111 SW Second Ave. Fort Lauderdale 954-522-0733 I’m usually pretty healthy, but last week, I was afflicted with a bad case of a jitterbug bite. After two failed attempts (on Friday and Saturday) to find a club where my better half and I could break it down, we crawled into…
Boca Muse 7136 Berascasa Way Boca Raton 561-367-1133 High society, meet your barstool. Six months ago, the Boca Muse was the Red Lion Pub. Today, the sports-bar atmosphere of the Red Lion has been tossed in favor of a Roaring ’20s elegance. Sconces on the walls, a faux fireplace, ornate…
Ginger Bay Café1908 Hollywood Blvd.Hollywood954-923-1230It’s nearly impossible to walk the Hollywood strip and not be drawn in by the rhythms floating out of Ginger Bay Café. On a recent Wednesday-night outing, I walked in and heard the sounds of MaWon, a seven-man band, playing compa and zouk — popular music…
The Hurricane Bar & Lounge (640 E. Atlantic Ave., Delray Beach) bills itself as your home for Philadelphia Eagles games, making it the perfect place to join the cheering throngs as the Donovan McNabb & Co. attempt to talon apart the Detroit Lions (go for the eyes!) this afternoon. But…
Café del Mar 213 S. Fort Lauderdale Beach Blvd. Fort Lauderdale 954-767-8233 As summer goes, so go summer’s flings. No more one-night stands and drunken debauchery for yours truly — at least for a little while. Now that fall is here and the night heat has given way to the…
After a long workweek, what better way to welcome the weekend than a little – OK, a lot – of brewski? Go straight to the experts. BX Beer Depot (2964 Second Ave. N., Lake Worth) isn’t just a place to find hard-to-get microbrews like Boulder and Hazed & Infused, it…
Dirty Blondes 229 S. Fort Lauderdale Beach Blvd.Fort Lauderdale954-728-9801Oh, the sound of bones crushing under the collective weight of the linebacking core. Football season is back in our lives, which means fall is here and it’s just warm enough to go outside without melting. With each new season comes the…
Emo and hardcore are like Itchy and Scratchy: one smiles dejectedly as the other saws it in half. Whether the two get along or not, Sugar Paradise (4221 N. State Road 7, Hollywood), a restaurant-turned-nightclub, is rolling the dice and hoping to score on tonight’s venture: a hardcore-meets-pop punk showcase…
Mala Rodriguez is more than just another hot Spanish singer. Yes, she is sexy, but she’s also an authentic rapper. Consider her Tego Calderón minus the ‘fro. She’s a genuine singer too and often shows traces of a Nelly Furtado-esque ability in her songs. Like her American counterparts Foxy Brown,…
Brass Monkey Primate Tavern 10190 W. Sample Rd., Coral Springs 954-753-1110 Even on a Saturday night, Coral Springs is the epitome of quiet living. Amid the dead air, wedged between a bike shop and a print shop, Brass Monkey Primate Tavern stands out, with spotlights aimed at its entrance in…
2029 Harrison St., Hollywood 954-920-1312 It’s time to ditch the sandals and cargo shorts and don dress shoes and a button-down. Today, I’m OK putting down the sweaty beer mug and picking up a martini glass. A good night at Legends Café will do that to you. The dimly lit,…
The Pirate Republic954-779-7677234 Almond Ave.Fort LauderdaleIt’s a hidden treasure, buried in the side of a Las Olas beachfront building. Find it and you’ve got plenty of sake. When the Pirate Republic opened more than a year ago, the walls were clean and white. Now they’re covered in graffiti that ranges…
This is the closest thing to a supergroup that the fledgling genre of reggaeton has spawned. In truth, though, it’s a sonic swing party: Wisin, Yandel, Jayko, Tony Dize, Franco El Gorila, Hector “El Father,” and Don Omar mix and match, creating several working partnerships on this disc of collaborations…
They represent two different parts of Florida, but the MCs of Word Perfect stand in line together as they wait to enter the big show. Dirty Dem of Fort Lauderdale and Wiseguy of Orlando are trying to offer the rap world something more than the typical hip-pop, but these days…
Their styles are as different as their backgrounds, but today, Sole Estate (513 Clematis St., West Palm Beach) brings two of West Palm’s emerging street artists together. JET, a Dane descendant of Vikings, has made a name for herself on the image-hosting site Flickr. There she posts photos of bizarro…
Finish Line Sports Bar 5300 N. Powerline Rd. Fort Lauderdale 954-491-6265 It’s never smart to drink and drive. Especially when the car is tiny and fast enough to require that you wear a helmet. But the folks at Finish Line Sports Bar are kind enough to make the decision for…
The Apocalypse is upon us. Or so nü-metal superstars Linkin Park would have us believe. They mean it too. They even cleaned up their soccer-practice-carpool friendly act and actually inserted a fuck here and there. On their third album, Minutes to Midnight, Chester Bennington, Mike Shinoda, and the rest of…
Taylor Reese changed the way people saw surfing. The surf-doc master has already produced and directed six films about the wettest sport on earth, and he’s now releasing a joint production with Billabong that showcases three surfing legends. Trilogy follows the careers of Joel “Parko” Parkinson, Andy Irons, and Taj…
In a genre in which artists are shot and killed because some take themselves too seriously, self-deprecation by independent thinkers is a welcome sound. Word Perfect, a duo made up of Florida MCs Dirty Dem (Fort Lauderdale) and Wiseguy (Orlando), would probably be more appropriately identified by a Chicago or…
Taverna Eros 8 E. Atlantic Ave.Delray Beach 561-272-8220 For partygoers, the tiny strip between Swinton and NE First Avenue on Atlantic Avenue is an oasis in an otherwise party-free desert that is Delray Beach after dark. Nestled within this oasis is a Mediterranean-style hideout. Taverna Eros is a hip little…
Looked at your things-to-do-before-I-die list lately? It’s not getting any shorter. Learn a new language: no check yet. Learn a musical instrument: nope. Perform in front of an audience: uh-uh. Well, here’s your chance. Antonio Adolfo, a celebrated Brazilian musician/composer has extended his Rio de Janeiro Centro Musical school to…
It’s a weird combination: emo kids just out of high school, hipsters in their 20s, and older folks who, oddly enough, don’t seem out of place. But it works. The Chocolate Moose Music Café is a little spot hidden between Round Up and what used to be Sofa Kings. From…
