Downtown Nightlife Reaching New ‘Levels’

To better serve the party needs of the State College community, Levels Nightclub is setting up shop at the former location of The Mezzanine, which the old-timers might better remember as the Cell Block or the Crow Bar.

However, the new owners of the infamous boogie spot aren’t rolling with the same old sleazy vibe that lingered over the seemingly cursed 420 East College Ave store front. Levels is hoping to be the defibrillator that jump starts the downtown entertainment scene.

With $2 million in improvements, Levels is transforming the way Penn State parties by investing in state-of-the-art sound equipment, lighting and other extravagant additions that are lightyears ahead of the club life we’re used to. Levels Nightclub is taking the professional club atmosphere–usually reserved for New York, Miami and LA–and dropping it into the college town that turned a rural, land grant institution into one of the biggest names in raging.

But it isn’t the lasers that make the party and Levels is well aware of that. With a dedication to fresh, up-and-coming entertainment, Levels hopes to wrangle the acts that are making waves on MTV2 and We Are Hunter for the caliber of concerts that are unattainable by entities like SPA.

Every month, Levels will play host to national acts in genres ranging from Top 40 to House music. There will also be openings for smaller names and local performers on the Levels event calendar along with alternative nights for those artists who are bending the conventions of modern music. Talent that previously occupied our Spotify playlists or the bills of big-name music festivals will now (hopefully) be making stops in Happy Valley.

Further proving a dedication to entertainment, Levels will be working with the Bryce Jordan Center to book artists that will draw a crowd larger than the capacity of the night club can handle–like last semester’s Avicii show that everyone remembers. According to sources at Levels, there are already 6-8 concerts in the works for this calendar year. In fact, they say one show will be announced today on their Facebook page.

But the party won’t stop when the BJC kills the stage lights. Levels will be hosting after parties for performing artists and fans who are dedicated to waking up feeling like P. Diddy.

The management for Levels Nightclub aren’t new comers to the entertainment game. Their staff has worked with numerous artists like Skrillex, Afrojack, and Steve Aoki at venues across the map like Pacha, Mansion, Madison Square Gardens and the famous rave festival, Electric Daisy Carnival. That track record is enough to give any electro enthusiast a candy flip flash back.

The official grand opening date will be announced next week along with the headlining performer. If the suspense is killing you, calm down. Because I’ve been told that the ribbon is slated to be cut by roughly the end of February–just in time for State Patty’s Day.

Levels Nightclub is sure to take the State College entertainment scene to new levels. They’re even planning to almost double the roughly 8,000 square foot location with new additions that will spill over into neighboring store fronts. But those plans won’t come to fruition until August though–sorry seniors. At least you’ll be able to spend some of your last semester at Penn State enjoying high-caliber parties on a budget your parent’s credit card just can’t provide.

If Levels spent $2 million just on initial renovations, we can only imagine the crazy shit that will follow.

What artists would you like to see making a stop in State College?

image Levels Facebook Page

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hector

cool
Phil Geyer

BOSS! Can’t wait to rage here with my boys from Sig Bro!
jl

Bring in pgh natives B. Rich and AC Slater, big brooklyn bass!
Cal Roberts

Sounds like this club is catering to the latest trend of EDM. Hence, how will it stay relevent from a year from now?
Cal Roberts

It just occured to me they named the bar after that Avcii song.

Might as well call that place “Yeah!” or “Low” or any other song that was popular when the bar reopened in the past
Doug

Do you guys ever check facts? Where is the quote from the manager? Did you get all of your info off of Facebook? Did you see if there is even a liquor license registered for Levels in PA? This club isn’t real! These pics were swiped from the most popular club in Dublin. Take a look: http://www.thewrightvenue.ie/the-nightclub/the-venue/. This is probably a scam for idenity theft. Damn do I feel bad for all of those people that tried to get jobs and now someone has all their information. I mean come on, we all walk by Mezz every single day, no work has been done to that building since it shut down. Look at the constuction picture, it looks nothing like the inside of the Mezz stucturally. If your a journalism major, better learn to actually do some research.
Phil Geyer

I am the owner of Levels night club. It is an annex to my fraternity basement at Sig Bro where were always bossin’. BOSS!!! I’m the godfather, yo!
Tim Tebro

I’d like to see DJ Philly G from Sigma Beta Rho fraternity perform at this new place. Philly G is a BOSS!!!!!!!!
Matt D’Ippolito

So… They’re supposed to make random guesses about what the future trend of EDM will be and hope they pan out? They’ll stay relevant a year from now by evolving with the trends.
Matt D’Ippolito

I don’t get it. Is this a joke?
Levels Nightclub is Fraudulent

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Levels-Nightclub-is-Fraudulent/366736343352162

Levels Nightclub is fraudulent and is not going to be opening up in State College. Everything having to do with Levels is fraudulent. They are using stolen photos on their facebook page facebook.com /levelsbar and stolen photos on their website newcastlestudios .com

The Pooter and Scooter facebook page is also fraudulent. The motive behind this hoax appears to be gaining people’s employment application information for identity theft purposes.. There is no construction work being done on or in the former Mezz building on 420 E College Ave.

There is no liquor license for Levels Nightclub. Levels does not lease nor own the former Mezz building. Levels does not exist.

The persons behind Levels Nightclub are fraudulent.

Levels Nightclub is fraudulent

As an employee at a downtown bar here in State College, I’m serving warning to what I believe is an identity theft ring. Recently a new nightclub called Levels Nightclub surfaced on facebook, I checked up on their liquor license with the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board and learned that Levels Nightclub doesn’t actually exist.

The images on their facebook profiles and websites are stolen photos from other websites which Levels Nightclub has fraudulently laid claim to. The club photo is from a bar in Dublin Ireland and the V.I.P. room photo is from a Disney cruise line ship.

The Levels Nightclub facebook page, the newcastlestudios.com website and the ScooterAnd Pooter facebook page are fraudulent, all created by the same group of persons.

The persons behind Levels Nightclub posted that they are accepting job applications through craigslist and LevelsNightclub.com for non existent jobs. They have been accepting job applications and are planning job interviews next week. The persons behind these fraudulent job applications must be doing this Levels Nightclub scheme to gain people’s employment application information for identity theft purposes.
Concerned Student

Upon further research, Tim Crockett is actually a real guy, a fraud none the less but a real guy.

Levels Nightclub is nothing more than a publicity stunt which has now been foiled early. Levels Nightclub still doesn’t exist and won’t be opening up in State College.

Tim Crockett is still a fraud though, lying and misrepresenting everything about himself. He is the guy that has been handling phone calls for Levels.

Tim Crockett is an owner of newcastlestudios.com Everything on that website is completely made up, fake and fraudulent. The movies are non existent, the t.v. shows are non existent, even the $100,000,000 funding is non existent.

Tim Crockett filmed his first (and only) very low budget independent film in 2009 in Michigan. The film “Intent” (which still hasn’t been released as of yet but coincidentally will be soon) looks like one of the lowest budget films ever made. It certainly was not filmed on a $100,000,000 budget and it has been sitting on a shelf for 3 years.

A legitimate experienced film director named Josh Becker wrote about his horrible experience with Jim Crockett during the making of Intent before he left that sinking ship.

“I met with Tim, who was thirty-seven, six-three, unshaven, with a moronic-sounding southern twang, and looked like some sort of Gomer Pyle-like goober; and his partner, Vi, a broad-shouldered, Vietnamese-American gal of maybe thirty who was a pushy, obnoxious marathon runner.”

Some more of Josh’s thoughts about Tim http://www.beckerfilms.com/makingofintent.htm

From Josh Becker’s article, Tim Crockett racked up a ton of credit card debt while filming “Intent”. Tim Crockett kept pushing the shooting of the film back and refused for many weeks to even pay the cast and crew. Tim even burned everyone by skipping town and not paying them their last paychecks.

The point behind this publicity stunt is so Tim can make money from “Intent” but Tim Crockett took this scam to new heights. Not only did he fraudulently create Levels Nightclub, Scooter and Pooter, newcastlestudios, he accepted hundreds maybe thousands of job applications and he even set up job interviews with people for non existent jobs.

Not only is it wrong to give people false hope of employment, it’s probably illegal to accept job applications and set up job interviews for non existent jobs. It’s definitely Fraudulent in the very least.

Since Tim is in debt and looking to make a quick buck from this deceitful and fraudulent publicity stunt, who’s to say he won’t gather up all of the employment job applications and skip town with your info?

Levels Nightclub is a fraud. They are deleting posts and banning people on their facebook page. There’s no new nightclub coming to State College.

I’ll finish with this funny article about Tim.
http://timcrockett.net/2010/04/22/an-open-letter-to-the-other-tim-crockett/
concerned student

Levels Nightclub stole a picture from Disney’s fantasy shipyard Nightclub The Tube. Levels had the proof removed so these are the pictures uploaded again proving their fraud.

http://picture.im/images/disneybarl.jpg

http://www.freeimagehosting.net/7pjqq

http://www.imageno.com/thwdhesukoufpic.html
concerned student

Levels Nightclub is running limitless entertainment to gain money from concert ticket sales. It’s part of the deceit. Levels Nightclub has no intentions of opening up a nightclub, Tim Crockett and his limitless partners are trying to make a quick buck.

Levels Nightclub is also behind the Scooter and Pooter fraudulent facebook page. Before the Scooter and Pooter facebook page facebook.com/scooterandpooter was made private, the wall posts consisted of random pictures of celebrities with captions of Scooter and Pooter pretending to know them.

http://imageshack.us/f/692/scooterpootercelebfraud.jpg/

http://imageshack.us/f/717/scooterpootercelebfraud.jpg/

The Scooter and Pooter wall also consisted of them pretending like they were the ones throwing concerts and hosting events but it was just random facebook photos and random crowd pictures.

The same is being done now with limitless entertainment with a different spin. Levels Nightclub and Tim Crockett planned this out to make a fraudulent Nightclub facebook page so they could add thousands of people. limitless entertainment is getting a cut of the ticket sales profits for promoting it to thousands of people through the Levels Nightclub page.

Levels and limitless are both run by the same persons. Everything is deceit and fraud.

http://img848.imageshack.us/img848/1375/levelsandlimitless.jpg

Levels doesn’t care about duping people into believing a nightclub is opening or duping people into job interviews for non existent jobs. Levels still hasn’t responded to why they stole photos from Disney and claimed them as their own or why they stole photos from a club in Dublin, Ireland either.

Levels hasn’t answered to why they have fake movies and fake t.v. shows listed on newcastlestudios.com or why they faked the Scooter and Pooter facebook page. There’s a lot of unanswered questions pertaining to their fraudulent activities and fraudulent claims.

Levels still has no lease and no liquor license and no work permit, but they claimed they have already been doing construction (backed up by fake Disney constructions photos).

http://picture.im/images/disneybarl.jpg