This year Halloween falls on a Saturday and is going to be kuh-rayzee! My friends kept asking me to come up with a list of events to help ’em sift through it all so here’s the following. And I picked ones that didn’t sound too douche-y. For your convenience it’s listed from “No cover” to…
Category Archives: Nightlife
Whisky Live: Drinking Around the World in 3 Hours
Creme brulee, caramel, espresso, pralines, prunes. Before I attended the Whisky Live event this week, my default descriptors for good whisky were “smooooth” and “yummy!” But after getting the chance to talk to the reps from such distilleries like Bushmills, Four Roses, Glenlivet, Johnnie Walker and Macallan, to name but a few, and try a…
Cirque du Soleil's Kooza: Stupendous Human Tricks
My first experience with a circus ever was seeing the PT Barnum one when I was a kid. It was the traditional circus with elephants doing tricks and clowns running around, but even as a kid I was none too impressed. “Poor elephants.” That’s why it took me this long to finally see Cirque du…
Booze News: Checkers' $4 Classic Cocktails and Essex Public House's New Beer Cocktails
Uh oh, I think Checkers Downtown got my beloved Copa d’Oro beat in the cheap classic cocktail arena! This Thursday from 4 to 8pm, the newly redesigned Hilton Hotel bar will be featuring $4 classic cocktails from Woodford Reserve. Yum! Old Fashioned: Woodford Reserve Bourbon, sugar cube, dashes of Angostura Bitters, club soda Beehive Cocktail:…
Kahlua Dinner at Loteria Grill Hollywood
Last week I was fortunate enough to be invited, along with “other tastemakers” like Natalie of the Liquid Muse, to partake of a dinner where Kahlua coffee liqueur was incorporated into all four courses at Hollywood’s Loteria Grill. This wasn’t a meal where cocktails were paired with dishes, which I also love by the way….
Cheers, Slainte, Kampai: Whisky Live Los Angeles
Whisky enthusiasts, bourbon aficionados and fans of all the Glens will be swarming the Santa Monica Auditorium next Tuesday for the first Whisky Live in L.A. Up until now, this whisky expo has taken place everywhere but here — Paris, Barcelona, New York. It’s about time! And to think I was so sad about not…
This Weekend: Oktoberfests Galore, Free Coffee Drinks, Sasquatch Kills
Sushi, Maya of ShopEatSleep.com‘s pug, throwing a tantrum because Maya put her in this cheerleader costume. Just had to post it. Besides the exciting fact that LA Beer Week kicks off today continuing on through the 24th, there are a ton of other things going on this weekend. Oy! Thursday, October 15 TINI Grand Opening…
Drinkers Collide: When CoC Meets the Imbiber
I had a chance to meet up with Dan Dunn, aka The Imbiber and Playboy bad boy booze columnist based out of Marina del rey, over several, several ounces of Playmate-inspired wines at the Pourtal Wine Tasting Bar in Santa Monica. If you’ve read his adventures-in-drinking tome Nobody Likes a Quitter, you know that it…
I Heart NY Drinking: Death & Company and PDT
Benton’s Old-Fashioned at PDT Forget about dietary do-gooding and sinless sipping; when I’m in New York, hell’s yeah all bets are off. Especially when it involves deep-fried bacon-wrapped hot dog slathered with kimchi and cocktails made by famed mixologists in New York City. With Lindsey and Dave of Live the Lush Life as my guides,…
This Weekend: Diva Costume Sale, Ghostbusters Cemetery Screening, Oompah & Brews
I’m still in NYC but was thinking about you guys and your weekend plans. I’ve got some ideas. BTW, I’ll be back in LA in time for Taste of Abbot Kinney. You going? Thursday, October 8 826LA’s Young Hollywood Party 2009 Fete it up with industry folk, tastemakers and celebs at the 7th Annual Young…
