It's Not The Ol' Harry O's, But This Long-Time Dive Is The Place to be for the Stanley Cup Final in LA's South Bay Beach Cities Oh, for the days of Harry O's. Not just for its status as one of the South Bay's all-time great pick-up bars, but also as a place to watch hockey. Watch hockey? In Los Angeles? In the South Bay Beach Cities!? Well don't adjust your computer … [Read more...]
Archives for May 2012
Hermosa Beach Fiesta Hermosa 2012 Photos
Sunshine, Bands, Beer and Beach Volleyball Combine to Make A Festive Memorial Day Weekend The sun was out and so were the people. A three-day weekend at one of the top beaches in Los Angeles always means a good time, but add the elements of Memorial Day and perfectly sunny mid-70-degree weather and the people were out to enjoy the holiday and great weather. A top … [Read more...]
San Francisco’s Gold Dust Lounge Not Dust Yet
Legendary Union Square Bar Relocating to Fisherman's Wharf There's dust the floor and dust on the hands of the Handlery Hotels for forcing out a bar that's as iconic to some locals as the Golden Gate Bridge. But the Gold Dust Lounge is not dust. It's simply relocating. In a move cheered by many, the legendary Union Square bar on Powell Street – which will be replaced … [Read more...]
Lake Travis In Austin, Texas Is A Top Memorial Day Party Destination
Looking for a place to party for Memorial Day? Or Labor Day? Want to find a place that's a wild three-day weekend that's somewhat off the beaten tourist path, where hot locals know to go to party? Then look no further than Lake Travis. Yes, lakes are awesome spots to be for holiday weekends. Boats, brews, hot babes and more dudes without shirts than beer cans in … [Read more...]
Nikki Sixx Throwing Out First Pitch at Dodgers Game
Mötley Crüe and Sixx:A.M Rock Star Takes To The Mound At Dodger Stadium Nikki Sixx will be throwing a baseball toward "Home Sweet Home" on Sunday, May 27, and that may drive the "Girls, Girls, Girls" into a frenzy. Sixx, the founding member and bassist of Mötley Crüe and Sixx:A.M., will be throwing out the first pitch at the Los Angeles Dodgers-Houston Astros game at … [Read more...]
Meet The Bud Light Girls During Fiesta Hermosa Beach
Girls Doing Bar Promotions On the Pier During Memorial Day The beach party just got even better. The Bud Light girls will be on the Hermosa Beach Pier during Fiesta Hermosa, doing promos in the bars. They will be giving out Mardi Gras beads and mingling with bar patrons for four hours on Saturday, May 26. They will be on the Pier from 1-5, making the rounds at Sharkeez, … [Read more...]
Miss USA Contestants Are Out on the Town in Vegas
Miss California, Miss New Jersey And Miss New York Combine For Stanley Cup Photo They don't have bruises, black eyes and are not missing any teeth. And when it comes to body checks, well that's something different entirely. But hockey and the Stanley Cup Finals were on the minds of PR people for the Miss USA contest when they posed Miss California, Miss New Jersey and … [Read more...]
James Hinchcliffe On Pole Of 10 Friendliest Indy 500 2019 Drivers
Seeking Someone To Cheer For In This Year's Race? Look No Further Than These 'Good Guys of IndyCar' By Kevin Wilkerson, Pubclub.com Sports Blogger Don't know whom to cheer for during this year's Indianapolis 500? Not familiar with the names, don't know the drivers? You want to root for someone who's cool, nice and, in general, a good guy, right? Not some jerk … [Read more...]
Memorial Day Music Festival at Lulu’s in Mobile, AL
Band Bonanza Happening At The Gulf Shores Bar Of Jimmy Buffett's Sister A few days after Jimmy Buffett opened his new Margaritaville restaurant bar and casino in Biloxi, his sister is hosting another party on the Gulf Coast. Lulu's, in Gulf Shores, AL, is holding what it calls "LuLuPalooza" on Memorial Day Weekend. It's a two-day band bonanza fearing a series of New … [Read more...]
Young Dubliners and Fishbone to Rock Topanga Days 2012
Memorial Day Party in LA's Topanga Canyon Steps It Up With Popular Bands for 2012 I did a double-take when I looked at the music lineup for Topanga Days, the annual Memorial Day event in Los Angeles. It features not only the Young Dubliners but also Fishbone. On the same day! This is an incredible lineup, especially considering this isn't a massive music festival, but … [Read more...]
Jimmy Buffett Live at Margaritaville Biloxi Opening
Radio Margaritaville Broadcasting Buffett's Live Show From the New Casino, Restaurant & Bar Parrotheads not fortunate enough to be at the opening of the new Margaritaville Biloxi Casino & Restaurant (also featuring a bar on the water) can eavesdrop on the happenings through Radio Margaritaville. Jimmy Buffett's internet radio station is broadcasting his live … [Read more...]
Ocean Bar Hermosa Beach Summer Sundays Are Back
'Sol Sundays' Are Vegas Without The Pools At Bar's Upstairs Deck If you didn't know better, you might think for a second you were transplanted to Rehab or some other rocking pool party in Las Vegas. There's people in bikinis and swim trunks (or shorts and sandals), the place is packed, drinks are flowing and a DJ is pumping house music. Except there's no pool. There is … [Read more...]
Big Bear Hosts Good Amgen Tour Festival Party
Bikes And Beers Meet at the Summit of Snow Summit in Southern California The 2012 Amgen Tour of California did not exactly roll into Big Bear Lake, CA, on a gorgeous Friday afternoon in mid-May (May 16, to be specific). It turned, it twisted and it climbed up highways 330 and 18, which have more curves than the PubClubettes. For the competitors, it ended with an … [Read more...]
Budweiser Back at Indy With Target Chip Ganassi Racing
Graham Rahal So Happy About Sponsorship He Tweeted It A Week Before The Official Announcement Back in 1986, Bobby Rahal won the Indianapolis 500 in a Budweiser-sponsored car. In 2012 his son hopes to do the same. The King of Beers is back at the King of American races, as Budweiser will place the King Of Beers logo on Graham Rahal's No.38 Service Central Honda for the … [Read more...]
Sevierville, TN Is The New Bachelorette Destination
It's Not Vegas But Adventures In The Great Smoky Mountains Make It A Good Place To Bond With the Bride Ladies, why go to Vegas for your bachelorette party when you can be in Sevierville, TN!? Pass on Sin City and go to instead in Dolly Parton's hometown? Well guess what, it's happening. Sevierville, TN, pressed up against the Great Smoky Mountains an hour from … [Read more...]
It’s Now 5 O’Clock Somewhere in Biloxi’s Margaritaville
Jimmy Buffett Returns to Gulf Coast With Bar, Restaurant and Casino on The Back Bay Jimmy Buffett has made another Pascagoula Run. Except this time, he stopped in Biloxi. The Gulf Coast native has opened the Margaritaville Casino and Restaurant Biloxi – grand opening is Tuesday, May 22 – proving that yes, you can go home again (wonder of cousin Baxter will be there for … [Read more...]
On The Rocks Promises to Go Off In Las Vegas
Multi-Day Event To Feature DJs at 30 Nightclubs, Happy Hour Parties & A Beer Festival Nov. 9-11 You think you've partied hard in Vegas before, just wait until On the Rocks takes place. It's the first multi-day entertainment and beverage festival in Sin City, and it features Happy Hour parties, bands, a beer festival and the S.K.A.M. Artist Fan Festival, a DJ-driven … [Read more...]
You Bastards! Alabama Bans Sale of Dirty Bastard Beer
Who Are The Real Bastards Here, the State of Alabama's ABC Board or the Brewers Who Named Their Beer? Both, Really You can be a Fat Bastard or a Raging Bitch in the state of Alabama, but not a Dirty Bastard. That's because the board of the ABC Stores has rejected the sale of the latter, a beer, because it finds the name objectionable. Fat Bastard is okay because it's a … [Read more...]
The Nightlife Blogger: Baja Cantina, The Demise of an LA Legend
Once-Happening Sunday Venice and Marina del Rey Bar An Empty Taco Shell of Its Former Self By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Nightlife Blogger I should be at Baja Cantina in Marina del Rey, CA, right now instead of writing this blog. Having a margarita, chatting it up with friends and strangers. Loading up on the chips and salsa because I want the party to … [Read more...]
Lakers Playoff Win A Relief to LA Sports Bars
Bar Owners, Managers, Bartenders and Waitresses Are Cheering The Lakers Advancing in NBA Playoffs As Much as Fans That cheer – and sigh of relief – you heard from the LA Lakers finally beating Denver in Game 7 of the first round of the NBA Playoffs was not from Laker fans. It was from owners, managers, bartenders and waitresses of Los Angeles' sports bars. Had the Lakers … [Read more...]
Monterey, CA’s Restaurant 1833 Has a Happening Nightlife Bar Scene
Hidden Upscale Gem Has a Large Drink Selection, Awesome Cheddar & Bacon Biscuits And Looks Like New Orleans By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Nightlife Blogger Did I make wrong turn and wind up in New Orleans? Am I walking in downtown Monterey or in the French Quarter? While there's little similarity to Alvarado Street and Bourbon Street, there is a place … [Read more...]
Critiquing Happy Hour at Monterey’s Montrio Bistro
Highly-Regarded Restaurant Popular Among Locals for Its Drinks and Tasty Appetizers 7 Days A Week One good thing about drinking wine, as I was at the Terranova Fine Wines tasting room in Monterey, CA, is that when you start talking with people they offer suggestions of place where you can, well, drink even more wine. And so that is how I found myself at Montrio Bistro. I … [Read more...]
Amgen Tour Spectators Get Festivals & Beer Gardens
Big Bear Finishes Stage 6 Strong With A Party at Snow Summit's Finish Line I've always wanted to go to the Tour de France. The thought of sitting at a roadside cafe in a small French town in the countryside, nibbling on a baguette and having a glass of wine as the world's greatest cyclists roll through is quite appealing to me. Then packing up and going to the next … [Read more...]
New Orleans Wine & Food Experience Has Many Events
The 20th Annual Event is May 22-26 And Includes A Wine Tasting Stroll Down Royal Street When one normally thinks of New Orleans – and the French Quarter in particular – they think of Bourbon Street, Mardi Gras and JazzFest. And for good reason; those are all good reasons to go to and play in the Big Easy. But the city also has other more refined places and events, and … [Read more...]
Giving The Ole Smoky Moonshine The ‘Ol Taste Test
It's Down the Hatch With The Tennessee Hootch By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Nightlife Blogger One friend approached cautiously, as if it were a pretty girl he wanted to meet, while another dived right in as if it were a swimming pool on a hot August day in Knoxville. Me? I took a shot. We were tasting moonshine. Hootch. Good 'ol Mountain Dew. None of us … [Read more...]
Credence Clearwater Revisited Headlines MN Festival
Two-Day Lakefront Music Fest Also Features Travis Tritt July 13-14 Fans of Credence Clearwater Revivial will be rolling down to the river this summer as the band's modern-day edition, called Credence Clearwater Revisited, plays the Lakefront Music Fest in Prior Lake, MN. The two-day event is July 13-14 and features Grammy winning country singer Travis Tritt on the 13th … [Read more...]
Drink Beers And Help A Military Family’s College Student
Pints of Pale 31 To Help Raise Money For The Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation Drink up and help a military family member go to college. Now that's something worthy of a cheers or two. Barney's Beanery sports bars in Los Angeles has toasted glasses with Firestone Walker Brewing Company to create Boot Camp Beer, a program that donates 50 cents from the sale of each pint … [Read more...]
Music Festival Seeks Band to Open For Huey Lewis
Omaha's Bank Of the West Celebrates America Concert & Fireworks Show Taking Audition Tapes If you're in a band that thinks it's the Heart of Rock 'n Roll, Then This is It. The Bank of the West Celebrates America concert and fireworks show, taking place June 29 in Omaha, Nebraska, is taking audition tapes from bands that want to serve as the opening act at … [Read more...]
Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin to Play at Vegas Caesars
Performance Set for Sunday, July 15 With Tickets on Sale May 11 The Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, is ready to rock The Colosseum at Caesars Palace with a show on Sunday, July 15. She will be joined by special guest Jonathan Slocumb. She has just released a "Best of Aretha Franklin 1980-1998" CD that includes Jumping Jack Flash with Keith Richards and It's Isn't, It Wasn't, … [Read more...]
This Rocky Top Moonshine Still Is Open to the Public
Ole Smoky Moonshine Opens Tasting Room in Gatlinburg in the Great Smoky Mountains Once two strangers climbed 'ol Rocky Top, Lookin' for a moonshine still. Strangers ain't come down from Rocky Top, Reckon they never will. That lyric from the unofficial theme song of East Tennessee and the University of Tennessee is meant to imply that a couple of unwelcome intruders … [Read more...]
Brooklyn’s Northside Festival Features 350 Indie Bands
More Than 30 Bars and Venues in Williamsport And Greenpoint Host 4th Annual Music Festival June 14-21 Summer music festivals take place throughout America and there's a big one in Brooklyn happening June 9-12. It's called the Northside Festival and it features more than 350 bands playing at local music venues, bars and other locations throughout Williamsport and … [Read more...]
Greece Financial Crisis Won’t Slow Greek Islands Party
Partying This Summer Not a Problem in Greek Islands of Ios, Mykonos and Santorini The on-going financial crisis in Greece looks bad on TV. There are people rioting, the political system seems to be in shambles and it appears to be a place to avoid rather than to seek out when seeking a fun summer party place. But that's in Athens. Not the islands. And the islands will … [Read more...]
Beyonce Adds Fourth Memorial Day Weekend Show at Revel
New Atlantic City Beachfront Resort Goes Big on Opening Holiday; Special Ticket Preview Sale is Friday, May 11 Her first public concert since last summer has turned into a series of concerts. Beyonce has added a fourth show after the first three ones sold out in minutes, at the new Revel Beach in Atlantic City, N.J. Beyonce's shows, which will be in the resort's Ovation … [Read more...]
The 2012 Boonville Beer Festival is Saturday May 12
More Than 80 Craft Beers Greet Northern California Beer Drinkers The people will be pouring into a tiny no-stoplight Northern California town and the beer will be flowing on Saturday;, May 12, for the annual Boonville Beer Festival. Some arrive on a party bus from San Francisco – good idea – and others simply roll out of sleeping bags from the adjacent campground. Better … [Read more...]
Sunday Brunch With Bottomless Mimosas Is Good Bar Business
Every Bar and Restaurant Should Offer Bottomless Mimosas on Weekends By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Nightlife Blogger Where I live, and where I travel, one thing I always love is a champagne brunch. Consider me a product of my environment. Where I live – the Manhattan and Hermosa Beach area – this is as common as sunshine. As regular as the waves. As … [Read more...]
Muckey Duck Monterey, CA Improves Crowd & Atmosphere
One-Time Favorite Bar in Downtown Monterey On Its Way to Its Past Fun Glory My favorite bar for a long time in Monterey was the Mucky Duck. Oddly named, yes, but it more than a pond full of fun. It was two places in one, an English pub in front with good food and a patio in the back. A true "PubClub" of a place in gentle area of the middle California coast. One of my … [Read more...]
American Junkie Is Hermosa Beach’s New Hot Bar
Great Location, Big Patio, Big-Time Happy Hour and Super Service Make The Former Sangria an Instant Player in The South Bay Beach Cities Nightlife Here's how to have a successful bar. 1.) Be sure it's in a great location with a built-in crowd. 2.) Hire a friendly staff that can smile even if the bar is packed in the early days of opening. 3.) If you're in a place that … [Read more...]
What’s Your Fun Party: Kentucky Derby, JazzFest, Cinco de Mayo
May 5, 2012 Brings A Trio of Great Beer-Drinking Events, Led By the Run For the Roses One of America's great party scenes is the Kentucky Derby. It's the first Saturday of May and the infield is, as PubClub.com reports, "absolute chaos!" So who would not want to be in Louisville!? But there is another option. And it, too, involves being hammered at the infield of a … [Read more...]
Kentucky Derby Party in Los Angeles
Can't Make the Run for the Roses? The University of Louisville Alumni Are Holding An Event in Southern California The 138th running of the Kentucky Derby takes place on Saturday, May 5, and for those in Southern California not consumed by Cinco de Mayo, the transplanted University of Louiville alumni if Los Angeles are having a house party. It's in North Tustin near Santa … [Read more...]
Craft Beers To Go at Peter B’s Brewery Monterey, CA
With Wines and Wineries Becoming A Local Bragging Source A Craft Brewery Is Making Its Mark on the Monterey Peninsula Walk in with a thirst and walk out with a craft brewed beer. That's a pretty common practice among craft breweries, but it's unique in this part of the U.S.A., Monterey, the beautiful small town on the coast of California just up from Pebble Beach. In an … [Read more...]