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SD Social Presents and San Diego Young Professionals with DJ Tomi and DJ SG and Svedka

Videodrome @ El Dorado with video by Mac, photos by Style Shark / BlKHRT Tshirt Release Party.

Video DJ mixing by Gabe Vega with DJ Groundfloor

Taste of Asia 2009 was held 11am-5pm at the Balboa International Cottages featuring:

Ashoka the Great Cuisine of India, Bali Thai, Cristy’s Bakery and Restaurant, Golden City, Happy Sushi, La Basil Thai, Phuong Trang, Point Point Joint, Saigon on Fifth and Spices Thai.

This year, the beneficiaries of Taste of Asia include Lotus Outreach and the International Humanity Foundation

With emcees: Tony Shin Channel 7, Marcella Lee Channel 8, and the SDAFF Executive Director Lee Ann Kim

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The Slurpee Pub Crawl 2009 was a tour of 10 local area 7-11s on free Slurpee day July 11th.  The Bounce, a beach to downtown round trip after hours bus service, provided transportation and Yelp sponosored some on board drinks.

Inside Disconnected Salon was the Gallery AKA opening featuring artists:

Artists:
Kelli Murray
Christy Zaragoza
Jason Feather

Music by
DJ Johnny Tran

Afterwards we all went to U-31 for the Urbanist launch party. Poto gallery after the jump!

If you’d like the direct link to the photos you can find them here.

Mute Friday

Mute97 Productions hosts a Friday weekly at Proof Bar (215 N Broadway Santa Ana, CA 92701) I never new that Santa Ana had a downtown arts district and I also didn’t know it had an amazing no cover, stiff dirnks, awesome crowd, and tj hotdogs on the back patio bar.  Can you tell I love this place?  Seeing Designer Drugs and Abomb is easily $20 cover and $15 water down drinks in San Diego but at Proof Bar it was a 30 foot walk from the car and aboslutely no hassle to get in. Photos from the night below:

Have a photo of yourself you want to download? You can get it here. Props to Neil Sharum for this awesome group photo.

Photo by Neil Sharum

If you haven’t started to follow my adventures  on Yelp yet here’s your chance to start.  This is my first year being Elite and while it took me 5 months to make it to my first Yelp Elite event due to scheduling and wait listing I can finally say that it is indeed worth it.  Every month is a new location for the Yelp event with amazing FREE food and sponsored open bar.  By open bar I don’t mean “here’s 2 drink tickets” it’s the establishment busting their ass to keep the drinks flowing for the entire time slot reserved for the private Yelp party. The icing on the cake is that everyone is into having a good time there.  It just so happened that it was the 2nd annual mustache party and everyone was way into the theme or at least had a finger mustache. If you don’t think busting your ass to do reviews and be an active community member is worth it you dont take my word for it. Photos gallery below!

As always, if you’d like to use a photo for a picture default you can download them here.

Banana Split Sundae Hollywood

Now that I’m starting to grow my LA network and have friends to go out and do stuff out there I’ve been able to slowly check out events that I’ve been interested in. Banana Split Sundae is a Sunday weekly hosted by DJ AM and Steve Aoki with resident DJ Mike B + hand picked special guests.

For a an event that bills itself as “we’re a house party in a club” I was severy disappointed. (Especially because I always say “It’s like a club inside of a house party.” when I have house parties.)  It’s on a Sunday so I wasn’t expecting it to be so Hollywood when I got there but first there’s a seperate door guy who dictates who goes in first.  He even sent me back to my car to take off my coat and hat.  Upon entering there were plenty of people with coats and hats on!  Well at least the music was good. As always photos are below!

Also pictured is our trip to Dj Bibingkahan a Filipino restaurant and maybe some day an actual DJ?

I just realize now I should have seperated this into 3 different blog posts but I already uploaded everything to flickr as one set and I’m not about to seperate photos individually.  I’ll save some time here by linking you to my Yelp review if you want to hear about the new Bj’s in the Chula Vista mall.

Air Conditioned Lounge was getting rocked by DJ SG and Dj OneSix (download mixes here!) so I had to come on down cause the last time they djed Red Circle together was amazing.

The Fieldtrip Experiment @ Spin had Shark Attack which I haven’t seen live since they played with MSTRKRFT. Rest of the photos after the break.

As always you can grab photos for your self here.

Hijinks Entertainment held a Pacquiao after party at the Carson Doubletree Hotel.  If you’re a breakfast buffet kind of person and you’re staying in the hotel make sure to eat before you leave! It comes with miso soup, how great is that?