By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Nightlife Blogger Kentucky Derby – The 148th Run For The Roses If you can't be there, it's fun to gather some people at the bar and make a quick bet, with the winner collecting the money and hopefully sharing it with the others to buy drinks. For those in the LA Beach Cities, Berry Bly is holding his annual Kentucky Derby Party at Shade … [Read more...]
If You Bet On Mandaloun In The Kentucky Derby You Won’t Win Money If Medina Spirit’s Win Is Overturned
Results And Winnings Stay The Same No Matter What Action Churchill Downs Takes On Original Winner If you had runner-up Mandaloun to win the Kentucky Derby and are suddenly thinking you're going to win money if Medina Spirit is stripped of the victory, then you're out of luck. Even if Churchill Downs takes away Medina Spirit's win due to illegal drug use, the … [Read more...]
May Is The Breakout Party, Events And Nightlife Month For Americans
Kentucky Derby, Cinco de Mayo, Memorial Day & The Indy 500 Provide Plenty Of Partying Opportunities By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Nightlife Blogger More than a year after the start of the pandemic, May is the month that Americans are going to be shedding their COVID-19 coats by getting out to bars and returning to the four major events, making it a breakout … [Read more...]
Kentucky Derby Experts Featured On The Virtual Happy Hour Show Livestream
146th Run For The Roses On Labor Day Weekend In 2020 By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Lifestream Editor Published Sept. 2, 2020 The 146th "Run For The Roses" is being run not on its traditional first Saturday of May but instead on Saturday of Labor Day Weekend. It is also being contested without fans for the first time in the event's history. Such are things in … [Read more...]
PubClub.com’s Hot Girl(s) Of The Week: Kentucky Derby & 4th St. Live Bars
Danielle & Kayla From The Infield To the Nightlife On 4th Street Live By The PubClub.com Staff Meet PubClubettes Danielle and Kayla, who represented PubClub.com at the Kentucky Derby, one of the world's greatest party events. Photographed every step of the way by photographer Jack Fleming, the dynamic blonde duo went to the paddock, the wild Kentucky Derby … [Read more...]
Kentucky Derby 2017 Event Calendar Date
WHAT: The 143rd Run for the Roses, a true American bucket list party event. You can sit high style in the grandstands but the true action is in the wild infield. It's an all-day part in the infield and post time is 6:34 p.m. PARTY SCENE: Outstanding, especially in the infield SINGLES SCENE: Excellent. Tens of thousands of people influenced by mass amounts of alcohol. Just … [Read more...]
Kentucky Oaks 2017 Date Party Events Calendar
WHAT: The infield warmup party for the Kentucky Derby. All day event of racing featuring 3-year-old fillies (female horses) and be sure and wear pink. That goes for women and men. PARTY SCENE: Very good. Just don't overdo it on this day. SINGLES SCENE: Very good, at the very least for getting in the groove for the Derby the next day. … [Read more...]
Chat About The 2017 Kentucky Derby On The Twitter Chat #TheNightlifeChat
PubClub Social Media Discussion On The 143rd Run For the Roses, Derby Hats, Traditions & The Wild Infield Party PubClub.com, a website devoted to bars, nightlife and fun events, is hosting a Twitter chat on one of the great American events, the Kentucky Derby. The hashtag is #TheNightlifeChat. Share you thoughts, opinions, experience and/or dreams of the Kentucky … [Read more...]
Kentucky Derby Parties In Los Angeles Best Places & Where To Watch
The Run For The Roses Top Viewing Locations In L.A. You don't have to be in Louisville to enjoy a good Kentucky Derby party. You can do so right here in Los Angeles. Here's a rundown of top places in Los Angeles to watch the Derby, including two Derby parties and a place where horses are even running during the day. • Shade Hotel Redondo Beach Cost; … [Read more...]
Kentucky Derby Infield The Ultimate Party Guide, 2022 Date & Details
It's wild – and occasionally wet –at the Kentucky Derby, America's Great Party. It's it's dry, it's fun. If it's wet, it's wild and fun. Either way, there's mud pits and female mud wrestling! No matter that the weather, the crazy and colorful infield scene thrives the first Saturday in May In 2022, the event is back on Saturday, May 7. The price for infield tickets is … [Read more...]
Kentucky Derby Week Behind The Scenes From A Local’s Blog
The Bourbon Flows Early And Often During Derby Week PubClub.com Special Correspondent Jack Tingley is a regular at the Kentucky Derby and provided us with photos and a daily report of what it's like during Derby Week leading up to the from the Running of the Roses. Jack is a Louisville native – and former All-American swimmer at USC – and has been going to the … [Read more...]
Kentucky Derby – Where I Want To Be This Weekend
The Infield Scene Is A Top Party Bucket List Destination By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Blogger There's a major party taking place the first Saturday in May. It's where I want to be that weekend but, alas, I'll be sunning on a Southern California beach. That's not a bad alternative, granted, but the Kentucky Derby and specifically the Kentucky Derby infield, is … [Read more...]
Kentucky Derby Party Dilemma: The Infield Vs. The Grandstands
There are two ways to party big-time at the Kentucky Derby, which is Saturday, May 6 in 2023. There's the refined way, from the grandstands, where you sip your mint juleps, enjoy your Kentucky bourbon and partake in the day's activities from the relative sophistication of a seat. Then there's the infield. That is "absolute chaos" as described in a separate article on … [Read more...]
Kentucky Derby Social Scene Party Tips From A Local
Delicious Dee Is A VIP During Derby Week She is not a princess. Except, perhaps, on this day. "Delicious Dee" is a Kentucky gal and when the Derby is in town, Kentucky ladies take on a certain pedigree, an aura of entitlement of sorts, that proclaims them all as Kentucky Derby queens. The Derby, after all, is as much their event as the jockeys, horses and mint juleps, a … [Read more...]
Kentucky Derby, Jazzfest & Cinco de Mayo Make This A Big Party Weekend
Mint Juleps And Margaritas: It's a Hat Trick Of Fun Partying Events To Kick Off May Get on your party hats, it's the first weekend of May. And you'll have to change those party hats depending on the day. Saturday, it's Derby hats for the annual Running of the Roses, the Kentucky Derby. Sunday, it's sombreros for Cinco de Mayo, the gringo's celebration of … [Read more...]
Del Mar Opening Day So Popular It’s Holding A Drawing For Restaurants
Kentucky Derby Of The West Coast Requires Advance Planning For A Table Del Mar Opening Day is a very fun Southern California event the third Wednesday of each July. It's also the most popular mid-week event in the entire state. More than 50,000 people go to it and it's such a "must-do" event that the horse track that's across the street from the Pacific Ocean must action … [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...]
May 5 2012 Is A Huge Party Day Led by Kentucky Derby
The Run for the Roses, New Orleans JazzFest and Cinco de Mayo Are All on a Single Crazy Day Sometimes, the party gods have a meeting (over several drinks, I would presume), rub their hands together, raise their glasses and say "let's really give it to 'em hard this time!" And this is what they do – they combine three major party events at the same time. That's the case … [Read more...]
Hermosa Beach Nightlife Is Not As Party Wild As City Council Claims
There Are Not Too Many Bars On The Pier And Placing Restrictions on Nightlife Is Foolish If you're someone who likes to party, who gets wide-eyed at the prospect of a Spring Break-type atmosphere, and listen to the Hermosa Beach City Council, then you would dream of bolting to the bars on and around the Pier. If you're the parent of, say, someone who's just out of … [Read more...]
Liquor Trends: Bourbon Pouring It On The Trendy
Kentucky's Trademark Reaching Landmark Drink Sales I have a friend whom I've nicknamed "Ice." I gave him that nickname because when I met him, he drank Maker's Mark. Kentucky Bourbon. (Ice is from Virginia. Yes, a Southerner.) He would mix it with ginger ale. "Makers and ginger," he would say when it was my round at the bar. He would have nothing but Kentucky bourbon, not … [Read more...]