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| Lez Be Friends Cinema Paradiso | Wed., December 10, 8:00pm | Fort Lauderdale | |
Ever wonder what it would look like on the set of Threes Company had the writers flipped the script and offered a little summin-summin to its large gay audience? Maybe Jack Tripper and Larry Dallas would have one too many drinks down at the Regal Beagle and confess that the reason they... More >> |
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| Mayhem Poets Broward Center for the Performing Arts | Thu., December 4 | Fort Lauderdale | |
Maybe when you hear of three rapping New Yorkers spittin sounds, the words beastie and boys come to mind, but this Thursday, its time to meet a new trio of sassy tongue-slingers. Mayhem Poets, comprised of three Brooklyn lads, will take to the stage with... More >> |
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| Mel Brooks Night Undergrounds Coffeehaus | Tue., December 2 | Fort Lauderdale | |
Mel Brooks has always stood out as a true comics comic. He has a knack for bringing the most showbizzy of all showbiz elements to the most unlikely topics. Who else could have arranged a song and dance sequence about the Spanish Inquisition? And not just a musical spectacle about... More >> |
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| Misfits Culture Room | Sun., December 7 | Fort Lauderdale | |
For 30 years now, the Misfits have spread their colloidal mix of punk, rockabilly, and horror-flick themes to ravenous "Fiends" around the globe. Formed in 1977 by Glenn Danzig and Jerry Only in Lodi, New Jersey, the Misfits were punk rock's answer to the B movie. With a D.I.Y. ethos and a... More >> |
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| Of Montreal Revolution Live | Sat., December 6, 6:30pm | Fort Lauderdale | |
Despite being active in the underground scene for over a decade, Of Montreal is best known for selling one of their songs to Outback Steakhouse. For years, every time you turned on the TV or radio, you could hear Lets Go Outback Tonight played ad nauseam. These one-time... More >> |
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| Winterfest Bus Loop Various Locations Across Broward, Palm Beach | Fri., December 5 | Fort Lauderdale | |
Listen up, party people. There's a principle that governs any event where free or extremely cheap drinks are involved. Its called the Open Bar Postulate. It states the following: the time frame in which free alcohol is available is in inverse proportion to the drinker's level of... More >> |
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| Art of Expression Zero Ping |
Second Thursday of every month, 10:00pm more dates/times |
Fort Lauderdale | |
These days, there aren't a lot of venues left in Broward County to catch live hip-hop. Most of the clubs where the genre used to thrive have either shutdown or no longer cater to that type of music. So it forces hip-hop heads to get creative when it comes to finding a venue. As a result, two... More >> |
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| Art of Wine Nights Museum of Art/Fort Lauderdale | Every other week Friday | Fort Lauderdale | |
| Youre in a rut. Youre still drinking the same merlot with the same stale group at the same wine bar, just as youve done for years. But thats wearing thin. You need to shake things up! You need Art of Wine Nights at the Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art (One E. Las Olas... More >> | |||
| Avant Garde Improv Workshop and Jam Session Alligator Alley | Every week Thursday | Fort Lauderdale | |
Native Floridian joint Alligator Alley (1321 E. Commercial Blvd., Oakland Park) is known for a couple of things: (1) Its gladesman-style take on Cajun cooking and its bitchin selection of microbrews; and (2) a nearly endless stream of mind-expanding jazz, blues, and fusion music that... More >> |
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| Aviation Station Museum of Discovery and Science | Daily | Fort Lauderdale | |
For all of the little kids who were ever called up to the cockpit and given a pair of silver (painted) wings, or who have pressed their faces against terminal windows and watched the planes take off and land, the Museum of Discovery and Science (401 SW Second St., Fort Lauderdale) is opening... More >> |
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| Beach Boot Camp with The Health Colonel Fort Lauderdale Beach South | Every week Monday, Wednesday, Saturday | Fort Lauderdale | |
As you might expect, the man named The Health Colonel knows a thing or two about fitness. “The real issue,” he says, “has nothing to do with food -- or exercise for that matter. It has everything to do with how you think.”
When we asked the Colonel – whose real name is Bob Weinstein, who is... More >> |
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| Beach Dinner, a five-course how-to and wine tasting class for couples Whole Foods | Third Saturday of every month | Fort Lauderdale | |
If youre like us, your idea of eating right is noshing ketchup with your fries (hey, tomatoes are a vegetable!), and exercise means getting a couple extra rounds of pool in at the bar. Dont feel guilty. You just need a little push to show you that taking care of yourself can be fun... More >> |
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| Bear Night at Stork’s Stork's Cafe and Bakery | Every week Wednesday | Fort Lauderdale | |
| Every populated region has its own subcultures, and one of Fort Lauderdale’s friendliest is the bears – you know, those buff gay men that you just want to cuddle? They’re great for the community, because while they look like tough, muscle-bound bodyguards, they are more likely to throw... More >> | |||
| Bitchy Bingo Lips | Every week Wednesday | Fort Lauderdale | |
| I once went to a Bingo game in Cranston, Rhode Island. I was 13, and I was not only the youngest person in the room, I was the youngest person in the room by something like sixty years. The exception was my father, who had driven his own great aunt to the event and was cowering with me in a... More >> | |||
| Blazing Paddles Various Locations Across Broward, Palm Beach | Every week Saturday, 9:30am | Fort Lauderdale | |
We have the Chinese to thank for paper and fireworks, but the Orient should be roundly condemned for its 2000-year-old invention, the Dragon Boat: An overlong canoe powered by two-dozen paddlers egged on by a drummer. Why a person would participate in this loud, masochistically strenuous... More >> |
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| Blue Plate Special Bill's Filling Station | Every week Sunday | Fort Lauderdale | |
Graham Greene described the Blue Plate Special as a symbol of American democracy. It was popular in the 20s through the 50s. It was the kind of thing that a person in an Edward Hopper painting might order: The dish was dirt-cheap and usually consisted of veggies and meat. Today,... More >> |
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| Board Game Night at Undergrounds Coffeehouse Undergrounds Coffeehaus | Every week Thursday | Fort Lauderdale | |
Inside Undergrounds Coffeehaus (2743 E. Oakland Park Blvd., Fort Lauderdale), Aileen Liptak, one of the shops two proprietors, is giggling with some regulars. The crowd is familiar and its faces are relaxed, but then they should be Aileen has been toting this cast of mug-swigging... More >> |
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| Bring Your Dog to the Bar Night Matty's on the Drive | Every week Tuesday | Fort Lauderdale | |
Its happened again: you get home on Tuesday night and you cant even enjoy your evening your mind is consumed with the number of work days still cock-blocking you from weekend freedom. Your dog, meanwhile, is so terribly thrilled that youve walked back through the... More >> |
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| Buffy the Vampire Slayer Sundays Undergrounds Coffeehaus | Every week Sunday, 6:00pm | Fort Lauderdale | |
| I think we can all agree that Willow was the unsung hero in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Sure, Buffy had the whole buxom, blonde, superpower thing going on, but when she needed gray matter to defeat a villain, it was always Willow, her optimistic sidekick, who hacked into a national security data... More >> | |||
| Cardio Strip & Pole Dancing Class World Fitness Association | Every week Thursday | Fort Lauderdale | |
If beauty comes from within, exactly how deep do you need to search to reach the layer that says: I am so beautiful I should be a stripper! For some people, no problem, its right on top. For the slightly more inhibited, that layer is very deep, deep down in there and -- damn... More >> |
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| Chess club Broward County Library -- Weston Branch | Every week Sunday, 1:30pm | Fort Lauderdale | |
| When a computer named Big Blue is the most famous practitioner of your craft, you know youve stumbled into a niche where popularity is scarce. And the threat of ridicule by the cool kids? Its very real. Take solace, chess players: You play one of the most intellectually... More >> | |||
| Cinéma Vérité Cinema Paradiso | Third Monday of every month from Mon., July 21 until Wed., December 31, 7:00pm | Fort Lauderdale | |
The last time you heard the term cinéma vérité (cinema of truth) was in a film appreciation class in college. You got entranced by Dziga Vertovs Man with a Movie Camera and rhapsodized about the loneliness of modern life after watching Umberto D. But Cinéma... More >> |
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| Climate Change Exhibit Museum of Discovery and Science | Daily from Mon., November 24 until Sun., January 11 | Fort Lauderdale | |
Its official: Weve managed to damage all that is fundamentally good about Earth. From poisoning the water supplies with oil spills and tanker barges, to corrupting the atmosphere with our smoggy, toxic, emissions weve worked hard to make the environment this unlivable.... More >> |
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| “College Nights” at Tequila Ranch Tequila Ranch | Every week Thursday | Fort Lauderdale | |
By the time you graduate from college, you should know how to do a few important things… like sing your university’s fight song, do your own laundry, and ride a mechanical bull. In this last endeavor, Tequila Ranch (at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, One Seminole Way, Hollywood) helps... More >> |
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| Crush Sugar Lounge | Every week Thursday | Fort Lauderdale | |
Crush, the reanimated zombie of the indie dance-party world, is back in action, baby. That's not to say this is a corpse that should've died long ago. No, Crush is the sort of undying party we need more of -- a friendly sort of gathering where art and music collide, where great tunes are spun... More >> |
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