Nicole Richie, DJ AM… and Axl Rose on trapeze FRI 6/24 Jeffrey John, the 28-year-old owner of Revolution (200 W. Broward Blvd.), the downtown Fort Lauderdale concert venue, is amped. Beginning with this weekend’s megaparty, the space will become “a major metropolitan city nightclub” on Fridays and Saturdays. “Come here…

Warriors Boxing is back with another top card THU 6/16 Just when we wondered where Warriors Boxing Promotions had gone, the local company is back with a fury. This Thursday, at the Seminole Coconut Creek Casino (5550 NW 40th St., Coconut Creek), WBP and Golden Boy Promotions present “Thunder Storm…

Say “I do” to partying FRI 6/17 Lots of competing special-interest groups have been battling to claim the month of June as their own. It’s International Men’s Month! It’s Turkey Lovers Month! It’s Potty Training Awareness Month! Really. Separate sponsors have declared it both Dairy Month and No Dairy Month…

Strike out for a good cause SUN 6/12 Many people see tow truck drivers as swarming vultures just waiting for you to commit a violation so that they can strap your car to a flatbed and charge you hundreds of bucks to get it back. Yet others see the drivers…

Talk trash — and pick some up too SAT 6/11 What would you do if Shamu busted into your house and dumped raw sewage in your living room? Or if SpongeBob SquarePants got drunk, scattered a case of empty beer cans in your front yard, and started doing donuts on…

Jose Jimenez bought the Showtime Boxing Gym (along with two partners) partly because he’s sick of repossessing cars. A former pro boxer himself, he’s never had to fistfight anyone when reclaiming a vehicle, but, he says, “I’m a black belt with my mouth. These guys come out with guns, and…

How many vacation days do you get? SAT 6/4 Tourists and cameras. They go together like hairy Europeans and teeny man-bikinis. But it wasn’t always so. Once upon a time, pirates could describe the beauty of French Polynesia to their families in England only by sketching a picture. Pioneers who…

What is all the bleeping commotion about? FRI 6/3 For every cynic who saw the film What the Bleep Do We Know? and called it “a sea of new agey horse crap,” there were three fanatics who saw it and gushed, “It changed my life.” While some viewers went home…

We’ve all been there — in jobs that are beneath us. Some of us bitch and moan about it. Some of us get proactive and start spending quality time with Monster.com. Some of us go postal. Then there’s Stacee Cooney. “I had two college degrees, but I was doing a…

Memorialize your weekend at the Hard Rock Hotel SAT 5/28 There’s something for everyone at the Memorial Day weekend celebration held by the Seminole Paradise, the block of shops, bars, and restaurants at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino (1 Seminole Way, Hollywood). For the kids, bounce houses and…

You’re going to need some Red Bull to go with your Red Stripe this Memorial Day weekend, because you, baby, have some partying to do. “In Jamaica, we party every single day of the week,” Damien Tater says. “It’s crazy fun — fun from when I wake up in the…

“Heavy petting. Foreplay. Mindfucking.” That’s what happens at a fetish party, says Glenn, owner of the Fetish Factory boutique. (He goes by just his first name so he can one day return to the healthcare profession.) “Sometimes, to get someone to agree to what you want is more exciting than…

Eddie’s big brother is a big hit FRI 5/20 When Chappelle’s Show first hit Comedy Central in 2003, it was an instant hit, but it wasn’t until the show’s second season that it truly became a cultural phenomenon. All of a sudden, the streets of suburbia from Albuquerque, New Mexico,…

And tan lines SAT 5/21 When was the last time you took off your shirt and shoes and made a good kill? Never? Recently? Either way, here’s your chance to do it right. Since 1993, more than 100 teams have met on the beach by the Hollywood Broadwalk (A1A and…

Who’s afraid of the big, bad b-boys? THU 5/19 At a real b-boy jam, “you’re not going to be dancing and pour Skittles on somebody,” says DJ Trails of Hip Hop Elements, referring to a recent TV commercial and to the fact that big companies are always trying to capitalize…

One former VJ makes you love him THU 5/12 Bill Bellamy continues to do the unthinkable. As the former host of MTV Jams, he continues to have a flourishing career — thus disproving the notion that video jocks are destined for nothing more than commentary on VH1’s Best Week Ever…

Put your sea legs on SAT 5/14 “If you haven’t seen Fort Lauderdale, which is called ‘The Venice of America,’ from the waterway, then you haven’t seen Fort Lauderdale,” says Jim Batchelor, owner of Club Nautico boat rentals. “We have great fishing, diving, and outdoor watersports, and renting a boat…

Thou shalt not squeal like a pig FRI 5/13 The 1972 movie Deliverance introduced us to an emaciated, banjo-playin’ boy with a forehead the size of a satellite dish. The young George W. (just kidding) seemed strangely aware of the city slickers’ fate as audiences everywhere learned to associate “Dueling…

If you owned a hip, modern hotel and charged $99 to $200 for each of its 45 rooms, would you forego a Saturday night’s income so that a bunch of artists could commandeer the property and dress all the furniture in Saran Wrap? That’s why the proprietors of Hotel Biba…

Young art stars go lowbrow SAT 5/7 “The Miami art scene feels electric,” says Francesco LoCastro, the 28-year-old painter who is largely responsible for sticking the plug in the proverbial outlet and cranking up the juice. “The then-rundown Miami/Wynwood Fashion District was home to one gallery four years ago… It…

Knock you out SAT 5/7 Boxers are pretty much the hip-hop stars of the sporting world. In fact, in a lot of ways, it’s hard to differentiate between the two. Both have huge entourages, flashy outfits, and colorful lifestyles — hell, LL Cool J rapped about being a boxer while…

When we get Margaret Cho on the phone and ask if she feels pressure to be funny even when she’s not on stage, she says, “No. The people that I hang out with are mostly artists; they don’t have expectations.” Sometimes, however, “People are surprised that I’m not a cutup.”…