Who says there’s no sense of fashion left at casinos? While the sweatpants-clad, chain-smoking, slot-addicted regulars plug away in the gaming area of Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, revelers attending the fashion show at the Hard Rock’s fabulous interconnected clubs Pangaea and Gryphon will be sequestered in a dream…
Some holidays are easy to remember. After all, on Christmas, we get lavished with gifts. On New Year’s, we get showered in champagne, and on Valentine’s Day we get an overwhelming urge to wear black and curse in tongues at happy, loving couples… or we get chocolate. But then there…
So what your saying is, you want to do a little something to celebrate 2006, the Year of the Dog, properly? Nothing big… maybe try your paw at crafting some dog-inspired New Year’s cards, have your fortune read, learn how to make animal-themed pop-up cards, snack on sticky rice cakes,…
Taishi one on TUE 12/13 The lives of geishas are particularly intriguing to those of us in Western culture. These women, with their flawless façades, are so well-versed in the arts of hostessing, beauty, and manipulation that they could be seen as the Navy Seals of proper etiquette. While most…
I’d like to buy a vowel TUE 12/6 Television game shows are like relationships. We lust violently after some for a season or two, only to have them vanish, cowardly, without so much as a “We need to talk.” (I still love you, Remote Control!) Others grow stagnant but possess…
A week full of parties FRI 11/25 “I moved here on July 15, 1997, to work for the Versace family. Unfortunately, that was the day Gianni was murdered. It was heartbreaking,” statuesque queen Elaine Lancaster says. Eight years after her fateful arrival, it’s difficult to imagine South Beach without Lancaster…
Artists make an impression on Beantown SAT 11/19 Before every piece of art in the world was made perusable on the World Wide Web, the best way for American artists to see what was going on across the pond was to, well, cross the pond. In the mid-19th Century, that´s…
THU 10/27 As if the Bocatonization of Palm Beach County and the scourge of pink condos weren’t creepy enough, Fright Nights at the South Florida Fairgrounds (9067 Southern Blvd., West Palm Beach) brings three truly haunted houses to the 561. Bypass PG entertainers like mummies and vampires in favor of…
Brooklyn has a graffiti museum. Manhattan has a break-dancing school. Your little sister traded in her Girl Scout merit badges for a pair of Technic 1200s, and your mom knows who shot Biggie Smalls. While hip-hop established itself as a form of underground social expression decades ago with rebellious acts…
Oktoberfest comes around like cuckoo clockwork FRI 10/14 At precisely 7:30 Friday evening, a procession will march down a wooded path, past an authentic German chalet, carrying a parade of flags. Then, with the gravitas that accompanies such official ceremonies, one of the marchers will execute a sacred autumn ritual…
“So this guy comes up to me after a gig, grabs my shoulder, and says, ‘Thanks Buddy!'” the humanitarian recalls from his barstool throne at Gumwrappers, a neon-lit Fort Lauderdale strip shack/rock venue. Dressed in a blue silk dinner jacket with black lapels, he flicks a long-acquired cigarette ash while…
Tequila Ranch has one for ya THU 8/11 Until now, Thursdays were reserved for your weekly escapade with a bottle of domestic beer and a private screening of Urban Cowboy in your living room. Maybe it’s the dream of falling in love while two-stepping at a honky-tonk that gets you…
Enter cheek-to-cheek competition FRI 8/5 Your chiseled body is poised like the mighty Atlas — glutes glistening, calves clenched. At this moment, your shimmering shoulders could bear the world’s weight, but that burden is not yours. You have been chosen for a different task: You must model men’s biker shorts…
Respectable Street hits the big 1-8 SAT 7/30 Local promoter and Closer magazine co-founder Steve Rullman has been drifting around Clematis Street for more than a decade, stirring up bands to play at club-king Rodney Mayo’s many venues, which include Respectable Street (518 Clematis St., West Palm Beach). Rullman has…
Local authors inspire you to get your pens a-pumpin’ TUE 7/26 Sometimes, a short conversation or a little quote will inspire you to get off your bum and pursue your dreams. Fort Lauderdale-based novelist Christine Kling, who writes about the adventures of a female tugboat captain, has said, “I’ve spent…
Festival of made-in-Florida films FRI 7/8 Lots of unholy things have come out of Florida in the past decade or so (hanging chads, Marilyn Manson, Carrot Top). But now we have an export of which we can be proud — “The Best of Florida: Made in Florida” video competition. Showing…
You’re getting creepy… very creepy THU 6/30 He helped you quit smoking, and he got rid of your fat ass. Who is he? He’s your hypnotist! Now it’s time to let him make you laugh by tapping into others’ inner silliness. That’s right, the jaw-dropping comedian-hypnotist Flip Orley is in…
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…
Swamp soul slithers into the Alley SAT 6/11 Did you use all your vacation time anticipating, watching, and debating Star Wars Episode III and now find yourself stranded in South Florida? Don’t let your light saber go limp, young Jedi! Kilmo and the crew down at Alligator Alley (1321 E…
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…
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…
The Gore Gore Girls know a woman’s work is never done FRI 5/6 A milling clash of attendees piled into the dark, littered space, holding cigarettes over their heads to avoid burning others. A line of fans stretched around the length of the plaza’s closed storefronts, waiting impatiently to fork…
