What a great way to start your weekend!!! Please join us this Friday, August 8th, @ Game On! in the beautiful Caesars Pier, in Atlantic City. Game On!, UpOnTheMic.com, & Allied Beverage Group, are hosting a special benefit event to raise money for Dystonia research.

The event is 8pm - 11pm. The cost at the door is $25. Included in the cost is your charitable donation, light hors d’ouevers & appetizers, $1 Bacardi Gold drinks (yes, $1), live entertainment, Nintendo Wii contests with the Bacardi Girls. There will be prizes & giveaways with the Wii contests which will be sponsored by Bacardi.

Live entertainment will be provided by Jammin’ With The Boys, an incredible local band that will have everyone dancing & having a great time! Please feel free to visit them @ http://www.jamminwiththeboys.blogspot.com/

Help Fight Dystonia!
Dystonia is a neurological movement disorder that causes uncontrollable, painful spasms in one or more parts of the body. This devastating disorder can appear in children and in adults alike. While not widely known, dystonia affects an estimated 500,000 people in North America alone - more than Muscular Dystrophy, Huntingtons disease, and Lou Gehrig’s disease combined. Your participation tonight will help raise money to provide scientific research to help find better treatments and ultimately a cure for dystonia.

Hope to see you there!!!

Summertime is right around the corner & we just got spoiled this past weekend with some great weather! There’s nothing better right now than to start daydreaming about the great times soon to be had at the Jersey Shore.

So why not turn those daydreams into reality a little early?

Thursday, May 1st, @ 6pm….great music! …great friends! …great shore location! …and most importantly, a great cause!

Vetwork is a non-profit organization & does great work in Monmouth & Ocean counties to help our US Veterans get back on their feet after they return from serving our country. Services include: counseling, psychiatric, job seeking, homelessness prevention, etc.

Vetwork has teamed up with my new friends 3Zero Records & Ross’s Dockside (1400 Ocean Avenue, Sea Bright, NJ) to bring you an incredible event to support our US Veterans. My friend Joe Hughes & his band Goldenseal, which will be featuring John Rose, will be rocking the event! Goldenseal is a long time favorite up & down the shore and pretty much everywhere else in New Jersey. If you haven’t had a chance to check them out…there is no better time than May 1st. Ross’s Dockside is located right on the water @ the Navesink Marina, so the atmosphere is going to be absolutely incredible. Tickets for the benfit are $50 and that includes the concert, dinner buffet, auction, and gratuity.  Call 732.933.9400 for reservations, which are limited.

For more event details, please click the thumbnail image below.

UpOnTheMic.com has added a social networking feature!

Each UpOnTheMic.com hot spot has it’s own A-List which is located on their UpOnTheMic.com page.  For example check out Verdigre’s UpOnTheMic.com page.

What happens when you join a particular hot spot’s A-List?

• Receive “A-List only” discounts and special offers for that particular hot spot (at most, only once a month).
• Create an A-List profile.
• Interact with other A-Listers (MySpace, Facebook, email them, etc.).

Check it out! New & easier way to find which places have discounts for you!

Go to our New Jersey Homepage & look at the column titled “Featured Establishments”. If there is a “VIP” icon next to the name of the place there is a discount waiting for you to use.

How do I find out what it is? How to do I get it? Easy…

Click on the name of the place to go to their UpOnTheMic.com page. Click on “discounts”. It will ask you to login to view this info…if haven’t registered, you will have to. Don’t worry it’s free, easy, and no one will hassle you…promise. You will then see the discounts available for you. If you do not already have a VIP card or promo card, you can print the discount out and use it. When you get there, don’t forget to ask for a card so you have one in the future.

Winter Beach Bash!

Sponsored by Malibu Rum

Does anyone know the meaning of complimentary? It means FREE!!!

No cover, complimentary malibu cocktails, live entertainment!

This event is private & by invite only. Consider this your invitation. You will only get admission to this complimentary event if you RSVP’d beforehand. RSVP Here! All guests must be 21 years of age with proper i.d.

Have you ever been to the Pool @ Harrah’s? Believe me, it is completely ridiculous! Atlantic City Nightlife does not get any better. I can also assure you that Malibu knows how to throw a party! Hope to see you there, this Thursday night, 1.31.08. Doors open at 9pm.

UpOnTheMic.com Launches New Feature, New Look!
Carlstadt, NJ - January 29, 2008

Do you want to know what’s happening today, tomorrow, this weekend? NOW YOU CAN!

Go to UpOnTheMic.com’s New Jersey Homepage and see for yourself. Here you will see a full listing of all of todays events at our featured restaurants, bars, etc.  Find happy hours, drink specials, live entertainment, parties, special events, and promotions. Click on our calendar icon and view whatever day you want!  You can also still view a full listing of all of our featured establishments located next to the right of our daily events list.

Some more details:

• See a view of todays events
• Events are sorted in chronological order
• You can sort by city….click on “city” (e.g. find out what’s happening today in Hoboken, NJ)
• Click on any establishment name & you will be directed to their UpOnTheMic.com page to get more information.
• Click on the calendar icon (next to “future events”) and choose which day’s events you would like to view.
• Under “Featured Establishments”, click “Search By Location”.
• “Search By Location” - search 1 to 100 miles of a zip code to find a directory of thousands of NJ restaurants, bars, etc.
• Toggle from “location” to search for “artists” - see a full list of bands and where they are playing.

As always, please post any comments or suggestions to this press release. As our featured establishment list grows, so will our event list. We hope you continue to use us as a daily guide in helping you decide where you want to go out and socialize. UpOnTheMic.com looks forward to bringing you more and more exciting features to the website!

Adelphia Restaurant Takes It Up a Notch!
Deptford, NJ - January 21, 2008
This & every Sunday from 9am - 2pm Adelphia Restaurant will be offering an amazing & appetizing Brunch for only $14.95 (adults) & $12.95 (children 12 & under).

You can start out in their awesome breakfast buffet line which offers Eggs Benedict, Cream Chipped Beef, Pancakes, French Toast, Waffles, Scrambled Eggs, Bacon, Sausage, Home-style Potatoes, Toast, & English Muffins. Still Hungry?! Then head over to the Carving Station for some Fresh Ham, Brisket, & Turkey Breast with your choice of gravies & pineapple chutney.

Feeling a little more fancy? Problem solved! Adelphia offers an Exotic Fresh Fruit Display, Chocolate Lava Fountain, Specialty Cakes, Mini Pastries baked on site, & Omelets Made-to-Order. Everyone’s pallet is covered! Including those who prefer lunch items.

There is a Chef’s Hot Line which serves Baked Flounder Stuffed with Crabmeat, Baked Salmon, Seafood Newburg, Chicken Piccante, Veggies, Pasta, Rice, & Potatoes. What more could you want??? If the answer is a Deli Station, then don’t worry because they have that too! Equipped with Nova, Whitefish, Smoked Deli Meats, Bagels, & Cream Cheese spreads. Are you full yet?

So save your money & your appetite for this & every Sunday. See you there!

It’s just about February, and it will go by quick! …it’s the shortest month of the year (don’t forget this year we have 29 days instead of 28). With this in mind, it’s never too early to start talking about St. Patty’s Day, 2008! Houlihan’s Restaurant and Bar is one of the great places to celebrate that day we all pretend to be Irish. Great food, drink specials, & promotions! Where is Houlihan’s you ask? You’re lucky…they have a ton of locations (more opening all the time), and chances are you don’t live too far from one. The New Jersey locations are as follow:

Hasbrouck Heights, Paramus, Ramsey, Secaucus, Weehawken, Bayonne, Livingston, Fairfied, Bridgewater, New Brunswick, Eatontown, and Holmdel (other locations further south opening soon).

So, by clicking on the above links, you will be able to stay in touch with upcoming details about each location’s unique St. Patrick’s Day celebrations.

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The UpOnTheMic.com marketing and public relations campaign is happy to announce the launch of the new UpOnTheMic.com banner. The built in functionality allows us to individualize each banner depending on the location it is being posted and to what landing page we would like it to link back to. The trackability of the banner is effective as well, allowing us to see how many many visitors to UpOnTheMic.com are being referred to us from our banners…from which sites they are coming from… & from where the actual visitor is located.

Our banner and its functionality obviously benefits us in many ways:

• Improves our linkability.
• Linkability in return improves our standings with the search engines.
• Drives traffic to our website
• Directs traffic to specific landing pages on our website (also improving search engine rankings.

But, our banners do benefit the host website as well. Each banner script is designed with specific keywords relevant to the host website and/or business which is SEO (search engine optimization) friendly. Also, all banners that are placed on restaurant, bar, and nightclub websites are linked back directly to their UpOnTheMic.com page. Here’s an example: If you go to the Old Bay Restaurant’s nightlife page, located in New Brunswick, NJ, click on our banner, and you will see exactly where it takes you…The Old Bay Restaurant’s UpOnTheMic page.