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Archives for July 2013
Oregon Brewers Festival Attracts 85,000 To Portland’s Craft Beer Party
Annual Beer-Lovers Event Sets Attendance Record Three words come to mind when it comes to the 2013 Oregon Brewers Festival held the weekend of July 24-28 in Portland: Wow, cheers, and darn! The wow is for the fact that it attracted 85,000 people this year. The cheers is for the organizers for putting on another great event and for setting an attendance record. The darn … [Read more...]
The Eagles To Open Up LA Forum As Revised Concert Venue
'History Of The Eagles' Tour Coming To Los Angeles In January The Madison Square Garden Company is not "Taking It Easy" when it opens up the Los Angeles Forum as a concert venue after a whopping $100 million renovation. The opening act is The Eagles, who are doing a three-night performance on Jan. 15, 17 and 18. It's part of the band's "History Of The Eagles" … [Read more...]
LA Forum To Have A Different Kind Of Showtime As A Concert Venue
Madison Square Garden Company Creating An Entertainment Icon To Rival Staples Center When I received a press release announcing that the Madison Square Garden Company is spending $100 million to revamp the once-fabulous Forum – where the LA Lakers created "Showtime" – as a concert venue, I did a double take. Could that be right!? One hundred million dollars!? Sure … [Read more...]
Not Every Night Is A Wild Night For The Party Bar Blogger
Revealing The Secret To Keeping Nightlife Fresh I'm sitting at home watching the Dodgers-Yankees game ( LA wins!) thinking of what I want to post on this blog. There's a few things floating around in m head – the Madison Square Garden company today announced it is investing a whopping $100 million in the Los Angeles Forum to make it a concert venue to rival … [Read more...]
The Red Room Taking Over Side Door in Manhattan Beach Bar Scene
New Downtown Nightlife Spot To Keep Same Cocktail Lounge Vibe When one door closes, another one opens, right? That's certainly the case with the Side Door lounge in Manhattan Beach. It has changed ownership – no more of Lou Giovannetti crooning his Frank Sinatra tunes on Sunday nights – but the new owners have told the PubClub.com blogger that they want to keep the same … [Read more...]
WSOBV Beach Volleyball Bud Light Beer Garden Bikinis & Babes
Bud Light Girls, Bikini Contest And A PubClubette Enhance The Party Scene When there was not action on the courts, there was plenty of it in the Bud Light beer garden at the inaugural World Series of Beach Volleyball, a week-long tournament held in Long Beach from July 22-28. There were two big, portable bars brought in just for the event, beer (of course) and a full bar … [Read more...]
World Series Of Beach Volleyball A True Beach Party Scene Review
Bud Light Beer Garden, World-Class Volleyball And 6-Man Make Event A Success The music pumped all day, the beer flowed, Team Magnum p.i., and Fletch were battling it out for the 6-man championship and there were lots of girls in bikinis and dudes in board shorts. One could not help but get a flashback to the prime days of the Manhattan Beach 6-man tournament, back … [Read more...]
Topanga Canyon Hosts 4th Annual Reggae Festival Pon The Mountain
LA's Largest Outdoor Reggae Music Event Is July 27 It makes sense that there would be at reggae festival in LA's Topanga Canyon. The two go together like dreadlocks and Jamaicans and guitars and guitar strings. Topanga Canyon is the lost-in-time 60's hippie hangout in the Malibu canyons, a place more laid back than even Southern California's famous beaches. This is the … [Read more...]
World Series Of Beach Volleyball Party Bus From Hermosa Beach
Beer On The Bus, A Beer Garden, Bikini Contest And Live Music Await In Long Beach There will be a party bus running from Hermosa Beach to Long Beach for the biggest beach party of the year. The event is the World Series of Beach Volleyball, an event featuring the planet's top pros in a USA-vs-the-world format, plus the fun weekend players from the South Bay in their own … [Read more...]
Disputing The Study That Says Mosquitoes More Prone To Bite Beer Drinkers
Rum Proves To Be Like Repellant In The British Virgin Islands If what the National Center for Biotechnology Information released is correct, then I had not better go camping. Step into the woods, go to warm and tropical climates or ever go back to my home in the South in the summertime. Because I would get eaten alive by mosquitoes. I would be their prime … [Read more...]
National Tequila Day July 24 Is Made For Margaritas And Madness
Each Year On July 24 It's Time To Toast The Alcohol That Makes Us Do The Wildest Things Fire up the blender and break out the shot glasses. It's National Tequila Day! Every year on July 24 it's time to toast the alcohol that makes us do the wildest things. I remember being fueled up on tequila in Baja, Mexico, when a group of us got a sudden inspiration and … [Read more...]
Reviewing Sunday Champagne Brunch At American Junkie Hermosa Beach
Good Food And Bottomless Mimosas And Bloody Marys For $15 One of the great things about living in the South Bay Beach Cities of Los Angeles is that our favorite bars on weekend nights like to lure us back the next morning (well late morning anyway). They do this by appealing to our basic daytime party necessities: Food and cheap drinks. Their bait is bottomless mimosas … [Read more...]
Smackfest 2013 Hermosa Beach A Fun And Calm Party
Costume Beach Volleyball Tournament A South Bay Singles Highlight The 20th annual Smackfest was like all the other ones, and that means one thing: FUN!!! The costume coed beach volleyball tournament, held July 20, filled up the sand south of the pier in Hermosa Beach, CA, and fulfilled people's expectations of a great time. There were players in chicken suits, grass … [Read more...]
Catalina Waterski Race Gets New Record In 2013 From Todd Haig
Southern California Skier Finishes In 49:32 And Wins For Record-Tying 11th Time Going from Long Beach to Catalina Island and back on water skis is accomplishment enough, but to do it in less than an hour is an incredible feat. Unless you are Todd Haig. The tall – and obviously thin – big-smiling and friendly professional water skier from Redlands, CA (that's about an … [Read more...]
Side Door Manhattan Beach Lounge Bar Changing Ownership
Last Weekend Of Lou Giovannetti is July 26-28 Lou's crooning on Sunday nights has been somewhat of a special secret of sorts to a small, by regular, group of loungers in Manhattan Beach, CA. They are not lounging on the beach when listening to Lou sing Frank Sinatra, but at the Side Door, a small bar and lounge tucked into a downtown corner at 9th Street and Manhattan … [Read more...]
Dave & Busters Introduces New Summertime Cocktails
Summerita, Stawberry Sangria And Miami Ice Made With Flavored Ice Cubes I had always thought of Dave & Busters as being the kind of place where you go to play those arcade games – air hockey! – you loved as a kid or while in high school, except now you can (legally) drink beers while doing it. I had never considered it the kind of place to go for cocktails. And … [Read more...]
Trump National Wine & Beer Festival 2013 Date is Aug. 25
Tickets Now On Sale For 5th Annual Event Featuring Craft Beers And California Wines Get out your smart phone, put in the date and set the reminder. The Trump National Wine & Beer Festival is Sunday, Aug. 25. Now in its fifth year, the Trump Wine & Beer Festival has become one of the top social events of the South Bay, as well as parts beyond. People go not just … [Read more...]
NYC Mexican Restaurants Using Devotion Vodka For Its Margaritas
Gluten-Free Food And Drinks Highlight Menu, But Is it San Francisco-Style Fare? I received a press release that left me thinking that the people involved are either really creative or those city folks in New York may not know a heck of a lot about Mexican food and margaritas. Without the benefit of being able to get "boots on the ground" and actually finding out … [Read more...]
Smackfest 2013 Hermosa Beach Party Events & Bars Schedule
Fun Beach Coed Volleyball Tournament Lasts All Week It's a full week of fun for one of the top social events of the South Bay in LA's Beach Cities. It's Smackfest week! There are drink specials at the bars (since Bud Light is prime event sponsor, expect a lot of specials on bottled and draft beers at the bars), free gear, prizes, and lots more. The team captains meeting … [Read more...]
Tiki Bar Drinks And Talking Tiki Bars With Frankie’s Tiki Room Owner
Taking A Liquid Vacation With P Moss And Toasting His Book I had a few moments with the master, and it was like sitting down with Tommy Lasorda talking baseball or discussing trop/rock music with Jimmy Buffett. The subject was tiki bars and the drinks in tiki bars, and I was in the company of P Moss – or just simply Moss – who owns Frankie's Tiki Room in Las Vegas. He's … [Read more...]
Oregon Brewer’s Festival One Of The USA’s Top Craft Beer Events
Portland's Annual Waterfront Party Is About More Than Great Beers When I tell you that the Oregon Brewer's Festival – held the last weekend each July in Portland, Oregon – is one of the top craft beer events in the USA, then beer aficionados are likely to start wondering about what kinds of beer are served, the breweries, the varieties, etc. In short, all things … [Read more...]
Mooning Of The Amtrak Continues The Fun Review & Photos From The Bartender
Trains Get Mooned And The Party Continues In Mug's Away Saloon I am happy – actually thrilled is a more accurate word – that the Mooning Of The Amtrak is alive and well. Sort of alive, despite a past Orange County sheriff and Laguna Niguel City Councilattemps to detail it But still fun! It always has been fun and, apparently, always will be fun. So the Second … [Read more...]
Swiss Deluxe Hotels Seem Like Dream Accommodations In Switzerland
Staying At Any Of These 5-Star Properties Is Traveling In Style On my way to a press luncheon to promote the Swiss Deluxe Hotels – a series of 5-star properties in Switzerland – I heard a radio ad for a Motel 6. And the funny thing about me and traveling is that I can stay at either! Oh, to be sure, I would prefer to be at Badrutt's Palace Hotel in St. Moritz rather than … [Read more...]
Paris Travel Blog: Walking The City of Lights, Drinking Wine And Eating In Cafes
By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Travel Blogger À votre santé! My first look at Paris upon emerging from the Metro onto the streets of Paris was of a McDonalds. Great, I thought. Here I am in one of the world's most vibrant and oldest cities and the first thing I see is America's great contribution to world culture, the fast-food hamburger franchise. A day later, I was … [Read more...]
Toronto IndyCar Indy Not The Same As The Molson Indy Party
The Bar Blogger Recalls Hot Canadian Girls, Block Parties And The Gretzky VIP Party I got a bit of a shock this week. A friend e-mailed me asking for any connections I might have in Toronto to help him out with some assistance at the Honda Toronto Indy. WHAT!? The Toronto Indy is this week? Geez. It's amazing how easily things leave your mind when you are no longer … [Read more...]
Michael’s On Naples Brings In Italian Winemaker For Dinner Pairing
Vietti Wines To Be Paired With Six-Course Meal At Long Beach Restaurant This sure is going the distance to make a wine pairing with dinner memorable. Winemaker Luca Currado Vietti of Vietti Wines is coming in all the way from Italy to be on hand for a six-course dinner at Michael's On Naples in Long Beach, CA. The event takes place July 17 at 6:30 p.m. This seemed so … [Read more...]
LA Downtown Film Festival Hosting DJ And Dancing Party At The Well
Music, Light Show And Complimentary Cocktails In The Fashion District The reason I don't go to a lot of film festivals – and I get invited to quite a few – is that they really don't have much of a socializing aspect to them. Oh, I did have a few Stella Artois with the director, cast members and others at the Beverly Hills Film Festival last year and while it was nice and … [Read more...]
Cincinnati’s Bunbury Music Festival 2013 Features 80 Bands On 6 Stages
Music, Craft Beer Garden, After Parties And A Party Bus Part Of Event There's a huge music festival in Cincinnati. The second annual Bunbury Music Festival returns to downtown Cincinnati’s Sawyer Point and Yeatman’s Cove the weekend of July 12-14. And while nobody is going to confuse it with the just-completed Summerfest in Milwaukee a few hours to the north, it does … [Read more...]
Joining Tour de France Spectators A Party Bucket List Item
Blogger Wants To Be Drinking Wine And Nibbling Cheese At A French Village Cafe I have a vision, and it is of me being in a small French village in the countryside or the Alps, sitting outside at a cafe table – one of those tiny round ones, with narrow chairs made of wood – with a plate of cheese and a glass of wine in front of me. At any moment, a large group of athletes … [Read more...]
Hermosa Beach 4th Of July Crackdown Blown Out Of Proportion
Raucous House Parties A Figment Of City Officials And Media's Minds Warnings from city officials, a completely misrepresented story in the Los Angeles Times, TV news trucks doing live reports, a "command center," mobile jail cell and enough cops to stop a riot in Egypt. It was all part of the 4th of July in Hermosa Beach in 2013. Was it all necessary? In a word: … [Read more...]
Redondo Beach 4th Of July Fireworks Shines As Does Singer Shari Puorto
Hearing A Blues But Not Feeling The Blues With Seaside Lagoon's Headliner The fireworks rattled the sky, the flares shining brightly through the overcast conditions, and the band played on, into the night. And the beer flowed freely and often, the drinkers being able to enjoy their cold beverages in the open without worry of a citation, as happened to a few unfortunate … [Read more...]
Las Vegas Pool & Nightlife Party On The Rocks 4th Of July Ticket Sale
Three-Day Package Of Pool Parties, Happy Hours And Nightclubs Discounted Thru Holiday Weekend If you want to experience all of Las Vegas' bars and nightlife, and pack it into a single weekend, then the Off The Rocks event is for you. It involves three days of access to pool parties, Happy Hours and nightclubs all over Sin City. Hosted by Jon Taffner of the "Bar Rescue" TV … [Read more...]
Las Vegas Pool Party Rehab Hard Rock Hosting Bikini Contests
July Sundays Feature Girls Competing For REHAB's 2014 Bikini Team As if the REHAB pool parties are not enough on their own, the Hard Rock hotel is now holding bikini contests! It's the REHAB Bikini Invitational 2013, which is a five-week national search for girls for REHAB’s Bikini Team 2014. So to go along with all the bikinis of the patrons in the pool, there's now … [Read more...]
Hermosa Beach Fight Bad For Pier Ave Bars
Crackdown On Nightlife A Possible Result From Rare Incident This one goes under "a few idiots ruin a good time for the rest of us." A fight broke out in Hermosa Beach on the last Saturday night of June – talk about June Gloom! – and it was substantial enough that the Hermosa Beach Police called in for assistance from neighboring Manhattan and Redondo. Pier Ave, was … [Read more...]