CoolJunkie visits Chocolate Sunday's at Purdy Lounge for their monthly spelling bee. Each correct answer gets one a shot of Jäger. Winner scores a $50 bar tab.
Spelling bees conjure up many memories for me, none of them good. It reminds me of the second grade spelling bee I failed miserably; bright lights, soccer mom paparazzi snapping pictures and fellow classmates waiting for me to slip up so they can get a little bit closer to spelling glory. But Pu...
The Girl About Town returns from the West Coast victorious and ready to rekindle the flame with her home town.
A great week away and oh, the stories I could tell. Coachella stands as the cleanest, most efficient and most beautiful music festival I've ever seen. On a polo field - in the middle of the desert - surrounded by mountain ranges - I witnessed some of the best live music I ever have and probably e...
This week the Girl About Town reflects on post-conference lethargy, our slowly growing weekly seedlings and the herbal celebrations on the horizon.
It seems like the post-conference lull hasn't completely lifted. Maybe the drizzles had something to do with it, but a few rainy nights shouldn't be any excuse for the well-weathered night owls of the Beach and Downtown. Regardless of these thinner crowds, things seem to be looking up for a lot o...
In the midst of the Spring Break flood, the Girl About Town weaved her way through a warehouse party, a Dennis Rodman sighting, the Calle Ocho pandemonium, Chocolate dipped Sunday fun and avoided the 'breakers at all costs.
Hold tight my local Junkies, the Spring Break rush will soon be over and those drunken 20-somethings will go back to whatever rinky-dink college town they came from. These Greek-life prototypes in button-downs and their sun-burnt or fake-tanned, blonde haired companions have been floodin...