Going Gaga, and others, with style:
— When Lady Gaga played in the Twin Cities recently, partying down as well as dressing up was a young Hudson man, who at 6-foot-4 stood at more than seven feet when including the high heels. His outfit stood tall enough that he was pictured in the next day’s edition of the St. Paul Pioneer Press. Reminds me of the time a gentleman who frequents Dick Bar and Grill and stands about seven feet — he looks like one of the former Timberwolves — was dancing with a woman who was also about 6-foot-4. Could this be a case of the NBA meets the WNBA?
— Two kickball teams were recently at the Village Inn, and while they are sponsored by Agave Kitchen also decided to support the Village, and hang with their friendly competitors who hail from there. David Beckham has nothing on these guys and they often dress up for the fifth quarter, including — again — a tall guy in heels. Some of the kickball players have also checked out Jeff Loven at Dicks’s after a Sunday game, and have dressed up in things such as a Viking with horned headgear turned at 90 degrees, and in an obligatory way the members of Kiss. There were three of them, so one member of the rock quartet had to be left out.
— Agave’s Kitchen’s Andrea and Sam were shooting darts at Ground Zero while with a couple of men who were showing off their tattoos. One guy in particular was dressed to the nines in suit and tie and had to roll up the sleeves of his dress shirt and suit coat to display the one he’d just gotten.
— It was Bungalow Idol at that restaurant and bar in Lakeland, courtesy of karaoke-meister Lori, but it was her longime patron Dave that was the star of the engagement. He proposed to his girlfriend (she said yes) between songs. This night was the culmination of several weekends of semifinals, and in at least one of the semis and in the finals, Lori said the scorecard between the top few singers was in a whisper of each other. That may have made all the difference, as there were enough singers that some of them actively debated the merits of going first, near the middle, or last.
— Word came down that Riverfest — the St. Paul version rather than the one at Somerset — will not be featuring Tool, the art-metal band that stole the show last summer. That means that the closest you could get to seeing Tool was at Dibbo’s a few years back, when the tribute band 10,000 days rocked the house on several occasions, complete with a lead singer who looked just like Woody Harrelson, the Cheers actor who also has a band on the side. A friend of mine who used to frequent Ellie’s on Main told me that the next time “10,000” was in town, I should come get her to notify her of the occasion and she’d jump ship and take in the show with me.