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BONTON WEEKLEY EVENTS!!

Announcing Fridays nights@ “ Upperbar,” the 1st twin-room exclusive house in Boston while the drinks still flow, BUT THE MUSIC REMAINS UNDERGROUND!

Maria d of Bon Ton has joined forces with Sergio Santos of Marz 2 bring you a great Underground House House Night ! Maria will also be serving you up your favorite cocktail behind the bar! Relaxed dress-code, relaxed vibe, chill people.& most importantly;the BEST HOUSEUNDERGROUND HOUSE BEATS IN TOWN! ALL HOUSE MUSIC!! ALL NIGHT LONG!!!and it's absolutely free!!

THIS WEEK @ UPPERBAR! “ UPPERBAR “ (ABOVE UNDERBAR/CAPRICE) 2 ROOMS ALL HOUSE No COVER RELAXED DRESS CODE NO WAITING IN LONG LINES! Maria bartends!

Spin Thursdays @ 33 Lounge THIS WEEK @33!

The Recipe is Simple a dash of vivid imagination, a pinch of creativity and a touch of pure commitment to the best. Sleek lines and exposed brick draw a hot clientele that knows its couture. The essence of this equation is to provide our customers with a fête of absolute enjoyment - a place where nothing is beyond your wildest dreamsConcept Distinctively different, 33 Restaurant & Lounge, combines elegant modern décor in Boston’s Back Bay Neighborhood. ions.

Email by Thursday afternoon to get on the $5 reduced list (must arrive before midnight) [email protected] or text me at 508-272-4705 33 Restaurant & Lounge 33 Stanhope St. Boston MA 02116 617.572.3311 http://www.33restaurant.com/lounge/ Dress Code: “No sneakers or Hats”

This week @ 33

UNDERBAR SATURDAYS!!

BON TON IS THRILLED TO BE PART OF THE TEAM HOSTING UNDERBAR'S GREAT HOUSE NIGHT EACH AND EVERY SATURDAY NIGHT! UNDERBAR IS THE PREMIER SPOT TO GO OUT DANCING ON THE BEST NIGHT TO UNWIND AND HAVE FUN..SATURDAY NIGHTS! IT'S BEAUTIFUL DECOR AND UNSURPASSED SOUNDSYSTEM FROM ANGEL MOREAS OF STERO MONTREAL, ONE OF THE BEST CLUBS IN THE UNIVERSE....AND A DIVERSE, INTERNATIONAL CROWD THAT IS A DELIGHT TO THE EYE AND SO MUCH FUN! DON'T MISS OUT ON THE BEST SATURDAY NIGHT IN BOSTON WHICH IS NOW EVEN BETTER WITH THE BON TON GIRLS AND GUYS HOSTING EACH AND EVERY SATURDAY NIGHT.

This week @ UNDERBAR

SPECIAL EVENTS!!

RISE AFTERHOURS!

BOSTON'S ONLY LEGAL AFTERHOURS CLUB!!

CONTACT ME FOR GUESTLIST!/A MUST FOR ENTRY!

YOU MUST BE ON A LIST TO ENTER THIS MEMBERS ONLY EXCLUSIVE CLUB OR BE A MEMBER YOURSELF WHICH I CAN SPONSER! EMAIL ME FOR DETAILS OR CALL ME AT 5082724705

COME VISIT MARIA ON TUESDAYS FOR OPEN MIC(ONE OF THE HOTTEST NIGHT THERE AS SHE SERVES YOU UP A SUMMER CAPRIANHIA OR MOHITO OR ONE OF THEIR AMAZING MARTINIS!bOBBY LEE HOSTS AND INCREDIBLY TALENTED LINEUP OF A ASPITING TALENTED MUSICIANS AND SONGWRITERS!

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The driving force behind all of of our events is our passion for house music and the positive enerty it creates.

Deep & Sexy | Progressive | Electro
Minimal | Tribal | Soulful | Lounge/Fusion

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BONTON IN THE PRESS
Boston Phoenix
"House Girls, Bon Ton Productions Keeps Boston’s Dance Clubs Moving"
By MICHAEL FREEDBERG
April 3, 2007 3:13:20 PM
SCENESTER: No one has done more than Maria DiIulis to make house music big deal in Boston’s clubs.
The last time I saw Maria DiIulis, the owner of BonTon Productions, was at Rumor, the popular Theater District dance club on Warrenton Street. She was greeting guests in the “house music room” with a huge smile on her face and a notepad in her hand, checking off names on her “guest list.” Most she knew personally, and like me, they seemed thrilled to be recognized by a major nightlife “scenester” — which DiIulis is.
I doubt if anyone, DJs included, has done more than Maria DiIulis to make house a big deal in Boston’s nightlife. She sponsors at least a dozen DJs, including such major locals as Craig Mitchell, Jay Prouty, Shlavens & D-Lav, Etiquette, and Taner K. In most of her e-mail “event Invitations” she includes sets by these DJs and others that are available for download. In addition, she and assistant Danielle Dior send invites to a vast list of house fans, many of whom they know by name. The invitation is sent as an e-mail or bulletin to your MySpace page, and all you have to do is respond to join the guest list. Being on the list gives you a substantial discount at the door. It also means you’ll get into the club a little more easily, because the BonTons have their own admission line. And you can always call one of the gals by cell and she’ll come out and get you in.
After a BonTon-promoted gig ends, the gals often go to Rise, Boston’s after-hours house den. There they seem to know just about everybody. How did they become acquainted with so many house fans? More to the point, how did DiIulis — who grew up in Bridgewater, far from the downtown scene that house has always been — become a house fan? “I always loved listening to dance music. I especially listened to Vinnie Peruzzi [the late radio DJ whose disco classics broadcasts were extremely popular and who himself was known throughout Greater Boston as “Disco Vinnie”] and so did my best friend. She invited me to come to Tokyo. It was there that I discovered the club scene and fell in love. I was excited!”
DiIulis admits to being older, but she looks and expresses herself like a club kid, and she still voices all that excitement; it’s a major reason for her success as a promoter. Fans know she’s the real thing. “House music is my passion, my life. It excited me enough so that I left a good job — vice-president of a cosmetics company. But I believed in it and in myself. Here I was, out at the clubs. Wherever I went, I’d bring tons of people with me. So there I was, at Rise — this was eight years ago — and they told me I should go work at Avalon. And I did. I became a sub-promoter there.
“Anyway, DJ Jacob from Groove Fire told me, ‘Maria, Rise is looking for female promoters.’ I was the first, was bringing in 20 to 30 people every weekend. Jay Prouty met me at Rise. He aggressively went after me. We ran parties at Avalon for over a year. Now he has his own night at News and gigs at Rumor and other venues.”
Prouty understands better than many just how closely a DJ has to work with a promoter if he or she is to develop a following. House DJing is not a million-dollar, MTV, big-label thing. You have to do it yourself. So do the lounges and clubs that house DJs play in. Explains DiIulis, “The DJ guys need help. The venues too. A lounge can not make it without good promotion! Now most promoters just get paid to bring people into the clubs — they get a cut of the door fee. We at BonTon put the whole night together. We determine the music. We hire the DJ. We hire the percussionist, the dancers.”
BonTon’s efforts have contributed materially to the growth of house in Boston. It was hard to have a “house night” before BonTon got going, DiIulis points out. Yet once the clubs — Rumor, Aria, the Good Life, News, Sanctuary, Felt, Underbar — saw that BonTon had its own large and expanding following, they wanted to participate. Indeed, you could ask whether there isn’t a surplus of house events taking place in a city where they were once hard to find other than at Avalon. But having added the new “Deep Saturdays” night at Aria to her list of events that BonTon’s e-mail and MySpace lists are urged to attend, DiIulis hopes that her guest list will keep on growing. By bringing major house DJs like Victor Calderone and Tom “Superchumbo” Stephan to Boston, BonTon has at the very least found a way to maintain the intensity of the local scene.
“So yes, it was a good decision to leave the cosmetics company,” she reflects. “I’m very happy with my decision to do this full-time. I’m up all night, on MySpace, communicating, making people feel special, that’s what gets them feeling good about themselves. And coming back. I get a high doing that! All these people, having such a good time! They tell their friends. And house music, unlike hip-hop, is such a positive thing. It’s all about dancing. Laughing with one’s friends . . . ”
It’s really pretty basic — just like house music.

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33 Restaurant & LoungeThe lounge at 33 Restaurant & Lounge on Stanhope Street in the Back Bay may just have Boston’s tiniest dance floor. The upstairs restaurant isn’t much bigger. So it’s no surprise to find both rooms filled — with a waiting line outside — for the venue’s weekly Thursday House Music night. But this is an even more special occasion: the 33 Lounge’s Valentine’s Day party, and there are at least 133 partygoers in the house, true house heads including several familiar faces from Rise Club late-nights. They’re shapely, their faces shine, and most are gorgeously dressed — some of the men wear suits and ties, no less, and the gals have brought out their spikiest heels and slinkiest black dresses.The music, too, is slinky, spiky, suited, and black. DJs Evan, Sean Donnelly, and — doing the close-out set — Strict keep the tempo strutting, on tiptoes. The DJ booth at 33 Lounge is in the adjacent wine cellar, of all places, and as the dark red wine pours on and on, from the cellar to the bar, the music pumps up and into all of us.Strict, who spins regularly at 33’s Thursday nights, is from Saugus — yet another suburban kid who, as he puts it, “at age 11 started listening to house, and then, when older, going into the city to buy the beats and hear the sounds” — and who now has committed himself to the spinning life. “I especially love the closing set. You can let yourself go, no holds barred!”And so it goes. People are hanging at the bar, dancing in the aisles and underneath the stairs. Everyone is taking digital snapshots — scenester Maria D included. Maria is everywhere, greeting guests. Most come to 33 Thursdays via her guest list. Her co-host, Sam Sokol, is there too, attended by well-wishers. He looks as happy as a parent watching his child graduate from high school — except that, unlike a parent, he gets to do it all again next Thursday. As the old-school hip-hop saying goes, “You don’t stop!”
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Patriot Ledger, South Shore
"CHECK IT OUT: Quincy’s My House"
April 13, 2007
Bartender Maria DiIulis pours a “Sexy Devil” martini at My House lounge on Monday night.
The owner has a vision of what a South Shore hotspot should be, and let’s just say the old Washington Tap is the antithesis. Fans of the old Quincy Point pub that closed suddenly last summer were probably pleased when they once again saw cars parked in front of the run-down tavern. But their happiness probably faded when they learned their pool table, dart boards, big-screen TV and dankness had been replaced by an eclectic mix of walls mirrors and lighting, Ottoman footstools and Quincy’s most expensive Miller Lite.
My House, as it is now called, can best be described as Lansdowne Street meets Central Square - in the basement of a frat house.
Lee’s concept is based on the belief that Quincy and surrounding South Shore towns are changing, and their new residents looking for something more than draft beers at an Irish pub. (Not that there’s anything wrong with Irish pubs. There are many I consider dear friends.)
Get your groove on: The night’s theme depends on when you visit. On the weekends, a DJ spins house and hip-hop dance music. On Mondays, it’s party night for South Shore bartenders and wait staff, open-mic night on Tuesdays, and live jazz on Wednesdays.
During a recent visit on open-mic night, the host discovered my roommate plays guitar in a band and pulled him onstage for an impromptu jam that included some sloppy-yet-fun covers of Hendrix’s ‘‘Red House’’ and ‘‘Purple Haze,’’ and the Beatles’ ‘‘Why Don’t We Do It In The Road.’’
$9 for what? Paying $4.50 for a Miller Lite is almost as fun as paying $3 for a gallon of gas. But the price seems as much a reflection of the deep-pocketed professional crowd the owner is targeting, as the desire to prevent its reversion to a neighborhood tavern.

Heroes:

All our supporters who help keep the dream alive we have keeping house music in Boston's nightclubs..thank you to all of you who come and support our nights..without you...we would not be here and good quality house music would be scarce in beantown!Also Justin Bingham and Danielle Dior who have worked tirelessly and selflessly to create our new site which will be ready within the week's end...I'll never forget all the work you have done!