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The most anticipated event of the year is coming to town on the 6 and 7 of June. Monster Jam will be in Panama City for the entertainment of Panamanian children, youth and adults. This fabulous event will be taking place at Rod Carew Stadium, where eight of the best Monster Trucks of the world will be reunited. The Monster Jam event consists of two types of competitions: one of speed, where two pickups compete side to side against time, and the ferocious Freestyle, where each one of the pilots must jump or demolish the obstacles in the track, a jury will be in charge of confirming a winner. The Monster Trucks are 11 feet height and 12 feet width, with impressive rimes of 66 inches. The 10,000 pounds Monster Trucks are made short and powerful, with outbreaks of speed that can up to 100 miles per hour and jump up about 25 feet in the air.
Panamanian fans will be able to enjoy this magnificent event and take photos and autographs with the drivers and with the Monster Trucks. An ongoing pit party will begin hours before the destruction show begins. Buy your ticket at Blockbuster Video or Felix B. Maduro and enjoy the best devastation action with the Monster Trucks: Blu Thender, Bulldozer, Grave Digger, Madusa, Maximun Destruction, Monster Mutt Dalmation, Superman and Toro Loco. Panama Grafico 2009 is the exhibition of Panamanian graphical design that in his second triennial edition will be carried out in the Museum of Contemporary Art of Panama, the 24 of March to the 26 of April of 2009. This exhibition is presented to the public, through 4 rooms, more than 100 projects of visual contact, printed or of alternative means, developed by more than 50 designers and Panamanian studies, Central American designers and of the Caribbean. The public will be able to appreciate posters, developments of visual identity, Graphical Campaigns, publishing material, experimental packing’s and graphical projects with the high levels of creativity and standards of execution. Under the direction of Mariana Núñez and coordination of Elsie González, Panama Grafico 09, besides displaying to the public an impressive set of graphical projects such as visual posters, identities, graphical series, publishing material, packing’s, experimental graph in movement and graphical projects, will also count on weekly workshops of graphical design for professionals and students.
Majestic Casino provides top quality services, 24 hours at day, 365 days at year. Majestic Casino is located at Multicentro Mall and it is one of the largest casinos in the heart of Panama City, Panama. It offers 440 gaming machines and 50 tables of 3 Card Poker, Mini Baccarat, Blackjack, Roulette, Caribbean Poker and more! This complete casino has a VIP lounge area with a bar, 7 game tables, private cashier, and a lounge with life entertainment. Majestic Casino has life music and shows every weekend with international and Panamanian artists. And to round out this amazing casino, you will find in here two restaurants, Barcelona and Show Time, with excellent food at great prices.
I personally love the salsa and merengue nights which draws a crowd of beginners and professionals dancers. Free dance lessons in a great atmosphere and the best service. Majestic Casino is a great place for people watching, dancing the night away, or some fun gambling. Grab a drink and get ready to enjoy the party in Panama. Start your engines and get ready for the biggest party in Panama of the year. For four consecutive days the entire country will be celebrating Carnaval (Mardi grass) with dance, music, and drinks. Carnaval is the most awaited Panamanian festivity that dates since the time of the Romans. The carnaval in Panama has been celebrated since the early 1900’s. In the beginning of the 20th century, carnaval was a few parties where society’s men and women dance in costumes and mask. The popular people celebrated numerous dances and a parade in Santa Ana and Casco Viejo. But in 1910 the Mayor’s Office ordered to organize a civilized carnaval. The first queen of this new organized Mardi grass was Manuelita Vallarino in 1910. And ever since Panama’s Carnaval has queens, parades, floats, and lively intricate costumes. During these days of wild parties and unrestraint people, you can enjoy live music, daytime dance parties and at night continue at discos, night clubs, bars, and street parties with Panamanian and Latin American artists.
La Casona, located next door of the old Maria Imaculada School near Plaza Herrera at the Casco Viejo, has served for the past two years as an art gallery, concert hall, dance club and art school for the local children. Last Thursday I went there to a jazz event of a friend of mine. It was just awesome! It is a great place if you want to be relaxed and listen to great and live music. If you are a lover of jazz, reggae roots, calypso or rock music, La Casona is your place. You know when you have been to a place that totally surprises you, a bar or a club that is so different and weird that is cool? Well, La Casona is all that; is the Panama City old gem of excitement and energy.
Behind the peeling walls and French façade there is a giant open space: all their interior walls have been torn down and what is left is this fantastic open space with a pumping music stage, a bar and tons of panamanian party people. The atmosphere is totally chill and the $2 bucks beers are the best deals in Casco Viejo. So I invite you to grab a cold drink, listen to a variety of music flavors and enjoy what Casco Viejo is really all about.
The year is almost gone, but one thing that will never stop is the party in Panama City, Panama. Prove of that is the great year Panama has had. Irving Saladino brought the very first Olympic gold medal to Panama and is the first man to have ever won an Olympic gold medal in Central America! Besides Saladino’s triumph, Margarita Henriquez also made Panamanian people proud by representing us in the Latin American Idol contest where she was crowned the new Latin American Idol. Along with her, 2 other Panamanian singers: Manuel Araúz (5th finalist) and Anne Lorraine showed to all Latin America that Panama is full of talent and good people. Panamanian people are known for their warmth and happiness everywhere we go. We are the kind people that take someone else’s victory or lost as our own. At Panama City, Panama you’ll always find everyone in a party when someone like Henriquez or Saladino represents Panama so well. The party is not just in one place but in the whole city, making everyone drink, sings and dance all night long. A very good example of this is when Margarita won Latin American Idol. All Panamanian people where very happy and went to the streets to honk their horns in celebration of our new winner. Margarita arrived last Monday October 13th and was received by no others than the presidential couple. What an honor! She was then escorted to TVN where a concert was held with a lot of other Panamanian artists who were there to show her how proud we are of her! As you can see, the people in Panama City, Panama don’t waste time to party! For us, there’s always a reason to party no matter what the occasion is. It doesn’t matter if someone wins or loses, what matter to us is that we are being represented outside our country and other people is getting to know our broad culture. Of course, we won’t complaint if they bring the title along the way! J Thank you to all for representing Panama! We love them and you’ll love our culture because of many reasons and among them, because Panama is the best place to party all year long! Well, El Pavo Real has turned out to be my favorite spot in Panama City, Panama. Its ambiance, the music, the food, the drinks, but most of all the staff really makes me love this trendy English bar. (Find more about El Pavo Real on my last week’s article). I went back for the second time with some friends and few of my co-workers. We loved it that night! All the staff: Marli, Alex and Fernando remembered me right away! Marli and Alex were smiling and taking care of us the whole night. We started off pretty wild by drinking vodka. We sat there to talk and everyone was just so friendly, we couldn’t help but to talk about it. Later on another friend arrived and she wanted to play pool. The pool tables were busy but the people playing were so nice to let her play. OMG! I drank until I felt a little tipsy; luckily my friends and the staff took care of meJ. My friend wasn’t really good at playing pool but we sure had a blast! I met another waiter that night. His name is Ricky. He’s very nice and talks to everyone. Every time I go back Ricky, Marli and Alex are very pleasant and friendly. Every single person that works there is extremely nice, unfortunately because I’m really bad with names and don’t really remember everyone’s name but I can guarantee that anyone that helps you will truly take care of you. Anyways, writing about it I realized that this is not much of a wild party itself. You’ll have to go to El Pavo Real in order for you to understand what I mean when I say that this is the best place to hang out with your friends and have a great time! If you love rock music, this is the place to go! If you want the best customer service in a bar in Panama City, Panama, this is the place to go! If you want the best food and drinks in Panama City, Panama, this is the best place to go! If you want to be surrounded by beautiful, sexy young Panamanian and latin girls, this is the place to go! El Pavo Real is definitely the best bar to have the best fiesta in Panama City, Panama. It really has nothing to envy from the wild party in strip clubs. The only thing you will NOT find there is a striptease show or lap dance; Nevertheless, it’s a party you will not want to miss. I never do! It truly gives you the best value for your buck in their drinks and food. It gives you free live music every Wednesday, Friday and Saturday and, once again, the best service ever! I keep going back almost every week because I know that Stefan, Fernando, Ricky, Marli, Alex and everyone else there will always greet me as their friend and help me relax. It’s always nice to have someone to talk to when you are having a stressful day and to enjoy a cold beer on tap to relax. You can find all of these and more in El Pavo Real. Come and enjoy the best Panamanian-English party only at El Pavo Real. If you’re bold enough you might even meet a lot of wild girls or guys right there! Keep your hopes up! And, I’ll see you at El Pavo Real! The “Peacock” or El Pavo Real for its name in Spanish is an English pub that plays mostly rock music, which just recently moved to Via Argentina in Panama City, Panama. It was first located in Calle 50 since it first opened in the 80s. El Pavo Real has a lot of story and even though is not really a dance club, you can have a lot of fun playing pool, watching TV or just by delighting your sight with the sexy panamanian wild girls that go there. I went there the other day and had the pleasure to meet Stefan who’s a manager in El Pavo Real. He told me few anecdotes from the place and why it had to move from its original location, which is because of some leasing problems. He was very nice and polite as is the rest of the staff from El Pavo Real. He started telling me the story of the success of El Pavo Real. Stefan explained to me that yes, it was true that John Le Carré, the English writer who wrote “The Tailor of Panama”, did used to go there to write his novels and eat their signature dishes accompanied by his favorite drinks. Nevertheless, El Pavo Real did not become famous because of him; El Pavo Real was famous way before John Le Carré first stepped into that place. It was very well known since it starts because of its strategic location in Area Bancaria (Banking Area) in Panama City, Panama, it’s excellent customer service, delicious food specially its fish n’ chips and their delicious onion soup (truly, still THE BEST onion soup in Panama City) and great variety of imported and local beers. All the business people used to go there to close very important business deals and have business meetings. One very interesting anecdote was that their famous “fish n’ chips” was not served on a plate like is done now a days, no, it was served on the financial section of the New York Times. Yes, you read it right! It was served on a newspaper. Truly, truly amazing! Unfortunately, this can’t be done anymore because of health department requirements. The other dish, the onion soup is the best of its kind. No other onion soup can be compare to theirs, guarantee! Anyways, too much story already so let me tell you how I found out about this quite but crazy and wild place where I go to party a lot. My best friend and I were driving around one day and wanted to stop by for a drink. We found El Pavo Real right on a corner in Via Argentina where the club Korcho’s used to be located at. We hadn’t even walked in when the administrator and the owners greeted us very politely and courteously. I still remember what Fernando (that’s the name of the administrator) told me: “welcome, this is your home” Whoa!!! I couldn’t believe I was receiving such a nice service in a bar in Panama City, Panama. We sat down outside because we wanted to smoke and chat. Yes, they have a patio area where you can drink, eat and smoke if you want to. We ordered some drinks and we stayed there for a while. The bartenders/waiters were very polite and Fernando treated us like we were old friends. We had to leave but I knew I was going to go back. I went back a couple of weeks later with some friends from work. And now is when the real party really started. Find out what did my friends and I did that night at El Pavo Real on my next week’s article… meanwhile, remember to Party a lot in any of the spots I’ve talked about… Here’s a great party celebration. Why? It was my office friend’s birthday! And it’s another excuse to party in panama or like we say in Panama “arrancarnos” (start up). She wanted to try something new, something fresh. A very close friend suggested we try a new place at Via Argentina in Panama City, Panama that had just opened up. We went there and the place was packed inside and outside. How not? Mrs. Mendoza (that’s the restaurant name) is a tex-mex, Mexican restaurant with a very Panamanian and Latin soul. It has a patio and two tables just outside the restaurant where you can also smoke. The staff greeted us very fast and cordially. Their politeness and efficiency was amazing! We didn’t have to wait more than ten minutes for our table. We sat down and ordered margaritas and beers. I also ordered some nachos because I knew we were going to get a little hungry after we started drinking. (By the way, we’d already had dinner). The margaritas arrived and they were huge! The glass were they are served them are really big, fancy margarita glasses, not just regular martini glasses like some other places use. I had a sip and it was amazingly good. They use Jose Cuervo tequila for this drink and the ratio of ingredients was perfect! (This is a lot to say considering I’m not a big fan of margaritas). At the same time, the nachos arrived. They were really, really good. They were crispy and fresh. What they served us were not store bought tortillas, they were homemade tortillas chips and the pico-de-gallo that we ordered with it was also fresh and well seasoned. If just the nachos were that good, imagine the rest of their menu! Anyways, they also had live mariachi who were nice enough to sing “las mañanitas” (Mexican b-day song) to my friend. And when there’s no mariachi, they play a great selection of Latin music. It was a nice twist, something different… Most importantly, my friend loved it! And so did us. I had a blast! Mrs. Mendoza is a really nice place to hang out, eat some very good tex-mex or Mexican food and a great place to bring your love one for a unique serenade. Mrs. Mendoza has nothing to envy from any night club or bar or even those show clubs and strip clubs. You can set your own ambiance. From sexy and wild party to just a true Latin fiesta; their music, their drinks and their food are the key ingredients to have a great Latin night, Mexican night. Most importantly, their service has been the best service I’ve received in a restaurant/bar in Panama so far. Party buses in Panama City, Panama, are wild party rides on old school buses modified to be literally a dance club on wheels. This is an option to the popular night clubs, strip clubs, bars, disco’s and gentleman’s clubs. This night life attraction known as “chivas parranderas” come in very colorful art works that cover the entire bus, a replica of the popular buses or “diablos rojos” (a popular name for the transportation buses in Panama City, Panama). They have no walls but a few ropes that keep the party goers from falling out on the street. They provide an open bar, live or DJs music, and a night tour and bar illusion in Panama City.
The chivas parranderas are an open bar for rum and seco (Panamanian liquor made from sugar cane) and all you can drink extravaganza where your bladder is the only challenge you will encounter since this buses do not have a restroom. The party buses have build in system to hold your drinks and bottles on place and you don’t need to worry about drinking too much since the party bus can pick you up and drop you off at the hotel room at the end of the wild party. The music can be provided by a murga, a Panamanian band that plays Panamanian music, salsa, and Latin music. VIP LIMO BUS: Monkey Jam VIP is a new concept on party bus. This more exclusive party bus has luxurious leather cover sits, a bathroom, open bar, high quality and hermetic sound system that maintain any sound from coming out of the bus. The limo bus gives VIP quality for the VIP client partying in Panama looking to have a great time. The limo bus is the most discrete party bus in Panama, always thinking for the most comfort for their client. This Panama fiesta on wheels is very popular to celebrate birthday parties, bachelor parties, and corporative private parties. When you are party planning, do not forget to bring your camera for the party pictures. |
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