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Cryptic Message from Boylan Bridge Brewpub
Boylan Bridge Brewpub will open one of these days. Until then, we’ll just have to live with cryptic messages like this popping up on their website.
Music in the Streets: Downtown Jams on Fourth Fridays
If you’re trying to have a post-work week beverage in the street while checking out some early evening music—then definitely step over to Hargett Street on Friday, July 25th. This blues jam block party will be the first in a new monthly Fourth Friday event featuring Jazz, Blues, Reggae, and Afrobeat jams in downtown Raleigh. Details…
Solas Raleigh Now Open
As of recent, Glenwood South is the most popular, most talked about neighborhood in Raleigh. Businesses are moving in and out constantly, and everyone is looking at who’s opening next. Solas Sneak Peek below the fold…
Rap Rave @ Alibi Friday
Get your candy and neon ready- the Rap Rave will be burning the midnight oil this Friday at Alibi. More Below The Fold
Boylan Bridge Brewpub to Open in August
Announced today on their website, the Boylan Bridge Brewpub will finally open its doors on August 25, 2008. The construction will soon wind down and the beers will be flowing, on top of the bridge, with one of the best views of downtown. Full announcement and current photos below the fold.
Loft 135 opens above Riviera Resto
Riviera Resto has been open for over 2 years now and just in the past year they have opened their upstairs and downstairs. The restaurant works as as a lunch and dinner spot with fine dining on the main floor and basement. Upstairs initially started as a dance club of sorts but has now switched to a more bar and lounge based atmosphere called Loft 135.
Brooklyn Heights Bar Now Open
Brooklyn Heights Bar has now opened at the dawn of the summer season and promises to provide a cool atmosphere to the expanding Glenwood south strip. Read more
The Bleeding Hearts CD Release Party at Pour House
Local rockers The Bleeding Hearts are having their CD release party at The Pour House this Friday, May 16, at 10 p.m. Joining them will be The Magic Babies and Sir Arthur and His Knights. Tickets are only $6. More below the fold
Last Night’s Party - Go Tell Mama Art Show
On Friday night, graphic artist Ray Noland packed the corner of Hargett and Wilmington with his Go Tell Mama! art show. People of all ages, were eager to meet Noland and buy his artistic depictions of Barack Obama. From 6pm until at least 9pm, the space was full and the energy was high. Click through for slideshow.
Brooklyn Heights Bar Coming to Glenwood South
Another new business is coming soon to Raleigh via Glenwood South. Enriching the string of freestanding businesses that line the west side of Glenwood leading up to the Mellow Mushroom, Brooklyn Heights Bar will provide a hip and comfortable alternative to the establishments across the street that draw business up inside the neighboring mixed-use mid-rise buildings from the 90’s. More…
Last Night’s Party: Grass Widow, Pinche Gringo @ Slims
Last nights show at Slims may not have been as packed as Tuesdays, but the music was just as entertaining. Click here for pix and vids
Last Night’s Party: Dark Meat @ Slims
The other half of a night at Slim’s. It Dark Meat’s turn now. Listen: Freedom Ritual
Last Night’s Party: The Death Set and Team Robespierre
As mentioned earlier in the week, The Death Set and Team Robespierre brought their new brand of electro-punk and colorful garments to The Downtown Event Center last night. It was an show packed with lots of energy and visual stimuli.
Mosaic’s Carnival Night
For those of you that haven’t been to Mosaic, it can be a real treat if you are in the mood. The basement bar is like a cave carved into the side of Glenwood South. A Moroccan theme permeates the decor and music and the atmosphere is a nice change of pace from your typical Raleigh night club. Saturday night Mosaic invites you to join its Carnival at 9pm. They invite masks and “flamboyant” dress to decorate the sound of Samba and Afro beats with live drummers and belly dancers. A rich event for sure. Mosaic requires a $5 one-time membership fee.
Totally 90s Party Tonight
Remember large gold chains, In Living Color, Reebok Pumps, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, and the beginning of hip hop music? The transition from the 80s to 90s was a tough one for many, but hip hop was one of the guiding forces that led the way into a new decade. Almost 20 years later this music is still influencing the likes of pop, electro and indie music. From mashups to extreme neon colors, the beats and styles of the late 80s and early 90s are back in fashion. If The Downtown Event Center gets its way, tonight will be a dance filled 90s “House Party” full of Das Efx, early Wu Tang, and who else but Biggie and Tupac. At $50 for the best dressed, the threads should be in full effect. Who want EFX?
Fancy A Pint: Landmark Tavern To Open in Raleigh
Irish pubs. Downtown Raleigh has a handful of restaurants/bars that attach this “slogan” to the end of their name, but are they “public houses” in the true sense of the word? Most of them are massive, serve pseudo-Irish food, and are more like mazes than the shotgun bar space that most authentic Irish pubs are known for in Ireland and the UK. The James Joyce in Durham is one of the few spaces in the Triangle that actually resembles a true Irish pub (clientele: career drinkers, locals and raconteurs), but then again it is owned by an Irish lad. The newly finished Smoking Times is another such bar. Historically, the public House is synonymous with neighborhood bar and Raleigh needs more of these. When The Landmark Tavern opens today, Raleigh may gain just that, a big city pub with the small town atmosphere. More Info Below the Fold
But, I Like These Shoes
For awhile, a long, over-priced drinks, waiting half hour for the bathroom, danger of being vomited on while, I thought my options for Raleigh nightlife were confined to Glenwood Avenue South between Tucker and Jones Streets.
