The first people to successfully paint the town red spent more time haphazardly assembling scaffolding and arguing over who got to be the "foreman" than enjoying the results. Take the planning out of carousing with today's Groupon: for $26, you get an invitation to a Twinz Beatz party and music-video recording session at Arkadia in Miami Beach on July 5 from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. (a $90 total value). This party package includes a promotional "I Partied Live with Twinz Beatz" T-shirt (a $25 value), 19 tracks from Sloppshizzle Records (a $25 value), a complimentary open drink-and-food bar at a poolside barbecue, entrance to Arkadia (a $30 value), and a digital photo for social media (a $10 value).
Josh and Joe spin, mix, and remix hot house rhythm and bass as DJing duo Twinz Beatz, leaving countless shaken booties and bobbing heads in their funky wake. Inspired by legendary producers such as The Neptunes and Timbaland, the pair surges ever higher on the house-music ladder, with their newest bannerman, Jr. Pinchers, a new LP on iTunes, and a tandem bicycle built of glow sticks. Tuesday's party begins poolside at 10 p.m., where revelers fuel their grooves at an open bar and barbecue until midnight, when the party migrates indoors for Arkadia's neon-toned boogie bailiwick. Though the shindig officially ends at 5 a.m., the evening is immortalized through music video (all attendees must sign model-release forms) and hieroglyphics scrawled on the club's bathroom wall. Attendees can enjoy further reminiscence with a T-shirt emblazoned with "I Partied with Twinz Beatz" and 19 complimentary tracks from the twins' own Sloppshizzle Records.
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The Groupon Guide to: Barbecue Secrets
Every barbecue joint boasts a secret ingredient or technique that makes its sauce unlike any other. Since most barbecue chefs have taken these secrets to the grave, here's a new list of public-domain barbecue secrets for the aspiring grillsman:
- Throw recipe thieves off your trail by filling your sauce with decoy ingredients such as talc, water, and heaping spoonfuls of rival sauces.
- Age your sauce in an oak cask for 15 years—it doesn't do anything, but you'll sure be hungry by then.
- Go bananas—add bananas to your sauce!
- BBQ is short for B.B. Queen—the wife of legendary bluesman B.B. King—and real barbecue sauce must contain exactly one of her soulful tears.
- As with success in any field, the real secret ingredient is confidence —except in barbecue sauces, in which it is horseradish.
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