It’s sick, this game. From the perspective of the ten pins set at the end of the lane, which stand there like prisoners at full attention before a firing squad, the worst of it comes at a moment like this. Compact and intense, as if steam is going to shoot…
“I would fuck myself,” Joe said. Then the Ben Stiller-getic 26-year-old smoking a stogie at a table in front of Tarpon Bend last Saturday night explained: “I’m a good catch, I guess. I have a head on my shoulders. I’m young. I’m eligible.” Joe, who was wearing a sensible, short-sleeved,…
Todd was in the shower with Mary when he heard the engine speeding across the desert in Botswana toward the farmhouse where they were spending the weekend. The night before, she started crying when she received a fax from her mate, Shawny. Todd hadn’t known she had a steady lover…
Sally O’Brien’s, BeachPlace, 17 S. Fort Lauderdale Beach Blvd., Fort Lauderdale, 954-522-4641.
Ebar, 215 SW Second St., Fort Lauderdale, 954-524-EBAR.
Porterhouse, 201 SW Second St., Fort Lauderdale, 954-522-1253.
Blondies, 229 S. Atlantic Blvd., Fort Lauderdale, 954-463-0220.
Christopher’s, 2857 E. Oakland Park Blvd, Fort Lauderdale, 954-561-2136.
Gryphon/Pangaea: 5711 Seminole Way, Hollywood, 954-581-5454.
Mama Mia: 1818 S. Young Cir., Hollywood, 954-673-5555.
Capones: 310 New River Ct. , Fort Lauderdale, 954-524-1969
Dicey Riley’s: 217 SW Second St., Fort Lauderdale, 954-522-1908
Poor House: 110 SW Third Ave., Fort Lauderdale, 954-522-5145
Karma Lounge: 4 W. Las Olas Blvd., Fort Lauderdale, 954-523-7159
It seems that a new nightspot opens every month in Broward County. The pace lately — hastened by the popular Seminole Paradise’s Gryphon and Pangaea, Park Sports Club, and Tequila Ranch — has been exciting. But when you take a look around downtown, people are still partying like it’s 1999…
G.O.A.T., 300 SW First Ave., Ste. 105, Fort Lauderdale, 954-467-3939.
Martini Bar, 300 SW First Ave., Ste. 202, Fort Lauderdale, 954-764-4345.
There was a time when jet-black locks and an otherworldly gaze were not greeted with a prescription for Zoloft. Ten years ago, Fort Lauderdale culture meant something a little more profound than the Princess Diana exhibit at the Museum of Art. On Saturday, January 29, local DJs Danny Bled and…
When I was a junior in college, I lived near a girl who was a senior. She was smart, organized, and had a certain flair for fashion and decorating. I looked up to her until she, my best male friend, and I had a conversation about a mutual acquaintance during…
Again, this week, we delve, topically, beneath the male’s thick, elastic waistband, where the little head resides, for a one-on-one chat. The question to the one-eyed sage: blue balls, fact or fiction? Doug, a 40-year-old who was partying among a crowd of 30 at Automatic Slims recently mapped out the…
VooDoo Lounge, 111 SW Second Ave., Fort Lauderdale
E Bar, 215 SW Second St., Fort Lauderdale
Cathode Ray, 1307 E. Las Olas Blvd., Fort Lauderdale
“What’s the difference between a sadist and a masochist?” 33-year-old Todd asked one Thursday night at Sofa Kings Sports Bar in Davie — where knee-length jean shorts and solid-colored T-shirts are all the rage. “A masochist says, ‘Beat me, Beat me,’ and a sadist says, ‘No,'” he answered his own…
Why the hell should Broward County’s working people care about $12 cocktails at the recently opened Blue Martini at the Galleria Mall when they make only $7 an hour? Why should they sample almost-new Nikki Marina, which sprawls along the Intracoastal at the foot of the Diplomat Hotel like a…
Outside the Ramrod gay leather bar (1508 NE Fourth Ave., Fort Lauderdale), faces are obscured in shadow, even when you’re waiting in line. There is energy from the anticipation of being initiated into something secret. There are lots of men. No women. But, shit on a brick, the door man…
It was on the battlefield outside of Troy, amid swarms of warriors hacking away at each other, that Achilles had a dramatic one-on-one death match. No, not the famed battle in which he slaughters the Trojan hero Hector. His victim that day was Penthesilia, queen of the female Amazon warriors…
You’ve seen the bald and spastic guy throwing himself around in front of the stage at the Metal Factory and Tavern 213. He’s perpetually clad in long shorts, a T-shirt, and white socks that crinkle beneath his ankles. Sometimes, he’s one of the three or four people standing for a…
It’s Tuesday night at midnight, and Jean, a woman with long, blond, curly hair, sits at a table inside Blondies on the Beach (229 S. Atlantic Blvd., Fort Lauderdale). This long, casual, beach-bum bar is so heavy on the recreational offerings of pool, darts, and video games that it doubles…
“I always play the same numbers, and sometimes I get three of four matches, but usually nothing,” says Norman, a short, gray-eyed man. “And then I think, I won’t play. But what if that’s the week my numbers win?” Norman’s tiny blond wife, Sylvia, nods in affirmation while the rest…
The new, enormous, retro South Beach-import club thumped as a crowd of 1,200 partiers kicked it to EMF’s “Unbelievable.” Four female bartenders in micro-skirts and scanty tanks hopped onto the bar top, danced in Coyote Ugly-inspired routines — yikes! — and poured shots down the necks of crisp-shirted partiers. Two…
It’s about 10 p.m. at the smoky jazz bar O’Hara’s (722 E. Las Olas Blvd., Fort Lauderdale), and the place is full of the usual 30- and 40-something singles. Dave Shelley and Bluestone plays funk on-stage. A female bass player with blond dreads bobs her head funkily. I am just…
