Is our appetite for televised athletics fizzling like Bobcats' season ticket sales? Hardly. Ale's suffered from a geography handicap, where the desolate stretches of Church and 3rd were only populated during home Panther games. H&D never shook the stigma of its comparisons to an airport bar and a pesky nightlife writer who picked on its cheesy menu headings.
Picasso's Sports Cafe will replace Ale's, supposedly waiving the aforementioned location issue, while Verona Lounge will occupy H&D's former second story spot over the 5th and Tryon intersection. Picasso's East Boulevard location will be unharmed.
Other suggestions for H&D's old prime spot:
- Duty-free shop; they got that airport thing going for them.
- Storage for a creepy mannequin display, with all that glass up there.
- Free BB gun target practice--make your best spiderweb crack!
- Innovative satellite Charlotte-Mecklenberg police station, to detain the surly types in a drunktank while we peep.
- Blow out all that glass, and make it the city's largest tiki bar.
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Charlotte cordially invites you to save the date on July 20, 2006 for an evening with aspiring heavyweight champ Calvin Brock at Cans from 6-8 pm.
I don't know the man, but he's awful pretty in his press release and I wonder how this "boxing banker" keeps that nose so straight. It almost makes me not want to hit him.
The event's interest is in recruitment; obviously, this organization's influence changes lives, but let's hope they leave the Little Brothers and Sisters at home while promoting their cause at a bar.
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While the University area teems with traffic and coeds, CarolinaNightlife.com is capitalizing on the sun with pool party dates at area apartment complexes.
I see no July dates, but a combination of bikinis, free drink and food, and a DJ would indicate that this coming weekend's first trip to Campus Connection may change that...if the bikinis show up.
I see no problem there.
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Grand Central celebrates its third anniversary on Saturday night with a little help from its friends at Lazyday.com where they'll buy your Bud Light from 7 to 10.
I've long preached this is the new Hut, for those who remember The City's Best Former Tiki Bar on College Street where eighties and nineties singalong ruled the day.
A good friend of mine calls it Satan's Lair, where its dark myths have dropped him all over the city in strange girls' apartments. Even the Number of the Beast on 6/6/06 left it unfazed.
Here's to many more.
Reach Bryan. All emails will be answered. Join his Myspace friends group...none of his real friends will sign up.
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