... well I am going to give it to you.
...as in tickets to Budweiser and Kasey Kahne's One Night Stand concert at Coyote Joe's featuring Eric Church. So, if you want to go to Church for the One Night Stand, I have 10 tickets compliments of WSOC 103.7.
All you have to do is e-mail me at brittney.cason@creativeloafing.com and tell me who you want to win this weekend at our home track.
If you don't win the tickets to Kasey's concert, but you're into stalking NASCAR superstars - you can still see another Casey. Casey Mears will be at Hooter's Uptown tonight from 6 - 9 p.m. with Jack Daniel's.
First Enso opened up in the EpiCentre, then Room 112 magically (or quietly rather) opened tucked in the corner of Trade and Tryon.
And now, Fiji and Kashmir are opening where Feast and Liv use to have a HOM. That's Fiji Sushi Bar and Lounge — not to be confused with Fujo Asian Bistro and Sushi Bar in One Wachovia Building.
Kashmir Nightclub and Fiji Sushi Bar and Lounge are opening this weekend, Oct. 9 and 10, with a fashion show from Jordanos boutique on Saturday. The event will feature "surprise sponsors and celebrities"... which I'm guessing is still somewhat a surprise to them as well. I've heard a rumor that one of them is my bathroom buddy from a party at Sundance ... Paris Hilton. That's hot. And the liquor sponsor is Johnny Love Vodka. It's their launch party in North Carolina this weekend as well.
Within this sushi club is the Zen Lounge, exclusive for VIP Gold Card members. But this card has more perks than just a roped off room. According to manager Chandler Alan Beal, the gold card members will have full-out concierge services. Wednesday-Friday from 5-7 p.m. gold card members get fed and their first beverage free - and there will be a massage therapist available. They also have WiFi, should you want to access the Internet at happy hour. Random... but nice nontheless.
And according to a press release: T1 Visions will be unveiling a demo of its patent-pending T1 Connection BoothTM system, an electronic touch surface incorporated into a conventional lounge table that will allow customers in the VIP room to control audio and visual content in the room, including choosing songs, photographs, music videos and internet content from either a local database or their own portable devices. This will be the first use of the T1 Connection BoothTM Technology in a night club setting.
In laymen terms ... there will be touch screen table tops
Oh, and the sushi is said to be good.
Want a VIP Gold Card? ... well you are golden because I am giving one away. Just e-mail me at brittney.cason@creativeloafing.com and tell me your favorite sushi place in Charlotte ... because I can't decide. First e-mail to hit my crackberry wins.
Meanwhile, for Halloween Kashmir and Fiji are teaming up with ELEVATE Lifestyle Magazine for "Nightmare on 5th Street" ... the lift the curse party.
By Tiffany Handy
Guys, I am about to impart some knowledge to you that will save both your dating life and your wallet. With this knowledge, you can quit acting like you enjoy being single because you can’t afford to date. I have a list of various date ideas that will not cost you more than $30 ... in total!
Though I don’t necessarily enjoy frequenting the dentist like I do, say, a happy hour, I have never missed a cleaning — every time I’ve gone to the dentist in the past 10 years or so, they’ve made me take more X-rays than necessary to jack up my bill, given me a lecture about flossing while polishing my teeth, told me I don’t have any cavities, then gave me a free toothbrush and sent me on my way. But despite the fact they took all those X-rays, they apparently never actually read them ... at least not correctly because last week I stopped by my friend Kelly's new practice and she showed me my X-rays - and even I could see with my naked, non-dental school educated eye, that there was something inside my teeth that shouldn't be ... cavities, lots and lots of cavities.
The silver fillings I got as a child from drinking well water sans fluoride and eating one too many Pixie Stix leaked creating 11, I repeat 11 cavities over the years … So how is it that four other dentists - two in Charlotte, one in New York City and one in Virginia overlooked the cavities hidden under my fillings? I guess Dr. Kelly and Micheal Wilson of SouthEnd Dentistry are just better!
And ... they make going to the dentist like happy hour – literally, there is a happy hour at SouthEnd Dentistry this Friday starting at 6 p.m. They are having an open house (and open bar, as well as a catered buffet) to showcase their new practice — said practice that saved my smile. Located right above the Wine Loft in you guessed it, SouthEnd (hence the name). Thus, you can make a night of it at the Wine Loft, or one of the many new nightlife features in SouthEnd including the Common Market and Dharma Lounge.
Whereas most people need an agent to get on TV... you just need a beer.
Bud Light is casting for their Tailgate Approved commercial. Who knows, this could be your big break ... beer break at least.
The casting call (or party rather) is Friday, Sept. 11, at the Bud Light Prowl Party at the EpiCentre Pavilion from 6-9 p.m.
The "audition" will entail a Bud Light Locker Room Challenge for the Ladies and a Skills Competition for the Men. 20 casting candidates (yes, 20 - therefore your odds are pretty good) will qualify and win tickets to the Panthers vs. Eagles game, passes to the Bud Light Tailgate Port-a-Party, and a chance to get shot ... with a camera.
You don't even need a headshot ... just two forms of ID (stating that you're 25 or older).
The commercial will be filmed on Sunday, Sept.13, 2009 at the Bud Light Tailgate on the Corner of Mint and Morehead at 9:30 a.m. and air on the Jumbotron during Panthers games throughout the season.
Say cheese! ... or CHEERS rather.
Bar Management Group (BMG) has so much new nightlife news, they need a newsletter. So I am taking the liberty of writing it for them … in order to inform you.
According to Bob Durkin, the president of BMG:
• The grand opening weekend of Enso begins Aug. 27. He also turned down my offer of coming with a cowboy hat, tambourine, and boa singing “don’t you wish your girlfriend was raw like sushi” like Joanna, the owner of Nikko
• Come January a Blackfinn will be opening in Phillips Place
And popping open in February at the EpiCentre is the Bubble Lounge, which is going in next to Revolution. It has a similar concept as that of the old Bubble Room at Hom. Memberships will be required for the Bubble Lounge. And not the 3-day memberships required by the ALE, but real memberships like the Sunset Club. It will essentially be the VIP section of the entire EpiCentre.
And Town Tavern is opening this weekend…
I have 10 tickets to their VIP grand opening Thursday night and 10 for their public grand opening on Friday for you … you know what to do. Just e-mail me. brittney.cason@creativeloafing.com
Also, in other news … I hear they’re enforcing a new law that when a Michael Jackson song comes on at a bar, you have to dance, out of respect — kinda like taking your hat off when the National Anthem is being played. OK, I made that one up.
They call Jersey the armpit of America, but now there’s a reason to get excited about Jersey — or at least some of the boys in it ... Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. The Jersey Boys aren’t coming to Charlotte until March 31, 2010, but the Charlotte theater community is already more excited about their arrival than the kids are about Santa’s.
The Blumenthal Performing Arts Center hosted an event to preview the highly requested and praised show, The Jersey Boys — the story about Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. Some of the members of one of the Boston touring casts came down on their day off to do a Q&A — and in the audience sat the family of Charlottean Jonathan Hadley, who plays Bob Crew. He went from the stage at Myers Park High School to the Broadway stage. He said coming from North Carolina, it was hard for him to get the Jersey accent. I imagine it’s hard to go from elongating every syllable in words to swallowing them. That and dropping F bombs like they’re going to war. Charlotte Squaks' Mike Collins, who played host of the event, said that at the Raleigh show there was signage warning about the “Jersey language.”
Meanwhile, Blumenthal knows how to throw a party; the event was catered with a buffet of hors d'oeuvres — chocolate-covered strawberries and Sherry Baby cocktails made from Stoli-berry flavored vodka.
(And may I just say that hors d'oeuvres might just be the weirdest spelled words, second to rendezvous. I always want to say ren-dez-vous as opposed to ron-day-voo. Let’s just say I never won a spelling bee.)
Anyway ... I have the soundtrack for Jersey Boys and the book of their story up for grabs. Just e-mail me and sing me a Four Seasons song in font. brittney.cason@creativeloafing.com
Other shows coming up at Blumenthal Performing Arts Center …
Since Blackfinn opened, it has become the most consistently crowded spot in the EpiCentre for its ability to transition back and forth from sports bar to dance bar. It’s become a battleground for ACC teams — and where I as a Hokie spent my game days. And considering I saw some of their bartenders at Target buying what looks like nurse shoes as part of their uniform, it’s not sex they’re selling … it’s the atmosphere (and lots of beer).
Well this Friday they are turning 1 and we’re all invited to their big birthday party. And one lucky reader is invited to utilize my personal invite to Blackfinn’s Anniversary invite-only party from 5 p.m.–7 p.m. with complimentary cocktails and hors d’oeuvrves. Did I mention free drinks?
But you have to be on the list ....
Just e-mail me at brittney.cason@creativeloafing.com with the subject line “GO HOKIES!” and you’re in like Flynn.
Creative Loafing's Best Of Charlotte issue comes out today, and tomorrow we honor those who won ... with an invitation-only reception at the Levine Museum of the New South from 6 p.m.- 9 p.m. and the Readers' Picks' after-party at Madison's starting at 9 p.m. that is open to the public.
The party at the Levine is invite-only, but I have an invite for you ...
I am giving away two tickets to the VIP reception so that you may sample some of the best restaurants in Charlotte, listen to the best DJs and mingle with the best of the best. The party is benefiting Hands On Charlotte as the invite requires a donation of a school supply. I went on a shopping spree for school supplies so I'll even cover your cover. Although school supplies are so cheap, you can fill an entire backpack for $20 ... just saying.
The first person to e-mail me at brittney.cason@creativeloafing.com and tell me who you voted for as the best bar in Charlotte wins.
OK so, Charlotte is not a big enough market to get an actual, real deal, movie premiere - not even for movies like Leatherheads and Talladega Nights, which were filmed here. But that doesn't mean we can't have our own red carpet gala in our plush new EpiCentre Theater, equipped with a red carpet entrance lined with the Transformer cars - and an after party with Las Vegas' D.J. Five following at Mez. The point is to make our own market bigger so that we're seen as one ... and as with red carpets and celebrities - if you roll it, they will come.
So why don't you come, cheers with cinematic cocktails!
Transformers comes out in theaters today, but the premiere event is this Friday, June 26 ... and I have V.I.P passes for the 7:10 p.m. showing to the first person that e-mails me at brittney.cason@creativeloafing.com wins ... extra points for anyone that humors me by saying I look like Megan Fox - just so I can pretend. (That was a joke)
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