Make someone else’s home the party place. My friends Kozyndan were away and so the rest of us decided to make their home karaoke central. It’s easy when you have a portable karaoke machine.
Vivian plays the wine bottle like a triangle.
During a ballad, Jen lights a flame. And my dog wears glasses.
Where can I [...]
So it was my first time at SXSW and my excuse for going was because I was on a panel with the Whuffaoke (the Winnebago with karaoke that drove across the country last summer) folks : Tara Hunt author of The Whuffie Factor, the irrepressible partiers Karen Hartline, Emma Perky, Tony B. of New Work [...]
At SXSW I finally got to me the irrepressible Jeff Croft and Scott Phelps, creators of Barstar, the Foursquare of karaoke. If you haven’t tried it, you have to go sign up for the beta right RIGHT NOW! It’s a brilliant app that lets you share what you’re singing and where. Like Foursquare, it makes [...]
My BFF Emily told me of a transcendent experience. KARAOKE NAILS on Mott and Grand in Chinatown, NY. I don’t think it happens daily, but this one Chinese salon hosts Karaoke Nails day, where their tagline (I kid you not) is “Harmonize While Your Nails Dry.” GENUIS. This is an amazing business model that should [...]
Black lights, neon, and multiple lyrics screens inside a cab? When I get to Austin for SXSW for next week’s the karaoke panel, I’m going to have to hail this car down for the ride of my life. Austin’s “Land Yacht” as owner Scott Powell calls it is equipped with 30,000 songs of all genres [...]
Ever want to know where the people with your surname live? Type it in here and you can see biggest concentration of your clan.
The Lee Families
“Lee” might be concentrated in California and New York, but the key is to enter something other than what you’d think is a name. For instance, people with the last [...]
Truly the city that never sleeps, Vegas the place for unabashed celebration or sad song crooning. If you’re heading over to Vegas anytime soon, check out the low-key karaoke at the Imperial Palace, which I heard about on Karaoke Scene’s radio show. Like any gambling, buffer mongering Chinese family, that’s where we were headed for [...]
The best thing about old fashioned bowling alleys, not places like Lucky Strike that serve martinis, is that they are stuck in a time warp, smell like bowling ball grease, and usually have an attached bar with nightly KARAOKE. A few years ago, I held a “triathlon” at this kind of bowling alley where the [...]
In my European tour (Vienna and various cities in Italy) I came across this curious fantasy: diamond encrusted (karaoke) mics and a matching diamond unicorn! What better way to usher in your next song (The Never Ending Story? Xanadu?) than with majestic mega-carots and a mythic beast? I came across such a pairing at the [...]
On a glorious Eurovacation for a few weeks. First was in lovely Vienna to give a talk on gaming fan culture and my zine at F.R.O.G (you can read a write-up of what I do here). I can’t say enough times how much I love Vienna! It’s clean, efficient, design-driven, dog-friendly, and generally very arty, [...]
