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What happens when a love-crazed Miami club promoter spends a few days in Las Vegas, hits a small jackpot in a roulette table, and then ties the knot at a kitschy wedding chapel complete with an Elvis-impersonator minister? For Oski Gonzalez, Tobacco Road’s resident DJ and head promoter,...
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Central Dade
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The country is currently awash in Americana fever, with any number of rock radio favorites dabbling in the sounds of yore. It's part of a search for authenticity when so much pop radio is heavily synthesized, and partially a need for the warm fuzzy blanket of an imagined yesteryear. Cute though...
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Boca Raton
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While lyrically fusing the activist-artist model of feminist folk rockers like Ani Difranco with the cuter, hornier ramblings of indie-folks like Kimya Dawson, Ruiz's upbeat, sunny music and sassy classic jazz vocals ultimately recall another coy South Florida strummer: Rachel Goodrich. Just...
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Bardot :
Sat., February 11
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Having a good time on a Saturday night at Bardot is no mission impossible, especially when Com Truise is in the house. The Ghostly International label signee presents warped synth visions of future past that should segue easily from the experimental indie and DJ acts that open for him.
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With his penchant for a sort of watery, pastel visual imagery, and the vaguely tropical-sounding name, it would be easy to file Sumsun away under the rapidly fading chillwave genre. Still, the artist born Judson Rogers has, as his output has increased, proved a penchant for a much wider...
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Out of Town
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The B-52s are living proof that sodium bloat and poor chopstick skills are not the only things that come from Chinese restaurants. The band formed in 1976 at such an establishment in Athens, Georgia, and named itself after the Southern slang term for exaggerated bouffant hairdos. The group...
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Seattle is the staph-infected armpit of America, and grunge is the second-worst-smelling music genre next to crust punk. In Seattle, it’s illegal to burn flannel, and you have to meet an elitist quotient to claim residency. Twenty years ago, the city thought itself too cool for Candlebox,...
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Out of Town
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Yeah, yeah, Churchill's is a great place to drink beer, shoot pool, smoke cigs, look surly, and show off your lousy acting talent — but it's also got one hell of a jazz jam. Monday nights are what you want. The music starts around 9:00 p.m. and includes a performance by a band, followed...
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Valentine’s Day, with its unabashed sappiness, candy, and commercialized cheer, would seem to be exactly everything the typical Smiths and Morrissey fan stands against. Aren’t followers of the famously dour Morrissey supposed to be bookish, wan, forever-alone types who scoff at the...
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Somewhere deep down you've always wanted to be a rock star right? Everyone at some point sings just a little too loud in the shower or in the car, or writes a piece of poetry or prose which they're secretly proud of. It's time to stop dreaming and start doing tonight at Cheers Food and Spirits...
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Oakland Park
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Hipsterism is a devilishly tricky game. It's all about transforming your day-to-day life into an almost unmanageable mountain of MP3 mixtapes, limited-edition T-shirts, social networking, and 24/7 self-promotion. And besides your cherished laptop, the best portal to this kind of advanced...
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When the Vagabond's Thursday-night party, Money Shot, went kaput a couple of years ago and left a void in the venue's lineup, a group of misfits put together a little party called Shake that's been an immense success. Now its creators are ready to delve deeper into clubland. They've launched a...
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Kill Your Idol :
Every week Wednesday, 11:00pm
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We at New Times don't usually endorse ladies' nights -- the concept usually screams watered-down fruit martinis and purse-clutching group dances to Beyonce -- but it's worth heading over to Kill Your Idol for the bar's weekly Wednesday human jukeboxes, especially if your chromosomes are of the...
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South Beach
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Rock, Indie, Happy Hour, Dance |
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Pangaea :
Every week Thursday, 11:00pm
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Every good college student knows that the weekend starts on Thursday. And that's a rule you can take with you after graduation. Give thanks for the Majestic Group and their dedication to this basic principle, because we love a good party, and they know how to throw one. The whole world comes...
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Out of Town
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Because of its constantly rotating selection of microbrews (the most mainstream beers available are Pabst, Yuengling, and Guinness), this is a good place to try some unfamiliar brands. Although they do allow you to sample the beers by the shot or the cup, there's nothing like a full pint to...
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Boca Raton
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Happy Hour, Drink Specials |
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Duffy's is the latest level in the ever-escalating sports-bar arms race. This location is one of the newest of the chain's 22 bases that run up the coast from Fort Lauderdale to Melbourne. The patio, next to the front door, is filled with so many plasmas that after a time, it must seem like...
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With locations already in the two music capitals of Memphis and Nashville and in the two tourist-trap capitals of Orlando and Las Vegas, B.B. King's opened a fifth location last December in West Palm Beach. (There is also an independently owned franchise in New York City's Times Square.) This...
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West Palm Beach
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Caliente Kitchen :
Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, 4:00pm-7:00pm
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Caliente is probably the best place to sample the wide world of tequila outside of certain areas of Mexico or Disney's Epcot Center. It's also a good place to get a good taco (in a red tortilla) at all hours of the day or night -- the taco window is open until 3 a.m. Thursday through Saturday!...
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Delray Beach
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The Jib goes for a decidedly nautical theme, a theme that is then filtered through Jimmy Buffett's margarita. From the dock-like seating area (pylons and all) by the entrance and the tiki hut with the oceanview mural to the wall of tropical fish tanks and ceiling strewn with nautical flags, the...
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Wilton Manors
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Filling the hole left by the closing of O'Hara's on Las Olas, Blue Jean Blues brings a piece of upscale New Orleans to Fort Lauderdale. The happy hour, which is from the time the doors open until 7 p.m., is a good deal whether you're here pregaming, waiting for the music, or just having a...
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Out of Town
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Few DJs can boast a history of beat-dropping that dates back to the days of grade school. Then again, few DJs grew up in houses as heavy with sound as that of DJ Oski. Oski's pops, Pepe Pothea, was a player — he handled percussion for some of salsa's most active bands throughout the '70s...
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Central Dade
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Hip-Hop, DJ, Dance |
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O'Shea's Irish Pub :
Every week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, 11:00am-6:00pm
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Every town has at least one Irish pub. It's part of the global Irish-industrial complex. O'Shea's is the West Palm Beach outpost for wayward Irishmen and women and locals looking for an authentic Irish experience -- or at least something different from the usual Clematis Street vibe.
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West Palm Beach
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Starlite Lounge :
Every week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, 10:00am-7:00pm
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Starlite Lounge, voted New Times' 2010 Best Hole in the Wall, is tucked away in a nondescript shopping plaza off Federal Highway. This gives it a speakeasy feel from the outside. But the inside couldn't be homier. All the patrons look like regulars. This seems due to its location, which is next...
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Pompano Beach
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Blue Jean Blues :
Every week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday
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Filling the hole left by the closing of O'Hara's on Las Olas, Blue Jean Blues brings a piece of upscale New Orleans to Fort Lauderdale. The happy hour, which is from the time the doors open until 7 p.m., is a good deal whether you're here pregaming, waiting for the music, or just having a...
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Out of Town
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Tryst :
Every week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, 4:00pm-7:00pm
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This self-styled gastropub does its French bistro décor (2010 "Best of" recipient for the latter, 2009 "Best of" for the former) so well you may forget that it's just a theme. This isn't France. But that's the candle-lit ambiance you get between the tin ceiling tiles, the clean checkered...
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