Meet MTV’s The Real World’s Ruthie

Meet Ruthie Saturday, December 22nd at TRAXX CLUB for “Surge Saturdays!” She’ll be hosting the 2nd annual White Ball so make sure you wear white so you can get in. The Doors Open at 10pm and there will be drink specials all night long!

Party With Midget Mac!

Party this Friday night with Midget Mac from I Love New York 2. If you live in or near Grand Rapids Michigan come through and show some love. For more details check out the flyer below.

Kid Nation Season Finale Recap

The last episode of Kid Nation takes us through a myriad of emotions; from sadness to happiness, tinged with a touch of bittersweet melancholy.  We’re finally left with an unmistakable feeling of hope – for the future, for these kids, for life itself.  Let’s get to it!

While walking through the town for the last time during the first light of day, Mike discovers that the job board’s on fire.  Everyone races to get water and put the fire out.  The children are all left feeling lost and without direction.  What does this mean?  If there’s no job board, then there are no classes.  If there are no classes, then there is no work.  If there’s no work, then what do they do?  They’ve decided that they can do either nothing at all, or whatever they want to do.  Yes, all hell does break lose in Bonanza City.

In addition to the job board, the journal is also burned, which leaves some of the current and former Town Council realizing the seriousness of not having these resources to help direct them.   While the journal may have, at times, represented responsibility and work for the inhabitants of Bonanza City, it also represented order and common sense and learning.  Something that, even for children, is sometimes in short order.

 As expected, the town riots – they steal candy and other stuff from the dry goods store, and basically trash the place.  Through it all, the kids learn a lesson about the importance of government and order.

No journal, no classes, no rules. 

With the encouragement of the former and present members of the Town Council, the kids then set about cleaning up Bonanza City and are quite ashamed about the mess they made the day before.  They just lost it; even kids can go crazy sometimes, right?

No showdown, no classes, no job boards.  But, there is a reward.  The Town Council needs to determine who should receive the last Gold Star.  Laurel nominates Sophia for another Gold Star.  DK expresses that he doesn’t want to be part of deciding who gets the last Gold Star, knowing that no one else can get one after this What a soft-hearted, great kid he is!

Zach is the final Gold Star winner! So sweet, he says he never thought he’d win, never won anything so big, he’s overwhelmed.

Taylor and her friends exclude Emily from their bunk for the last night.  Emily gets upset and Migle helps calm her down.  Migle goes long way toward calming the hurt feelings.

 

Challenge!

The Reward: Three HUGE $50,000 Gold Stars!

The kids need to cook, decorate and clean the whole town in one hour in order to win the reward.

1.They have to make spaghetti from a huge amount of pasta and tomato sauce from a huge vat of tomatoes. They can only win if they fill a huge jar with piping hot tomato sauce. 

2. They have to build a picnic table; which was not a very difficult for Greg, because he’s built a picnic table before. Mike is really annoyed about that. 

3. Trash must be disposed of (buried) – with 2 minutes to spare.  DK almost costs them the reward. His knees give out; poor thing, he’s way too young to have bad knees!

 The reward!

The kids get a special gift: their parents come running down the hill and give each of them great big bear hugs!  It was so emotional and the kids were so happy to see their families… no one could watch this without crying!

The final Town Hall meeting had the express purpose of determining who gets the last 3 gold stars worth $50K.  The Town Council has to decide who gets these gold stars. 

Sophia gets the first one.  Her mother gives her the biggest hug and she’s so obviously proud.  Sophia is “flattered and appreciative that people her own age really looked and saw what she did.”

Morgan is next: she is overwhelmed and her parents are even more overwhelmed for her!  She says she doesn’t deserve this gold star.  Greg tells her and her parents that they are privileged to have had her in their town.  These kids!

Migle gets the last Gold Star: she’s so obviously shocked and the town council says she “contributes a lot of kindness to the town.”

Time to say goodbye…

The kids explain, “We have brains, we have opinions, we have real minds.  We’re not just kids we’re more than that.”

The tears, the tears!  What a great show!

Nick Lachey’s Choir Reps Cincinnati

Here is what Nick Lachey feels about representing Cincinnati on NBC’s Clash of the Choirs:

Crowned: The Mother of All Pageants 12/12/2007

SERIES PREMIERE

(by Deb Porter-Jones)

I think this is the ultimate in catty pageant shows. Mother and daughter teams that compete for the crowns: it’s every bit as bitchy as you would expect from a houseful of prima donnas!

You’ve got your misfit team, Pamela and Felicia; short, ungainly and rather frumpy daughter and mom who look about as pageanty (is that a word?) as Bert and Ernie.

You’ve got your team with the rebellious daughter who’s clearly and handful and STILL going through the terrible twos. She got a tattoo against her mother’s wishes and insists that, at 16, she does not have to listen to anyone and can do what she wants. How cute is THAT? Not!

Moya and her daughter are here for more than just 15 minutes of fame. They need that $100,000 prize. What’s their story? Dad died years ago, they lost their house, and that money would go a long way towards putting their lives back together.

The Blonde Bombshells: Blonde mom-and-daughter team that claim to give the impression of being really dumb and blonde. But look out; they’re the smart bombshells, too.

The Cerebral Pair: Mom and daughter pair that appear very poised and classy. Mom is a PhD and daughter appears really poised beyond her 18 years.

Elimination Competition:

The instructions are clear. Choose a name for your “team” and play your position. If you’re a mom, play the role, decide on a themed outfit, and show who you are.

Hollis and Gena- Dream Girls team sang a song: a big hit with the judges.

Diamond Dolls- “Diamonds are sparkly and fun and we like bling.” Yes, they’re exactly as superficial as they appear. Luckily, the judges manage to pull out of them that Mom received a kidney transplant 2 years ago and her daughter took 2 years off from school to take care of her. They could use the money to finish the daughter’s schooling and pay mom’s hospital bills (Now, we care about them).

Tomboy Queens - are just that, tomboys. Mom’s hair is a train wreck. The advice to them is to think about their look.

Reigning A’s – They appear to be superficial, practiced, and confused.

There is only one team eliminated tonight – Reigning A’s. They were eliminated because they are quite phony acting, practiced in their speech and way too poised. I think they were a good choice and could have been tied with the Blonde Bombshells.