Charlottesville Young Professionals, 91.9 WNRN, & cVillain are inviting YOU to come and get your Zombie on, Friday, October 30th.  The event is scheduled to kick off @ 10:10PM on the Downtown Mall, and we will be crawling our fleshless, thirsty way through South Street Brewery, The X-Lounge, Blue Light, ZoCaLo, Rapture, and ending with a dance party @ Ventana.

This event is a benefit for the Jefferson Area Food Bank, so please bring a non-perishable food item to donate.

We will provide more details as the event creeps closer, so stay tuned!

I just went into enoteca for the first time in a couple months and it seems like the entire staff has changed including the manager. Does this mean that the long anticipated CC overhaul/ firesale is underway? Now accepting field reports from Ten, Blue Light etc.

We got an updated tip from a reliable birdie who has some friends in the business:  There is some meat to the rumor that Coran Capshaw’s restaurant group, including Blue Light Grill, Enoteca, Mas, Mono Loco, Ten and Three Notch’d, is actually on the auction block.

The birdie points out that times are very tough for food and beverages businesses, especially high end places like Starbucks.  With ATO Records successful signage of new artists, do you think the Coran empire is tired of running local restaurants in tough times? It would make sense and we have a strong feeling this is the truth.

What do you know?

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Apparently we can find out exactly what kind of person we are just by looking at the bar tab for the evening.  Screw the pills, the answer is in your drinks.  pills, the answer is in your drinks.  RegretfulMorning.com ran this bar tab analysis post and they covered some important genres of bar crawlers, but what about the other people?  I made a list of some typical tabs we might find around cville on a Saturday night:

South St. -25 to 30 something locals attended by one of their girlfriends…this could be described as a third wheel scenario
2 JP Ales
2 Satan’s Pony
1 Level Tonic

Mas -UVa undergrads trying to impress a girl for the night, but can only afford one bottle of decent red wine
1 Muga Rioja Reserva ‘02

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Daylight savings time. In addition to causing 3% of people to be late for work yesterday (I just made that up) it also gives us “Spring Fever.” Spring Fever is a medical condition; a shock to the system resulting from the one-two punch of marginally warmer temperatures and a precipitous increase in late-day sunlight levels. For some people, this causes a marked increase pathological dating. Let the record show that I am OK with this. Another common symptom is an almost irrepressible urge to leave work and head directly to the closest outdoor happy hour. It’s not a good idea, but goddamn it, you’ve had a hard day doing… whatever it is… you do here. Pull up a chair and take a long, slow pull of the strong waters. You’ve earned it (no you haven’t).

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