Last Wednesday’s Whisko was just any other Wednesday night rager at the bar on S. Water Street: drinks, dancing, townies, lots of leather, etc. The game-changer? An opportunity to tweet to win a trip to Vegas was thrown into the mix.

Enter Catherine Gross ’13, a Brown student with serendipitously good luck. She’s not a usual Whisko patron, but after spending the day in New York at some “really fun and not-at-all stressful job meetings,” which, in reality, were neither fun nor not-at-all stressful, her friend’s ”Wishco tonight?!” inquiry was surely welcome. She originally had planned to spend the night in the city, but then the Vegas gods intervened—she decided to come back to the glorious PVD on a whim. “As I’m not a freshman girl, I don’t frequent the ‘Co, but something of the YOLO-variety took over and I grabbed the Acela back for what I thought would be a pretty standard night at the Whiskey Republic: dancing and late-night Spicy Withs.”

And yeah, sure, it would have been pretty standard…until she learned of that night’s Vegas contest. [Read more →]

Last night was the inaugural “Brown Night” at Whiskey Republic. Somewhere amidst yesterday’s insanity we forgot to remind for you to send us your WhisKus (see: FishKu), so we decided to write a few of our own:

Whiskey Republic,
Tell me, why did the stage move?
Heat lamps are crucial.

Brand new clean bathrooms,
Beautiful wood panelling,
Thanks Celtic punk band!

I see you winding
Grinding, up on that po-ole.
Wait, where are the poles?

FishCo or WhisCo,
Gettin’ down at the Co- but,
Which name will I choose?

DJ Pauly D,
Why don’t you just stay at Geoff’s,
We’ve got meatball.

Leave yours in the comments!