{"id":38556,"date":"2017-12-26T14:20:42","date_gmt":"2017-12-26T19:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=38556"},"modified":"2017-12-26T14:20:42","modified_gmt":"2017-12-26T19:20:42","slug":"back-to-the-80s-with-jessies-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/back-to-the-80s-with-jessies-girl\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to the ’80s With Jessie’s Girl"},"content":{"rendered":"

I surprised my family by asking to celebrate my big birthday on Saturday<\/a> with a glamorous 5 p.m. dinner at Bareburger<\/a>. What can I say? There were two little kids attending, and I enjoy The Standard burger, medium well. <\/p>\n

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Burger time.<\/p><\/div>\n

In reality, I was just getting warmed up for a midnight show by ’80s cover band Jessie’s Girl<\/a> at Le Poisson Rouge<\/a>. The group is at LPR every Saturday night, and I’d seen them twice before, including on Halloween 2016<\/a>. They’re so good and so funny!\u00a0 I was curious about what kind of crowd would be there the Saturday before Christmas — as a cab driver said to us, “City’s #1 slow. Nothing!” — and, sure enough, a venue that normally holds more than 600 had maybe 100 people tops. As it turned out, that made the show even more fabulous.<\/p>\n

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Jump! @jessiesgirlnyc @lprnyc #vanhalen #80sfashion #80smusic #jessiesgirlnyc #thewendyshow #birthdaygirl #birthday<\/a><\/p>\n

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