We were fortunate enough to be out a night when this amazing dancer was doing his thing on stage during a Thursday Crib College night to “Foster the People’s “Pumped Up Kicks” which scored our favorite song of the year.
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Dubstep on Crib College Thursdays to “Pumped Up Kicks”
Thursday, February 2nd, 2012College Thursdays at The Crib San Francisco
Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
If there was a major Twink night or college 18 and up night in San Francisco The Crib would definitely be the place to find your boy. You have two rooms of dancing in what is normally a straight club with an exception of Thursday nights it is for the boys and their fag hags. Keep in mind the music in the main room is almost 100 percent hip hop after the drag show is over. There are some performances and contests along the way but the club closes down at 2am and the hip hop becomes a bit reductive with no dance mixes. You have to go in the other room to get dance music and that part of the building closes down earlier. (more…)
Historic Night Clubs Re-Open One Night Only: Studio 54 and Legendary Club One
Tuesday, October 18th, 2011
October is a haunting month indeed when the party monsters come back out to dig us up out of our boredom. Tonight satellite radio’s classic dance station 15 is bringing back Studio 54 for One Night Only. Although they may find some protestors out there since they took off BBC Radio 1 to bring the Studio 54 disco channel. They should have at least moved BBC Radio 1 to another station. The folks at the real Studio 54 would not have been too happy with that move. Back to Studio 54 though… the club itself was known as a warehouse that celebrities flocked to and Steve Rubell and the swinging coke spoon above. The place is American “retro” history at its best and if you have not seen the movie then GO WATCH IT. It stars one Ryan Phillipe when he was scolding hot and features a performance from Amber, Ultra Nate, and Jocelyn Enriquez. The club tonight will open with all of the door drama and dressed up socialites inside dancing to dj Avicii who comes on at midnight. I am excited to hear Avicii spin tonight. This is a private event or shall we say promotion from SiriusXM Radio and you could only call in for the chance to win:
SiriusXM will reopen the doors to club Studio 54 for the first time in more than 25 years for one night only. As a subscriber, you can call toll-free to 1-866-378-2888 for a last chance to get on the exclusive guest list for this amazing night. Invitations will be awarded to subscribers whose stories are compelling enough to get past Studio 54′s legendary doorman, Marc Benecke. It will be a fabulous evening reminiscent of the heyday of what was one of the most famous nightclubs in the world and this is your last chance to be a part of the last dance at the iconic club.
Another club kid fabulous event takes place this week in the big city of Dallas. Club One re-opens its doors for a 20th anniversary. Not quite as old as Studio 54 but still has the legend behind it as one of the famous party monster clubs of the world. It was featured in the movie Party Monster when they took their tour from NYC to Dallas to find club kids all over. Club One also had its celebrity guests and dj’s ranging from Paul Oakenfold to DJ Keoki. Their bathrooms are more like hotel rooms and there’s even a lounge inside the bathroom where you can buy drinks. This club is only open for one night with DJ’s Red Eye and Ronnie Bruno Friday Night for this anniversary in the historic deep ellum district.
Last Friday Night at Town DC
Saturday, October 1st, 2011
Part I of our Washington D.C. series of photos and info. First up is Town Boutique or now known as Town located at 2009 8th St NW. This is a multi-level club and we can safely call it a mega-club. Glad to have such a big gay club in DC after Nation shut down and it is ran by some of the same people. Some of their popular events are MadonnaRama and guest DJ’s who spin for holiday weekends. On most Fridays, the 18 and up night, you can get in free if you check-in with Foursquare but they will doublecheck to make sure its really Foursquare and not just a image. That will save you $12 cover before 11pm.
This club is a must-see for a fun party in the Nation’s Capital and to meet some hot boys. It is not too far from the gay-friendly DuPont Circle. In the photos you will see one of the hot bartenders with the video display in the background, some of the hot college gogo dancers in underwear, NiteCamp Dancers, and part of the fabulous drag show before the night kicks off.
Portland Gay Scene
Sunday, September 26th, 2010
Silverado
First of all if you judge them from their website you will think headless pics of men with tatoos with graphics from 1999 sparkling around. It also misleads by saying “Where the Party Never Ends” oh it ends at 1:50 or so and that is way too early to quit partying on a Friday or Saturday night. The dancers seem to quit even earlier or have bounced around their asses long enough and are taking a few.
I had friends tell me who have visited Portland before that you will see full nude dancers at this Silverado place. It seemed more like an ass showing than the package and balls in the front. We went over to Silverado Wednesday, Friday and Saturday nights and it never seemed all that busy but I guess it must have it weeks or times when hotter dancers are there. We were expecting it to be more like Oasis/wet in DC or like Swinging Richards in Atlanta but it was not as erotic if you ask me.
We heard that they had moved from another location on the hill and it was more on the grubby side of things and now its just not as dirty or scandalous. They do have male strippers seven days a week and located not far from the Embassy Suites hotel if you want to stay close off of 318 SW 3rd Avenue. The Silverado site claims it is open until 2:30am and there is no way we were told to leave at 2am every night. SO that is a lame tease.
Steam is the bathhouse and if you get on Craigslist you will find them shamelessly promoting the place saying “21 yr old bottom needs plowed,” but oh I cant talk on email just come out to the Steam and find me. Good luck with that!
Red Cap Garage
This was by far my top two favorite places to see in Portland not only does it have a unique name, logo, and feel but the dancefloor was the best with a balcony and boxes to dance on and the dancers were good. If you look on review sites they will say that Red Cap garage is a mixed crowd and it is but its more gay and the girls who go there
are ones you would so want to be your next fag hag. They seriously could have a fag hag special bring one in get one free. We experienced the foam party but did not dare to get in the foam but danced to the good music and watched some erotic dancing in the foam. The night before they were having a Fag Tag party and that was where everyone wears white and gets a florescent marker at the door and writes things all over each other. A great idea for any club it was interesting to go around and read what everyone wrote on each others shirts. You would see things like “I’M a Bottom” and “Cum Dump.” Cute. It was a hot college crowd!
If REd Cap Garage (Stark and 11th) was my second favorite club then the top spot goes to CC’s or as some call it CC’s slaughterhouse. We would sure like to know why its called that was itformerly a Slaughterhouse or something? or is it a meatmarket theme? We attended an after Labor Day White Party at this venue and listened to the fabulous music of DJ Robb. He even spun the new Robyn Hang with Me Song!
I loved the CC’s Slaughterhouse because it had plasma screens where you could text DJ requests and text and flirt to other people in the club if they happen to look up at the screen. With Grindr these days though many just get on their iPhone to find someone.
The bar next door called the Rainbow lounge was more like a coffee shop and was not playing the same music as CC’s Slaughterhouse. We could not figure out sometimes they did not even have music and just seemed like a waste of precious club time to stand around in there waiting on a drink with no music– we can do that at Starbucks. The bartenders were not really catching up with the lines either or they needed more bartenders. It took way too long to get a drink around 30 minutes and that is way too long for us gays on a Saturday or Friday night.
Friday nights seemed to be more of a bear night but the music was still good. Thursdays are hip hop with mostly top 40 Pop music and busy, and wednesdays were moderate not real busy with dance music at CC Slaughters.
OVerall the club had a fun dancefloor and boxes with gogo dancers and an upper VIP like area with pretty strong drinks it was a must see club.
Boxxes
This is a club that was more latino on Fridays, has foam parties that do not last very long and most of the people come in Boxes to drink then walk over to the Red Car Garage to Dance since it has the bigger dancefloor and Boxxes has the stronger drinks. They are connected by a hallway and some random bar in the middle. I would call Boxxes more of a bar than a club and the name is a bit misleading considering when I think boxxes I want boxxes to dance on.
Beware of the black lights in PDX town they will be everywhere. Yes, Boy George called from the 80′s and he wants his Black lights back. Also beware of the bums they are everywhere and annoying as hell. I guess they think you are so rich you can afford to give them two dollars every time we see one of the thousand bums who ask everyday. Don’t they know we are saving our money for hot barbacks, bartenders, strippers, gogo’s, and fierce drag queens.. who has money left for a bum? Maybe if they take their shirt off (the cute ones)
If your looking for a Whole Foods in PDX then you can find one down the street from Boxxes. A nice, big whole foods across from a DIESEL on 12th Avenue and then not too far from an American Apparel. So many good places all in one area.
Hotels in the area that are mainstream are the Embassy Suites right by China town and close to Silverado’s, CC Slaughters, Dirty, and Voodoo Doughnuts. Just think you can walk out of your hotel room and order a ‘cock and balls’ at Voodoo Doughnuts then go farther down the street and get a dance from a hot stripper at Silverado. Other hotels not far are the Marriott Courtyard and some others that were not well known chains.
Houston MadonnaRama is still one of the best events of the year!
Sunday, March 14th, 2010
Southbeach Nightclub in Houston has an event every year that is all about Madonna. A night that you just dance, dance, dance, and dance. You can barely get in a drink or even get in a breath because you are dancing so hard. The drug is Madonna and her club music remixed by DJ Ed Bailey just makes a night like no other.
Here is a pic from the line outside of the club in Houston, TX where they throw the MadonnaRama event every Spring. The cover was only $10 and the place was packed with lines outside and reasonable drink prices. There was nitrogen filling up the sweaty dancefloor every now and then to cool things off and they did a few drag performances on the boxes surrounding the huge dancefloor. Yes, this is one of the reasons we made this club the Club of the Year in 2008.
Read more about past Madonna parties. Pics from 2008.
Pulse Grand Re-Opening and Little Boots Live at Tigerheat
Thursday, March 11th, 2010
It is Thursday and it is time to start the weekend back up. This is going to be a big weekend for those of you who will be in Houston because MadonnaRama kicks off again this Saturday and you do not want to miss that for ANYTHING!!
But tonight is the grand re-opening of Pulse nightclub in Orlando. They have remodeled the White room. I have to say that white room was kind of annoying and too bright and many people probably thought the same thing. We do not like florescent like rooms and I am glad to see Pulse is doing something about it!! They have done some secret work on the room keeping it closed while the rest of the club was open and no one knows yet what the room looks like. It is supposed to have more of a dancing area though! The new Ultra Lounge opens up tonight with Industry night at Pulse off Orange in Orlando, FL. The club is 18 and up.
The British sensation is scheduled to perform tonight at Tigerheat in Hollywood, CA. Yes, you will have to set your Tivo to record Madonna on the Marriage Ref to see Little Boots live! She will also be doing a meet and greet. Released last Tuesday in the U.S., “Hands” is her debut solo CD and features the Red One produced UK top 5 hit “Remedy”, “New In Town” and “Earthquake”. Be at the club this evening to meet Little Boots as she makes a special live appearance on the TigerHeat stage and then signs posters and CDs courtesy of her record company. You know you will already be pumped after watching the Lady Gaga video premier of Telephone on E! News tonight you better go dance it off!!
Clubs that bully patrons into minimum bar tabs
Sunday, 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!