The voting has commenced for the Lady Cats in the NBA dance team bracket. Translation: VOTE NOW!
To thank you for voting I’ll give you a pair of passes to join me in the Front Court Lounge for this Friday’s game against the Bucks and next Saturday’s game against the Pistons.
The kicker is you have to sit there for 60 seconds and register on the NBA site - I know it’s a lot to ask for that much of your attention span, but time is money and the face value on these tickets are a lot higher than a minute worth of work … just saying.
How to play: Send me an e-mail at brittney.cason@creativeloafing.com with your NBA screen name and copy and paste the “Thank You for Voting.”
First 30 e-mails to hit my inbox scores. If you win, I will respond with the game for which your tickets are for and how to retrieve them.
I try to write back everyone that e-mails me to thank them for reading & playing, but that’s a lot of e-mails and I have a date tonight, at the UFC fight. So, if I don’t write you back, know that I love you AND if the Lady Cats advance to the next round I’ll be giving away more tickets. SO VOTE… cause you’ll win too.
Cool Kids Collective are a collection of cool kids with instruments that know how to make good music. And they're coming to Whisky River tomorrow for an April Fool's Party. Seriously. Not fooling. There's even a poster, as proof ...
To be honest with you, I am not going to put my name on something unless it is going to be a good time. Because if it's not fun, well then I don't want to be there either.
Because this is a blog and not a public posting of my schedule, I am going to go ahead and just knock out what other events I'm involved with this month ...
I'm on the panel for this ...
And I'm a commentator for this ...
Oh, and one more thing ... I am giving away 100 VIP Passes to the remaining home regular season Bobcats games, via my Twitter. Follow to find out how to get in on that action.
I don't know if getting drunk makes people more creative or what, but drinking seems to keep getting more and more innovative. I don't know if I'm going to a bar or a science fair anymore ... Now, there's the Polar Pitcher... the coolest thing to happen to drinking since The Chuggler
You'd probably expect to see thise type of innovative drinking tool at an EpiCentre bar, right? ... but no, I found this at AMF Lanes on South Boulevard. They also offer unlimited soda with a party package, which is pretty exciting.
I may have hosted the Miss Lake Norman pageant, but don't get me wrong... I am by no means, a beauty queen.
As a baby, my face was essentially nothing but fat cheeks with dimples, which apparently was adorable by southwestern Virginia standards because everyone talked my mom into entering me in the county fair's baby beauty contest, and next thing I know I am little Miss Rockingham County… up until the point I started walking. My mom put me in a dress and took me back to the county fair, but rather than lining up on stage with the other prositots, I ran off and dove into the pig’s pen at the livestock exhibit near the stage and started splashing in the mud, in my dress. I obviously have no recollection of this, I was just told this story by everyone in my hometown. Apparently, I haven’t changed a bit …
Needless to say, I never entered a pageant again. But I was recently bequeathed a crown ... a crown that dons me the most prestigious of party titles, an honor for which I will hold in the highest regard ... I am the first ever Miss Tailgate for the National Tailgating League — hereby pronounced Queen of Tailgating. A role that I promise to fulfill with the grace and poise of a queen ... and a damn good cornhole player.
I will be traveling with the National Tailgating League to races and games to emcee the Cornhole Tournaments and host the party. You see, The NTL isn't just a Cornhole Tournament ... it's a freaking tailgate. They have the Budweiser Porta-Party, which at Bristol will be a sports bar in the middle of Earhart Campgrounds. But you should sign up for the tournament because you win money. And I don't know about you, but I like winning money. Sign up here
The show Fast Track to Fame, the new high-octane talent show on SPEED where performers
can zoom from ‘nobody’ to star in 60 minutes, will also be at Bristol. And much like I did for America's Got Talent ... I am helping them find talent. See how you can audition here ... and I'll see you in Bristol.
The roof, the roof ... the roof of Ri Ra was on fire. But now it's rebuilt, and Ri Ra has re-opened ... and with the luck of the Irish, just in time for St. Patrick's Day. Let me begin by saying that perhaps the fire was best thing that could've happened to Ri Ra Irish Pub — it gave them the opportunity to open as essentially a new bar with a whole new look ... and it looks better. For starters, they tore down the wall above the staircase to open, and lighten, up the top level.
The chandeliers lacing the once burning roof give it more of a lounge ambiance than an Irish pub, but the menu selections — both food and drink — remind that it is one... Such as Guiness, Harp and Smithwicks on draft.
This Saturday, March 13, the pub will open at 9 a.m. with morning menu offerings such as the traditional Irish Breakfast, transitioning to an all-day menu at 11. Rí Rá will feature Irish dancers in-house throughout the day, as well as live Irish traditional music followed by performances by Dallas Reece and the U2 tribute band Beautiful Day.
I bet when all the people stop by during Rich and Bennett's famous St. Patty's Day pub crawl, the owners will relish and rejoice ... in the smoking ban.
I don’t get society’s obsession with celebrities — do we worship them for being flawless, or fixate on their flaws to make ourselves feel flawless? And I have never been one to obsess over hot celebrity guys… I don’t see all the hype about Brad Pitt, and I realize Mr. Big is a fictional character. But after my friend Jackie introduced me to the MTV show Rob Dyrdek's Fantasy Factory, I found myself wanting to date, fall in love and have babies with professional skateboarder Rod Dyrdek.
That man is an exact replica of the portrait of the perfect man I have painted in my head. He's creative, adventurously athletic, quirky, positive thinking, fun and funny, street (and business) smart, altruistic, sexy skater boy, surrounded by cool people, dog loving… all of which I picked up on by watching one episode.
I had to be sure that he was not a fictional-reality-character, and that he is for real… so I suggested to Jackie that we watch the entire season on her DVR. I fell in love that night… not necessarily with Rob Dyrdek, but with the idea that the perfect man does in fact exist — if in Hollywood, then definitely in real life. Maybe I won’t have to settle for less than the full package after all. And with that, Rob and his power animals became my first celebrity crush since Joey from New Kids on the Block.
Fast forward a year...
Now that I have deemed an unattainable man as the unrequited love of my life, you can imagine my reaction when I walked into East in Hollywood to eat with Patrycja, the girl with whom I switched cities with for the show Holidate, and there sat Rob Dyrdek at the bar, having a drink with his manager on the show.
Normally when I report the news, it's happy news: new nightclubs are opening, or a good act is coming to town ... but this time, I'm reporting hard news via WBTV - because this is scary: Man crashes into cars to rob, rape women ... and he's following these ladies home from bars and nightclubs, police think. Ladies, I am calling a mandatory safety meeting in which the linked article is your handbook.
For the first time ever, the Charlotte Checkers will be dropping the puck at MIDNIGHT this Thursday, Feb. 18. They call it dropping the puck... I like to call it a "Puck Off" And since the Puck-Off is at midnight (11:59 p.m. to be exact) they're making a party out of it. DJ Rozak from 106.5 The End will be on the mic, and of course they're making a pub crawl out of it too - with who else, RockHouse Events
Sounds fun, doesn't it? Wanna go? Well, I'm giving away 4 pairs of passes to the game ... and the first four to e-mail carl.tucker@creativeloafing.com (with the subject line: Midnight Puck) gets them.
Let me rephrase that. Come out, to The Closet Nightclub.
According to a press release from owner Jody Sullivan, Closet Nightclub is ...
"Charlotte’s newest high energy dance club located in the heart of the Elizabeth neighborhood. CLOSET will be catering to a diverse crowd including the GLBT community. The Club features a huge dance floor with 2 overlook balconies, 4 bars, state of the art sound/lighting/video system, and a separate cocktail video lounge. Closet Nightclub has a 400+ capacity and onsite parking."
The Closet opens on Friday, Feb. 19, with a live performance by Amber.
In other Breaking Nightlife News ...
• Wilmer Valderrama is coming all the way to Charlotte to celebrate his 30th birthday, this Friday. Feb.12 at BUTTER. And Will.I.Am is going to DJ the grand opening party next weekend.
• Cuban Pete's Cafe has opened in Plaza Midwood ... in the nook for which the Nook and Graduate was. And it has a sangria bar. Awesome.
For more comprehensive nightlife coverage check out CL's CIAA tournament (and party) listings and daily (or should I say nightly) event listings on CL's At Large blog.
This is Brittney Cason, signing off ... now back to your regulary scheduled program (or work ... wink).
...was the Friday night I couldn’t find anything to eat after 11 p.m.
I got off a plane and went directly from the airport to Belk Theater to see Spring Awakening, where afterward I led the Q&A talk-back with the cast. I hadn’t eaten a thing all day other than the travel-size bag of pretzels they gave me on the plane — and there's nothing like theatrical porn to work up an appetite. Thus, following the show I was so hungry I almost started gnawing on my hair.
So, we went to Dandelion Market … but the kitchen was closed. And for the record, they should go ahead and change the name to meat market. But you can’t eat that meat and I was too hungry to stay and flirt.
So, we went to Nix Burgers and Brew … closed
Only options in Uptown at this point are Sushi at Enso, or the places I only go when I’m drunk … and I had no intentions of drinking, let alone coating my stomach with grease. As much as I love Phil’s fried pickles, my body was craving a real meal since I’d been neglecting to nurture it all day. And my friends didn’t want sushi. So, we ventured out of Uptown scavenging nightlife like vultures in search of food.
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