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...]
Passing On The 2013 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am Party
PGA Tour Carmel Event Not On The Blogger's Calendar This Year This event used to be par for the course. As much of a no-brainer as a tap-in putt. But them something happened to the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. It got serious. It used to be serious about the party, but the past couple of years it can't seem to find the green. This PGA Tour tournament, held at the … [Read more...]
2013 Super Bowl Sunday Ranks Among Top Party Days
From The Redondo Beach 10K To The South Bay Bars To A House Party, It Was A Long And Fun Day We were laughing it up in a cut-loose dive bar with no plan for the future, just living in the moment. The day was Super Bowl Sunday and the location was the VFW bar in Redondo Beach, CA. I was on my fifth or sixth beer, I had already run six miles and spent two hours in a … [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...]
Microbrew Beer Festival Part of Santa Anita Track Party Schedule
Horsing Around Involves More Than Watching Horse Racing In L.A. There's a microbrew festival at Santa Anita Racetrack in Los Angeles this weekend – specifically, Saturday, Jan. 26 – and the mere thought of this brings back some side-splitting memories. It was a few years ago that I was first introduced to what was previously the strange sport of horse racing. And, as I … [Read more...]
California Cultures Mix at Mendocino Crab Wine & Beer Festival 2013
It goes without saying that cracking crabs and drinking beer go together. That's commonplace along the East Coast, particularly in Maryland, home of crab cakes and beer. But it also happens in California. Except people in this part of the country – in particular in the northern part of the Golden State – must always put their own special touch on things. So when they host a … [Read more...]
New Orleans Invites Visitors To Party For Carnival 2013
The Big Easy Goes Big For Mardi Gras New Orleans is always a party,and none is bigger than Carnival and Mardi Gras. In 2013, that's Jan. 26-Feb. 12, with Fat Tuesday being on Feb. 12. For a complete New Orleans Mardi Gras Survival Guide and 2013 parade schedule, click here. And new for 2013, the city and its tourism industry is partnering with the King of Carnival … [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...]
New Orleans Named Top New Year’s Eve Party Destination NYE Reviews
Other Top Spots Are Prague, Sydney, Las Vegas, Rio And The Virgin Islands When it comes time to choosing a place to spend New Year’s Eve this year, don’t drop the ball. Leave that to the people in charge of putting on the celebrations. But being where those balls are dropped – and having a ball – is the real thrill of a fulfilling New Year’s night. That is why … [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...]
New Orleans The Perfect Choice For SEC-Big 12 Sugar Bowl Game
On The Heels of NYE Fans Get French Quarter And Bourbon Street To me, this seemed as simple a call as a quarterback sneak on fourth an inches. Defensive backs standing in the end zone to stop a Hail Mary. New Orleans was chosen as the location of the new SEC-Big 12 sort-of championship game. It will be the Allstate Sugar Bowl and will line up the conference champions in … [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...]
Rocktoberfest Rocks LA Live With Gene Simmons And Rock & Brews
Week-Long Festival in Downtown Los Angeles Features Beers And Rock 'n Roll Bands People do get out of "The Bubble." Including the band at Pancho's. Before Wolfgang Puck walked on the red carpet, before Gene Simmons walked on the red carpet – and took the stage – there was a group of musicians who went through completely unnoticed by the press photographers. Except this … [Read more...]
Beer Garden Again Highlight of Manhattan Beach Hometown Fair
Photos And a Review Of This Top South Bay Beach Cities Annual Event Here's to the beers and cheers. I would like to host my 16-ounce cup of Longboard Lager to the beer garden, the signature event of the annual Old Hometown Fair in Manhattan Beach, CA. It's what makes Hometown Fair one of the most fun times of the entire year in a town that's pretty fun most of the … [Read more...]
Fall in San Francisco Has Sports, Sailing And A Bluegrass Festival
America's Cup Races, Fleet Week, Music and Italian Heritage Day Kick Off A Rocking October Story by Cathy Seeligson. Photos by Dean Borton. It's not October in San Francisco, but more like Rocktober. That's because the City by the Bay is rocking with a number of events to start the month. So let's get rocking! It starts with sports. The 49ers are playing at home (and … [Read more...]
GlowRun Race Lights Up Downtown Las Vegas on Oct. 7
Fremont Street Hosts Block Party Run Run And Pub Crawl Glow with the flow. That's the idea of the inaugural GlowRun, a 7K race in downtown Las Vegas taking place Sunday, Oct. 7. In a preview of Halloween that hits Vegas the end of the month, GloRun involves people in costumes, but instead of being on the Strip and running through the casinos and clubs, they are running … [Read more...]
Hollywood Party Promoter Hosts Fundraiser at Supper Club
Battling a Stroke, Steve Dimon Presents A Hot Music Night To Help His Recovery A Los Angeles bar and event promoter needs your help. And this time it's not just to go to one of its events. It's to help him survive. Steve Dimon who puts on a massive St. Patrick's Day bash in Hollywood plus Halloween and New Year's Eve parties in the South Bay Beach Cities (among several … [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 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...]
Smackfest 2012 Surpasses 6-Man As South Bay’s Top Event
Whacky Beach Volleyball Tournament Replaces 6-Man As Top Beach Party Event in Hermosa and Manhattan Beach There's been a passing of the party torch in the South Bay. Smackfest, the 19-year-old beach volleyball tournament, is now King of the Beach Cities when it comes to fun and entertaining events. The once-untouchable Manhattan Beach Surfest and its 6-man tournament is … [Read more...]
It’s a (Boat) Party At the Annual Catalina Water Ski Race 2019
Water Skiing From Long Beach to Catalina And Back Is Biggest Stationary Boat Party in Southern California It's the perfect Saturday morning scenario: Race boats on the water daredevil competitors prepared to do something mentally and athletically outrageous, and in a major aquatic area. It's the annual Catalina Ski Race, a 56-mile race from the Queen Mary in Long … [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 officially … [Read more...]
Albanifest in Winterthur One Of Switzerland’s Biggest Parties
Bands Play on Stages in This Music Festival Near Zurich That Attracts 100,000 Party People Anyone who says they don't party in Switzerland has never seen, heard about or been to the Zurich Street Parade, a massive moving techno event held each August (Aug. 11, in 2012). Or Albanifest, a three-day cultural musical extravaganza that features dozens of bands from several … [Read more...]
Get Your Tickets Now for the Trump National Wine & Beer Festival
Fun 4th Annual Event is Aug. 26 And Will Sell Out in Advance The setting is spectacular – high on a cliff in Palos Verdes, CA at an exclusive golf club – and the event itself surpasses even its surroundings. So it's little wonder that in just four years, the Trump National Wine & Beer Festival has become one of the top social events of the South Bay Beach Cities. It … [Read more...]
Taste of Newport Has Hot Headliners Blondie And Devo
80s Punk Bands Playing on Saturday of the 24th Annual Music, Food and Singles Festival in Orange County The past has seen Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Huey Lewis and the News, the Doobie Brothers, Styx and Pat Benatar, but now the Taste of Newport may have outdone itself. The 2012 event has Blonde AND Devo. On the same night. These iconic early punk bands of the 80s are … [Read more...]
Win A Weekend in New Orleans For Arena Bowl XXV
Big Times in the Big Easy On Some Hot August Nights New Orleans called and I answered. The city is giving away a trip to the Big Easy this summer for Arena Bowl XXV. Airfare, three nights hotel on a weekend, dinner or Sunday brunch at Commander's Palace (that's where Emeril Lagasse kicked his cooking career up a notch), tickets to the Arena Bowl and two pre-event … [Read more...]
Budweiser Back at Indy With Target Chip Ganassi Racing
Graham Rahal So Happy About Sponsorship He Tweeted It A Week Before The Official Announcement Back in 1986, Bobby Rahal won the Indianapolis 500 in a Budweiser-sponsored car. In 2012 his son hopes to do the same. The King of Beers is back at the King of American races, as Budweiser will place the King Of Beers logo on Graham Rahal's No.38 Service Central Honda for the … [Read more...]
On The Rocks Promises to Go Off In Las Vegas
Multi-Day Event To Feature DJs at 30 Nightclubs, Happy Hour Parties & A Beer Festival Nov. 9-11 You think you've partied hard in Vegas before, just wait until On the Rocks takes place. It's the first multi-day entertainment and beverage festival in Sin City, and it features Happy Hour parties, bands, a beer festival and the S.K.A.M. Artist Fan Festival, a DJ-driven … [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...]
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 Hermosa Beach holds a St. Patrick's Day parade on the Saturday before St. Paddy's Day. Here are photos of the parade, which goes from 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. 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 … [Read more...]
St. Patrick’s Day in Savannah Ga. Party Stories Spanky’s
A Parade, River Street And Dying The River and Fountains Green Only Hints at The Fun Here on March 17 The first bar opens at 6 a.m. The last one closes (the same one, actually) at 3 a.m. In between, there is wildness and revelry (all harmless fun; it's important to point that out these days), green beer, green fountains, a green river and 300,000+ people dressed in … [Read more...]
Panama City’s Sober Spring Break After Setting Bikini Record
After 450 Girls Set New Mark As Spring Break Arrives, Some In The 'Redneck Riviera' Are Promoting Alcohol-Free Activities 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 last year on Australia's Gold Coast (get … [Read more...]
Good Weather Drives the Party at Northern Trust Open
President's Day Weekend May Find L.A's Social Crowd At Riviera Country Club Rather Than Mammoth You don't have to be a golf fan to enjoy the Northern Trust Open. All you have to do is like to be outside with a beer in your hand. A good walk spoiled? Hardly. The annual PGA event at Riviera Country Club in Los Angeles is Feb. 16-19 with blue skies and temperatures … [Read more...]
Top New Year’s Eve Party Planning Money-Saving Tips
Take The Stress Out of NYE Plans By Following These Five Suggestions I laughed when I saw a news report on an LA TV station talking about New Year's Eve on the Sunset Strip. The reporter talked to a few restaurants and bars and, while giving a good overview of what's available and the pricing, wrapped up the story with this all-too-familiar warning: "Everything will … [Read more...]
Okay, Bring It On, I’m Ready For Halloween 2011 Parties
West Hollywood's Wild Carnival Just One of Many Party Events To Get Excited About As Adults Dress Up Like Kids and Act Like College Students Sometimes, we just go through the motions. We know something good is coming up, but we kind of get ready for it like a football team doing a morning walk-through at the stadium before a big game. As Halloween 2011 began to … [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...]
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...]