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Thursday, November 6, 2008
Photos / Live Reviews / QC After Dark / News Pirate Pics
Posted By Brittney Cason on Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 12:00 PM
If you read my most recent column in CL: Waving your Freak Flag Proudly at Snug Harbor’s Shiprocked, then you know about the pirate ship of Plaza-Midwood — Snug Harbor and its Thursday Shiprocked. Well, since it’s one of those, “you have to see it” kind of events, I have provided the visuals to go with my column.
The Shiprocked! Crew photo by Frank Balthazar.
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
QC After Dark / News Where were you when history was made?
Posted By Brittney Cason on Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 6:24 PM
Where were you when history was made last night? ... I was at the Generation Engage “Best Damn Election Party” at ALIVE in NoDa where MSNBC national news was reporting live.
The party had drinks for the different parties: Republican and Democrat. The Democratic cocktail consisted of Rum, Blue Curacao and Triple Sec (blue) while the Republican included Rum, Pineapple and Cranberry juice (red).
Let’s just say I saw more blue drinks than red at this party. It seems as if all of America went from Red, White and Blue to just Red vs. Blue.
This election was like the American Olympics; the entire country got into it like they do with NFL play-offs. As the votes were tabulated state to state, electoral to popular, I found myself looking towards the television asking, “What’s the score?”
Friday, October 31, 2008
Live Reviews / QC After Dark / News Old Kids on the Block
Posted By Brittney Cason on Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 10:05 AM
The first concert I ever went to in my life was New Kids on the Block and Tiffany. For my ninth birthday my mom got me front-row tickets and a Joey McIntyre t-shirt — that I of course wore to the concert. But all I really remember is the older, teenager sitting next to me that fainted on me because Donnie made eye contact with her. 17 years later, I found myself attending a NKOTB concert ... and girls are still fainting.
I went to their concert last night at Time Warner Cable Arena to be nostalgic, but quickly learned that’s hard to do when you don’t remember most of the songs. I felt like my row was the only ones that didn’t know the lyrics. The arena was packed from the floor to the upper level with women my age or older wearing buttons, t-shirts that read “Property of Donnie,” holding posters and singing along. And I thought I was obsessed! I grew out of my Joey shirt, replaced my posters with Jewel ones, and retired my twin NKOTB bed set that I had on my bunk bed.
I couldn’t help but wonder — Where did all these New Kids on the Block fans come from?
There were so many girls there, the men’s restrooms were converted into lady’s rooms.
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
QC After Dark / News Treats and tricks...
Posted By Brittney Cason on Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 11:55 AM
Would anyone like some treats with their tricks?
I remember in my childhood Halloween use to mean playing dress up, trick-or-treating and visiting pumpkin patches to carve pumpkins and make homemade pumpkin pie. But now, as an adult, Halloween has transformed into “Dress Like a Slut Night.” Someone has apparently appointed Halloween as the one night girls can go out wearing less clothes than a stripper without other girls hating on them.
And when selecting a costume they just throw slutty or sexy in front of it... Slutty nurse, sexy devil, slutty Girl Scout, sexy cop. I tried the slut thing, a few years ago I went out as a slutty referee and realized I did not enjoy going out half naked — it’s cold in October. Perhaps someone should consider moving “Dress Like a Slut Night” to a summer month.
This year Halloween falls on a Friday, making it a Halloweekend. Although Halloween parties seem to go on throughout the entire month of October, below is a list of the parties just on the 31st...
Friday, October 24, 2008
QC After Dark / News Live...from New York
Posted By Brittney Cason on Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 3:05 PM
I am in a New York state of mind...Perhaps because I am sitting on a Jet Blue flight relishing in the fact I didn’t have to pay to check my luggage and enjoying my free soda and snacks.
I was up in NYC for an interview on MAXIM Radio on Sirius Satellite for the Stretch show.
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Live Reviews / QC After Dark / News Making TRACES at Spirit Square
Posted By Brittney Cason on Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 3:18 PM
A different kind of circus has come to town... As in TRACES, which is now showing at Blumenthal’s McGlohon Theatre at Spirit Square. Think Cirque du Soleil meets Stomp meets Rent.
I actually went to see TRACES with a girl who’s been to Cirque du Soleil in Vegas and claims that TRACES was in fact better due to the real life applications of the performances. The cast consists of some of the most athletic and acrobatic actors in theater. At one point, I wondered if the actors even had bones. I thought I was flexible because I can do the splits, but these actors were tumbling, twisting, leaping, climbing, spinning and extending their bodies in ways I didn’t know a human body could move. And they did so using basketballs, skateboards, pianos, chairs, rings... and a catapult.
Friday, October 17, 2008
QC After Dark / News Another EpiCentre opening...
Posted By Brittney Cason on Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 11:14 AM
Tonight is the Grand Opening of PJ’s Coffee & Lounge.
To me PJ’s is the acronym for pajamas, but to Charlotte it’s the newest edition to the EpiCentre following the recent opening of Fleming’s Steakhouse.
(Speaking of Fleming’s – PJ’s is a little hard to find within the epic EpiCentre, so in order to help navigate your nightlife, I’ll go ahead an specify that it’s behind Fleming’s on the first floor).
PJ’s Coffee & Lounge is a place to go to wake up, chill out, and wine down – at least according to them. For someone can appreciate a coffee shop as much as a lounge, I went to check out this curious combination last night.
But the bar wasn’t so much combined as it was divided – half a coffee bar equip with a glass case of muffins and scones, and then the other half a wine stocked bar. Imagine if Starbucks and Press, Dolce Vita and Smelly Cat in NoDa, or even the two Dean& Deluca in Phillip’s Place were to have a merger….kinda like that.
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Photos / CD Reviews / QC After Dark / News Another scrapbook of shenanigans
Posted By Brittney Cason on Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 11:13 AM
Gold Medal wearing Olympic swimmer Aaron Peirsol taking in his first NASCAR race….for which he ordered the starting of gentlemen’s engines for the Bank of America 500
Some boobalicious mermaids at the Bud Light Party Cruise event at the EpiCentre’s Pavilion. The question of the evening: “How do you get a girl in body paint naked?” According to some dude - baby oil does the trick.
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
QC After Dark / News Lake Norman Sports Grille 'hard' opening
Posted By Brittney Cason on Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 5:41 PM
If you read my previous column "Finding new life up on the lake," then you know I’ve been making a lot of trips up and down I-77. Well, I just keep finding reasons to go up there…. for the nightlife.
Cason-Point: Last Thursday’s soft (as opposed to hard) opening of Lake Norman’s new sports bar…. Lake Norman Sports Grille.
Formerly Solace, this spot nestled within the Shops on the Green is owned and operated by the same guys who bring us Rusty Rudder. They’ve transformed their upscale tapas bar into an upscale sports bar… and just in time for football season. If Rusty Rudder is the Disney World of local bars, then this place is Disney Land for sports fans.
Thursday, October 2, 2008
QC After Dark / News Tales from Uptown’s new Breast-eraunt
Posted By Brittney Cason on Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 5:50 PM
Despite the controversy and pissed off conservative Charlotteans, Hooters opened an Uptown location last month on Trade Street, between Church and Tryon.
And I finally got a chance to check out the infamous home of wings and things (and by things I mean boobs) following the Panthers' game last Sunday.
There was a slight wait to get in considering it was game day and Hooters is hailed as a sports bar. So while we waited we checked out the Hooters Magazine and found some girls from Hickory and Gastonia representing.
We were seated under a sign that read: “Caution Blondes Thinking,” and given my overall dining experience there, I should’ve heeded the warning.
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