Mardi Gras gets Sexy at the Ritz

Girlie Night: CRUEL INTENTIONS
Fat Tues, Feb 16, 7pm at the Alamo Ritz
Advance tix available here

The Action Pack presents
THE MARDI GRAS SEXY POP SING-ALONG
Fat Tues, Feb 16, 9:45p at the Alamo Ritz
Advance tix available here

There's so much promise in the idea of Mardi Gras - lust! sin! fun! - but so often the result of a Fat Tuesday party is nothing but anti-climactic. Tonight at the Ritz, though, we're gonna make sure that your excuse to call in sick on a Wednesday is more than just a run-of-the-mill hangover.

First up at 7pm, Girlie Night is presenting the most preposterously "sexy" movie of the 1990s, CRUEL INTENTIONS. In this made-for-teens-at-the-time retelling of DANGEROUS LIAISONS, Ryan Phillipe wants to sleep with Buffy, but she says she'll only do him if he can get Reese Witherspoon to forget all about her Sweet Home Alabama and do the nasty with him. In the meantime, Buffy also decides to make out with Hellboy's girlfriend, because in the late '90s having two girls make out with each other was pretty much all you needed to have in your movie to guarantee box office gold.

Sarah Pitre will host this screening full of specialty cocktails (The Annette Martini! Blonde, sweet, and unbelievably tempting!) and tons of extra swooning. Definitely not to be missed.

On the other side of sexy fun, the Action Pack will be hosting their third year of the Mardi Gras Sexy Pop Masquerade Sing-Along. Every awesome pop and dance song about sex will be in this music video maelstrom, so you can want our sex along with George Michael, sex us up with Color Me Badd, and bring sexy back with Justin (who'll also be there to tell you all about love and sex and magic).

We'll have tons of beads at the show so you can go back out onto Sixth Street fully armed and ready for the insanity, and the party inside our doors is 100% guaranteed to be full of actual fun, unlike the party outside where people just wander around in the cold and wonder which girl is gonna take her top off.

Plus! Wear a masquerade mask and you can save $2 on the price of admission. And then since no one will know who you are, you can take anyone's top off without fear or shame!