Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Always Live
South Campus spies inform me that the Newport resembled Newport State Penitentiary last night… Empty pockets and pat down searches…
Quick Read
On a morning when one would expect President Obama’s one-hundredth day to consume the news, Suzanne Hoholik’s story on swine flu owns the front page…
Aaron Portzline (sports) types a fascinating story about the jeopardy facing the Blue Jackets announcers (the story includes great reporting on the franchise’s micromanagement)… And Bob Hunter (sports) contributes a solid column, which perfectly spells out the weakness of the Big Ten Conference…
Aaron Portzline (sports) types a fascinating story about the jeopardy facing the Blue Jackets announcers (the story includes great reporting on the franchise’s micromanagement)… And Bob Hunter (sports) contributes a solid column, which perfectly spells out the weakness of the Big Ten Conference…
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
INVITE: Beer Shot Game Night
Commencement: 8:00Venue: Spice Gastro Lounge (491 Park Street)
Competitions
Beer Pong (Tournament)
Cornhole
Fooseball (Tournament)
Flip Cup
Wii Bowling
Drinks (Available All Night)
$3 Bottles (16 ounces)
$3 Jack & Coke
$3 Mango Bombs
$3 Soco & Lime Shots
Co-Sponsors
Beta Pong
Ohio Beer Pong League
INVITE: Sports Monster Cornhole Tournament
Commencement: 7:00Venue: Lodge Bar (Arena District)
Champions Receive: Gift Cards & Prizes
Competitors Receive: T-Shirt
Drinks (Available 7 – 9 p.m.)
$4 Cherry Bombs
$3 Soco & Lime
$1 Mug refills
Sponsor
Sports Monster
Quick Read
Tuesday’s exemplary front page offsets an extremely muddled sports section… Robert Vitale (front page) types an excellent story on Mayor Michael Coleman’s income tax increase proposal… Suzanne Hoholik and Kathy Lynn Gray contribute intriguing stories on the swine flu outbreak… Dan Gearino’s story on General Motors’ quest to save themselves is informative… Also informative, Steve Warternburg’s read on the Central Ohio recruitment of Chase…
Since I mentioned sports… Rob Oller leads with a Cleveland Cavaliers editorial and Mark Zhinder presents a piece on Oakland Raiders second round selection and Ohio safety Michael Mitchell… Do I live in Cleveland or Athens (and if not, why am I reading about their athletes?)… Bob Baptist types an interesting portrait of B.J. Mullens pre-draft program… And Aaron Portzline rescues the section with his lead about Steve Mason’s nomination for the Vezina Trophy…
Since I mentioned sports… Rob Oller leads with a Cleveland Cavaliers editorial and Mark Zhinder presents a piece on Oakland Raiders second round selection and Ohio safety Michael Mitchell… Do I live in Cleveland or Athens (and if not, why am I reading about their athletes?)… Bob Baptist types an interesting portrait of B.J. Mullens pre-draft program… And Aaron Portzline rescues the section with his lead about Steve Mason’s nomination for the Vezina Trophy…
Monday, April 27, 2009
Quick Read
Monday’s edition is muddled (and that’s the most polite word I can use)… Metro leads with a prom story…. I know its spring, but a prom story? Seriously? Bob Hunter (sports) leads sports with a column evaluating the Bengals and Browns draft picks… (I had Mel Kiper for two days, do I honestly need Hunter’s opinion?)…
Sunday, April 26, 2009
INVITE: Frankie Delgado
Calendar: April 30
Commencement: 10:00
Venue: Sugar Bar (525 Park Street)
Age Range: Male (21 and over); Female (19 and over)
VIP Access: Text (406-3072)
Drinks (Available All Night)
$3 Martinis
$2 Bombs
$1 Wells
Appearance
Frankie Delgado (The Hills)
INVITE: Dogs on the Deck
Calendar: May 7Commencement: 6:00
Venue: Lodge Bar (Arena District)
Complimentary Pizza Buffet
Complimentary Treats & Water
Cash, Collar, & Leash Donations Accepted
Drinks (Available 6 – 9 p.m.)
$3 you call it drinks
$2.25 Domestic Pitchers (32 ounces)
$1 wells
Proceeds Benefit
Capital Area Humane Society
Freebies for the Fifth?
Columbus, this gossip has six passes for Lodge Bar’s Cinco de Mayo celebration. Want one? E-mail me or simply appear scrumptious. You never know… I may choose you…
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You Have Questions... I Have Answers
Since Gossip Cbus began, I’ve been swamped with e-mail (thanks for the love)… While I’ve tried to give individual responses to several, I also know that some of the questions are questions others may have and thus, answering them publicly would be better… Therefore, from time to time, I will answer questions where everyone can see them…
Q: You seem to mention certain people frequently. Do personal relationships play any role in your coverage?
A: Personal relationships play a role in every situation in everyone’s lives. However, my personal relationships play a very minimal role in what is written on this website. The frequency of certain people’s mentions comes from the coverage schedule, not my personal bias. When you cover the same venues or same section of town, you are likely to encounter the same people.
Q: I was at WNCI’s event on Friday… Why weren’t you?
A: I am a huge fan of WNCI. I know several of their people. I listen to their station. And they stage outstanding events… With that said, they have their schedule and we have ours. I am certain there will be occasions that our schedules intersect, Red White and Boom for example… However, if every outlet in the city showed up at th same events, think of how limited the coverage would be…
Q: Will you ever have coverage of Gallery Hop?
A: The Short North is one of the most treasured and unique aspects of this city. While we may not cover Gallery Hop specifically (although this remains a possibility), we have covered and will continue to cover various components of the neighborhood, such as artists, clothing shops, or galleries themselves.
Q: You seem to mention certain people frequently. Do personal relationships play any role in your coverage?
A: Personal relationships play a role in every situation in everyone’s lives. However, my personal relationships play a very minimal role in what is written on this website. The frequency of certain people’s mentions comes from the coverage schedule, not my personal bias. When you cover the same venues or same section of town, you are likely to encounter the same people.
Q: I was at WNCI’s event on Friday… Why weren’t you?
A: I am a huge fan of WNCI. I know several of their people. I listen to their station. And they stage outstanding events… With that said, they have their schedule and we have ours. I am certain there will be occasions that our schedules intersect, Red White and Boom for example… However, if every outlet in the city showed up at th same events, think of how limited the coverage would be…
Q: Will you ever have coverage of Gallery Hop?
A: The Short North is one of the most treasured and unique aspects of this city. While we may not cover Gallery Hop specifically (although this remains a possibility), we have covered and will continue to cover various components of the neighborhood, such as artists, clothing shops, or galleries themselves.
Quick Read
Sunday’s sports includes exquisite coverage of a stellar weekend… Ken Gordon types a solid column on Terrelle Pryor’s spring game exhibition… Gordon and Tim May collaborate on a great read about former Buckeyes, who were selected in the first and second rounds… The section also features a first round draft spread and a Blue Jackets season in review, in which Aaron Portzline types an intriguing column about the franchise’s offseason strategy…
The front page leads with a fascinating read on Central Ohio’s housing downturn… Bill Bush also contributes an interesting piece on COTA maintaining riders, despite the gasoline price plunge… Tim Ferran (metro) presents an excellent portrait of Conrad’s College Gifts Owner… Unfortunately, Mark Hudson (metro) ends my reading with a bizarre story about a former football player turned artist who committed suicide (and if you think that sounds complicated, wait until you read the piece)…
The front page leads with a fascinating read on Central Ohio’s housing downturn… Bill Bush also contributes an interesting piece on COTA maintaining riders, despite the gasoline price plunge… Tim Ferran (metro) presents an excellent portrait of Conrad’s College Gifts Owner… Unfortunately, Mark Hudson (metro) ends my reading with a bizarre story about a former football player turned artist who committed suicide (and if you think that sounds complicated, wait until you read the piece)…
Mindy Hall, Randomness Rock Frog Bear & Wild Boar
America is obsessed with celebrity… The celebrity can be illegitimate. It can be self-indulgent. It can even be unfavorable… If someone is assessing, discussing, or replicating you, they are not paying attention to someone else… And that attention is what you crave.
Following my extra hour, I arrived at the Frog Bear and Wild Boar, with minutes remaining until Mindy Hall’s appearance… Now, if you were following us on twitter (and I know some were, I saw your phones)… You would know that I delayed coverage of this event not once, but twice, mostly due to the early anemic crowd… Thankfully, the crowd was vastly improved when I returned…
Amidst the crowd, I encountered Frog Bear and Wild Boar Promotions Superstar Jeff, who was visibly amped for Mindy Hall’s appearance… Our conversation covered (which it seemingly always does), an infinite number of topics… None more memorable or ridiculous than the event several bricks venues have planned for next weekend… The Snuggie Bar Crawl… (Immediately, upon seeing the poster, I had one thought… I can’t cover these venues anymore; they’re encouraging people to wear blankets with sleeves).
Jeff and I’s conversation continued into the Gossip Awards, the Scratch Pack and several other upcoming events… We were also joined by a bunny, who talked faster than most people consume shots… While her conversational tone was perplexing, her point was concise and clear… The Frog Bear and Wild Boar isn’t crushed six days each week, because they don’t market themselves into colleges (My only thought is why not?)…
As the conversation concluded, I encountered another pair of previous subjects… Lodge Bar DJ Michael and Frog Bear and Wild Boar Owner David Allsbrooks. Michael and I discussed this website and that he had attempted to lobby his friends into his employer, but they wouldn’t… Allsbrooks and I discussed the Oho State spring game (which he apparently had to DVR, because he was playing golf)…
With the clock approaching Hall’s appearance, the crowd continued improvement… Unfortunately, the crowd’s randomness also continued… The guy in the motorcycle jacket obsessed with her standing in the corner… The heifer who had a tacky crown on her head (we’ll discuss that subject again soon)… And the random that owned the evening’s initial conversation… The white person who was break dancing… Yes, I said it… He was break dancing… (The eighties phoned… They’d like him back)…
Finally, Mindy Hall arrived at approximately eleven… From her initial moment, one could surmise that this wouldn’t be the typical city celebrity appearance… Lodge Bar would have roped off a section… Sugar Bar would have put security around her and made her invisible and unapproachable… The Frog Bear and Wild Boar allowed her to interact with the crowd…
Wearing a scrumptious dress and spider web inspired strappy sandals, Mindy was rapidly the subject of every male’s attention and every female’s jealousy… The crowd encircling her rarely numbered fewer than twenty and they followed with her as if they were Augusta’s patrons following Tiger Woods onto Amen Corner…
Aside from Mindy Hall (you mean there were people in the venue not paying attention?), the crowd remained impressive… As I said on twitter, one can always gage the tone of the evening through the actions and movements of the bartenders… If they are dancing, the night is either energetic or pedestrian or they are drunk… If they are barely communicative, they are either bored or swamped… Tonight, they were sprinting between orders… Bolting from register to register, making sure that the crowd following Mindy Hall could return to following her…
Since I mentioned the bartenders, I must recognize one specifically… I know I’ve never mentioned Sarah, but after speaking with her on this evening, I cannot comprehend why I haven’t… With an eighteen-carat personality, an uncomplicated mindset, and a smokehouse rasp in her voice (what is it with bunnies and that smokehouse rasp?), Sarah is a captivating combination… You want to speak with her… You want to flirt with her… You don’t want to piss her off….
Equally captivating (for a very different reason) was DJ Bombay, who for the second consecutive week, scorched the patio with his skills… From hip-hop and rap to salsa and techno, Bombay’s selections ran the gambit… They were the most random you will hear in this city… However, they were not ridiculous… There was an organized chaos to his spinning… There was a premise for every song and transition…
If only the evening would have shared a similar premise… Someone offered a bathroom attendant fifty dollars to allow them to have sex with someone else in said bathroom… A dozen heifers crushed the dance floor, offsetting Bombay’s brilliance… And three iniquitous bachlorette parties, each more horrific than their predecessor, made me rethink why anyone in this city ever willingly proposes to someone… I will say this without hesitation; I enjoy the Frog Bear and Wild Boar… But, this crowd was ridiculous…
As she finally worked away from the crush that had encircled her, Mindy and I spoke for minutes (she also has the smokehouse rasp in her voice)… We discussed (speaking of random) her spider web inspired shoes, which unbeknownst to me, were purchased at a Cincinnati mall… I quickly realized that despite her television appearance… Despite her renowned… Mindy is a simple attraction…
Overall, the appearance and the evening were a scintillating success and while I could close with any one of a dozen stories, I will close with the half-dozen tennis bunnies, who perfectly epitomized this evening… They entered at approximately 12:30… They wore pastel tops, white skirts, and truly the most random plaid socks I have ever seen…
Their ensembles were self-indulgent… I am certain there must have been opinions of them which were unfavorable… However, people were noticing them… And obviously, that notice is what they craved…
Following my extra hour, I arrived at the Frog Bear and Wild Boar, with minutes remaining until Mindy Hall’s appearance… Now, if you were following us on twitter (and I know some were, I saw your phones)… You would know that I delayed coverage of this event not once, but twice, mostly due to the early anemic crowd… Thankfully, the crowd was vastly improved when I returned…
Amidst the crowd, I encountered Frog Bear and Wild Boar Promotions Superstar Jeff, who was visibly amped for Mindy Hall’s appearance… Our conversation covered (which it seemingly always does), an infinite number of topics… None more memorable or ridiculous than the event several bricks venues have planned for next weekend… The Snuggie Bar Crawl… (Immediately, upon seeing the poster, I had one thought… I can’t cover these venues anymore; they’re encouraging people to wear blankets with sleeves).
Jeff and I’s conversation continued into the Gossip Awards, the Scratch Pack and several other upcoming events… We were also joined by a bunny, who talked faster than most people consume shots… While her conversational tone was perplexing, her point was concise and clear… The Frog Bear and Wild Boar isn’t crushed six days each week, because they don’t market themselves into colleges (My only thought is why not?)…
As the conversation concluded, I encountered another pair of previous subjects… Lodge Bar DJ Michael and Frog Bear and Wild Boar Owner David Allsbrooks. Michael and I discussed this website and that he had attempted to lobby his friends into his employer, but they wouldn’t… Allsbrooks and I discussed the Oho State spring game (which he apparently had to DVR, because he was playing golf)…
With the clock approaching Hall’s appearance, the crowd continued improvement… Unfortunately, the crowd’s randomness also continued… The guy in the motorcycle jacket obsessed with her standing in the corner… The heifer who had a tacky crown on her head (we’ll discuss that subject again soon)… And the random that owned the evening’s initial conversation… The white person who was break dancing… Yes, I said it… He was break dancing… (The eighties phoned… They’d like him back)…
Finally, Mindy Hall arrived at approximately eleven… From her initial moment, one could surmise that this wouldn’t be the typical city celebrity appearance… Lodge Bar would have roped off a section… Sugar Bar would have put security around her and made her invisible and unapproachable… The Frog Bear and Wild Boar allowed her to interact with the crowd…
Wearing a scrumptious dress and spider web inspired strappy sandals, Mindy was rapidly the subject of every male’s attention and every female’s jealousy… The crowd encircling her rarely numbered fewer than twenty and they followed with her as if they were Augusta’s patrons following Tiger Woods onto Amen Corner…
Aside from Mindy Hall (you mean there were people in the venue not paying attention?), the crowd remained impressive… As I said on twitter, one can always gage the tone of the evening through the actions and movements of the bartenders… If they are dancing, the night is either energetic or pedestrian or they are drunk… If they are barely communicative, they are either bored or swamped… Tonight, they were sprinting between orders… Bolting from register to register, making sure that the crowd following Mindy Hall could return to following her…
Since I mentioned the bartenders, I must recognize one specifically… I know I’ve never mentioned Sarah, but after speaking with her on this evening, I cannot comprehend why I haven’t… With an eighteen-carat personality, an uncomplicated mindset, and a smokehouse rasp in her voice (what is it with bunnies and that smokehouse rasp?), Sarah is a captivating combination… You want to speak with her… You want to flirt with her… You don’t want to piss her off….
Equally captivating (for a very different reason) was DJ Bombay, who for the second consecutive week, scorched the patio with his skills… From hip-hop and rap to salsa and techno, Bombay’s selections ran the gambit… They were the most random you will hear in this city… However, they were not ridiculous… There was an organized chaos to his spinning… There was a premise for every song and transition…
If only the evening would have shared a similar premise… Someone offered a bathroom attendant fifty dollars to allow them to have sex with someone else in said bathroom… A dozen heifers crushed the dance floor, offsetting Bombay’s brilliance… And three iniquitous bachlorette parties, each more horrific than their predecessor, made me rethink why anyone in this city ever willingly proposes to someone… I will say this without hesitation; I enjoy the Frog Bear and Wild Boar… But, this crowd was ridiculous…
As she finally worked away from the crush that had encircled her, Mindy and I spoke for minutes (she also has the smokehouse rasp in her voice)… We discussed (speaking of random) her spider web inspired shoes, which unbeknownst to me, were purchased at a Cincinnati mall… I quickly realized that despite her television appearance… Despite her renowned… Mindy is a simple attraction…
Overall, the appearance and the evening were a scintillating success and while I could close with any one of a dozen stories, I will close with the half-dozen tennis bunnies, who perfectly epitomized this evening… They entered at approximately 12:30… They wore pastel tops, white skirts, and truly the most random plaid socks I have ever seen…
Their ensembles were self-indulgent… I am certain there must have been opinions of them which were unfavorable… However, people were noticing them… And obviously, that notice is what they craved…
Always Live
During my extra hour, I visited the preeminent mix pair in this city. Other venues showcase multiple spinners. However, DJ Legend and DJ Steve Chase are unique. Legend is a chaotic genius. He is one of the principal architects of the Scratch Pack. He epitomizes random and exhausts coffee.
Steve Chase is insightful and reflective. He is the former most valuable player, who remains active simply because he appreciates his art form. I know I said this about Lodge Bar Bartender Rick, but with Steve, it merits repetition… When you have the chance to listen to an artist with passion… Savor it… There is nothing better in this world…
Steve Chase is insightful and reflective. He is the former most valuable player, who remains active simply because he appreciates his art form. I know I said this about Lodge Bar Bartender Rick, but with Steve, it merits repetition… When you have the chance to listen to an artist with passion… Savor it… There is nothing better in this world…
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