Okay, so we’ve been busy getting our shit together for New Years, so what? So have you! We’ve also been busy moving to a fantastic new apartment and overall getting our shit together. Not too together, don’t worry.

Anyhow, here’s a tasty rundown of what we’ve been seeing lately:

Energy owner, Tommy, is still busy trying to get Energy’s entertainment license returned to him from the City of Providence after some unpleasantness a couple months ago resulting in the re-opening of the Allens Ave strippy, Touched As A Child. At the same time, Tommy has been dealing the business tenants running his Martini Bar, which he owns — the bitches (who also have a hand in Level2) were six months behind on their rent and bounced a $30,000 check! Classy! The location, which has in the past been Score, lesbian bar Mixx, and is reportedly the first Providence location of Mirabar, is scheduled to reopen soon, and will likely be fabulous.

Anyway, by now it’s no secret that Parrys Hampton pulled the fire alarm at the Alleycat a couple Saturdays ago, resulting in her being banned from both Alleycat and the Dark Lady by the owners, who were also her employers. Talk about a rough night — how she escaped prosecution on this one is probably a sign of good faith in our community, so that’s kinda nice. But did you know that she also pulled the fire alarm at Mirabar? Really? You don’t remember that? Well that might be because when she pulled the alarm, it didn’t go off. What the fuck? We don’t know about you, but that more than creeps us out to know that there’s a non-working fire alarm somewhere in Mirabar — but who knows, it could have been a decoy!

Then there’s Wheels, which we spent Christmas night at — and it’s closing soon! Then re-opening a few weeks later, of course, completely renovated and primed to totally alienate the trashola clientele that it has so painstakingly cultivated over the years. Now part of us is excited by this, especially since Alleycat’s Michael Slade is leaving Buck and Rande to go manage the new Wheels, a job that we believe he fully deserves and will be great at, so congrats Michael. We can’t help but be sad, though, at the loss of one of our trashy, dirty pleasures that we love to roll our eyes to our friends about. Oh well, at least we still have Balloons!

So tomorrow night is the continuation of Colosseum’s gay Wednesdays, which have been getting closer and closer to courting Trannymania for an upcoming night. Our favorite J.J. Royal spins good times.

Oh, and have we mentioned that superstar DJ/scummy roommate haver Jonathan Peters is coming to Colosseum on New Years Eve? We didn’t?! Well he is, and we couldn’t be more excited — we weren’t always fans, but he was fabulous at Therapy a few months ago and parties like this New Years Eve party are what he’s famous for, so we’re totally there! Oddly, there are no other big-name DJs in Providence or Boston this New Years, so the crowd Thursday night is going to be out of control. Well, that’s not true — Louie DeVito is at Club Hell, but not to DJ — he’s just showing up for an hour and MCing the countdown. Lame.