Case: All my life I wanted to be able to wear long, dangly earrings. \n\nSeeing as how I spent most of that life as a boy, however, I wasn't ready to realize this dream until, like,  yesterday, when I came into Halo to get my lobes done.\n\nAdmittedly, this wasn't my first trip to Halo. I came here a couple days earlier with Misty S so she could get her ears stretched. I was supposed to get mine pierced that day too, but I froze up once I realized that I wasn't just going to be able to \""flash my ID\"" to them and let that be that. They hold onto your ID until after you get the piercing done, which in the back of my paranoid and irrational mind meant that it gave them plenty of time to decide they want to \""reserve their right to refuse service\"".\n\nYes, I know I'm silly. And as long as The Man keeps using his bureaucracy and red tape to keep me down, the silliness shall continue non-stop. So don't judge me.\n\n/self-pitying rant\n\nI sulked for a couple days, pondering. Eventually I came to the realization that it was either this or Claire's, and I was not allowed to let this simple procedure that I had romanticized into a sort of rite of passage be performed by an unqualified teenage girl with a piercing gun. \n\nSo I inevitably returned with Misty S, who had by this time decided she wanted to get her brow done. I know, how romantic, right?\n\nNow that I wasn't trying to ignore the screaming voice inside my head, I noticed that I quite dig the feel of Halo. The staff is uber-friendly in a \""gabba gabba one of us one of us\"" kind of way and if you think that's a Ramones reference I will throw my fucking shoe at you.\n\nI found it really remarkable that the guy behind the counter, who had no visible piercings to the naked eye, knew so much about piercing himself.\n\nHe was actually able to talk Misty S out of something (she wanted a ring for her brow, but he presented a convincing argument as to why a barbell would be safer and easier to handle to start out with). Fuck. Even I can't talk her out of anything. Retrospectively, it might help if I actually stick with my \""spitefully holding out on sex\"" act, but I can never keep it up for long. \n\nI know. I know.\n\nOur piercer was Ana, who we both absolutely fell in love with. Tall, tattooed (supposedly everywhere but her face and feet) and foul-mouthed, she had that perfect mixture of intimidating dominatrix and down-to-earth gal pal that really put us at ease over this whole \""getting metal shoved through our faces while the other watched\"" bit, which I hate to admit was kind've erotic in its own way.\n\nAna, while making small talk, went into a rant about how piercing externalizes something that we feel on the inside, and that we can't allow ourselves to be limited by what the world sees us as, and after I had a good laugh much to her confusion, I confessed that I knew EXACTLY what she was talking about.\n\nAna took my revelation quite well, though I would've liked a little incredulousness. Nobody's ever surprised anymore.\n\nApparently she has some  trans clientele herself and offered to do my \""how's your father?\"" once I, you know, get one. \n\nSo now when my surgeon asks me if I have any questions I can go \""so yeah, I'm thinking of getting a piercing...how long should I wait...\""\n\nLaying down in the chair, surrounded by pictures of scantily clad women in corsets with a tall tattooed Amazon in a medical mask hovering over me while my partner watched, I couldn't remember if I was getting a piercing or if I had just been cast in a medical fetish movie. \n\nAnd then she said \""take a deep breath\"" before harpooning my left ear lobe. I winced a lilttle, I'll admit. \n\nSee Also: Big fucking crybaby.\n\nAfterwards she did my right lobe, I cried a little more, and I got off the chair so Misty could hug me and tell me how brave I was.\n\nSee Also: Lies.\n\nWe both gave Ana a big hug and promised to come back (with chocolate, since apparently they keep pouring hard candies into her 'candy dish' and she can't fucking stand them) and went out to look for her car, which had a big sticker that said \""Jesus Had A Guiche\"", just as she claimed it did. I wish I was wearing lipstick so I could've left an imprint on her door. \n\nBut I'm glad I didn't. I would not be surprised if Ana would just kick my ass the next time I visited.\n\nMisty and I sat in the truck for a few minutes, looking at our fancy new piercings and drinking the Monsters that the guy at the counter had just given us for free without any real explanation. Fuck, some places won't even let you split a check, and these guys just throw free shit they've got lying around at you. That's class.\n\nIt really, in the end, wasn't that painful. We just pretended it did so we had an excuse to walk over to Red Hot Robot and begin what I predict will become a crippling obsession with vinyl toys.
Classification: isocyanuric


Case: This is my favorite place in Vegas!  We have had an annual girls Thurs-Mon trip for the past 5 years and I've been here the most.  One year was 3 out of 4 nights but that story to come.  I think I love it the most because of the mash-ups.  I LOVE the music here and dance the entire time every time.\n\nAtmosphere:\nSmaller than the huge ones but still good space between upstairs and downstairs.  It's not as flashy and maybe darker than some of the other ones but I love the vibe.  It's also more hipster.  I've seen less dressy and more individual fashion.  I also feel like I've also met more ppl in the entertainment industry here which is a nice change from my corporate america engineer day to day blahness haha\n\nOur Group: \nRanging from 4 to 7 girls.\n\nGetting In: \nFirst time met a promoter.  Second, third and fourth time we were staying at the hotel.   This is a \""crowd\"" gathering vs. line place so definitely get to and talk to a bouncer and he'll hook you up.  I would say less than 10-15 minutes.  \n\nStaff:\nLove the bouncers, love the bartenders, even totally made friends with the bathroom attendant (she was hilarious).  Why I especially love Hard Rock.  We went to BE on Thursday and I lost my wallet.  Assuming that my trip was dead but still needed to get on a flight I went to the police station to file a report.  Not only did they not give me a hard time about getting into BE Sat and Sun night after I worked with the hotel to file whatever reports, they always took me to the front of the crowd with my friends to get in no problem with no wait.  \n\nDrinks: \nI think it's average prices.  We've paid for drinks here less than any other place (maybe why it's my favorite too!).   Last time we met this group at the pool that was having an all weekend magazine/vodka thing so we had these bracelets for free drinks all weekend all over the hotel.\n\nFor the Single Ladies:\nTypical vibe.  Very good looking guys - I met some of the hottest guys in all my trips to Vegas at the Hard Rock pool and BE.  Bachelor parties.  We have always also met people to go into that side room that everyone else is talking about.\n\nDancing:\nLOVE IT, we dance on the main floor, upstairs, in the side room, on top of booths, you name it\n\nVIP:\nTables and roped off areas right by the dance floor, booths on the sides, upstairs, side room.  They are all great.  Side room is nice because of the private bar.\n\nOverall Experience:\nI would say that the dance floor gets really crowded and there is less of the bouncers keeping walkways cleared here.  Sunday nights are the best because of locals and people staying after Rehab.  Very beautiful men and women that night in particular and everyone is so nice.   I think my review of places also takes into consideration that my friends and I do not have big boobs (arguably I don't have anything at all lol) and aren't your stereotypical barbie but we still have a great time and are treated well there.   I was not there in 2008 but I'd say check it out!
Classification: isocyanuric


Case: C'est un endroit que je fr\u00e9quente sur une base r\u00e9guli\u00e8re! Je m'y suis donc rendu pour le brunch samedi dernier! La bouffe \u00e9tait excellente comme d'habitude. C'est plut\u00f4t l'ambiance qui m'a surpris... charm\u00e9 m\u00eame! Du Jacques Brel \u00e0 fond, rien de surprenant pour quelqu'un qui a connu les caf\u00e9s du Plateau dans les ann\u00e9es 90. Mais le choix des pi\u00e8ces \u00e9taient surprenantes, sans parler du staff toujours aussi color\u00e9! Je me suis retrouv\u00e9 dans cette ambiance anachronique dans un environnement, plus que Montr\u00e9alais! Le D\u00e9panneur Pick-Up est d\u00e9finitivement un incontournable!
Classification: isocyanuric


Case: The entrance was confusing.  When you walk in its like a deli and to the back is the restaurant.  The employees look at you like you are an idiot and then finally they break down and point to the back where the restaurant is.  The hostess station had 3 or 4 people standing around and one extremely rude girl that took charge.  We asked how long the wait was it was a long time but she said you can go to the back patio and possibly get a seat.  We had never been there before so we asked is there a table available?  The rude girls response was \""we dont know\"" since its first come we dont keep track of it for you.  you will have to see if there is one available.  We walked through and obviously there was no open table which the dumb B already knew.  Really bad vibe from this place.  Really rude staff.  Staff seems ultimately annoyed that you had the audacity to walk in and expect to eat there.  It was almost like \""is this really happening right now?\""   That was our first and last visit we walked out after the hostess was a big b and I was completely bummed because the restaurant is beautiful.  I have wanted to try it for a few years now but I cant put up with that kind of treatment.  The management here must be the absolute worst otherwise there wouldnt be so many hateful people working here.
Classification: spiraster


Case: The line was 7 people deep and they kept calling for Lorainea to help she walked up ..made an excuse why she couldn't help then Walked away. Mind you there was only one line open. They need more cashiers that care about customer service or a disabled Line if they are going to let people just wait.
Classification: spiraster


Case: Oh so disappointed.  I had not been back to the Penguin since it closed. Loved the old Penguin:  the food, the servers, and the atmosphere.  Took my Dad there all the time because he loved it - especially the single blockburger, fried dill pickles and the onion rings.  We were going to try the Diamond, but as we drove past the Penguin, my father noticed the Penguin was opened again and wanted to go (despite there being only 3 cars in the parking lot during the noon hour on a weekday.)  So we went to the Penguin.  A mistake.  Unlike the old Penguin's burger that was moist, not over-worked, and tasty, the hamburger was bland, tough, dry.  The onion rings were tasteless - some salt (not a lot) in the batter might help bring out the flavor.  And the fried dill pickles that were so good at the old Penguin were tough, dry, and tasted nasty - like fishy fried fish.  There were only three other tables with people.  The staff was ok, but not particularly friendly and seemed more interested in attending to themselves at the once crowded bar. What food they had to serve, gathered waiting in the kitchen.  Really very sad.  I hope they can get their act together.
Classification: spiraster
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I was very disappointed when the sign in the window at this address read \""Dunkin Donuts coming soon!\"" was taken down. As an East Coast transplant, DD was a welcome addition, and only 1 mile from my house! I was sure whatever corporate schlock peddler would replace it would be awful. Yesterday, I drove by the location, and saw a sign reading \""Jimmy Johns now open\"". WooHoo, another sandwich shop. I got home, and told my wife about what I saw, and we decided to give JJ's a whirl. We ordered online, I got the smoked turkey and bacon (the LuLu), and my wife ordered the vegetarian. The food arrived in exactly 24 minutes, that's fast!!\nMy sandwich was fabulous, they built the sandwich with ample amounts of meat and cheese, and did not over do the condiments. The roll was fresh and amazing. It had a firm outer crust, followed by a pillow soft interior. The veggies were all fresh and crunchy.\nI added light oregano and lite oil and vinegar, which was perfect for me. My wife loved her sandwich as well, for the same reasons. We will be ordering again soon, I urge everyone else to give JJ's a try!!