Maybe you remember our St. Patty’s Pub Crawl from last year? It rocked. We had about 100 people join the fun and we tromped around Charlottesville like we owned it.  We’ve made two changes this year.  First off, we are only charging $5 or 5 cans of food for an entry fee.  You can give more if you feel generous.  Secondly, we expect this event to be bigger than last year, so we decided to go with X-Lounge, because no other bars would be able to handle the crowd.

The event starts at 9PM on Tuesday, March 17th.   Your $5 goes directly to the Thomas Jefferson Area Foodbank. Hope to see you there.  RSVP on Facebook.

First 50 guests get special Scowly/cVillain shot glasses provided by Mike and James!

If anyone else wants to donate door prizes, let me know. We’ll feature your business with your door prize in an upcoming post.  Email me at kyle@spicybear.com.

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Well, if you remember our friends who allegedly stole beer from a cooler at Club 216, you can now forget them.  They have been found not guilty because there was not enough evidence to convict them.  The argument used against them (I am not kidding) : “they didn’t offer to pay when they were met by security.”  I have no idea what this means, but it sounds like a lame reason to arrest people.

[via NBC]

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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The Amethyst Initiative is a movement backed by college chancellors and presidents to lower the drinking age to 18. While the University of Virginia President, John T. Casteen, doesn’t know “whether eventually [he] will sign this initiative or not,”  it is an interesting debate, nonetheless.

In a statement released yesterday, Casteen explained:

We know for example that since the national 21-year drinking age was adopted, traffic deaths involving young people and alcohol have gone down. It’s not often said that they went down for the decade before that also. It’s not often said that such deaths have gone down nationwide. It’s very hard to judge cause and effect.

As far as we’re concerned, it’s not about age, it’s about having the responsibility and understanding of the risks of drinking.  We do know that back in the day it was culturally acceptable to drive drunk, but today it’s not.  L

Let’s look at some numbers…

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I was just reading an article in the WSJ about bars shrinking their beer output by some rather nefarious means…smaller glasses, more foam, etc…While I don’t do as much social drinking as I used to (damn kids) I know there’s more than a few folks on cVillain who would want to be on the lookout for skimping at our local watering holes. Of course, I do know that a few bars I used to frequent didn’t offer the wide array of brews the taphandles would lead you to believe they did (ever wonder why that Bud Light tastes a lot like Natty?). But at least you were getting a full 16 0z. of stale pisswater.

Have any of the other villains, both bartenders and bar lovers, seen this happening around town? Besides thinning margins it seems breweries around the country are facing a shortage of hops, which means we have to drink as much at South Street on Tuesdays as we can. Watch this video to learn more:
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Yay for Friday! What a week! We told you how to donate some organs, a fire broke out, echo died, while finding new iphones we met some newbies, we discussed some teaching woes, and apparently here and there some of us worked at our places of employment.

No more work. Time to play! Get your red panties on, sit out in the sun, call your neighbors to come play, and have yourself a firecrotch:

Check out Art/Music over at MUSE.

Fridays After Five-Tonight!

All American Bluegrass Jam-Thursday, Friday. Saturday in Orange

First Colony Winery Pig Roast-Saturday a 11:00 a.m. in celebration of Dad. Jimmy O will be playing.

The Moses, Raquellos, The Vamanos-These bands will be tearing it up at Saxx Lounge on Saturday. Doors at 8pm/Music 9pm – $5 (this is my last music steal from MUSE-promise)

Here are links to the band pages:

The Moses Band
Raquellos
The Vamanos

Eighties Prom Party-Saturday Night beginning at 8:00 p.m.

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We need to hear some crazy/exciting/courageous/drunk/audacious/naughty/lively villain stories. I missed the “drunk posting” thread so much I had to recreate a similar post. What did you guys do last night? Saturday night?

I’ll start. I was strolling down the mall after watching a movie (it was to freaking hot to be anywhere that didn’t have AC) when I stumble upon Kiki’s replacement. I wander in for a quick drink. I make my way to the bathroom after the drink and wait a good 15 minutes. I am not the biggest fan of waiting. Finally a girl stumbles out of the bathroom with a sneaky grin. I head for the door and as I touch the handle a boy leaves the room. Oh my. What fun they had on a Friday night. Wait it gets a little better! I walk in the bathroom to not only discover they have a cool TV that allows you to view what is going on at the bar, but also the girl’s panties.

What an interesting drink I had.

This is the weekend to be hip, why? We have music, dancing, plays, bike rides and more. BTW Lu Sid sent in a lot of these, be sure to buy Lu Sid a drink tonight. Follow the rabbit hole:

• the X Lounge is having their “Xpansions” monthly dance experience Saturday night. DJ Lemoor will supposedly entertain all of you. Lemoor if you are listening, cVillains strongly advise if people make non-house recommendations to NOT play house remixes of old sings, mix it up!;
• Le Comptoir Zinc is now open on Sundays beginning this coming weekend. Also, they will begin airing the Europe 2008 Soccer Championships starting this Saturday;
• Nels Cline Singers at the Paramount on Friday;
• Fridays After Five: The original Charlottesville Allstars;
• Envy Dance Party at Wild Wings Cafe on Friday night;
• Blues Jam @ the Gravity Lounge on Friday;
• Midsummer Night’s Dream as part of the Virginia Renaissance Faire in Spotslyvania on Saturday;
• National MS Society Tour De Vine Ride 2008 on Saturday
• Clay workshop at Sun’s Traces Gallery on Saturday and Sunday
• Rivanna Trails Clean Up on Saturday

Charlottesville has a new club! It seems some thirsty people got together and combined their drinking efforts. Apparently, the club was created for those that like to “catch up” with friends in the middle of the week. The club has over 100 fans on its facebook page and a pretty neat little web site. This club started March 28, 2008 and is growing like a wild fire.

The club meets every Wednesday night. They even offer to text your cell phone with location and updates. Also where ever they happen to meet offers drink specials to club members. It cost nothing to join and attendance does not seem to be required. Check out their site below!

The Web Site

It seems like almost every year the police make a huge deal about how this year is going to be different, about how Foxfield will ruin your career if you break the law.  Well, unless I have been living blind, in a shelter, veiled in secrecy, a huge number of people break the law at Foxfield.

Of the 24,000 people who visit Foxfield each spring, only 85 people were arrested.  If anyone does the math on that means that less than 0.4% of the people out there were caught breaking the law.  84 of those people were in the student section.  So, let’s figure this one out.

Let’s say half of the 24,000 are in the Foxfield section, and about half of those are underage.  That means about 6,000 people will be illegally drinking at Foxfield.  If 84 of 6,000 arrests were made,  that means about 1.5% of those breaking the law were caught. This doesn’t include people who are DUIing or people who are doing public intoxication type things.

Hmmmmm….seriously?!

So, if you get arrested, please note: you are REALLY unlucky.   Breakdown of those trying to arrest you:

81 Albemarle County Police

31 ABC Agents

17 Officers from the Sheriff Department

3 Bicycle Offices

110 RMC Private Security Officials

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Grand Total: 242 People Trying to Get You

On another note, don’t resist arrest like this guy!  People, the bottomline is this:  We know you are going to break the law, but don’t drink and drive, don’t act like an asshole and you will be alright.  Remember to read our great Foxfield preview!

[via InRich. Pic.]

DISCLAIMER: We don’t encourage or support any illegal activities during Foxfield.