the bus. The weather looked nice the whole 2.5-hour ride there, but as soon as we parked ... torrential down-pour. After hiking through inches of mud we got to our tent — cold, wet and dirty.
There was one of two options — be a Debbie downer, or get sloppy-wet drunk. It was raining so hard if I had shampoo I could’ve washed my hair. Our tent broke out a slip and slide and a neighboring tent broke out the karaoke and started singing (and dancing) in the rain. And after a few beers, it was a glorious feeling.
By the end of the day everyone was just pretty much playing in the mudd. Some southern Carolinian took the horsing around. Like this guy ...
As in the band; I really just went to the KISS 95.1 studios to rock out with Chad Rock and Danny and Foz from REHAB.
Our conversations quickly went from
CHAD ROCK: “How are you?”
DANNY: “I feel like a million pennies”
CHAD ROCK: “Well you look like shit man!”
DANNY: “Yeah, we got a little rowdy last night”
ME: (pointing to his fresh bloody knuckles): “What’d you punch last night?”
DANNY: “The TV”
Ouch ...
Before I knew it we were having a “tell off” about bed wetting stories and singing in studio karaoke. They remixed November Rain, Living on a Prayer … and My Humps. “My lovely lady lumps, check em’ out” … Danny’s deep man voice made it sound even better than Fergie. I then got to sing along to the best sing along song, ever – theirs: "Bartender."
The rockstars who truly party like rockstars rated Charlotte in the top 5 in terms of party towns.
“Everything’s new, the women are hot and every show we’ve played here someone gets kicked out,” Danny said as Foz nodded in agreement, “there’s a bald headed bouncer at Amos' that will fuck shit up.”
They were in town to play an all ages show at Amo’s SouthEnd … and they left me an autographed album to give to you.
Just as Ponce de Leon set out looking for the Fountain of Youth, I set out looking for the Fountain of Detox — as in escape from hangover hell. Sure, there’s Advil and Pepto for the breakfast of champions, a greasy morning after meal and even getting hair off the dog that bit you. But if you don’t want to follow-up the 500 liquid calories with McDonalds, or drink like you’re on vacation, my hippie ass has found a holistic approach to hangover healing ... The Hydration Station at Planet Beach Contempo Spa in Caramel Commons.
It’s the perfect hangover elixir. You lay in this space ship looking contraption and sweat out all the toxins in your body while rehydrating and moisturizing your skin. Oh, but it gets better ... you burn 300 to 500 calories while doing so. It’s like a steam room on steroids; a detox spa.
I appreciate my readers so much that I wish I could handwrite each of you a personalized “Thank You” card. But I can do you one better — I am going to write you a prescription for a hangover cure — I have 30 free passes to Planet Beach so you can try recuperation at the Hydration Station, and it includes three sessions so you can also try their Lumiere Facial Rejuvination.
All you have to do is join my blog group then e-mail me an address (brittney.cason@creativeloafing.com) so I can mail you your certificate — well, at least the first 30 people to e-mail me.
P.S. HOM’s re-opening has moved to next Friday, April 3. Oh darn, guess that mean’s we’ll have to miss the Hootie and the Blowfish ballet ... wtf?
In high school, I went to Young Life just about every week. One week, I found myself part of an operation that involved scraping road kill up to win a scavenger hunt. But one of the guys on the opposing team ate a live goldfish and it trumped our dead opossum in the point system... Yes, this really happened – do you think I could make this shit up? What can I say? I’m from a small town, we had to entertain ourselves somehow.
But Charlotte’s not a small town — it’s a big town, small city with a much more eventful form of “Young-Adult Life”: Charlotte One
Charlotte One is held every Tuesday at 7 p.m. until April 28 at the First United Methodist Church in Uptown. (People typically park in the Rustic Martini parking lot).
600 people gather to party with praise. They have a rocking band and a DJ in front of the church. They even serve refreshments. They rotate speakers, but last night (and next week) was (and is) Jarrett and Jeanne Stevens. They were like Christian comedians.
“Facebook seems to determine our relationships, they even have “it’s complicated” as an option – but breaking up using your facebook status is just dirty, ” Jarrett said. Apparently, the last guy I dated didn’t frequent Charlotte One.
Fashion Friday at KISS Lounge, which is introducing both the new Christian Audigier line and the AMPED 4-a-cure concert series - a philanthropy supporting cancer research through music. Friday Small Doses with special guest Tommy DeCarlo of the legendary Boston will be fighting cancer, as in performing.
I'm actually hosting the event ... the last time I hosted a fashion show I got yelled at for pronouncing BeBe as “bay-bay” as opposed to the correct pronunciation: “bee-bee.” With that said, can someone please tell me how to properly pronounce Audigier before handing me a microphone?
Doors open at 9 p.m.
I was lured up to Buck Wild Ultra Saloon in University by a facebook invite to “Man Show Mondays” that advertised trampoline jumping. Growing up, I would entertain myself for hours with the trampoline I had in my back yard. When I came home from college one summer my mom had gotten rid of it and confessing it was a pain in the ass when she mowed the lawn so she just gave it to the kids up the street that use to always come knock on our door and ask to jump on it.
There I was, 19 years old, knocking on my neighbor’s door, asking a 10-year-old if I can jump on her trampoline. So, I went to Buck Wild in hopes of jumping on a trampoline – I even wore yoga pants so I could do flips. Turns out, the Man Show actually entailed the bartenders jumping on mini-trampolines.
It was a little scary walking in – it’s reminiscent of a haunted castle, the door even looked like a draw bridge. But it was like an a-booze-ment park inside with Cornhole, Beer Pong tables on old whisky barrels, ping-pong ... and a stripper pole.
Kasey Khane’s rendition of T.I.’s "Live Your Life" Hey, ey, ey, ey, ey, EY.
Johnny Tap-out getting knocked the f out.
Saturday Night Live at The Charlotte Comedy Theater with Robot Johnson.
Good times were had with Good Time’s star JJ Walker.
The first thing he said when he took the stage was “Lake Norman – Cornelius, North Carolina... so it’s come to this?” Meaning, his career. But he was surrounded by celebs actually ... assuming he’s heard of NASCAR.
JJ is still so animated and outspoken he didn’t even need a mic, he just carried it around at arms length, only using it when he was acting out a punch line — or really trying to make a point. I was laughing so hard I got cramps ... some of the side splitting laughter induced jokes included his comments regarding Young Hollywood.
“Britney Spears lost custody of her kids ... even Michael Jackson was allowed to keep his kids.” He made some very valid points...
• Word on the street is enso Asian Bistro and Sushi Bar is opening in the EpiCentre in April, and is suppose to give Nikko a run for its money ... which is going to be hard considering it’s hard to top a boa-wearing, tambourine-shaking, karaoke-singing owner. SUSHI LOVE!
• The Wachovia Championship Block Party in Phillip’s Place has been canceled ... well, relocated rather to Piedmont in South Park.
• HOM was foreclosed on, but it’s now under renovations and is set to reopen in two months as an upscale urban club – kinda like Grand Central did.
• On Friday, March 27, Mythos is having a reunion party... at Forum, where it once existed. DJ Kastanas will be playing the old school beats to the old school crowd. I'm sure for the old Mythos regulars, getting word about the reunion made them feel as old as I did when I got the invite (over facebook nonetheless) to my 10 year high school reunion in October.
• The Dirty Martini is opening in Lake Norman, Cornelius if you will: 17036 Kenton Drive Suite 104, Cornelius, N.C. 28031 to be exact.
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