| Team Party Crash: 'Paper' Nightlife Awards @ Show | | Posted Friday, December 01, 2006 1:14:57 PM by Blog57 Team | | I wandered into some Times Square one-word-noun nightclub called "Show" for the who cares annual Paper Nightlife Awards, ready to have my burning questions about the city's best bars, DJ's, and parties for homosexuals answered -- FINALLY. Gawker's Nikola Tamindzic was on photo duty; plunge heedlessly into the sleaze with our gallery of photos, or bounce over to Nikola's plumper version. After the jump, dangerous proximity to MisShapes. Aspiring models with big tits and bad hair in blue dresses are dropping bottles of Grey Goose onto the 40 or so tables that the pretentiously decorated room accommodates. This must be the "models and bottles" I've been hearing so much about. I make a mental note to steal one of the bottles, then spend a few minutes walking around trying to come to grips with the fact that there are seriously people in the world who think "New York Nightlife" is important enough to warrant this sort of pageantry.... | |
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| | | Nightlife in city is dull, say students | | Posted Monday, November 13, 2006 11:13:18 PM by Blog57 Team | | CAMBRIDGE is being let down by its nightlife and transport, according to students. In a new survey, the city scores only five out of 10 when it comes to going out and getting about. Students were also asked to rate shops, communities, and facilities in the questionnaire, conducted by the Accommodation for Students website. Brighton and Manchester came out as the best places to be a student, with a total score of 62 per cent. Cambridge scored a total of 56 per cent, while bottom of the league were Salford and Bolton with 42 per cent. Nearly 32,000 students reviewed 78 university towns and cities. The company has also released its latest rental data. While the average student weekly rent for the UK is £59, in Cambridge the average is a far higher £83.... | |
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| | | Take a Gamble on Las Vegas | | Posted Wednesday, November 08, 2006 7:16:22 AM by Blog57 Team | | (ARA) - If ever there was a place that can't be duplicated, it would have to be Las Vegas. The city that never sleeps - aka "Sin City" - continues to hold a special allure for travelers from around the world. They come for the nightlife. They come for the gambling. They come for conventions. They come to get married. They come to see Elvis. They come for extravagant shows and entertainment. Mostly, they continue to come to Vegas in droves. And Vegas responds to this steady stream of visitors by continuing to build and by continuing to get bigger, better and bolder than ever before.As the showiest place on Earth, Las Vegas is all about glitz, glamour and size. In the battle to be noticed, it seems everyone wants to be the biggest, the gaudiest and the best.... | |
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| | | Delta Air Lines Partners With Nightlife Entrepreneur Rande Gerber to Create New, Worldwide Signature Cocktail Program | | Posted Friday, November 03, 2006 3:37:59 AM by Blog57 Team | | Delta Air Lines continues its worldwide product improvements by partnering with nightlife entrepreneur Rande Gerber to create a signature cocktail program exclusively for its customers featuring specialty cocktails created for Delta by Gerber, co-founder, with his brother Scott, of After Midnight Company. The airline will begin serving Gerber's cocktails on board in early 2007. The partnership and new signature cocktails are part of Delta's ongoing effort to create a uniquely sophisticated, stylish and entertaining experience for customers. ``Our partnership with Rande Gerber -- a successful entrepreneur of influential lifestyle brands -- reflects our continued commitment to creating an experience that is distinctive, enjoyable, and something our worldwide customers look forward to when they travel with us,'' said Joan Vincenz, Delta's managing director of Product Marketing.... | |
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| | | Erase Errata keeps a busy nightlife overseas | | Posted Saturday, October 28, 2006 7:21:28 AM by Blog57 Team | | IT HAD BEEN three years since San Francisco no-wavers Erase Errata traveled abroad and served up a hearty helping of experimental noise rock to European denizens. Yet the feisty femmes are back on foreign soil ? in Barcelona today ? jet-setting their brains out with the politically charged release "Nightlife." Heralded as the band's grittiest, if not best, album, "Nightlife" (Kill Rock Stars) is rife with frustrated observations and political laments courtesy of guitarist/vocalist Jenny Hoyston. Last Thursday, while avoiding a dreary, rainy day in Dublin, Ireland, Hoyston and company spared the politico talk and instead dished about life on the road via e-mail. The gals of Erase Errata acknowledge the comfort of a cushy, warm bed or familiar surroundings aren't what they miss most when living each day in "drive and play, drive and play" mode.... | |
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| | | Upscale cocktail lounge coming to Main Street | | Posted Sunday, October 22, 2006 11:08:55 PM by Blog57 Team | | An upscale club featuring live music and dancing called the Blue Monkey Lounge is expected to add some spark to nightlife on West Main Street. The investors, who have operated the Azalea Restaurant on Brownsboro Road since 1994, plan to open the cocktail lounge at 110 W. Main St., between First and Second streets, early next year, said partner Hulan "Bernie" Smith, of Birmingham, Ala. .... | |
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| | | The Booth closing leaving a hole in UA Strip nightlife | | Posted Friday, October 20, 2006 1:09:12 PM by Blog57 Team | | It was Thursday evening. The sun was setting, and, on the collegiate calendar, the weekend was beginning. Chip Groeschell and Todd Blanton were at The Booth to shoot a few games of pool and drink beer. The bar is the friends hangout, the place - as it says in the theme song to a TV show set in a bar - where everybody knows their name. "When you come here, you're going to see somebody you know," said Blanton, a University of Alabama senior from Dallas, Texas. But The Booth is closing two days after Thanksgiving, an ultimatum that the bar's owner said is from the building's new landlord. Though the sale of the building on The Strip is not recorded with the county, John Hammock and the four other tenants said they've been told of the sale. The buyer remains a mystery.... | |
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| | | Singapore's nightlife gets S$48m boost to enliven the scene | | Posted Wednesday, October 18, 2006 3:17:53 AM by Blog57 Team | | Singapore is aiming to be the clubbing capital of Asia and this year alone, over $48 million has been pumped into the nightlife scene. The S$40 million St James Power Station will be fully opened by mid-December with 9 different outlets. These include Movida - the word means 'party' in Cuban street slang - which will play live world music, and Mono, a karaoke venue with plush interiors. Dragonfly will feature a medley of live Chinese tunes, R&B grooves and trance music while the Bellini Room is a Swing Bar. And if you are not already spoilt for choice, Lifebrandz, the company behind the Ministry of Sound, is investing over S$8 million in six entertainment outlets to be opened by December. Five will be at Clarke Quay, and Cafe Del Mar, regarded by many as one of the world's most iconic chill out bars, will be at Sentosa.... | |
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| | | 'Borat' Defends Portrayal of Kazakhstan | | Posted Friday, October 13, 2006 3:06:59 AM by Blog57 Team | | AMSTERDAM, Netherlands — The comedian known as "Borat" appeared briefly in Amsterdam Thursday, praising the city's freewheeling nightlife and defending his portrayal of the central Asian country of Kazakhstan. Borat boasted of picking up a date at a popular Amsterdam bar known as a gay meeting place. "This woman reminded me of Kazakhi woman, she was more tall than me, with hair on arms, and some hair on face, and deep voice," he told the Dutch press. .... | |
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| | | At nightlife summit, atmosphere sometimes got tense | | Posted Saturday, October 07, 2006 7:10:10 PM by Blog57 Team | | A day after introducing legislation aimed at cracking down on underage drinking and making clubgoing safer in New York City, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn presided over her much-anticipated Nightlife Safety Summit last Thursday at John Jay College. The summit brought together community groups, law enforcement, the nightlife industry, government agencies and elected officials to devise solutions to nightlife safety issues. First announced in August after a series of high-profile violent incidents shook the city and galvanized elected officials and others to act, the summit was the culmination of a legislative and community push to deal with a problem that many see as raging out of control. The summit was not open to the press.... | |
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