Lucky Strike – Super Bowling
This Sunday Lucky Strike’s Power Play will have all day specials on food and drink, featuring $2.50 Bud and Bud Light drafts. You can also enjoy the Bud Girls and prizes! Get a chance to win Seahawks opening day tickets, 2 lift tickets to Whistler, Power Play Game Cards, or free bowling passes. (More Info)

520 Bar & Grill – Super Bowl Sunday Specials
520’s drink specials this Sunday include Mack and Jacks and Stella Artois for $4. The regular happy hour menu will also be in effect from 2pm - 7pm! (More Info)

The Parlor – Get in Gear Super Bowl Viewing Event
Happy hour will be all day long, along with half-price pool from 6pm – close at The Parlor on Sunday. After the game there will be festivities including a party with DJ Topcat. (More Info)

The Spot Off Main – The Super Bowl Game
The Spot Off Main will be opening at 2pm for the game and offering $3 Bud and Bud Light with $1 hot dogs. (More Info)

Extra Point:
P.F. Chang’s
This Sunday only, spend $50 and get a $10 “Be Our Guest” card for your next visit. Whether you choose to dine in our pick up take-out for your Super Bowl party at home, P.F. Chang’s will help you celebrate game day.

Barrio
Barrio has great catering for game day. Order ahead for your “Build Your Own Taco Bar,” and let them do the work for your party! For more info call 206.838.3853, and check out their special Super Bowl menu here.

Dear Mike Rafone,

If you’re anything like me, then you love an opportunity to jump at the chance of remotely getting to feel like a pop star for 2 minutes. I love karaoke so much that I’d almost list it as one of my hobbies! Scary, I know. The best thing about karaoke is that if you can sing in your shower, then you can do karaoke. It requires no actual singing capabilities; just you, a microphone, and a track or band.

People love going to karaoke in groups because they can always get that one friend who has had one too many drinks to dance and sing to something like Madonna’s Material Girl. Big groups of girls especially love it because they get their victorious chance to sing all together at the top of their lungs Girls Just Wanna Have Fun or RESPECT.

Here are all the places you can sing like nobody’s listening in Downtown Bellevue:

Blue C Sushi & Boom Noodle’s Nomu Bar
Thursdays, 7pm

Parlor Live

Wednesdays, 9pm-midnight

Rock Bottom
Fridays, 10pm

The Spot Off Main
Wednesdays, 9pm

Does anyone know of any other spots in Downtown Bellevue that I’ve missed? If so, let us know in the comments section!

Newly added STIR at Bellevue Place hosted a nice intimate party on Saturday night with a DJ, magician, costume contest, and tarot card readings. Unfortunately not many people came out, and it was left feeling oddly empty as the night progressed.

Next up was The Parlor. We expected it to have a line out the door, which it has now become known for, but to our surprise not as many people were at the party as expected. The Parlor is fairly big, so once we made our way back to the dance floor we realized that is where most of the people had migrated. Unfortunately it was down hill from there. Sunglasses as part of Halloween costume were not allowed (even yellow-tinted ones). This as you can imagine did not sit well with some, our group in particular. Additionally some hats were not allowed either. The Parlor’s logic for this was that they needed to be able to identify people at all times. SERIOUSLY!? It was HALLOWEEN, come on!

After The Parlor was Lucky Strike. Lucky Strike allowed glasses and hats as part of your costume. It became clear though at this point that all of the Bellevue Collection drew more people on a non-Halloween night than on a night that has become synonymous for dressing up. In the lounge at Lucky Strike there was a circle of break-dancers who stole the show. The best part was that they were dressed up in Teletubbie costumes! This didn’t last for long though… After one person in the group performed a handstand, they were immediately escorted out by security with roaring boos. Supposedly they were told not to perform moves that would “endanger” others, and they disobeyed. Our entertainment had died and so did the night. Heaven forbid anyone do a Saturday Night Fever disco move and hit someone in the face with their finger. I mean, it’s a DANCE FLOOR!

Also, it was mentioned by other friends we were with that Pearl had their last call by 12:30am, earlier than they had anticipated due to lower than expected turnout.

It was great to see that so many places hosted Halloween parties this year, but they have left a lot of room for improvement for Halloween 2010.

When driving last Friday afternoon, I did a double take while passing the Galleria because there was another street marketer….only this time he was promoting Parlor Live.  I thought to myself The Parlor isn’t going out of business…is it?  Well no, it isn’t, but their marketing tactics might lead you to believe that.

Street marketing such as this seems to have negative associations tied to it, and it surprises me that a brand such as The Parlor, that typically tries to be premium or high-class in nature, would resort to this.  Recently The Parlor has been giving away free tickets to many of their weekend comedy shows to ensure a full audience.

Having a street marketer is likely a tactic to draw more traffic into their venue.  Is this a hopeless attempt or an effective solution?  Sound off in the comments section!