OS 1: OUT ON THE TOWN

Photos by Maatology

YOURS TRULY up on the rooftop of Clayton on the Park

HEY OUTSTAGRS! I am back from "retirement" from reporting on my travels out and about of my public outgoings. Its been a couple of years since my moving into another direction in my career, focusing on producing my stageplay SNAP HONEY (in Los Angeles and recently Atlanta), winding down my Mista Couture competition (which will end in December) and currently working on the 2020 OBSDN Men of Color Calendar that I hope to publish in the Fall.

This past week, it just hit me of how much I needed to get back into the swing of going out on the town and reporting of what Ive seen. For those who are fans of my blog since July 2005, know that this blog has been through several incarnations from a basic journaling, to a news blog with pics, to entertainment blog with a St Louis slant and then to just using it to promo my projects.

Well, I am going back to the basics.

The blog will be more focused on its roots--journaling my travels and adding pics along the way.

So, lets get to it!

Last Friday, I decided to check out the summer soiree, Clayton on the Park, a hangout on the multistory, swanky, apartment complex's rooftop which takes place the second Friday of each month in the summer. 

So, I put on some "Maatwear" and headed over there about 8pmish. When I walked into the lobby, I spotted a very attractive young lady who noticed me instantly from my OUTTOWN years. Come to find out it was a young lady, STL mover and shaker  Natina Hopson, who I snapped a pic of with a guy years ago with the caption "Who is the Mystery Man she is with?" Well, she said that didnt go too well with her then real boyfriend at the time, but she said the pic was fab. PSHEW. LOL

I went up about twenty floors up to the rooftop and automatically got an out of town vibe with the art decco styled decor of the architecture. The crowd was a bit sparse which is understandable because of the hotness of the weather. 



I saw that they had a mini bar and got a vodka and cran and proceeded into the main area to enjoy the outer atmosphere as the DJ played Top 40 tunes.

Folks mainly chilled and enjoyed the scene as well. They had a adult size chess board and Connect Four for gamers and a nice swimming pool area for those to look at LOL

 They also had food samples from Chef Eric Prophete of Kingside Diner mainly of grilled exotic fruit which was quite good and got the chef's biz card for possible future dining.

An hour in, a few more people came through and spent most of the evening talking with Hopson and her friend until the music stopped signaling that the event was over. It was about 10ish when I realized that the night was still young. So I said goodbye to Hopson and her friend and decided to drive through the city to see what I could get into.

 There is YOURS TRULY flanked next to Elisha Newsome (LEFT) and Natina Hopson.


Well, the answer to that was, nothing much lol. I did drive to Pepper Lounge to see what was popping there and there was a step and repeat set up outside in the corridor section of the club I believe for DJ Arty J;'s bday but it looked as though it wasnt much action going on there so I decided to just go to the Maatspear Compound (my place of residence, that is) and chill out.

On Last Saturday I was planning to go to the Blue Ultra Lounge owned and operated by Cornell Boone on Delmar for the Cancer edition of their special bday celebrations. But after a hard work out at my gym, I was a bit lethargic regards to heading out to check it out especially with this month being my bday month. I did get a chance to check out the scene outside the Chaifetz Arena where the 95.5 Fm staffers were braving the hot sun to give away tickets to Tom Joyner One Last Time concert where Maze and Kem were the performers. Cars were parked down Compton so they could get a early parking spot for the show and few people in their white linen (the official color for a Maze concert). I tried to get access to meet and greet Tom Joyner through a connect but that didnt fall though ( I should have known better than to wait the last minute or at least made eye to contact with my connect. LOL)

And that was my journey last weekend.

Lets see what will be in store this coming weekend!

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