by sophie l. on Dude, so awesome. You get to watch a planetarium show, walk through the rainforest, check out the living roof, fall in love with sea creatures in the aquarium, chill with Claude the albino alligator, and visit any of the new exhibits for...HALF the regular admission price during the day. AND you can do all this with some alcohol in your hand (extra cool points). AND there are DJs all around the museum (extra cool points). AND there is always some kind of performance, program, lecture, whatever. Apparently last weeks was a program/lecture about insects..how coooool wish I was there. Tips: get there by 6pm and purchase your tickets online to avoid a potential 30 minute wait (yes, and it was freezing cold outside, too..AVOID by purchasing online). once you get in, rush over to reserve your *free* show tickets for the planetarium...they usually fill up quick. If they're already full, no worries, go 5 minutes prior to the show and standby-- you'll probably get in. My favorites: SEA DRAGONS, Claude, Alligator gars, and the Burmese vine snakes. Note about the snakes: these snakes are legit. We waited 20 minutes in crouched position in hopes to see it move from it's perfectly motionless ready-to-pounce stance to hunt for its prey (little fishies). WORTH IT. 20 minutes later, in a split second, he snatched a little sucker from underwater! survival of the fittest. it's real life out there
by Linwood Formica on Mega night club with several large rooms, each playing a different genre of music (house/techno, R&B, top 40 pop). Cool lighting in the dance rooms. I came here on Halloween ($23 admission fee), and the dance floors were packed! Sometimes, it was difficult to dance with people constantly pushing me to get from one point to another inside the dance rooms. At least a dozen creepy male strangers attempted to grope me, and some stalked me even when I deliberately moved three feet away. Also, bathroom lines can be ridiculously long here. I would recommend staying with your group of friends for the whole time, because people literally disappear for at least 45 minutes when they leave the dance room to go to the bathroom or to get a drink from the bar. And it's almost impossible to meet up with friends at the club, because the space is so huge. However I did run into a bunch of my old Emory friends whom I had not seen since graduation, so that was cool. Don't wear your nice shoes here. I went in with BLACK shoes, came out with the same shoes, but they turned white. Not sure how that happened, but it could have resulted from a combination of the drunk dude who fell at my feet and the drinks spilled by random people.
by Paul Sturkie on Somehow, WH seems to attract all the most annoying sorts of people, despite its fairly excellent repertoire of artists and DJs. The venue lacks ambiance, the staff are rude and low class, the lines are horrendous -- and once you get inside, it's another 15 minutes of body slamming before you reach the true entrance. The vast majority of those who go are, simply put, ghetto. Or underage. Both of which annoy me greatly. I won tickets to see Sasha here and while that drew out a few cool fellow electronica-philes, the thuglike majority massively dominated. I could not fucking dance - not because it was too crowded - but because short, unnappealing men kept standing a 1/4" behind me, attempting to convey sexual interest. Look bitches, I'm trying to fucking dance. I am not here to pick up, or be picked up, let alone by someone a full head or more shorter (I swear to god 2/3 of the men were shorter than I, and I'm only 5'5", and was not wearing heels). Several men also groped me, other men followed me around, or attempted pathetic light shows; between them and the chain smokers constantly lighting up, it was impossible to simply enjoy my night. The other night that I briefly checked out was 'ladies' night' (every thursday) which within 2 seconds, I quickly realized would have been all that was bad from the other night, multiplied by a factor of a thousand, and without any good music to redeem it. And yet, I would still cut off a body part to see Tegan and Sara here on Nov 19th. *sob*
