Crib Notes

SNOOZIN' AND LOSIN' IN HENRY COUNTY

It ain’t as easy as it looks. This foolishness can be taken for granted, these reckless acts overlooked. But these Dangerous Moves require a fierce cunning veiled under ignorant bliss. It’s craftiness, deceit, deception and stupidity all thrown into a high-ball glass.

Yes, I’m being a bit theatrical. It’s basically me and some other clowns getting wasted, and then me trying to piece together scribble on cocktail napkins to meet a loose deadline — all while trying to come off half-intelligent. The trickery is the difficult part. And mostly it seems all for naught.

Many of my ideas for Dangerous Moves sizzle like firecrackers when jotted down on paper, but a wrong turn here, a miscalculation there, and the sparkle never materializes — a fizzle of follies. In a one-word analogy, there have been some bombs. Between the alcohol-tasting and messy note-taking, most of these things never pan out. So if you thought the ones that made the cut were bad…

South Side Snooze

I’d been trying to put this one together for months. It seemed like an absolute homerun sitting pretty on the south side of town. I’ve got the local knowledge in my back pocket, I thought. With my home field advantage, there’s no way it could let me down.

Wrong. (more…)

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At first we were confused when we saw that the 595 North nightclub had gotten the green light for a liquor license. As we recalled, the club had shut down a little more than a year ago because it couldn’t get a pouring license — or something like that.

Then we realized the club we were thinking of was 585 North. The new club is a few doors down the same strip of warehouses on North avenue, just west of Northside Drive. Partners Troy Holder and Neill Bridges have nearly finished building out a 5,274-square-foot space where they plan to offer live and recorded music four nights a week in a lounge setting.

Holder tells CL they expect to have an eclectic range of urban-oriented music, including jazz, fusion, R&B and hip-hop, depending on the night. No concert schedule has been announced yet. The club will also offer a tapas menu, he says.

The opening for 595 North is planned for about two weeks out, but the website is already up.

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FIRESTARTER: Ree De La Vega

(photo by Hannibal M.)

If you don’t know Ree De La Vega, you’re probably old. Or lame. Or way more insignificant than she is among Atlanta’s late-night set.

Then again, starting this post out with that kind of lead is only asking for flak — the kind the cool chick/BangBang party promoter received in megadoses several months ago after we featured her in Real Life Top Five.

The title said it all: “Keys to being an Atlanta ‘it’ girl.” That was followed by Ree’s five tips for living the fab life (“Flash your tits at least once a month”), conveyed in a tone that sounded about as pretentious as Kimora Lee Simmons.

What happened after that is anyone’s guess. Somehow a clusterfuck of those who hate, love and don’t know who the hell Ree is began a virtual message board, posting any and everything randomly associated with Atlanta’s nightlife scene, including Ree’s involvement (or non-involvement) with it, and the kind of career advice only a mother(fucker) would give. (more…)

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