-Picks total, the leaderboard, and surveys for the rest of the season have been added to the PICKS SECTION. The surveys will close the Friday night before each week's game. You can take them week-by-week or all at once.
-Front page poll added. Mac has been begging me for a poll and I finally had an idea.
Gopher
June 15, 2009 1:51:46 PM
Entry #: 3187547
Allow me.... " Mac's been begging you for a Pole"
This should get the website something to talk about
Smitty77
June 15, 2009 2:47:30 PM
Entry #: 3187641
let's review....mac and i are gay. you aren't.
and yet...you took this picture.
E W 3 3
June 15, 2009 5:52:33 PM
Entry #: 3187890
actually i took that picture but had Gopher post it because I'm too lazy to sign up for image hosting.
Unclemertog
June 15, 2009 6:25:20 PM
Entry #: 3187924
Yeah and we all know you aren't gay!
Yeah Right!
T Mac
June 15, 2009 7:05:04 PM
Entry #: 3187974
Gopher if you want a war.... You messed with the wrong guy. I wasnt the one who showed up with mini juice boxes to a beer drinking cookout!
And im Gay??? Ha.
Jackson u fat crumb, you couldnt even stand up sarah had to bring u home at like 1030. i drank til like 345 am. i would say in my extra 5 hours i would have surpassed all the alcohol in your chubby body. I got a picture of you actually driving your car as well.... take a look
T Mac
June 15, 2009 7:07:33 PM
Entry #: 3187978
Hopefully this one is bigger if not i give up.
DUTILLY
June 15, 2009 8:51:50 PM
Entry #: 3188093
ernie helped me wipe
DeMonti
June 15, 2009 10:07:38 PM
Entry #: 3188189
hey guys, i think barrys just opened back up and if im not mistaken i thought i heard on the radio they were having super faggit homo swing dancing on thursday nights, you guys should all go and get queer, again.
T Mac
June 15, 2009 10:20:36 PM
Entry #: 3188201
Here you go Gopher...
I hope that worked!
Smitty77
June 15, 2009 10:54:26 PM
Entry #: 3188228
HAHAHA...BARRY'S IS BACK....BACK TO THE FUTURE...AND ALL BROUGHT TO YOU BY....
DAREN MACDONALD
Providence’s Tazza to offer a taste of Barry’s on Saturday nights
01:00 AM EDT on Saturday, June 13, 2009
By Barbara Polichetti
Journal Staff Writer
PROVIDENCE — He’s back.
Barry Blair, the nightclub impresario who kept the mirror ball spinning and the dance beat booming for nearly 30 years in Warwick, is returning to Rhode Island’s nightclub scene after a four-year hiatus.
Blair, who for more than 25 years ran Barry’s nightclub in Warwick, recently announced that he is teaming up with the owners of Tazza café on Westminster Street, to create “Barry’s reunion dance parties” every Saturday night throughout the summer.
Yes, that means well-groomed doormen, the trademark Barry’s burgers, dance music with accompanying big-screen videos, flashing lights, and Blair –– still the eternal perfectionist –– on hand to make sure everyone has a good time.
“When I first walked away from the business my mind needed a rest,” said Blair, who was just 18 when he opened Barry’s in 1979. He was last in the limelight in the fall when he stood in the nightclub parking lot at 1473 Warwick Ave. and watched wrecking crews take down the gabled building that had seen generations of dance-club cool evolve from disco polyester to the beat of hip hop.
The locale of the former hotspot where hundreds of people would line up at the door Friday and Saturday nights is now a bank, and Blair said he used his time away from the dance-club business to concentrate on acting, martial arts and designing a kitchen device that he hopes to market soon.
He hadn’t really planned a return to the nightclub scene, he said, but was sitting around a table at Tazza with a good friend, filmmaker Michael Corrente, and some other companions this spring when the subject of a Saturday night dance fundraiser Corrente was planning came up.
Blair said he found himself offering to orchestrate “Barry’s reunion nights” at Tazza on summer Saturdays, with some of the cover charge going to a changing rotation of charities. Tazza owner Michael Corso and managing partner Darren MacDonald were more than interested.
The cozy dining spot with its warm cinnamon-orange interior has long prided itself on being eclectic. It’s known for its gourmet coffees, breakfasts, lunches and dinners and its varied entertainment that can be folk music one night and a belly dancer the next.
MacDonald had been a Barry’s patron, so he said he thought he knew what he was getting himself in for — but there have been some surprises.
Blair, who oversaw every aspect of Barry’s from the themed VIP rooms to the spiral staircases that ascended from the dance floor, is not one to do anything half-hearted. He’s been at Tazza almost every day for the past 10 weeks overseeing the installation of lights, a neon-lit bar and other touches that will meld Barry’s past with Tazza’s present.
There are now mirrored spinning cylinders hanging among the red Asian-deco ceiling lamps that are part of Tazza’s décor. In the middle is the piece de resistance –– the disco ball that fractured the light at Barry’s and has been tucked away in Blair’s home for the past few years.
MacDonald said the changes that Blair is making have raised a few eyebrows among patrons, but he thinks it all works. About the only thing that gave him pause, he said, was when Blair covered some of the half-walls that partition parts of the dining room with gold mirror-ball paper. “But hey,” MacDonald said, “I think we’re the only coffee house in New England with a mirror ball.”
Blair said he wants the Barry’s feeling to be authentic but is committed to not infringing on Tazza’s identity and has hired an interior decorator to make sure the merger is seamless. “This is a great place, with great food and great warmth and I don’t want to change that,” said Blair, who is having custom covers made for the mirror ball and cylinders so they won’t sparkle any time but on Saturday nights.
Blair and MacDonald said they’re confident that they’ve got a winning combo of the past and present, but the real test will come Saturday night when all the tables and chairs are pushed aside and the DJ –– Blair –– begins playing tunes such You’re the One for Me by D. Train and Got to Be Real by Cheryl Lynn.
“It’s going to be old school-dance music,” Blair said. “And just like at Barry’s, everything is going to nice, very nice. I just think it’s going to be a lot fun — so many people met at Barry’s, got married, had kids and maybe even have since gotten divorced. I think it’s going to be a great chance for people to bump into friends they haven’t seen for years.”
MacDonald said he think the Barry’s nights are going to fit in with Tazza’s eclectic clientele, which ranges from college students to retirees.
And they’re already thinking big. Blair, who said he’s enjoying working in an urban setting, also said that he loves that small city park that Tazza looks out on has an outdoor movie screen because they’re going to be showing a film there to keep people entertained if they end up waiting in line.
The movie?
Back to the Future. Of course.
E W 3 3
June 16, 2009 3:13:41 AM
Entry #: 3188375
I met my wife at Barry's. So, I think the place sucked.
Lags
June 16, 2009 7:00:15 AM
Entry #: 3188403
Thats funny I also met your wife at Barrys.
juice66
June 16, 2009 10:57:43 AM
Entry #: 3188611
u are sadly mistaken t-mac. cuz i met stevens at the bottoms at noon. so u went til 3:45 am. i know that my 2hours and 45mins extra out the gate is more that your stumbling hours past 10:30. i also can still wake up the next morning go to breakfast and be at the bottoms at noon the following day and proceed to destroy pitcher after pitcher!!!
Stevens 4
June 16, 2009 11:13:05 AM
Entry #: 3188636
I think we all did a wonderful job and destroying pitchers, and our livers this weekend. Who needs softball to drink your face off for 3 days in a row?
T Mac
June 16, 2009 12:43:17 PM
Entry #: 3188753
i coulda gladly gone and sat at the sandy and drank all day sunday i was perfectly fine, had we had softball i probably woulda gone out for a bit. But i saw no reason to go and blow $$ i dont have. so i sat around watched the yankees destroy the mets, saw the sox lose to the phillies and that was all free
DeMonti
June 16, 2009 2:14:18 PM
Entry #: 3188849
smitty, that rant was simply awesome, how come darrin didnt have his socks pulled up past his balls in that picture hahaha, and im pretty sure any coffee house with a mirror ball in it is pretty gay and wont be visited by me anytime soon lol lags will def be there though
hodde
June 16, 2009 8:43:22 PM
Entry #: 3189291
barry blair fucked me 500 dollars so i will not attend anything that has to do with barry. he was my landlord and had me sign a lease that said no smoking but his father would come in my house and smoke and the painter smoked a pipe the whole time he was painting the house and then when i moved he broke in my house and seen a ashtray before we where done moving and kept my damage deposit. that is a true story. i wont give that guy a dime of mine i dont know why your promoting him ian but that is my story
Smitty77
June 16, 2009 9:29:26 PM
Entry #: 3189323
im not promoting him. ive never heard anything good about him.
i was just busting daren macdonald who is on my team and manager at tazza. (thats why his quotes and name are in bold)
Lags
June 17, 2009 7:26:57 AM
Entry #: 3189594
demonti suck my balls....im going to live with my mom...
Stevens 4
June 17, 2009 8:47:01 AM
Entry #: 3189645
What is the deal with the website being #17 for months now? There is no way it hasn't moved up or down.
Goody
June 17, 2009 9:09:42 AM
Entry #: 3189670
Stevens... seriously? What do you win if it improves?
Stevens 4
June 17, 2009 11:02:56 AM
Entry #: 3189827
It gives me one more thing to do in a day dick head. Go get fucked.
Smitty77
June 17, 2009 10:42:28 PM
Entry #: 3190706
stevens...email leaguelineup
support@leaguelineup.com
T Mac
June 18, 2009 1:41:11 AM
Entry #: 3190839
Goody... Has to be free food or free booze from sandy bottom, other than that i dont know why he would want the site to get ranked higher. haha
P.S. Jackson is on vacation we need someone else to make fun of... i know i know Big Juice is a very easy target! ( CUZ HES SO FAT ) HAHAH
And by the way i think that might be the first time in my whole life that ive actually seen a full pitcher of beer and jackson in the same place, normally its half empty
Goody
June 18, 2009 11:15:45 AM
Entry #: 3191107
T Mac... think you are spot on... he must be hoping for a one year supply of Mobil On The Run frozen burritoes.
Speaking of Jackson... just sent me a text... sitting at a bar in Charlotte... as one would assume he is wasted. A victim of the "make it a double for an extra dollar?".
Stevens 4
June 18, 2009 11:42:54 AM
Entry #: 3191132
Thank God that SOB isn't around this weekend. My liver needs a rest.
Goody
June 18, 2009 12:32:04 PM
Entry #: 3191186
Looks like another rain out this weekend... WTF?!?!? Where the F is summer?
