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The Top Five South Florida Tattoo Parlors Offering Friday the 13th Deals

By Natalya Jones and Celia Almeida
Jul 12, 2018

Although the exact origin of getting inked on Friday the 13th is unknown, it is speculated that Oliver Peck of Elm Street Tattoo in Dallas started the tradition of charging only $13 for tats on every Friday the 13th since 2001. If his name rings a bell, this is because Peck made the Guinness Book of World Records in 2008 for "Most Tattoos" drawn in 24 hours. How many did he ink, you ask? Exactly 415. We're hoping the last ones didn't come out too shaky. Here's a list of five tattoo parlors in Broward and Palm Beach counties that are keeping the tradition going strong.
Lover of All Things '90s, Le Youth Comes to Rhythm & Vine

By David Rolland
Nov 10, 2016

Give Le Youth a time machine, and it's clear where he'll go. "There was something cool about the '90s. the California-based, Ohio-born electronic musician, DJ, and producer says. "I think everyone knows what I am talking about." His bio describes his music as a "?'90s sounds refracted through a thoroughly...
Donovan, Headed for the Parker Playhouse Thursday, Gets No Respect

By David Rolland
Sep 6, 2016

When I first heard the song "Mellow Yellow" on a good time oldies station, my reaction was, "Why haven't I ever heard this before?' It was a perfect blend of pop and cool, mixing folk and psychedelia After a little digging, I learned it was by Donovan. Perusing his catalog...
Ten Best Labor Day Weekend Parties in Broward and Palm Beach

By David Rolland
Aug 30, 2016

Labor Day is the first Monday of each September. It is meant to be a tribute to the contributions workers have made to the strength, prosperity, and well-being of our country. Somewhere along the way, though, it transformed into a weekend bidding farewell to summer through pool parties, barbecues, and...
Respectable Street Still Rules Thursday Nights

By Olivia Feldman
May 26, 2016

Eleven years ago, girls wore studded belts and tastefully ripped jeans, and guys wore trucker hats and Livestrong bracelets. Fall Out Boy and My Chemical Romance ruled the rock radio airwaves, and 2005 wouldn’t have been complete without “scene kids” wearing black hoodies and tight jeans. Despite the fashion changes...
Cheers Food and Spirits Is Fort Lauderdale's Best-Kept Secret

By Angel Melendez
Sep 17, 2015

The 1980s sitcom Cheers launched a tagline that, two decades after the show went off the air, is still easily recognizable in the lexicon of pop culture; a place “Where Everybody Knows Your Name” is a comforting idea for anyone who's frequented a bar or a pub with any regularity...
Hollywood Vine-nyl Society Hosts Quarterly Pop-Up Record Store in Downtown Hollywood

By Falyn Freyman
Sep 14, 2015

"Today I was a little worried because we had football and we had a Jewish holiday, but it turned out being even better than the first one," said Hollywood Vine-yl Society organizer and local music encyclopedia Steve Toth on Sunday afternoon at the second edition of a new quarterly meet-up...
Mac's Club Deuce: An Oral History

By Ryan Pfeffer and Laurie Charles
Sep 9, 2015

On September 19, 1914, Mac Klein was born — just 49 years after Robert E. Lee's army fired the last bullet of the Civil War and two months into World War I. The Ford Model T was celebrating its sixth year on the road. Miami Beach didn't exist, and neither...
Nina Las Vegas Brings Her House Party to Stache, Friday Night

By Dyllan Furness
Jul 23, 2015

It’s difficult to leave something you love behind. It's even harder when you’ve helped develop that thing and it's done the same for you. This is where Nina Agzarian — aka Nina Las Vegas — found herself in 2014 when she abdicated her position as DJ of Australia’s electronic radio...
Ten Best Local Bars in Broward and Palm Beach

By Ryan Yousefi
Jul 7, 2015

There are few things we can all agree on these days, but having a favorite local bar is one of those few things. Everyone needs that one place they know they can go have that hard-earned brew without all the fuss that comes along with those overrated-overpriced places. Sometimes you...
Snoop Dogg Is Coming to Boca, so We Made Him an Itinerary

By Ryan Pfeffer
Jun 10, 2015

On Tuesday, Snoop Dogg will drop by Boca Raton to perform at Sakred Nightclub. That's an odd pairing, Snoop and Boca. The forefather of West Coast gangsta rap and connoisseur of only the stickiest of the icky-icky will mesh with Boca about as well as Mel Gibson on spring break...
Eric and His Jazzers Impress Crowds at the Kreepy Tiki on Wednesdays

By Michelle de Carion
Jun 8, 2015

Professional trumpet player, Yamin Mustafa, can teach you how to play the trumpet in three seconds. Though that may sound crazy to you, Mustafa proves it to be true every Wednesday night at the Kreepy Tiki Lounge & Bar in Fort Lauderdale. Last week, Mustafa went up to a young...
Things Will Get Weird at Poorhouse's Clown Night This Sunday in Fort Lauderdale

By Stephen Feller
Apr 10, 2015

We’re now both six months past and six months away from Halloween. But if you happen to be in downtown Fort Lauderdale this weekend and see a bunch clowns roaming around, it’s not hallucination. They’re really there. At least, we think they will be. The Best Day Ever Clown Club...
Hollywood’s Beloved PRL Cafe Celebrates Ten Years

By Stephen Feller
Apr 10, 2015

Hollywood’s not the "underground" by any stretch of the imagination. But while Polish-born Jay Rottermund was on a month-long vacation traveling around Europe, he decided to open a bar here in Hollywood, Florida, that reminded him of the small, interesting, hole-in-the-wall bars that some squares refer to as “the underground.”...
Shout Karaoke Wants to Get West Palm Beach Singing Along

By Ryan Pfeffer
Apr 8, 2015

If a karaoke bar had a baby with Dave and Busters, and then that baby grew up to have another baby with an even larger Dave and Busters, you'd probably have something close to Shout, the new 6,500 square foot karaoke complex in downtown West Palm Beach. The karaoke compound...
The Ten Best Dad Bars in Fort Lauderdale

By Ryan Yousefi
Apr 6, 2015

Being a dad in Fort Lauderdale is tough. The rent is too damn high, your daughter probably dates a guy that looks like a sunburnt Skrillex, and your wife's parents are are constantly in town. But, thankfully, God invented alcohol and chicken wings. Every Fort Lauderdale dad needs a chill-ass place...
Video: Bimini Bay Bar Is Fort Lauderdale's Dirty Little Secret (NSFW)

By Ryan Pfeffer
Apr 1, 2015

Mo is something special. The middle-aged blonde bartender grabs a fresh Bud Light from behind the bar, reaches back, and sticks the business end of the bottle between her butt cheeks. She tenses for a moment, and then yanks it out with a pop. "Drink!" she yells, slamming down the...
Artex Productions Films Johnnie Walker Commercial at Stache With Help From Swing Out South Florida

By Michelle de Carion
Mar 23, 2015

I don’t usually spend my Sunday mornings in front of a mirror doing victory roll curls in my hair, but it was a special occasion. My dance teachers Yuval Hod and Julia Slavikas asked me, my boyfriend Andy Whiting, and some of our friends from our swing dancing troupe, Swing...
11 Weird and Somewhat Stupid Band Names

By Lee Zimmerman
Jun 27, 2014

It stands to reason that to brand itself effectively, a band must have a name that's also subversive and memorable. During the initial flush of the British Invasion, parents were forced to ponder the meaning of band handles like the Beatles, Pretty Things, Zombies, the Kinks, and the Who (as...
Ten Tunes to Welcome Hurricane Season

By Lee Zimmerman
Jun 23, 2014

Anyone who whines about the fact that South Florida has no change of season ought to bear one thing in mind: We do have at least two seasons -- and sometimes, even three. The first extends six months, from June 1 to November 30 -- an ungodly long portion of...

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