Is it just me or does it seem as though being single these days is kinda like the current state of the economy? In fact, it’s so bad I'm considering going on a reality show to find love... no, really. Or, to this event...
But you better hurry up and register because spots are going faster than dateable people off the market.
"The Better Class of Charlotte presents Dating: How to Find LOVE in 60 Seconds!" Hosted by Charlotte relationship expert Dr. Anne Banicks and author Brian Howie. Complimentary wine and hors d'oeuvres for all pre-registered guests. Cost is $20.
Tuesday, July 14th, 7 - 9 p.m. at Ashton South End.
125 W. Tremont Ave.
The wristbands we get when we enter a bar, club, concert or event do not constitute as an accessory. In fact, it can ruin your whole outfit.
Getting ready for a night out is a production — especially for the ladies when it comes to coordinating the fashion … and a neon-yellow paper bracelet typically doesn’t coordinate with our fashion.
We scour our closets and do our own little version of a fashion show and movie wardrobe montage trying to figure out what to wear. And after carefully selecting an outfit and shoes to match, we apply makeup to coordinate, style the hair accordingly and accessorize carefully to give the outfit some frosting. And when it’s a girl’s night out and we're all dolled up, we pose for “before pictures” — as in before going out, before getting sweaty from dancing and before having to top off our wardrobe with a wristband.
So, there we are, all dressed up and ready to go … and then as soon as we get out, we have to put on a tacky plastic wristband with its excess poking us in the eyeball all night when we go to take a sip of a drink.
By Tiffany Handy
University vs. Uptown … who can bring in the greater throng. While on Thursday nights Uptown is jamming with Alive After Five, University has its own concert series that is just as jamming.
The University Summer Concert Series is every Thursday through June and July at University Place — home of Boardwalk Biily’s, The Wine Vault and Bad Dogs. This past Thursday, a Dave Matthews tribute band rocked the boardwalk while surrounding bars supplied cheap beer and well drinks.
I spent most of my time at Boardwalk's due to its $2 liquor specials in addition to the $2 drafts and domestic bottles. Bad Dogs had some great specials as well, such as half-off appetizers from 5-7 p.m., $2 Coors Lite and $1.25 PBR. And then there was The Wine Vault with its Beer Cannon, which is, exactly what it sounds like. $5 Riesling and $2 can beers were the featured items. In summary, whatever your poison, you can get it on a college student’s budget in University.
... as in Dish it Out pottery studio.
I know what you’re thinking, "What in the hell does a pottery-painting place have to do with nightlife?" Well, they serve wine there. And some of the best nights out, are nights in. Well, out, but not at a bar at least.
Places like Dish it Out allow for some good wholesome fun — and you have more to show for it than a hangover. Meanwhile, the kids can occupy themselves while moms can gather and talk about "adult things" and about how much they needed a night out.
They have just about everything you can imagine to paint, from plates to giant martini glasses to dog bowls to people bowls to jewelry boxes to … you get my point.
I made a ring holder and painted “With This Ring” on it to and gave it to my friend as a wedding gift. In her thank you note she wrote: “Thanks for doing arts and crafts for us Brittney — it was my favorite gift — something needed and something homemade.” And that was my favorite thank you card I received … it’s normally just, “Thanks for the Target gift card.” Because they know I wait until the last minute when everything on their registry is out of my budget so I just get them a gift card … considering 87.9 percent of my friends are married, they’ve figured me out by now.
Then you leave your pottery to be fired, and you can then walk down the street to Big Ben Pub for a drink, catch a movie at the Manor … or, go home and put the kids to bed.
They also host “Creative Parties” for birthdays, bridal and baby showers, and my personal favorite … girl’s night out. It actually won Charlotte Magazine’s Best of Award for “Best Place to Have a Party.”
Dish it Out has locations in Myers Park and Stonecrest.
And no, no one is in there replicating the scene from Ghost .
Considering I host the show 3 Wide Life, I couldn't have been more proud when my intern voluntarily went to cover nightlife at the track ...
By Tiffany Handy
If you’re under 16, you can’t drive a car … unless it’s a race car that is.
Raise your hand if you like the idea of 10-15 unlicensed drivers behind the wheel, going around in circles and crashing into one another. You can’t see it, but I'm raising my hand ...
For the past four summers, I have been going to Lowes Motor Speedway for the Summer Shootout Series. The cost is a mere $7 a person — and just like at NASCAR races, you are able to bring a cooler … because the Beast of the Southeast is BYOB after all.
The Summer Shootout is racing in the raw — there’s the Bandolero BANDITS (8-11 year-olds), the Young Lions (12-16 years-old) and the Masters (40 and older). Meanwhile, semi-professional and professional drivers race round the front stretch and through the pits for 10-20 laps. There are plenty of crashes followed by hundreds of hoots and hollers from the crowd. Last Tuesday, one crash was so good — if it’s morally right to say that — that the ambulance had to come. No one was injured in the making of this entertainment.
For some reason every time I used to drive by the Actor’s Theatre of Charlotte I pictured it to be like a playhouse, with school play caliber shows starring little kids … but that was about as accurate as me also thinking the Aquatic Center down the road from it was an Aquarium. (I am just going to say that I was being more attentive to driving rather than what I was driving by … that’s my story and I’m sticking to it).
Well, I actually went into the Actor’s Theatre to see the frightfully funny and horrifically humorous Evil Dead: The Musical. That’s right, I said a horror–comedy-musical … that genre blend in itself is worth seeing. At points in the play you’ll wonder why you’re laughing at a woman singing about the fact that all the men in her life keep getting killed by Candarian demons, but the comedy comes in as they make fun of the cheese factor in horror flicks. Such as the romance clichés and “bit part demons.”
And the musical was classic with lyrics like, “I’m the man, I bitch slap evil with my one good hand” and “What the Fuck was That?”
While I was in Nashville for the CMA Music Festival getting proposed to in Paradise Park, a trailer park bar on the Nashville strip (read about it in this week’s CL) – I thought it only appropriate to send Tiffany to a White Trash-themed bash … my poor interns
The White Trash Bash
By Tiffany Handy
A teaspoon of butter, a dash of salt and two half-naked girls … that’s how grits were served this past Saturday at the Nasty Productions White Trash party. The Visulite Theater hosted this Fifth Annual event and there couldn’t have been a more perfect setting … other than an actual trailer park somewhere not even listed on a map, maybe.
On one side of the bar was a pool of grits and on the other was the White Hammer game where the objective was to dangle a hammer from your crotch and try to get a hole in one with the golf ball. You might be a redneck if...
I’ve come to the conclusion that being single these days is like the state of the current economy – but with all these new places opening throughout Charlotte, come new faces.
But it doesn’t really matter where you go – you’re going to meet people there, some of which will be tools trying to nail you with bad pick up lines.
Like these...
One night at Cans, I made the mistake of wearing my Jessica Simpson’s Butterscotch lickable body lotion and a guy just walked up to me and took a bite out of my shoulder and told me I smelled like pancakes and made him hungry.
At the Sunset Club, this guy just threw his arm around my waist and pulled me close to him. Like he was fishing and I was an unsuspecting goldfish or something. I wiggled my way free and he looked shocked, “Do you not know who I am?” he asked.
“Am I supposed to?”
“Be gone,” he told me. “You’ll find out by the end of the night.”
I still have no idea who that guy was, other than a guy with seriously bad game. But I’m sure there are girls out there who fall for that... don’t be that girl, or guy for that matter.
According to the book “The Game” by Neil Strauss, the most successful method of picking up women is to insult them and scrutinize their insecurities. A “neg” will not only get their attention, but possibly them. Because the good guy always finishes last, after all. Why is that ladies?... and how can we make it stop? But sometimes great people pop up in the most unsuspecting places. I met the last guy I dated that didn’t suck while judging a bikini contest at Whisky River.
I used to think that I was flypaper for tools, but I've come to the conclusion that it's only the tools with overinflated egos that use those pick-up lines. But if you're out looking for a tool - look no further, there will be one at Forum on Wednesday night ... as if there weren't enough tools in Charlotte as is, we had one shipped in.
But as for the economy, I have a theory…. if Brittney Spears can make a come back, well, so can the economy.
… 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
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.
Mobile
