The X-Lounge is opening it’s doors for our first Club Villain event this evening, and we couldn’t be more excited. These events are an opportunity for restaurants to show off what they do best, and to offer new food & drink options to our readers. And in our effort to be Local, we are asking each host to provide something from our very own region, and X-Lounge is bringing in a keg from Devils Backbone just for us. The event starts at 9:00PM, and we encourage everyone to be there early to enjoy a few surprises throughout the night.
Food Specials: Crab Cake with Roasted Pepper Emulsion – $7.00
Arugula, Wild Mushroom and Fontina Cheese Spring Roll – $7.00
Beer Draft: Devils Backbone IPA – $3.00
Specialty Cocktails: Martini with St Germain, Cucumber, Lemon, Topped with Sparkling - $6.00
Fall Martini with Bourbon and Spicy Apple Cider – $6.00
And people think Charlottesville isn’t progressive. Sunday October 4th marks the date we can all officially let out a cheer and congratulate ourselves on making it to the big time. Yes folks, we are going to host the USPDFs (US Pole Dance Federation) inaugural East Coast Competition. This event will showcase a wide range of talent, including the current US National Champion, Jenyne Butterfly (in an exhibition only performance), along with 12 other competitors from across the US.
Charlottesville’s very own Erica Shergold has not only been teaching Pole Dancing and Lap Dance classes through her program E-Fit, she will also be amongst the competitors. You can reach her through Shergold Studio.
There will also be an after party hosted by The X-Lounge after the performance on Sunday, invite your friends and hang out with the competitors.
This event will be held at the Paramount, from 3-6PM, $45 GA / $65 VIP (intéressant). [Info]
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First off, thanks to the 50+ people who showed up to support the cause last night. We really appreciate all of you checking out Ventana, donating, and mingling your butts off. And not only did you come, a ton of you showed up within minutes of the opening time. And I met Thor. Yes, Thor, the O.G.
Michael had numerous trays of appetizers and desserts floating around, and while I only tried the delicious escargot, I heard others talking very positively about everything that came out. The Spicy Bears (jalapeño margaritas with cayenne dipped gummy bears) were great as always, and I saw quite a few Villains partaking of the new tequila wall.
My camera is currently missing, but I saw quite a few snapping photos, if you would please forward them to gossip @ cVillain . com we will get them added to the Flickr account. Now on to the…
While choosing a Top 10 list represents a difficult task, we like to do it anyway. Importantly, it’s a test for us to find that happy medium amongst the gamut of Charlottesville opinion. Having recently listed Charlottesville’s Top 10 Best Restaurants, we realized that bars probably will be even more hotly contested topic du jour.
What makes a bar “Best in Charlottesville?” Well, it’s not a scientific method. Good bars have a unique experience, helpful bartenders, the drinks you want. They range from the hole-in-the wall, to the fancy. For the dummies that think we don’t have an opinion about these bars, we do. Our entire list is opinion, but it’s more right than your list. Or is it? They are in no particular order and you can read about them after the break…
Apparently on Saturday night the X-Lounge’s dress code prevented a Sikh student from entering the bar. We contacted the X-Lounge and asked for a response. We have posted their response and the complaint below…
Apology from X-Lounge:
To the entire Charlottesville Community:
An unfortunate mistake in judgment was made on Thursday, March 26 at approximately 1AM when a Sikh student from UVA was refused admission to our establishment, THE X LOUNGE, because he was wearing a turban, a symbol of the young man’s religion. »Read More
After a wonderful week if internally celebrating in our heads, we can finally put all that pent up sexual energy to use, its Friday after all. So here, we go…
Friday
Drink wine for charity: well sort of…drink 5 wines at 5PM for $5 at Whole Foods this afternoon to benefit the C’VILLE BIKE MENTORS, a group of “expert” riders that educate us lame car driving folk how to bike better and ultimately save the world.
Checkout cvilleMuse for info on gallery exhibits and a movie about our favorite Charlottesville Lady Arm Wrestlers (AKA CLAW)
Girls in short shorts: UVa volleyball plays UNC tonight. This ain’t your high school gym class style of playing. If you have never been to a real volley ball game you should
X-Lounge: live music and dinner bail out (one small and one big plate for $21, tues-sat 530-8pm)
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
I attended yesterday’s highly anticipated Launchbox Demo Day in Reston VA. For those of you not in the tech-know, Launchbox is a start-up incubator that selects a handful of businesses, gives them just enough cash to buy a sandwich everyday and 12 wks to create the next .com masterpiece.
UVa PhD, Ashon Wardak, and undergrad student, Luc Castera, are the founders of Sharememe, one of the nine companies out of 200 Launchbox selected to be a future .com darling. So what is Sharememe? Essentially it provides one outbox for all of your informal messages. To explain further, lets walk through an example of planning a birthday party without Sharememe:
We got word that the X-Lounge was full of “the Russian Mob” on Saturday over the weekend. Our informant was approached by one such Russian and asked “what are you doing here.” He promptly left, fearing for his coolness. Apparently, the whole bar was full of these types. No word on mail order brides.
Alicia Keys said, “If I want to be alone, some place I can write, I can read, I can pray, I can cry, I can do whatever I want–I go to the bathroom”. I assume that she’s talking about the bathroom in her house, and not any of the public restrooms in Charlottesville, but for the moment, I will humor (probably only) myself and think that she could be applying this philosophy to say, Zinc.Or Maya.Or Mas.
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Alicia Keys said, “If I want to be alone, some place I can write, I can read, I can pray, I can cry, I can do whatever I want–I go to the bathroom”. I assume that she’s talking about the bathroom in her house, and not any of the public restrooms in Charlottesville, but for the moment, I will humor (probably only) myself and think that she could be applying this philosophy to say, Zinc.
