Enjoy Your Thursday

Tomorrow is the final day of classes and I'm sure there are plenty of people already celebrating. Maybe even me... As I browsed through one of my favorite websites Do512, something caught my attention. Everyone knows that Thursday nights on Sixth Street are college nights which means one thing: amazing drink specials. Barcelona, a favorite club of mine, partakes in this thirst quenching phenomenon. The first time you go to Barcelona, you realize it is an oasis among the clutter of bars, many of which are seemingly identical (to a seasoned Sixth St. go-er, this is probably debatable). Tiny but unmistakable, the entrance to the club leads down a flight of stars into a well dressed bunker. The first thing you see is the DJ, the person responsible for the beats reverberating through the concrete walls and pouring into your ears. Further into the club are gauzy sheets hiding seating areas and on either side of the small club are plush booths, where I've seen groups enjoying a hookah. To your left, there is bar and this is the place to be because there are $2 wells and $3 Jaeger on Thursday nights. That's a price that you have to be careful of. The decor is very urban, with artwork on the brick walls but overall, the club is hip in an unpretentious way. I've seen young professionals dancing to dub reggae in their white collars, girls dressed to the nines in spike heels, and dreadlocked hippie types among others. Tonight is dance and hip-hop night, and promises a good time.

Daniel Radcliffe on Nudity

Everyone who said Daniel Radcliffe would be typecast after Harry Potter didn't know that he had other plans. The 19 year old English actor stayed busy in the acting world, making it a point to have an identity outside of Hogwarts. In February of 2007, Radcliffe fulfilled every creepy Potter fanatic's fantasy when he dared to bare all in Thea Sharrock's production of "Equus." His performance was well-received and impressed critics. But I have to admit, there's something slightly unsettling about imagining the tiny bespectacled vulnerable Potter as a man, a nude one at that. I did a double take after catching a piece of a commercial for A&E's Inside the Actor's Studio with Radcliffe, where he admitted fearing that he might get an erection on stage. It was, of course, the perfect soundbyte to get anyone's attention. In reality, after checking out the interview in full, I found out that Radcliffe was making a hilarious observation about the disappointing appearance of certain parts of his, and that it may work to his benefit to have such an embarrassing thing to happen. Currently, Radcliffe is working on the next Potter movie, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince which should be released in the summer of next year. It is rumored he will be doing the naked thing again for a scene in this chapter.

Here's a clip of the interview with Radcliffe that aired on A&E on November 25th: