by Tiffaney Lykes on went here on a friday night around 7 and left shortly after. the music in here was SO loud i couldn't here myself think. it was essentially like a club inside. people dancing, music blaring. i asked to be moved somewhere further away from the speaker and the management gave me a hard time. i will never be back.
by Jade Delaporte on This place is okay. I went this past Thursday for Southern Hospitality night. The crowd we saw last night was mostly older (25-40ish + some 50 year old guys drooling over the dancer--eww, lol). There are three main areas: the central bar/room, the upstairs balcony, and a side dance room. I liked the music in the central bar area, but the dance floor, if it could even be called that, was smaller than my shower cubicle from the communal bathrooms of my freshmen year. At least with the shower cubicle, I didn't have a flow of people constantly bumping into me and my friends as they worked their way around the circular bar. Despite the lack of dance space, the music was pretty good, so I wondered why they played the same songs twice, which in my book is a big no-no. In the side dance room, the dj played a weird selection of bhangra and other Indian music mixed with the occasional Pitbull. We didn't stay too long. I did see a few hookahs for the clubbers if that's your thing (watch out for the mono and don't say I didn't warn you). Overall, it was not a truely horrible club (e.g. VIP and bottle service seemed alright, clean bathrooms, decent music, etc), but I wouldn't pay $10-15 to get in here. Guestlist is until 11:30 and we did just that. Also, valet was bad (waited about an hour since they lost our ticket and my friend had to describe her car to them). Sorry, but I wouldn't come back anytime given the many other Atlanta club options.
by TheDancingChef C. on I haven't been to the Highlands in a minute but as I stepped off the elevator of the 4th floor in the Hollywood and Highland complex the old memories of going there every Friday night started to creep back into my mind and I was getting very anxious to see how the club looks these days. When I walk up to the rope the manager of the Highlands my main man Glenn was chilling at the front in all his glory as usual. Felix had the guestlist so walking right in past the line was just as easy as it was back in the day. My old friend Rob Vinson was in line as well so I pull em out and made sure he got in cause I knew he was here for Paulette's birthday too. The Highlands has these beautiful sculptures on the outside wall and the marble walls brings a since of elegance to the craziest that goes on inside. After we go thru the VIP entrance that takes us around the scenic balcony that overlooks Hollywood Blvd. we enter the VIP room filled with plush lounge chairs, plasms screens, and Mahogany hardwood floors that lead back to the VIP dancefloor with huge couches around marble tables with an illuminated backdrop of the NYC skyline while the DJ my homie JJ Trinidad spins on indoor balcony built to look like it's hanging over an Italian villa. We move the main room where the "Ladies In Lace" were set to perform this room is enormous room with elevated booths around the dance floor flanked by 3 count'em 3 bars and another bar on the outside patio. If that's not enough you can go upstairs to the Loggia Restaurtant and Lounge where a swanky Afro-Cuban plays to a beautiful crowd of Salsa dancer and on the outside patio from the restaurant there is another DJ playing Hip Hop. Now back down to the main room where the sultry burlesque show is taking place. The girls come out in a mystical fashion with electrified dance moves executed with the most intenseness of sexiness from the eye popping freestyle striptease to the balloon and cigarette dance to the grand finale the bathtub dance where ladies dance in huge ice buckets while squeezing soapy suds all over there bodies. It was time to go back to VIP for Paulette's party of course all the "old school" dancers were in the house including me but we still had it. rob Vinson, Free, Abu, Carey, Alan, Tweet tweet and a few other cats whose names I can't remember but it was a crazy freestyle session with some of the new school cats coming out to get served as well. Paulette emerge in all of her beauty with the rest of her fine ass dance troupe. DJ Double J was right on point with the sounds he was spinnin and the place was very alive. Needless to say the Highlands on Friday night is always a great choice to go to have fun....check it out.
