March Madness, A Keg (Not Egg) Hunt And Champagne Brunch Offer Fun Partying Opportunities By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Party Blogger It is a time, I know, of reflection, to look at our own mortality and to understand and appreciate the sacrifices of others for us. But that also means it's a time of celebration. And for singles, Easter Sunday makes for an … [Read more...]
Miss Long Beach Grand Prix 2013 Prelims At Legends Bar Belmont Shore
Pageant Continues To Find Finalist Girls For Thursday Thunder On Pine The search to find the 2013 Miss Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach continues on Thursday, March 28, with a preliminary contest taking place at Legend's sports bar in Long Beach's Belmont Shore. The contestants will gather at 7 p.m., with the contest scheduled to start at approximately 7:30. There will be … [Read more...]
My March Madness Bracket Picks Are Making Me Mad
Picking The Wrong Upsets Has Busted My Bracket Pittsburgh bites the dust. Wisconsin, after going on a late-season run in the hotly-contested Big 10, goes down to an average team from an average conference. Harvard does what I picked Belmont and South Dakota State to do, and that is to pull off a major upset, My West bracket has so many lines through the team names it … [Read more...]
Spring Break College Students Making Party Blogger Jealous
Then Again, I Saw The Footch Win A Belly Flop Contest In Daytona Beach I never went to Spring Break in college. Instead, I went home. Drove six hours from Tuscaloosa, Alabama, to Knoxville, Tennessee, and worked whatever job I could find for the week or so in order to earn a few precious dollars for my social activities on and around campus. I never had enough … [Read more...]
Spirits Industry Nightclub & Bar Show Is America’s Best Trade Show
Wishing I Were There And Not Here Some of the best party times of my life have been at the Nightclub & Bar Show, the annual gathering of everyone who is everyone in the bar, nightclub, beer and spirits industry. It's the middle of March every year and takes place in the ideal place for such a thing: Las Vegas! It's two days of the best trade show in America. And … [Read more...]
My March Madness Bracket Strategy: Get Drunk And Make Picks
Forget Over-Analyzing Teams, This Year Is A Toss-Up Tournament I'm going to win our March Madness pool this year. That's because I have the perfect strategy for picking the teams. I'm going to get drunk first! This is no half-court shot buzzer beater attempt. It's as skillful as Syracuse's zone defense, as solid as Florida's three-point shooters. After all, there really … [Read more...]
It’s A Full St. Patrick’s Day Party Weekend So Erin Go Bragh!
Saturday's Parades Followed With Partying Die-Hards Out On Sunday Green beer, parades, Irish bars and Erin Go Bragh. It's St. Patrick's Day and the Irish luck is smiling on all of us this year because we get not one, but two days to celebrate. St. Patrick's Day in on a Sunday, and that's actually a bonus day. The parades in major places – Boston, Chicago, New York and my … [Read more...]
Hermosa Beach City Council Approves Smackfest Beach Volleyball Event
Costume Tournament Passes By A 4-1 Vote Smackfest will be allowed to turn 20. The creative, whacky and harmless fun beach volleyball tournament that has been the summer highlight of the area's weekend amateur players, has been approved by the Hermosa Beach City Council. It was a 4-1 vote and while some restrictions apply – there were fears of it becoming "another 6-man" – … [Read more...]
Hermosa Beach City Council Needs To Approve Smackfest
Council Members To Vote On Future Of Popular Beach Volleyball Event Smackfest, the whacky and fun dress-up beach volleyball tournament held each July, is in danger of becoming extinct. The Hermosa Beach City Council is discussing its future in its weekly meeting on Tuesday, March 12. This takes place at the Council's chambers at City Hall on Valley Drive, just south of … [Read more...]
Bret Michaels Playing The Long Beach Grand Prix Saturday Concert
Rock-N-Roar Concert Is Saturday Night, April 20 In Long Beach, CA He's got rock, and he's certainly got roar. Bret Michaels, who is making headlines for a supposed "meltdown" after being eliminated from this season's "Celebrity Apprentice" show, will be looking to melt some metal as he's playing the Saturday night 'Rock-N-Roar' concert Saturday night during the 39th … [Read more...]
Happy National Margarita Day Feb 22!
The Perfect Day To Be Wasted Away in Margaritaville! Blended Or On The Rocks? Salt Or No Salt? Break out the blender. Put on the signature Jimmy Buffett song. The only questions for today are: Blended or on the rocks and salt or no salt? Personally, I prefer on the rocks and no salt. This, above all times, is the day to be wasted away in Margaritaville. … [Read more...]
Attention LA Models: Open Auditions For The Next Miss Long Beach GP
Race Queens Get On The Grid And Podium During April IndyCar Race The search for the next Miss Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach is underway, and all models and promotional girls in Southern California should take note. The Miss Grand Prix is holding open auditions on Sunday, Feb. 24, from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. It's at the Grand Prix offices at 3000 Pacific Ave., in Long Beach … [Read more...]
Northern Trust Open A Great Place To Meet Singles In Los Angeles
Golf Tournament At Riviera Brings Out More Swings Among Single Spectators Than Golfers It's a "fore" gone conclusion. The Northern Trust LA Open is a great place to meet single people in Los Angeles. In fact, with blue skies, sunny weather and temperatures in the 70s, this year there are likely to be far more swings taken by the spectators than the golfers on the … [Read more...]
After Fat Tuesday Here Are The Upcoming Biggest Party Events
Spring Break, St. Patrick's Day And March Madness Next On The Fun Calendar Now that Mardi Gras and Fat Tuesday are in the rear-view mirror doesn't mean we have to pull the mosquito net over the bed and go into party hiding. There's too much fun to be had on the horizon. And it will be here before you find the last of those Mardi Gras beads somewhere on the floor of the … [Read more...]
Let The Good Times Roll For Fat Tuesday Parties
Marti Gras Parades Through The Soul Of The Party Blogger There's a saying in New Orleans. It applies year-round in that party city but it was created because of Mardi Gras: Let The Good Times Roll. And those good times do indeed roll for Carnival, and not just in New Orleans. There's Brazil, of course, and even Germany and Switzerland. One of the most fun places is San … [Read more...]
Sipping Scotch Whiskey Sets The Mood For Queen Mary’s Scotsfest
Previewing The 25th Annual Scottish Festival In Long Beach, CA By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Los Angeles Blogger I love media events where they serve you alcohol. Wine with a luncheon or dinner is fine, of course, but at the press preview for the upcoming Scotsfest, a full-on Scottish festival Feb. 17-18 at the Queen Mary in Long Beach, CA, we got … [Read more...]
New Orleans Mardi Gras Memories Of Parade Experiences
Marching In The Parades Brings Beads, Boobs And Kisses The Mardi Gras parades are underway in New Orleans – check out the parade schedule here, as well as a few "survival tips"– and that always brings back good memories of when I was actually in a some of the parades. It was back in high school, and when our band director announced we would be going to take part … [Read more...]
New Year’s Day Can Be As Much Of A Party As New Year’s Eve
Diehard Partiers Cut Loose The Day After NYE With A More Casual Attitude I love New Year's Day almost as much as I do New Year's Eve. In fact, in some places, I like it even more than NYE. Why? Because the pressure is off, lifted like the monkey off Steve Young's back. The pressure for what, you ask? The pressure to have a great time for New Year's Eve, to … [Read more...]
Manhattan Beach Holiday Fireworks One Of Top Beach Cities Events
Annual Celebration A Perfect Mix Of Party Revelers And Families Getting in the holiday spirit can be difficult at Southern California's beaches. The weather is warm and instead of going to malls and shopping people do what they do at all times of the year, and that is go surfing, running, rollerblading and then partying at night. But there's one event that brings in the … [Read more...]
Surviving The San Diego Wine & Food Festival’s Many Fun Events
Five Parties In Three Days Makes For A Happy Blogger The 9th annual San Diego Wine & Food Festival is now over the shoulder, and I not only survived it, I thrived at it. And I added two new events this year to my usual trio, making it a five course meal, so to speak. That meant five parties in three days and nights. For me, Party of Five was not a TV show, but a … [Read more...]
Halloween Parties Allow Girls To Live Ultimate Sexual Fantasies
Hiding Behind Their Costumes, Sexy Gals Let Out Their Inner Desires Just the other day, I was a fly on the wall, a sponge soaking up vital information, a privileged part of a private conversation. I was in the inner sanctum, sitting with four girls –friends, but closer to acquaintances – when they were having the kinds of conversations guys rarely get to … [Read more...]
UCLA Nebraska Party Bus Hermosa Beach to Rose Bowl
College Tailgate Party Rolls With Transportation From the South Bay College football season is here and that means tailgate parties! One of the season's first big games is in the historic Rose Bowl as Nebraska visits UCLA. But as anyone not from Pasadena will tell you, it's a long way to the Rose Bowl from other parts of L.A. And that's why the South Bay Beach Cities … [Read more...]
Manhattan Beach 6-Man Should Move To Dockweiler Beach Like The Gillis
Crazy Dress-Up Volleyball Tournament's Best Chance For Its Future Is On This Adjacent Beach The Manhattan Beach 6-Man dress-up crazy costumed beach volleyball tournament has gotten out of control. It's gone too far, and if something isn't done about it the entire event could forever disappear. I speak not of the event itself, mind you, but of the Manhattan Beach City … [Read more...]
6-Man Manhattan Beach Is Still About the Volleyball
Focus on The Party Atmosphere Takes Attention Away From The Players Despite the controversy, the change from a weekend to the middle of the week and the Manhattan Beach Police's SWAT team approach to the event, the 6-man tournament is still all about the volleyball. And it always has been about the volleyball, even with the one-day party of the past. That's been … [Read more...]
Photos of the PJ 10K Long Beach’s Annual Fun and Funky Run
Exercise and Socialize A Party in Pajamas, And a Beer Garden They roll out of bed, go out in public dressed as they are when they sleep, some even with their hair still in curlers. They gather early in the morning and go for a little run. It's the PJ 10K, an annual event in Long Beach, CA, a creative concept that's a party in pajamas. The Pajama Run, as it is … [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...]
Creative Party People Come Up With the Craziest Events
An Easter Keg Hunt in El Segundo A Different Kind of Fun Pub Crawl This is what happens when a creative person – or persons – sits down to have a few beers. They come up with crazy ideas and turn them into even crazier events. I was at one recently. An Easter Keg Hunt. That's not a typo. Yes keg, not egg. The premise, of course, is to gather a bunch of people and go to … [Read more...]
St. Patrick’s Day Parade Hermosa Beach Photos
Images From the Party On the Pier, Plus Video of the Famous Budweiser Hand Truck Team Once upon a time, Hermosa Beach held a St. Patrick's Day parade on the Saturday before St. Paddy's Day. Here are photos of the parade. Its route consisted of Pier Ave., from Valley Ardmore the Pier, then south to 8th Street on Hermosa Ave. There's also a video of The Famous Budweiser … [Read more...]
Panama City Beach Sets World Bikini Record
Okay, let's give a big "cheers" to Panama City Beach, Florida for breaking the World Bikini Record. "Cheers!" It assembled 450 girls in the sexy swimwear to set the new mark. It broke the old record of 357 set on Australia's Gold Coast (get with it now, mates!). Guinness World Record adjudicator Philip Robertson even flew in from London to certify the results. It … [Read more...]