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In Austin, Where Nearly All Concerts are Canceled, Vanilla Ice Set to Perform Friday
https://www.austinchronicle.com/daily/music/2020-07-01/in-austin-where-nearly-all-concerts-are-canceled-vanilla-ice-set-to-perform-friday/
Relive the Nineties, “When we didn’t have coronavirus!”
BY KEVIN CURTIN, 3:35PM, WED. JUL. 1, 2020
Gov. Greg Abbott’s executive order last Friday closing all bars due to an expected surge in COVID-19 cases effectively put an end to those in-person concerts still taking place locally. One notable exception: Vanilla Ice at Emerald Point Bar & Grill on Friday.
A promotional flyer for Vanilla Ice's July 3 performance at Emerald Point Bar & Grill.
The massive, multi-level marina structure on Lake Travis is categorized as a restaurant because at least 51% of its sales are food and, while Abbott’s order shut down bars, it only reduced restaurant capacity to 50%. A couple other local venues, Stubb’s and the Far Out Lounge, also remain open because of their restaurant designation. According to an interview with Emerald Point general manager Matt Norcia in May, the business maintains a load card for 4,000 people but can scale up to 5,000 when they open the beach area.
The Independence Day Throwback Beach Party promoter, Mike Wade, told Chronicle reporter Rachel Rascoe via text that the show’s capacity will be 2,500. Tickets, selling on Eventbrite, range $25-$300.
Vanilla Ice, aka Dallas native Rob Van Winkle, leans heavily on celebration of Nineties throwback culture in his promotion. An Instagram post from earlier this week showed footage from a packed concert, along with the caption: “I can’t wait to get back to this. The Nineties were the best. We didn’t have coronavirus, or cell phones, or computers.” He goes on to call the era, “The last of the great decades.”
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Relive the Nineties, “When we didn’t have coronavirus!”
BY KEVIN CURTIN, 3:35PM, WED. JUL. 1, 2020
Gov. Greg Abbott’s executive order last Friday closing all bars due to an expected surge in COVID-19 cases effectively put an end to those in-person concerts still taking place locally. One notable exception: Vanilla Ice at Emerald Point Bar & Grill on Friday.
A promotional flyer for Vanilla Ice's July 3 performance at Emerald Point Bar & Grill.
The massive, multi-level marina structure on Lake Travis is categorized as a restaurant because at least 51% of its sales are food and, while Abbott’s order shut down bars, it only reduced restaurant capacity to 50%. A couple other local venues, Stubb’s and the Far Out Lounge, also remain open because of their restaurant designation. According to an interview with Emerald Point general manager Matt Norcia in May, the business maintains a load card for 4,000 people but can scale up to 5,000 when they open the beach area.
The Independence Day Throwback Beach Party promoter, Mike Wade, told Chronicle reporter Rachel Rascoe via text that the show’s capacity will be 2,500. Tickets, selling on Eventbrite, range $25-$300.
Vanilla Ice, aka Dallas native Rob Van Winkle, leans heavily on celebration of Nineties throwback culture in his promotion. An Instagram post from earlier this week showed footage from a packed concert, along with the caption: “I can’t wait to get back to this. The Nineties were the best. We didn’t have coronavirus, or cell phones, or computers.” He goes on to call the era, “The last of the great decades.”
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Ice ICED, Baby...
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"Rob Van Winkle" - Hah! Guess he slept twenty years and woke up in 2020! He hasn't changed a bit (still a poser), but the rest of the world sure has.
it is Texas
I used my phone to order drinks at the bar. It was always packed. I would call about 5 minutes out and say hi Dave, this is me, can you have a Gin & tonic and a vodka cran sitting at the end of the bar for me and so and so? We'll be there in 5. It beat having to go to the pay phone and order.
Thank you for this public service.
Just here to remind people he's now 52.
...and thus....
NOT IN THE LOW danger category!
