A city’s opening centennial ceremony sounds like a drab, sober ribbon-cutting or an historian-orchestrated parade, full of crying babies and hot-dog eating. But for Fort Lauderdale’s Opening Centennial Ceremony, our city decided to sanction a pub crawl along Fort Lauderdale Beach, and it threw in a red-and-yellow Sun Trolley to…

The venue of choice in which to party these days is the warehouse. Because, sure, bars can add features like an art show, and we’ll dig it, but at a warehouse — Swarm Warehouse, to be exact — it’s a night at the indie circus. Swarm Warehouse happens to be…

The Monterey Club is a venue loved by music junkies, and now it’s scoring the fashionistas when it hosts its second Pin-Up Fashion Show. New Times has described this bar aplenty: It’s rockabilly/retro-themed. There are cushy couches and animal-print rugs; hot rods sit out front. But, on Friday, the Monterey…

Many wouldn’t attend an event after they hear it’s at a warehouse. New Times gets it. Sounds like no AC, very un-yuppie, scary even. Well, the best local indie artists and bands have been rocking out at a warehouse — a Fort Lauderdale locale called the Bubble (another tough thing…

There are no rules on Halloween: If it’s on a Sunday, you are still doing it up. But don’t commit any crimes — unless they are ones that follow the protocol of what is expected at Zombie Prom. See, for Halloween, our friendly neighborhood joint on U.S. 1 south of…

Wednesday, New Times will be dressed up as Goldilocks at the Ghoulish Gathering: Halloween Dance Party at Monterey Club. Our tale started last weekend, when we walked right into downtown Fort Lauderdale. At the first dance floor we tried, napkins littered the ground, ’90s hip-hop blasted out of the speakers,…

Folks looking longingly at their $1 PBR tallboys is a recurring theme of the night at Flaunt Thursdays. The endless stream of skinny jeans and dresses lead you to a dance floor where 20-something bodies are grinding, shaking, and gyrating. People are dancing on the couch cushions. It gets as…

Saturday, the power of man over beast and the power over self will be on display. Stop at the round purple signs in downtown Fort Lauderdale and you will have found yourself at “Art Fallout 2010,” a large, inaugural, multivenue art event hosted by the Girl’s Club in which a…

The south tip of the USA has always been possessed: South Florida greed, South Florida debauchery, the mayhem. The Sunshine State can be dark, horrific, and haunting — and so will be the War Memorial on Friday and Saturday. The Village of Horrors 2010 has gotten inspiration from many dreadful…

The day might be here when abstinent vampires à la Twilight and nymphomaniac vampires à la True Blood can mix — comfortably. Well, maybe not. Every year, South Florida’s underground bureaucracy of lust, The Abusement Park Family, along with Endless Nights invites you to turn all-vampire and pretend — or,…

Calling on all disco fiends: The disco ball is back where it should be — on top of the dance floor — and you’re needed. It’s a ’70s Versus ’80s Party at Posh Nightclub in downtown Fort Lauderdale, and New Times has a gut feeling the ’80s will be represented…

A high school student’s film got a theatrical release — at more than 15 theaters, from Miami to West Palm Beach. That’s quite a feat for our local lady, Shayne Leighton, who wrote a dark romance about high school and demonic, immortal creatures when she was a senior at Alexander…

Drive through the roads of FAT Village and you may take in a condo building, maybe even a storefront. Now stroll through them and you’ll see that those industrial warehouses that were once considered a part of the undeveloped area south of Sistrunk/Sunrise are now pieces of a budding arts/science…

At the bar, upon hearing that there was an unique wrestling match going on, one rowdy reporter quipped: “Nobody eats cream corn anymore; they just wrestle in it.” Well, not to ruin that journalist’s integrity and print his lies, we’ll say that the last half of that statement, at least,…

For eight years, there has been a steady spot for Wednesdays and booze in West Palm Beach. Within two miles of downtown, in the El Cid district, lies a 43-room historic boutique hotel. The fancy say this building was built in likeness of Bermuda’s vernacular architecture. Whether you agree or…

Dear Pembroke Pines: Kudos for taking the former laundry facility of the old South Florida State Hospital and turning it into a residency for 18 artists. Sure, the washroom was probably awesome for the hospital folks, but now an 11,000-square-foot building gives 18 local artists affordable studios and exhibition space…

Five college kids of drinking age are vacationing in the woods, AKA the outskirts of South Federal Highway, near the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. The cabin, called the Monterey Club, where they had been enjoying beer, cider, and wine, has now become possessed. Creepy things lurk around the cushy couches,…

We’re going to help dress you for the Steampunk’d party at Club X-it. OK, tap into your science-fiction mindset. We’ll break it down simply: Using the aesthetics of Victorian romance, steampunks take modern technology and then interpret it 1800s style. So, take a gown, corset, coat, petticoat, suit with vest,…