Clubs that bully patrons into minimum bar tabs

March 7th, 2010

This is illegal when it comes to MasterCard and Visa rules.  It is against their rules.  The club should not be allowed to take credit cards when they bully patrons into this.  Here is the problem… You go into a club and the bartender tells you he must hold your id and your credit card and you must buy a minimum of $60 in drinks.  This happens way too often in Miami at clubs like Discotekka .  The problem with this is not only will this be a quick way for the club to go out of business fast it will also be a way for the credit card companies to be contacted and stop any transactions in that club.  Discotekka should be seized of all credit card transactions for using this bait and switch tactic.

I was at Discotekka last night in Miami which is located downtown and is a 18 to enter gay club on Saturday nights with 3 rooms.  I walked in two different rooms which had a broken ATM machine.  The ATM in the front was down and the one by the bathroom was out of order.  This should have alerted the bartenders that hey they should not charge this minimum of drinks.  Listen you jerks… if your ATM is broke you should not charge us a minimum for drinks or require a minimum of a ridiculous $60 or so.  Living Room the bitchy club in Ft. Lauderdale also requires this and their ATM was broken as well.

The ironic thing is that one of the bouncers was outside at Discotekka having people sign this petition to stop the clubs from being closed at 3am instead of being open later.  Well who cares when your clubs are open if you cannot even get a drink because your ATMs and your credit cards policy is so scandalous.  You guys need to learn how to run a business better and treat your customers better.

I will say that Discotekka was a fun club once you get past all the rules of the bars.  They had three rooms with dancefloors and one semi-outside bar to break away from all the smoke.  They had a drag show performed by TP Lords and a nice VIP section.  It is located not far from ParkWest and Space in Downtown Miami.

We also noticed that Mansion did the same thing in Miami.  Their ATM machines were out of service and yet you had to have a $40 minimum tab to open a credit card.

One Miami alert from the weekend is that police are randomly stopping or profiling gay clientele at Club Aqua at 2991 coral way.  Someone made a rather dramatic post about this but we cannot confirm that this is going on at this Aqua Club (which I have never heard of).  Stick to supporting  the gay clubs!

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Rollerskating Diva Kimberly Cole to perform at Tigerheat and Krave

February 25th, 2010

Packing to head for Florida this weekend but had to sit down and take a look at this artist after watching her Youtube Video.  I was thoroughly impressed.  She is not only a hottie, sings catchy tunes, and has hot dancers parading around her but she rollerskates too!  Yey!  I love this girl and hope she is at lots and lots of events this year for us to see.  You can see her perform live at Avalon in Hollywood coming up April Fool’s Day at Tigerheat’s weekly event.

Kimberly Cole is a gifted singer, songwriter, musician and performer with a debut EP titled, “Superstar” out now. Kimberly Cole who has over 1 million twitter followers (Twitter.com/kimberlycole1) has opened for Katy Perry, LMFAO and performed with acts such as Shiny Toy Guns. She will be promoting her new single, “Smack You” at Club Tigerheat on April 1st, the day it releases.

Do you have Winter Olympics Fever? Kimberly Cole grew up as a champion roller-skater who trained at The Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, CO, and has found a fun and edgy way to incorporate roller-skating into her dance routines.

The MTV Buzzworthy Kimberly Cole performed at the 11th annual Choreographer’s ball and you could tell the crowd was just lovin’ it especially when they all danced around in rollerskates.  That is my favorite!  I have not seen such fun rollerskating choreography since the Madonna Confessions Tour.

Upcoming shows for Kimberly Cole this year include The Playboy Mansion, Krave located near Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas, TigerHeat at Avalon in Hollywood and more. Half of her live show is on roller-skates and is a must see from the Youtube videos I have seen. She just performed live at Cherry Pop, a monthly gay event at Factory/Ultra Suede for those that were lucky enough to have seen this.

Tigerheat as you know is my ultimate favorite weekly event here in the US for those 18 and up and is one of the hottest venues for the hottest newcomer performances. You may see her here one week then see here on the MTV VMA’s in a year from now. What a fabulous way to celebrate April 1st and Spring break for some!

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GLBT Nightclub & Bar Event at Tabu Ultra Lounge

February 24th, 2010

The 2010 Official GLBT Nightclub & Bar Event will be held Tuesday, March 9th, 2010 at Tabu Ultra Lounge in Las Vegas. If you are not familiar with the Nightclub and Bar Event it is a annual Convention and Trade Show which this year is celebrating its 25th anniversary. Taking place March 8-10 at the Las Vegas Convention Center, the Nightclub & Bar Convention is part of International Hospitality Week, a great place to meet industry professionals at all three shows.

Madison Hildabrand from Bravo’s Million Dollar Listing will serve as the celebrity guest host for the Official GLBT Nightclub & Bar Event at Tabu Ultra Lounge on Tuesday, March 9. Come join celebrity host Madison Hildebrand and Manhunt.net, Q Vegas Magazine, Sunkissed LGBT Pool Party, Sin City Q Socials, CRUSH Anti-smoking Org., and many more LGBT organizations to celebrate the largest GLBT event of the year!

Madison Hildebrand is an extremely successful Malibu Realtor featured on 3 seasons of Bravos HIT reality series, “Million Dollar Listing”. Check out Madison’s new book, Activate YOUR Passion, Create YOUR Career. You even get a chance to meet Madison in person and see if hes as hot in person as he is on TV. His professional website is located at www.themalibulife.com.

One of Vegas’ Favorites, DJ AXIS spinning live at Midnight with CRUSH Cuties & CRUSH Giveaways all night. Actor Dan Aykroyd will also be attending the expo where he will make a keynote speech.

in related news…
The LGBT part of the event at Tabu Lounge is thrown by the same folks that brought you the Sunkissed GLBT Pool Party. They have announced that the Sunkissed Pool Parties will be back in 2010 and to stay tuned!

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Revolver Release Parties

February 11th, 2010

Madonna’s ‘Revolver’ is set to be released as the second single from the Celebration album which was a greatest hits collection but two songs.  The Revolver song was a song with Lil’ Wayne but does not include him in some of the hottest remixes such as the PVD – Paul Van Dyk mix played on BPM and in clubs.

Tigerheat the 18 and up once-a-week event in LA in the Avalon venue will be bringing you the CD release party for “Revolver” tonight.

Tonight at TigerHeat we will be causing a commotion in Hollywood as we get together to celebrate the CD single release of “Revolver” taken from the latest greatest hits collection “Celebration” from the material girl, Madonna! “Revolver” features Lil Wayne and is now available as both a digital EP and a CD maxi single, complete with remixes by David Guetta, Paul van Dyk and Tracy Young. Everybody is heading down tonight to TigerHeat to get into the groove as we play the hottest Madonna music videos all night long. There is bound to be plenty of hanky panky going on as we digger deeper and deeper into our prize vault and dress you up in rare Madonna t-shirts and posters and copies of her new 2 disc CD “Celebration” and “Revolver” CD maxi singles! Be sure to express yourself, and enter our drawing for your chance to be our lucky star for the night, courtesy of her record company. Come feel the HEAT tonight at TigerHeat, “where the beautiful strangers meet every Thursday night”

‘Revolver’ has been playing in BoysTownLive for months now and on BPM as an add for a few weeks.  The clubs have been slow in getting this song launched but this is most likely Madonna’s record label moving things along slowly…

Orlando’s official release party will be held on Thursday, February 18th at Revolution Nightclub off 375 Bumby Ave.  There is no cover with a College ID or a Theme Park employee ID (hey Disney boys) until 12.  Showtime is at midnight with Angelica Sanchez and the pledge cast.

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Ke$ha to Perform White Party Palm Springs

February 2nd, 2010

KeshaWhat What! Jeffrey Sanker knows how to impress.  I noticed he was on facebook the other day asking who everyone thought would be the best performer to bring to the White Party.  I saw many say Lady Gaga, Ke$ha… and lots of requests for Adam Lambert.  I even saw some interesting names such as Dolly Parton and La Roux (wow that would be fun as well).  The big headliner will be Ke$ha.

Ke$ha is set to perform at the White Party 2010 in Palm Springs, California.  The artist who likes to spell her name with the money sign is set to perform Saturday, April 10th on the same stage that we fell in love with Lady Gaga.

Their are a few things to remember this year.  First that the White Party will NOT be on Easter Weekend like in years past.  So make sure you get your vacation days off for this big event.  Also, the Renaissance hotel is the host hotel this year and it will most likely sell out faster than last year because its newly remodeled.  They did a $25 million remodel on this hotspot and now its a Marriott ran chain which is a plus!  The Renaissance is the same exact location as the host hotel before with the remodel and name change.  It previously was the Wyndham. So yes its more fabulous now.

Friday, April 9  -  Noon to 6pm DJ Luke Johnstone Friday Pool party with Free Admission.

9pm to 4am  Boxers or Briefs underwear party with DJ Abel in association with iclubpapi in the Renaissance Hotel Grand Ballroom.  There will be a secure clothes check available.  Erika Jayne will be performing this event.  You know we love her!

Saturday, April 10  Agnes will perform “Release Me” with DJ Brett Hendrichsen from Masterbeat playing the poolside music.    Saturday night  at the Palm Springs Convention Center Ke$ha will be singing live and The Freemasons (DJ’s. producers, remixers) will be spilling in the main room while Chi Chi LaRue works her tits over in the Electropop lounge.  The Freemasons have some great remixes out one of them is Whitney’s “Million Dollar Bill.”

4am to 10am Afterparty event – Then Chus and Ceballos plan to bring a in state-of-the-art lights/sound  and mind altering lasers for a party in the Renaissance Ballroom.  A special performer will be announced in a few more days on top of all of this for this DJ set.

The Sunday Pool party will feature DJ Joe Gauthreaux and a performance from Shontelle who sings “T-shirt” $15 to get in and $10 if your a hotel guest.

Sunday is the famous Tea Dance under the Big Top from 3pm to 9pm with a Brand new location across from the Palm Springs Convention Center.  Just look for the big Ferris wheel and listen for the pounding beats of DJ/Producers Moto Blanco.  My favorite part is DJ Wayne G. from Heaven London – um yes the best club in the World!  Special Live Performance to be announced Feb 15.  They plan to have a bigger dancefloor, new rides, the ferris wheel, and fireworks!    The closing party will be Sunday from 9pm to 6am with DJ Tony Moran and if you can still move after all of the above then you are one hardcore party animal.

I would be nice if we did not have to book the hotel for a minimum of three days but it looks like there is no way out of that.  I waited last year last minute to book the hotel and they let us book it for two days only which was nice.  That way we could party in LA a few nights before we came to Palm Springs.  Last year, Lady Gaga was just amazing and so were all of the DJ’s including the Perry Twins and Andy Bell at the pool party!  This year is looking to be just as exciting and I cannot wait!

I noticed the sponsor of this years White Party event will be a natural drink company which is nice.  Maybe we will start getting more natural drinks in the clubs instead of the high fructose junk.  The company also has a coconut water beverage and I guess that is the next biggest thing since Madonna is even on board now with a Coco beverage.

So get that pedicure on your toes toes so the DJ can blow the speakers up at the Renaissance hotel in Palm Springs!

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Perry Twins on Tour 2010

January 29th, 2010

You always should know when the hottest DJ’s are coming to a city near you.  Let’s drop the list of when and where the hottest twin dj’s will be performing (below).  They are currently on the set filming the latest Lady Gaga video in an abandoned prison.  The video will show them with Beyonce and Lady Gaga as part of her upcoming ‘Telephone’ hit.  I was not too big on the ‘Video Phone’ song but I sure love the ‘Telephone’ version and if it includes the Perry Twins than it will be packed with lots of talent!

They will be at the Winter Party in Miami which is a circuit event that is to not be missed!  The pool party alone at the Doubletree Surfcomber is such a good time!!

1/16/10 Winterfezt – Leon, Mexico

2/13/10 Krave – Las Vegas

2/14/10 Sidebar – San Diego

2/25/10 Telluride Gay Ski Week

3/6/10 Winter Party – Miami

3/13/10 Celebrities – Vancouver, BC

3/27/10 Tracks – Denver

4/25/10 Fresh – San Francisco

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The Advocate ranks Atlanta as America’s Gayest City, Really?

January 28th, 2010

The February 2010 edition of the Advocate contains an article written by Mike Albo that has uses an interesting way to calculate their findings that Atlanta could be the nations gayest city.  The online edition of the magazine shows us different variables they used such as online hook up sites, dating sites, gay bars, number of open elected officials, among some other data.  My favorite part was the fact they actually considered gay movies tagged on Netflix as a point for that city.

We do clubs so lets first talk about that factor.  Atlanta is was one of the best cities when it comes to the club scene um you know about 5 years ago or more.  That time is way over and they have since shriveled up to smaller bars without a full time Jungle and Backstreet.  Their liquor laws are some of the strangest in the country but those may be changing.  The only thing Atlanta has now in their scene are some of the countries hottest guys, spread out bars with no centralized direction, and a naked baccalaureate party nude bar.

They claim there are 26 bars in Atlanta but fail to mention the true number for cities like Austin, TX?  Austin has more bars than 4 my friends!  What exactly is this bar count number based on?  I mean if you want to base it on popular bars then Atlanta may well go down to the number 4 itself leaving it almost in a tie against Austin at 4.  More people go out in Austin on the weekdays and they both have big circuit parties.

I respect the journalism behind most anything the Advocate… well that is until they got pushed into Out magazine and became a insert for the Out.  It has mostly became an online site just like everything else we were used to seeing show up in our mailboxes.  The article itself makes me want to examine a few things that could matter such as number of clubs vs. online profiles.  I see some cities such as Albuquerque, NM ranks high in online profiles (lesbians?) and low in bars.  Then you see San Diego ranking high in bars and low in online profiles.  They getting on Craigs’ List for this too? Just Sayin’

It stereotypes Seattle as the birthplace of Grunge and having numerous cute boys but I have to say Seattle was just not exactly that definition.  Hmm maybe some cute boys here and there (hotter online than at the club).   I thought I might get impressed with this city but it just never happened.  Maybe I needed to smoke something? lol.

Oh wait maybe we should go back to this Netflix ranking system.  You also notice the Netflix towns are places where they are most likely having boyfriends and sitting at home watching movies.  Now that sounds more like Atlanta, Seattle,

What I got most out of this report from the Advocate magazine is that Asheville, N.C. is now on notice!  I want to visit this city and put it on notice because it has lots of places to drink and lots of guys online but wait let’s take a look at who is on a4a hook up site now from 18 to 30 years old:

Asheville, N.C.  has 178 Adam 4 Adam profiles with photos from 18-30 years but at 3am EST time there are only 23 online.  Well ok you guys may not stay out late but is anyone home?   The city of  Dallas, Jacksonville, and Ft. Lauderdale looked all about the same until you looked at who had logged in the last few days or most recent.  Dallas  (377);    Oklahoma City  (401 profiles)  (68 now);   Albuquerque  (398 profiles) (89 now);    Jacksonville, FL a hot college town!  (500+ profiles)  (97 now);   Broward C. Fort Lauderdale  (134 online now)  Austin  (237 now).  Seems the college jerkers are up late tonight!  This also compares to Arkansas  (112)  Huntington Beach  (43)  Greater Hollywood  (289) all online right now hooking it up on Adam 4 Adam.  Arkansas, yes that is only 112 people online right this minute.  Then again maybe everyone is looking at Xtube this time of night.

My findings examining this closer is that if you want to find out where the older gay population lives that is more relationship oriented you should judge by Netflix movies because they scored low in college towns and higher in cities where there was more couple type stuff going on.  If you want to dance your glitter off at some gay dance hole then you better pick a city that has some big enough for those who are all online otherwise most of those people will probably not go out.  If there is not anything for them to do they may stay in or goto a straight club or get a lap dance at Swingin’ Richards.

Atlanta is a beautiful city full of those Southern boys you want to take home.  The gay bars almost need a shuttle to one another they are so spread out though.  Midtown is just not what it used to be anymore.  The Pride and Halloween (if not combined are always a big event) then you have HotLanta and the circuit events that come to town that shake the boys out of their homes to play!

I think one of the most liberal, gayest cities I went to in terms of young happy couples was Boston, MA – even though they just lost out to that Brown posing Cosmo guy (how gay is that?).  The best gayest city for the NUMBER of clubs is London (if you want to mention out of the U.S.), West Hollywood, Ft. Lauderdale, Austin, Dallas, Houston, Columbus, and maybe even Las Vegas.  But let’s not forget the absolute gayest city in terms of number of CLUBS right now is Orlando, FL.  They have more clubs than any US city I have been to including Pulse, Revolution, P-House, and Salvation… and Rain.  Not counting the few several other bars.  Orlando should have topped this list they definitely have online profiles but I am sure they could care less about Netflix because they are probably on a different flix site in that city!

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Beware the thieves in the night

January 26th, 2010

or the light… it is sad we have to worry about such things but it seems the stolen phones and wallets seem to be skyrocketing lately.  I have had more and more people telling me stories about wallets and smart phones being stolen in the past few months.  It seems to be getting out of hand and the clubs may need to keep an extra eye out for some of the con men doing this.

Your out drinking and having a good time or trashed on who knows what and you are somewhere you feel that you can trust the environment around you because you felt safe there before.  You dance away the night then you look in your pocket to see what time it is from your iPhone and realize that it is missing from your pocket.  You then freak out wondering where you could have put it hoping it is at the bar or in the bars lost and found.

With no luck you have asked everyone where the phone could be and feel naked without that nice iPhone bulge in your pocket.  You have most likely been pick-pocketed from someone who goes out everynight or mostly on busy nights to get in your pants.  Get in your pants the way you did not intend.  The same happens with your wallet which may be what happens most often because most people leave the wallet in their back pocket.

I find myself on busy nights putting my wallet in my front pocket or splitting up my ID and one credit card in a front smaller pocket in case someone does steal it.  I find myself in the busiest of clubs such as this Prague club where I had my iPhone stolen.  That just ruined my trip to the Czech Republic and made me think they were all theives.  But then again I should have just left my cell phone at the hotel and had it locked up in the safe.  I mean if you can’t keep it in your front pocket with tight jeans on there where can you keep it?  maybe we need crotch pockets for this…

I learned to put a lock on my iPhone and bought insurance on it online.  AT&T does not offer any kind of loss insurance for its Apple based smart phone even though it will offer insurance on all of its other phones including Blackberry’s.

Just in the past month I have known 4 people personally that have had incidents where their wallet was grabbed from their back pocket in gay bars.  This is really surprising to me that it is getting so bad you have to be in defense mode all the time that something can be stolen like this.

I think that in some of the 18 and up clubs that they should have the monitors who watch for underage drinking also watch for these wallet and phone thieves.  Catch some of them in the act.  The bad thing is that most of these crimes do not get reported so we never hear about it unless someone tells us personally.  We know the clubs  do not even get it reported en0ugh so they may not know how bad the problem is… Losing your ID or passport is normally the worst thing that can happen because then you are really SOL.   I guess the best thing to do is to keep one sober eye open and one hand on your front pocket and one on your butt at all times lol.

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