02.24.10 · 8:59 PM

Tiaras and tinkling, or, peeing in the parking garage: The downside of mega-resorts

Emerging from behind a car while pulling up her lacy black undies, she spotted my plastic tiara that looked stolen from a 10-year-old’s princess-themed party. “Happy birthday!” she proclaimed, though her panties were still not quite in place underneath her miniskirt. “Uh, it’s not my birthday, but thank you,” I replied and tried explaining that I had just left the Queen of Clubs event at Blush, hence the tiara. With a blank look on her face, she teetered in her ... Read more...

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02.22.10 · 7:19 PM

Nightlife Podcast: Swedish Egil

Some DJs can rock a party for a night. Swedish Egil has been making people move for more than two decades. The 56-year-old DJ and remixer calls Los Angeles home where he carved a space for dance music on the American FM airwaves, the Internet and satellite radio. From his beginnings in Sweden with his friend’s mobile DJ company to organizing and playing at his boarding school dances, Egil’s record crate evolved from funk, soul and disco in the ‘70s, ... Read more...

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02.21.10 · 4 PM

Lessons and truisms from Pete’s Dueling Piano Bar

Saturday night’s itinerary brought me to that date-night ground zero — Town Square. Following the successful sale of a kidney (who needs two?) to acquire a parking spot in the same zip code as the popular dueling pianos joint, I joined the birthday party of local gal Teresa V., as thrown by about 15 of her most devoted friends, and already well under way. Pete’s was packed to the rafters with a crowd most clubs would sell their own kidneys ... Read more...

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02.18.10 · 5:52 PM

Nightlife Podcast: Menno de Jong

No wonder 25-year-old Menno de Jong has found so much success in the electronic music game already: He started partying before puberty. Attending Germany’s infamous Love Parade at age 10, de Jong discovered early on the path to his eventual career. “I was 13-years-old in my friend’s basement … with a program called FastTracker,” de Jong says. “The first tracks I did sounded like complete shit.” Fortunately he’s vastly improved production-wise since then and his popularity is rising. Though he ... Read more...

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02.12.10 · 2:45 PM

Nightlife Podcast: BT

Composer. Technologist. Sonik Architect. Electronic music savant BT describes himself as such, but titles cannot truly represent his work. Additionally, in spite of his mathematical influences, technical prowess and production skills—including ground-breaking studio techniques—the music he creates still possesses resounding beauty. “When I’m outside sitting on the ground and looking at trees and throwing rocks in a pond—something I regularly do actually—and looking at the beautiful way a rock displaces the water and makes these beautiful displacement maps and it ... Read more...

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02.4.10 · 3:38 PM

Nightlife Podcast: DJ Hollywood

“DJing and the nightclub industry in this town in general is almost like street hustling.” After 15 years in Las Vegas and four solid nightclub residencies, DJ Hollywood knows nightlife and has carved out a solid place in the city. So much so that a planned sabbatical was recently scrapped when new club Eve came calling. Hollywood is also branching out with guest gigs in and out of Vegas in addition to expanding his BeatClan artist management company and working ... Read more...

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02.1.10 · 3:40 PM

Cleavage for charity, or, Hennessey’s helping hand to Haiti

Another Friday night standing on a bar with drunk dudes hollering. Only this time I was sober(ish) and my cleavage was being ogled in the name of charity. Or more appropriately, they were checking out my hooters for Haiti. The folks at Hennessey’s Tavern asked a few Weekly staffers to donate time behind the bar to raise money for disaster relief on January 29. While I’m a pro when it comes to mixing vodka with either soda, cranberry or orange ... Read more...

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Cocktail of the Week May 15, 2013
by Sabrina Chapman

The Golden Pillar: An architectural cocktail built for XS

This Sunday, XS nightclub celebrates the grand reopening of its after-dark pool party, Night Swim. Along with the bash comes a new offering of signature cocktails served by the pitcher, ...
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