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Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Live Reviews / QC After Dark P.M. Mayhem
Posted By Brittney Cason on Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 12:04 PM
Yesterday was a national holiday ...
The birthday of Jacinda from Brotha Fred’s A.M. Mayhem on 96.1 The Beat. You know “Jacinda with the Sleazy, Jacinda with the Sleaze” (cue David L singing the jingle) ... but last night her theme song was “Happy Birthday” (or the lyric from 50 Cent’s "In Tha Club" rather: “GO GO GO Go Shorty, it’s your birthday, we gonna party like it’s your birthday!”)
So to embark on the celebration of National Jacinda Day, Brotha Fred’s A.M. Mayhem had a V.I.P dinner for her ... at Red Lobster.
Monday, June 9, 2008
Photos / Live Reviews / QC After Dark Live Review: CMA Fest
Posted By Brittney Cason on Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 3:10 PM
CMA Fest
Nashville, Tenn.
June 5-8, 2008
The Deal: The Country Music Association Festival took over Nashville last week the way NASCARnival takes over Charlotte. Just about every country music star performed at some point over the weekend; it was the Bonnaroo of country music. Meanwhile, The Nashville Convention Center was like a career fair
for striving country artists and a country fair for country music fans. There were redneck games like fake logging and oil drilling, karaoke and long lines of autograph seekers trying to get a sharpie scribble from their favorite artist. As for the strip of Nashville during the CMA Fest...remember Speed Street? Kinda like that, but sans the turkey leg stands serving cheesecake on a stick.
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Live Reviews / QC After Dark Redneck Scavenger Hunt at Speed Street
Posted By Brittney Cason on Tue, May 27, 2008 at 2:50 PM
Speed Street, for lack of better terms, is interesting. They set up a bunch of turkey leg and fried food stands up in Uptown and have one big party that includes a varied roster concerts ranging from country to R&B to rock, NASCAR driver appearances and free shit. Kind of like a county fair.
We went to see Gary Allen down on one side of Uptown and in turn decided to have a redneck scavenger hunt.
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Live Reviews / QC After Dark EA Sports...'Get in the Game!' (or party)
Posted By Brittney Cason on Thu, May 22, 2008 at 2:27 PM
They say, “Get in the Game!” but the EA Sports launch party for the 2009 NASCAR video game at Whisky River last night was not easy to get into.
My friend, Larken, who is like the mayor of Uptown Charlotte called me and asked me if I could get him a ticket because his favorite band, P.O.D., was performing and he’d exhausted all his resources. Even the owner of BMG couldn’t get him in. I didn’t know there was a private party going on (perhaps why it was private), let alone have a ticket.
Lucky for Larken, I happened to have met someone on a production I worked on with Dale Earnhardt Jr. that works within PR for JR Motorsports that knows I write for Creative Loafing. I just sent him a text and I was in like Flynn.
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
QC After Dark Baar Wars results
Posted By Brittney Cason on Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 3:37 PM
To do my part for AIDS Walk Charlotte 2008, I volunteered upon invitation to be a judge for Baar Wars, the battle of the bartenders that went down last night at Alley Cat. As it turned out, my call to duty was to sample 57 different cocktails.
"Celebrity" (using the term loosely in regards to myself) judges included my fellow paid partier (but for the Observer) Sarah Aarthun, Brotha Fred of 96.1 The Beat's Morning Mayhem and FOX News Edge, as well as NASCAR driver Denny Hamlin. Upon realizing how many cocktails we were ordained to consume, Sarah Aarthun and I looked at each other in fright and made the executive decision to chug water in order to prepare our livers for the irreparable damage we were about to cause to it.
Using our superior taste buds and not so high tolerance, we judged Best Martini, Best Shot, Best Vodka Cocktail and Best Red Bull Cocktail. We scored from one to 10, one being "yuk" and 10 being "awesome."
Now, I am 5' 2" and weigh about a buck-20 with like 11 percent body fat — and I rarely (if ever) drink liquor. Thus, I am the epitome of a lightweight. It takes a mere two beers to get me drunk; I was inebriated by like the tenth sip. Correction, I bypassed drunk and went straight to stupid.
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
QC After Dark Whisky River opens
Posted By Brittney Cason on Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 2:02 PM
Since when did Tuesday become Booze-day?
There were more people at Whisky River last night than there were on Saturday.
There was the soft opening on Friday, the grand opening on Saturday, and then last night was Dale Earnhardt Jr’s V.I.P grand opening. And according to my NASCAR buddy, Jr. has another V.I.P opening tonight, and then there’s another grand opening on April 17.
In case you didn’t get the memo – Whisky River in the EpiCentre is now open.
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