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There are not many Party Monster clubs left in the country anymore after years of raids, rezoning, and money problems… or maybe because the fad ended. Club One was shut down by the City of Dallas due to rezoning issues and has since been shut down. They get to be open one night only though coming up March 15 - the ides of March.

Club One is a landmark of all nightlife and a cultural part of the deep ellum arts district in Dallas, TX. DJ Bryan Konrad will be spinning from Austin with a very cheap cover of $8 until 11:30pm. I can assure you there will be a huge line with that low of a cover price. The club is 18 to enter and this will be a K/os party.

If you are coming to Dallas for this party you may want to check out Station 4 on Friday and Sunday night.

No need to travel all the way to Bourbon Street of New Orleans when all you have to do is walk down your local street. Many clubs across the nation are making a hot gay Mardi Gras party this year.

The Parliament House in Orlando brings out the beads (the ones that go on your neck not rear), body painting, tattoos, and floats. Stilt Walkers, Female Impersonators, Hunky Men, Sexy Women and one Chinese Dragon just to name a few of the things they are mentioning for their party. The P-house resort is located at 410 N. Orange Blossom Trail in Orlando if you have not had a chance to check it out. The events they throw outside and the go-go dancers in their courtyard area are always unexpected fun.

Dallas is host to another annual Mardi Gras night called Carnivale to be held at Station 4 nightclub. This is not a block party like their highly popular Halloween and Gay Pride street events but it should be a reason to go out. Kristine W. will be performing her hits “Stronger” and other #1 dance hits. Expect a big crowd inside S4 since they recently closed down the TMC (Throckmorton Mining Company) while it is being remodeled.

If you dare to see the tits flashing and frat boys jumping up and down for beeds yourself then hit up the real NOLA (not that much to be seen). The official Mardi Gras is held February 1-5 in New Orleans with the Fat Tuesday being February 5. Put on your beads and party like a rock star!

You always see girls oil wrestling and all the erotic fun seems to happen at the the str8 clubs. And I am sure most of us has had a locker room or wrestling fantasy so why not have some fun with that.

The Boy Bar (Cattle Company club in Austin) sure has a good marketing team. They mentioned our site in a myspace bulletin so we gotta give em’ props for that They also have the hottest flyers and youtube videos. Check out these hotties below in this video lube wrestling –

I have not figured out how the hell to show videos on here but I am working on that. I installed a plug-in but it just puts out some white space… but here is the link to the oil wrestling video of the only club in Texas that dares to have something this erotic…

Just as hot are the college boys in St. Louis at the Faces Nightclub wrestling around in Web lube (video preview 1 and 5 below). I recently read this club was going to re-open but they had problems with someone stealing their copper. If anyone can help this club come back and survive again and keep it gay then email them over at facesnolimits.com or on their myspace.com/facesonfourthstreet.

Austin is back up and running with hot boys clubs. It finally has made up for the Boyz Cellar closing down a few years ago. Rain and Oil Can Harry’s both have college nights but the Rainbow Cattle Co. is the most exciting from what we hear.

Located at 305 W 5th St. (just a block from the other gay bars) you can find two nights of dancing for the 18 and up college crowd. The Cattle Company used to be a Country & Western bar during these nights but its changed formats to diversify a bit. Wednesday’s are study break night where “skin is always in”. DJ Ryan Rush playing “NYC Club music” (that could mean anything). I have seen their bartenders and dancers and they are hotties from what I can tell on their site.

Friday night is Boy Bar where they have $3 cheap drinks all night long. The boy on the flyer is hot and you know its Austin with a huge college population going to school at UT so it should bring in a good sized crowd. I am looking forward to checking this out.

I found out that a true VIP of Vegas is to have a Nevada ID. If traveling to Vegas make sure you get a fake Nevada State ID first since your out-of-state ID may not get you anything but a higher price. I learned the Vegas locals not only get buy 1, get 1 discounts to shows but they also get free cover at clubs and all kinds of benefits. Maybe there is a way to obtain a temporary Nevada ID if you are there more than a few weeks. I doubt the homeland security department would like this much though. =)

If you are from out of town then you are normally the shits out of luck when it comes to specials and reasonable priced admissions to the fruit loop clubs and to Krave nightclub. I was amazed that on a Monday and Thursday night I was asked to pay $20 for admission into Piranha and 8 ½. I looked at the lady and said you must be kidding me right? $20 on a weeknight is insane for someone over 21 who will be giving them even more money on alcoholic beverages. I feel that it could even be $10 or $15 but $20 bucks is insane! Especially for the lack of eye candy in this particular club and the fact the drinks are very small.

Oh, let me also mention that they only take cash at Piranha and 8 ½ so you must have a credit card you can do cash advances on or an ATM card. If you use their barely-working ATM Machine you only can get out up to $100 at a time and get charged $2 each time. If you get any money out at all. Good luck with that.

Tuesdays are Trick Tuesday at Krave where they show love to the pimps and hoes. They give away free porn with DJ Mikey Swift and locals get in free.

Wednesday is the smaller club inside of Krave opened to a wet boxer contest and some go-go boys dancing. It draws in a small crowd but a younger crowd than the guys you may encounter in underwear at The Eagle (3430 E. Tropicana Ave.). The Eagle was fun to drink and prance around sexily in my undies but it was not so pretty watching some of these older men doing the same. It is too bad this does not turn into a college boy party in underwear for free drinking all night long. From 10pm to 3am you do get to drink for free if you walk in nothing but underwear so if you can put up with older guys starring at your huge bulge then go for it!

Thursdays are a big night out at Piranha and 8 ½ where they play hip hop in the front room and gay house music in the back dance floor. There is also Whip It 80’s night with $5 Calls/$2 Wells all night at Krave.

Tigerheat night at Krave (3663 S. Las Vegas Blvd.) starts out the Friday night with DJ Ray Rhodes from Hollywood. This club is located just West of the Planet Hollywood Casino and features superstar dj’s such as Tony Moran on Saturdays. They are also the club that hosts Hustlaball one of our kinkiest events of the year. Friday night included a live vocal performance at Krave and was relatively slow compared to a Saturday night out.

Of course a Saturday is big in both clubs and Monday’s are talent nite out normally at 8 ½ or Goodtimes since it goes along with their day off.

Favorite Bartender in Vegas: Nick Starr, Krave Nightclub – this straight boy is hot eye candy and can make fast cocktails for us Kraved alcoholics.

Top 5 Gay Places to Stay in Vegas:
1. Blue Moon Resort - a few blocks from the strip but you will be pampered like a gay king.
2. Paris Hotel & Casino Las Vegas - owned by Harrah’s who is highly GLBT employed
3. Planet Hollywood - next door to Krave nightclub
4. Luxor- Be sure and visit the Spa.
5. Alexis Park Suites - located on Harmon on the fruit loop

Tampa has got it going on when it comes to hotties. We made our way to the West Coast of Florida this weekend and had a great time. We started out in Orlando at Pulse and watched a fabulous charity drag show then went to Mannequins Disco located in Pleasure Island in Disney for some dessert. Friday night we made it to this two story club called Chamber’s which is normally Country & Western upstairs but was hip hop this night. After a full day of being completely hung over we finally worked up the energy to make it out to see Lydia Prim at the G-Bar in the Ybor city of Tampa. I found the best hotel to stay at if you visit Tampa is the Ybor City (East Downtown Tampa) Hampton Inn because it is next door to the G Bar and just blocks away from the other clubs and bars. G Bar had some hot twinkish go-go dancers and some great teriyaki chicken that the lesbians were serving inside. We also saw a hot mannequin (not to be confused with the mannequin from Thursday night). I liked the fact they had a hot female dancer too that spiced things up some.

Gay Bay Tampa Clubbin’

Friday – Chambers (1701 N. Franklin Street, Tampa) – Just a few blocks from G Bar and lots of room to dance upstairs. This night is 18 and up and was packed with a hot crowd.

Saturday – G Bar (1401 E. 7th Avenue, YBOR City Tampa Bay) features VJ Greg Anderson with reasonable cover charge and is 18 and up. This is the gay boy night at G Bar the other nights are more the “g spot” girl nights.

Tampa has had problems in the past with a pride being canceled by the local government. Their next pride event is scheduled as a Winter Pride Tampa Bay on February 23, 2008. Tampa definitely has a better gay scene than we ever expected and you can drink until around 3am at the bars.

I thought we would take a trip to Philly soon and see where the boys are hanging out. I searched for gay clubs and bars and talked to some friends who lived there. Let me know if there is anything that has changed.  I want to make sure I am headed to the right places to get my drink on.

Philly college night seems to be a popular night out at Woody’s (between Walnut and Locust on 13th St.). I remember a Woody’s in Toronto and a Woody’s from Queer as Folk so you can’t go wrong with a place with this name. The website even makes it more appealing with some shirtless boys for the 18 and up night. I read on a blog that they play good house type music instead of just the rap junk they try to put on all of us gays. We appreciate our diva house music dammit! The party ends here at 2am.

Thursdays did not seem to bring up much excitement but maybe you need to stay in to prepare for the very popular Shampoo night out. A straight club turns gay on “Shaft” Friday nights in Philadelphia. Many people I meet out and about have tried to get me to come down on a Friday night to check out Shampoo (415 N. 8th Street). Sounds Fun I think we will head that way before it gets too cold!

Saturday Nights look like they are best at Pure Nightclub. Not to be confused with the Pure we all know in Las Vegas where Mariah “came back” and even Justin Timberlake performed recently at the MTV VMA’s. It has a few things in common with the Pure in Vegas. One thing is it is open all night long which is fabulous. This club in Philly stays open until 8am on Saturdays and have special dj guests including Tony Moran who is one of the super-star circuit spinners. This Pure looks fun with hot boys dancing and a nice tease of the music judging from their website. Hopefully you do not have the same silly dress code as the one in Vegas. Who likes dress codes? I love wearing my flip-flops out some nights and some nights dressing in full glamour.

Another funny thing about the Pure nightclub is where it is located. It is located on 1221 Saint James Street. Is that not the coolest address for a club? I wonder if the party monster himself James St. James has been there. You can take a virtual tour of their club via video (if it works in your browser) to see more.

I feel everyone should support a city such as Philadelphia that is so big on gay rights and even advertises to the gay community. NYC on the other hand has closed down most of its good clubs and barely supported the gay community lately including the gay pride festival. Spend your money in cities that support us!

Some places to research before planning a trip to Philly would be edgephiladelphia.com for news and events and the local clubs websites for the party info. If you know some other good places our blog demographics would be interested in then let us know by posting comments below.

Just in time for the Halloween season I thought we would hit up on the Party Monster days. Otherwise known as ‘Party Monster and the Club Kids age’.

Just so you know where we’re coming from here, there have been books written and film made about a real group of people known as The “Club Kids”. Back in the late 1980s and early 1990s groups of young people went clubbing – nothing remarkable about that. But somehow they got themselves known, well known, famous and then infamous simply for being guys and gals who went partying – it was a social group that, up until then, had not been seen. There was something in the music and the culture of the time that drew this glamorous, outrageous way of dressing out of young people and the Club Kids went all out to get themselves known for being known.

We might call them ‘IT’ girls now but back then they were simply Party Monsters. To be one of the set you had to be young, usually under 25, you would have to have a sense of self styling and would have to be prepared to be outrageous. They’d get up to all kinds of antics in their efforts to get themselves noticed, putting on false airs and graces, false personas and wild costumes. All of these folk were very gifted at self promotion, making something out of yourself, or making something out of nothing you might say, and they were also good at organising the wild parties they soon became associated with. Their lifestyle was fast and furious and often self destructive, with drugs and alcohol addiction going hand in hand with late nights, the wild parties, the outrageous costumes and the antics. But, at a time when the New York (and elsewhere) scene was recovering from the seventies and calming a little, these guys stood out and soon became notorious.

And once they started to get well known the self perpetuation started: they were known simply for being known, they got invited to clubs so that the public would come and gawp at them and that night the club sold out. They were invited onto TV shows to talk about their way of life and ratings went up; they were paid a fortune just to turn up and be at a night spot, a bar, a club. It was a good job if you could get it! They did actually do some work though, they organised club nights, party nights and events at the Limelight club but also at a McDonalds restaurant.

But this kind of fast living and wild partying only leads to one thing; well, it can’t last forever. The ‘king’ of the Party Monsters of New York was a guy called Michael Alig. He rose to fame as one of the Party Monster set, started his own magazine and record label but then the hedonistic lifestyle took over and he spiralled down through drug addiction and finally ended up killing his live in dope dealer and going to gaol.

A movie of his story, and the other party animals around him, was released in 2003 to mixed reviews. Titled “Party Monster” it stars Macaulay Culkin playing the bisexual, self promoting drug addict Michael Alig. The movie also features a performance by Seth Green as James St James and a cameo from Marilyn Manson. It is based on the book “Disco Bloodbath” by James St. James who was another of the original party monsters. The co-adapter/directors of the movie (Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato) have also made a documentary with the same title so if you’re interested to buy the DVD make sure you are getting the version you want.

I can’t promise that watching the movie will help you understand why the “Club Kids” became so famous so quickly but it should go some way to explain the history. Maybe it’s just because they were young, wild and outrageous… Whatever the reason there is a lesson to be learned and a moral too and maybe that’s the appeal of the story: live fast, die young.