New Order’s Ideal Ultra Music Festival 2012 Set List

​For some, paying $300 to see New Order perform at Miami’s Ultra Music Festival 2012 in March isn’t a big deal. Even if it means forgoing some important repair work on a vehicle, or eating cat food for several weeks, or using electrical tape as eyeshadow — experiencing this legendary…

Las Olas Art Walk: All Hail the Village’s Queen

On Thursday, Mickie Centrone attended the Las Olas Art Walk in Fort Lauderdale. A lot happens on the ritzy one-mile stretch of land referred to as South Florida’s Rodeo Drive : People wine, they dine, they shop at Tommy Bahama and eat at the Cheesecake Factory. It’s Las Olas Bouelvard — the…

It’s Christmas. Take Out the Nutcracker

The holidays make us stray, splurge, and sin — and why wouldn’t we, with the new year right around the corner? (New Year = fresh start; note there’s a little more than one week left.) But, hell, we got a conscience too, so Saturday starting at 3 p.m. and running…

Naked. Young. People.

New Times recently wrote a feature on nudism — naturism (read it!). And like the good pub that we are, we now provide the info for you to attend such an event. You may dig nudism in theory. But tinkering with the idea of hitting up the FYN Winter Gathering…

Cyanide Xmas Fetish Party: Seasons Beatings (Five Surprises)

Saturday, Mickie Centrone attended the Cyanide Xmas Fetish Party: Seasons Beatings at Downtown 28 in Hollywood. We’re not going to be sourpusses about it: The attendance at Electrolust’s fetish party Saturday night was small, but that’s fine. While in the stall using the toilet, loud spanking noises ricocheted off the…

As Raw as It Gets (These Days)

We’ve gotten more humane, replacing watching gladiators fight to the death with watching the WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment). And good thing: The prior was the source of entertainment for pretty much just the Roman Republic — smaller niche than, let’s say, the latter, which is entertainment for the whole world…

To Be a Superhero or Remain Goth?

We have seen the DJs of Black Fridays play records to a pack of goths and rivetheads, folks who flock to the industrial-music scene, at the Green Room in downtown Fort Lauderdale. Working themselves up into such a frenzy stirred by the gloomy passion provided by the Cure and the…

Merry Fetishmas

For those who crave something darker for Yuletide, how about a naughty fetish party honoring Christmas? A Hollywood bar tucked away in Hollywood Circle will host this month’s enchanting soiree, and our fetish overlord, Electrolust, will glorify the Christmas-theme. It’s going to be a Cyanide Xmas fetish party, “Seasons Beatings”…

The Force Is Strong With This Village

We’ve been gamboling around FAT Village ever since their Backward Bash in May 2010 that welcomed FAT Village residents to the neighborhood they were already residing in. But something was very different, and the residents soon found out — what was once warehouses along NW First Avenue between Sistrunk Boulevard…

Trot Like a Turkey

The Fort Lauderdale Turkey Trot & Turkey Paddle on Thanksgiving Day benefits the fight against childhood obesity. A very worthy cause. Now, let’s back away from this thought a little bit. Runners are some of the luckiest mofos out there. Because on the days that they run, they feel no…

A Mystical Land at the Fair

Come on. Cow milking. Camel rides. Do you know how this story ends yet? A county fair is a surreal event: This is where you see the cutest pig alive, where a chicken’s hair gets blow-dried, where everything is fried or smothered in something sweet, where a teenager and young…

Join the Chocolatiers!

There are three countdown clocks — three! — counting down the time for when the Festival of Chocolate enters the southern half of Florida on its website. This is how badly people here need their chocolate fix. The shebang first arrives in West Palm Beach on Saturday before heading over…

Go Dolph– er, Packers!

Let’s forget the Dolphins game this Sunday for a moment. At the same time as the Fins take on the Buffalo Bills, there will be a Green Bay Packers game on, and we are opportunists. And at Slackers Bar & Grill, there are Cheesehead specialties. The owner is from Wisconsin…

“You’re a Wizard!”

Wednesday is going to be every dork’s wet dream. Read the outrageously famous J.K. Rowling series? Yeah? Seen those Harry Potter movies? Time to throw on your robe and head to Respectable Street — this month, Art Nouveau Events presents “Harry Potter.” More than 30 artists will be on hand…

Fort Lauderdale’s Day of the Dead Celebration at FAT Village

​A review of the Day of the Dead Festival at FAT Village in Fort Lauderdale. View a slideshow from the event here.Although remembering the dead brought the crowds to downtown Fort Lauderdale Wednesday evening, the event showed that the arts hub FAT Village is very, very much alive. Everyone associated with…

Let’s Go to the Art Show. Ready? All Together Now…

This is the Dialect to attend if you haven’t gone to any yet — writingwise, we couldn’t put it more simply than that. Go to this event! (If you’re a Dialect regular, we’ll see ya there.) For this special occasion, it’s leaving Brew Urban Cafe coffee shop in downtown Fort…

Hit Up the Res

Yeah, you hear the name Seminole all the time down here. As you should — the Seminoles inhabited this place way before we were born, and we should remember that. We got places named after them, which helps the remembrance, like the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino. Been there,…

Walk for PKD

All diseases are bitches. And the ones that still do not have cures yet? What do you call an uber bitch? But, in a way, banding together for awareness is a cure. The support, advocacy, education — all that is empowering, motivating, and comforting. It keeps the fight strong. And,…

Let’s Dance

Deep in Sailboat Bend, the neighborhood tucked behind and around downtown Fort Lauderdale, there is an artist-ran gallery called 1310 Gallery (1310 SW Second Court, Fort Lauderdale). To say you can feel creativity in the air would be beyond a cliché statement: You have to be an artist to live…

Where’s the Puppet Man?

We thought, there is something so cuddly and warm and comforting about puppets when we pondered the notorious tale of Pinocchio — why would he want to be a real boy? Dark thoughts did then come — we acknowledged that puppets aren’t necessarily the most sane creatures, that they can…

Halloween Fetish Ball at Exit 66

​Review of the Halloween Fetish Ball at Exit 66 on Saturday.Put your absolute trust in the Fetish Factory, because it will not let anything suck the energy out of one of its parties. Not even the Atlantic Ocean falling from the sky. Not even two months ago, when its venue…