The View From A VIP Box at an NHL Contest, Skiing And The Hapless Habs 2011-12 Montreal Canadians I went to a hockey game and wound up talking about skiing. Ice and snow; once you think about it, they do go together. Not quite like pucks and power plays, but there is a certain similarity between the two. I was in a VIP box at the Honda Center for the Ducks and the … [Read more...]
From The Bar Stool
Interviewing Playboy Playmate Jessa Hinton
Miss July 2011 And Top Rank Boxing Beauty Shows Off A Gorgeous Different Side: Her Personality I have a new best friend. Perhaps I'll even meet her one day. Sounds a bit strange, I know. But after conducting a phone interview with Playboy's Miss July 2011, Jessa Hinton, I indeed feel as if I have a Playmate as a pal. I was offered the chance to talk with … [Read more...]
How the NBA Lockout Has Affected a Small LA Bar Owner
OB's Pub and Grill in Manhattan Beach Among Several Sports Bars in NBA Cities That Stand to Lose Thousands Steve Delk runs a small bar in the Los Angeles area that's a popular locals hangout for Taco Tuesdays and also LA Laker games. And while the Taco Tuesdays will continue to bring in crowds, the Laker games will not, at least for the time being, and perhaps for … [Read more...]
Red Sox Beer-Drinking Pitchers Know How to Party at Baseball Games
Jon Lester Says Starters Drank 9th-Inning 'Rally Beers' in Clubhouse During the Season I want to party with these guys! In the wake of the epic Boston Red Sox collapse that took the team from having the best record in baseball for much of the season to missing the playoffs, Jon Lester has revealed that the team's pitchers were downing brews in the clubhouse. During the … [Read more...]
Somebody Clone Me So I Can Be At All These Party Places
Cool College Football Games, Sailing the Virgin Islands, Old World Oktoberfest and The World's Largest Margarita All Fall On One Huge Rocktober Weekend There's Alabama at Ole Miss and the awesome Grove college football party scene. Michigan-Michigan State in East Lansing. The Interline Regatta with roving beach parties every night in the British Virgin … [Read more...]
Like Google, Perhaps Every Company Should Create Its Own Beer
Why Stop at UK Kontinent Brew, How About A PubClub.com Pilsner? So I got to thinking, if Google can have its own beer, why not every company? The Internet giant used input from its employees all over the world to create a Belgian-style ale called UK Kontinent, brewed by Dogfish Head Crafted Brewed Ales (initially available in the microbrewery's home of Delaware, but … [Read more...]
Pub Crawls and Daisy Dukes – A Perfect Party Storm
Walking Into A Hermosa Beach Bar Makes For a Super Saturday During the Hermosa Open If there's one thing that makes me happy, it's a party. And walking into a party that I did not even know existed is sometimes an even better experience. Especially when that party is a pub crawl that has packed a bar with fun people that had the place absolutely jamming. Even with several … [Read more...]
Free Sunday Concerts A Summer Highlight in Hermosa Beach California
Live Bands on the Pier Are the Draw But the Main Attraction is the Picnic and the People One of the coolest things about living in LA's South Bay Beach Cities are the Summer Concert Series in Hermosa Beach. It's a weekend highlight, an outdoor social gathering, a modern-day Beach Blanket Bingo. We have a group of at least a dozen that meets up, sits on blankets … [Read more...]
Daisy Dukes A Hot Summer Fashion Beach Trend For Girls
Cut-off Jeans Shorts Made Famous by Catherine Bach's Character Are Taking Over Southern California Beaches, To the Approval Of the Bar Blogger Of all the casual fashion trends that have become popular the past few years – trucker hats, baggy clothes, shorts practically to the ankles (which really don't actually qualify them as shorts) and body-covering tattoos – … [Read more...]
Don’t Associate Party Events With Rowdy Daisy Carnival Movie Crowd
Fun Adult-Oriented Street & Beach Parties Should Not Suffer More Alcohol Crackdowns and DJ Kaskade's Post Shows Twitter Users Should Use Caution The popular Electric Daisy Carnival, which had a hugely successful event in Las Vegas earlier this year, sought to take advantage of its product by hosting a movie premier at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood at the end … [Read more...]
Molson Gives Out Free Beer in Toronto
Promotion Could Never Happen in America, But The New M Brand Got in the Hands of Lucky Canadians Molson, in an effort to promote its a new beer called M, was handing out king cans – extra large! – in front of the CBC headquarters in Toronto on July 14. Yes, free beer, handed out like water and energy drinks in the States. M is a pale lager in a black can with silver … [Read more...]
The Nightlife Blogger: Let’s Make The Mooning Of The Amtrak Fun Again
Annual Silly Event Takes Place At Mug's Away In Laguna Niguel, CA By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Nightlife Blogger The heck with the Orange County Sheriff's Department and stuffy Laguna Niguel city officials. Let's make the Mooning of the Amtrack fun again! Starting with the 2020 mooning on Saturday, July 11. A few years ago, with a new sheriff in town (the … [Read more...]
Newport Beach, CA 4th of July House Parties Threatened
City Is Way Out Of Line With Plans to Shut Down the Fun and Fine Owners $4,000 I'm ticked off at Newport Beach. What gall the city has to tell people they can't have house parties on the 4th of July. It's ridiculous, childish behavior and has no place in a free society like America. Yet that is what the city has done, having instructed the police to break up any gathering … [Read more...]
Spice Up the Manhattan Beach Grand Prix With a Beer Garden
South Bay Events and Manhattan Beach Bars Would Benefit From Bringing in More Local Residents The action is good and up close for fans, but the event could use some brews. The Manhattan Beach Grand Prix - a cycling event with some notable world-renowned racers, including at least one teammate of Lance Armstrong during his incredible Tour de France wins – is a fine event … [Read more...]
$156,000 Bar Tab Is A Good Reason To Like Hockey
Cheers to the Boston Bruins Who Celebrate Stanley Cup Championship in Grand Style Obviously, I've not been giving hockey players enough credit. Because these guys can party! The Boston Bruins ran up a $156,000 bar tab at a Connecticut casino to celebrate winning the Stanley Cup. The total, one player said, "was was skewed a bit by the $100,000 bottle of champagne. But, hey, … [Read more...]
A Solution to California’s Budget Deficit: Bars on the Beach
The State Could Make Millions From Allowing Beer and Wine Sales at Outdoor Concession Stands As California continues to suffer financially from a budget crisis, one solution to adding revenue is as clear as its blue skies: Allow concession stands at state beaches to sell beer and wine. Do this and, if the residents vote to legalize medical marijuana (which they nearly did in … [Read more...]
Don’t Blame Alcohol When Sports Fans Riot
Vancouver Canucks Post-Game Violence Shows an IQ Card Is Needed Instead of an ID Card to Drink Once again, sports "fans" have given their game, their city and their country a bad name. A few Vancouver Canucks nuts set fire to cars, threw rocks at store windows, and in general acted like English soccer fans after their team lost in Game 7 of the Stanley Cup finals to the … [Read more...]
Sex Addition Hypersexual Disorder DSM-5 a PR Bailout For Big-Name Celebrities
Sexual Escapades of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Tiger Woods Gets Attention of American Psychiatric Association, But Men Will Be Men The American Psychiatric Association is considering adding a new term called "hypersexual disorder" – or DSM-5 – to its next addition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (to be published in 2013). The fact they have created … [Read more...]
A Straight Guy’s Blog About the Long Beach Lesbian & Gay Pride Festival
The Lure of An Outdoor Party With Music, Beer and, Yes, Lesbians Brings Out this Hetrosexual Male For An Different Kind of Day Every now and then, it's important to check out other things in life to see how other people live and to experience something different. So when I learned of an event in Long Beach, CA that draws 100,000 people, has bands and goes through an … [Read more...]
Kentucky Derby Report: Funny Named Mucho Macho Man Finishes Third
The 137th Running of the Roses Produces The Most Fun and Colorful Names in Recent Memory Did anybody else notice that horse named Mucho Macho Man finished third in the Kentucky Derby? Two days after Cinco de Mayo!? Are all the margaritas in Louisville now on the owner? It was the most recognizable horse in the field. Mucho Macho Man was wearing not a saddle, but a … [Read more...]
The Nightlife Blogger On The Girl With The Great Body
Sure, She's Nice To Look At But With Her Prissy Attitude She Might As Well Stay at Home By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Nightlife Blogger Someone once asked Jimmy Buffett where he comes up with all those great song titles and lyrics that mark his music. "It's out there," The Man replied. "People are very entertaining. All you have to do is listen, watch and … [Read more...]
The Best Place to Watch the Royal Wedding on TV
With an Early-Morning Broadcast in the USA, It's Going to Be Breakfast at Westminster Abbey Here's a thought sports and party-going fans: Treat the Royal Wedding between Prince William and Kate Middleton on April 29 like a sporting event. Breakfast at Wimbledon? How about Breakfast at Westminster Abbey!? Blow off work; after all why get left standing at the water cooler when … [Read more...]
Is It Proper Equitette To Drink on Easter Sunday?
Gatherings of Friends, Sunday Brunch or a BBQ Is One Fun Way to Spend This Sacred Day It is a day of going to church, Easter Egg hunts and family gatherings. But is Easter Sunday also a day to party? It is okay to drink, say, mimosas in the morning and even (gasp!) go to bars in the afternoon and evening? In other words, treat it like any normal Sunday for a Pubclubber? The … [Read more...]
College Towns: International Festival Claremont, CA
Annual International Music and Food Set for April 9, 2011 When one thinks of a college town, a place like Tuscaloosa, Athens or Bloomington may first come to mind. But in Southern California, right in the heart of Los Angeles, there are several college towns. One of them is Claremont, and it holds an annual music and food festival that is the talk of the town. It's the … [Read more...]
The Babes of Switzerland From The Cities To The Swiss Alps
They Kept Appearing Like Angels Falling From The Sky, Each New One As Beautiful As The Previous Starlet By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Nightlife Blogger They kept appearing like angels falling from the sky, each new one as beautiful as the previous starlet. Except one. The street parade is in August but this was a parade all right – a parade of beautiful … [Read more...]
A Lesson in Healthy Italian Eating
Covering The Launch of Italy's Club EATalian Program, This American Feels At First Out of Place, Then Like Family By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Blogger It's always nice to be invited to press events. Especially ones that involve food. And especially when that press event that involves food is put on by Italians. So when PubClub.com received an … [Read more...]